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Experienced Team for Large-Scale Projects
Today, TownSteel boasts a team comprising some of the industry’s most experienced professionals. We are well-equipped to collaborate with door hardware specifiers and security consultants on large-scale projects, ensuring that our solutions meet the needs and requirements of any project.
The growth of our behavioral health products eventually led to our expansion into electric and mechanical door hardware. From here we began to design access control equipment that would operate the locks.
TownSteel has continued to grow substantially as an original equipment manufacturing business (OEM). As a result, many of our products spread into the hospitality industry and a variety of other projects.
Next, Dennis and Lydia decided to build a team with unparalleled industry experience to bring state-of-the-art door hardware to every setting. Many experts within the entrance hardware industry joined forces to help make TownSteel’s products more accessible to a multitude of industries.
After decades of manufacturing America National Standards Institute (ANSI) Grade 1 ligature-resistant hardware, we have developed a strong customer base anchored in trust. Today, our products can be found in buildings around the entire country.
In 1987 Dennis’s father came to him and asked him to help a friend in Taiwan that needed help designing a lock. With a Master’s of Science in Industrial Engineering behind him, Dennis set out to create his first lock.
Not long afterward, a representative from Saflok found Dennis’s lock under a desk and asked, “Who made this lock?” Soon after, Saflok hired Dennis as a top engineer of their locking systems. Eventually, Saflok asked Dennis to represent their company for all of the Asia Pacific regions.
After finding his way around the industry, Dennis became a sourcing point for importing products and he found it challenging to meet the quality standards set in the North American Market, this motivated Dennis to begin designing and manufacturing locks to meet these specifications.
From here, he forged the TownSteel company seal in 2003, and by 2008 Dennis introduced his original design manufacturing with a line of behavioral health door hardware products. In 2003, Lydia Meng joined TownSteel’s journey and helped expand our product line which helped TownSteel quickly branch out into the hospitality industry and a variety of other industries. Under Lydia’s leadership and Dennis’s skillset, TownSteel saw tremendous growth and potential in various industries.
The success of TownSteel’s behavioral health products continued to soar. After supplying behavioral health products to various customers, Dennis learned more about electronic locks. From here, his innovations evolved into electronic door hardware and more sophisticated mechanical door hardware. He began to design access control equipment which opened the market to door hardware specifiers and security consultants on large-scale projects.
As TownSteel expands, our products now reach industries such as apartment complexes, multi-housing condominiums, and residential housing. Today Dennis and Lydia continue to lead TownSteel into a global enterprise as they continue to pioneer state-of-the-art entrance security products.
Members of BHMA (Builders Hardware Manufacturer Association) and we are the leading U.S. manufacturer of BHMA/ANSI-certified architectural hardware. The BHMA® (Builders Hardware Manufacturers Association) is the only organization accredited by the ANSI (America National Standards Institute) to develop and maintain performance standards for locks, closers, exit devices, and other builders’ hardware. Within the standards of this certification, all of our products meet or exceed the required ANSI Grade 3 inspection with most being an ANSI Grade 1 which is above the requirement.
Members of BHMA (Builders Hardware Manufacturer Association) and we are the leading U.S. manufacturer of BHMA/ANSI-certified architectural hardware. The BHMA® (Builders Hardware Manufacturers Association) is the only organization accredited by the ANSI (America National Standards Institute) to develop and maintain performance standards for locks, closers, exit devices, and other builders’ hardware. Within the standards of this certification, all of our products meet or exceed the required ANSI Grade 3 inspection with most being an ANSI Grade 1 which is above the requirement.
Members of DHI (Door and Hardware Institute) offer their members education, advocacy, accreditation, and facilitated networking to help them meet the security and safety needs of their customers.
Members of the MBE (Minority Business Enterprise) with the SCMSCS (Southern California Minority Supplier Development Council). This is one of the nation’s leading minority corporate membership organizations that proudly commits to advancing Asian, Black, Hispanic, and Native American suppliers in a globalized corporate supply chain.
Members of the MBE (Minority Business Enterprise) with the SCMSCS (Southern California Minority Supplier Development Council). This is one of the nation’s leading minority corporate membership organizations that proudly commits to advancing Asian, Black, Hispanic, and Native American suppliers in a globalized corporate supply chain.
TownSteel holds a WBE (Women’s Business Enterprise) Certification with Women’s Business Enterprise Council – West, a private third-party that certifies women-owned businesses and minority and women-owned businesses.
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