Your Steel Site Loses Engineers Before They See a Single Spec Sheet
If you're running procurement for a steel distributor, you know the spec PDF buried in your downloads folder cost you the RFQ.
High-performance websites for steel manufacturers, distributors, and service centers. Product catalogs, quote systems, and specs that engineers actually use.
An engineer lands on your site at 11 PM looking for tensile strength on A572 Grade 50. Your catalog is a 14-page PDF. They hit back and order from your competitor whose specs load in a filterable table. Steel company website development fixes that gap. We build product catalogs with grade comparison tools, real-time inventory feeds from your ERP, authenticated portals for mill certificates, and RFQ forms that capture after-hours inquiries. Your buyers pull specs on-site from a phone, your sales team stops answering the same availability questions, and procurement finds your compliance docs without a phone call. A slow site with buried PDFs doesn't just lose traffic--it loses the engineer who's ready to spec your product into a $4M job tonight.
What is holding your current website back?
Common gaps we find in nearly every audit.
What Your Website Could Look Like
Custom-designed for your industry. No templates. No stock photos.
How We Build This Right
Every safeguard, built in from Day 1.
Searchable Product Catalog
Filter by grade, shape, size, finish, and certification. Algolia-powered search returns results in milliseconds across thousands of SKUs.
RFQ & Quote Engine
Multi-product RFQ forms with file upload for drawings. Submissions route directly to your sales team with full product context attached.
ERP & Inventory Integration
Real-time stock availability pulled from SAP, Oracle, or custom ERP systems. Buyers see what's in stock before they pick up the phone.
Technical Spec Sheets
Auto-generated spec pages for every product -- mechanical properties, chemical composition, and downloadable mill cert templates included.
Certification & Compliance Display
ISO 9001, AS9100, ITAR, and other certifications displayed prominently with structured data markup so they surface in search results.
Multi-Location & Warehouse Pages
SEO-optimized location pages for each warehouse or service center, with local schema markup to drive regional search visibility.
What We Build
Purpose-built features for your industry.
Bury product specs in static PDFs that require three clicks and a download to view basic mechanical properties
Engineers compare yield strength and elongation across steel grades in a dynamic table without leaving your product page
Force engineers to call or email for quotes during business hours while competitors capture leads 24/7 through instant RFQ forms
Buyers calculate theoretical weight and plate dimensions with embedded tools that appear exactly where purchasing decisions happen
Serve a desktop-only site that breaks on mobile when fabricators try to pull up grade sheets on the shop floor
Procurement teams filter past projects by industry and application to verify your track record before initiating contact
Lock inventory data inside your ERP with no website connection so sales burns hours answering stock questions manually
Authenticated customers download mill test reports tied to their specific orders through a secure portal that updates automatically
Load image-heavy pages at dial-up speeds that push your site below nimbler competitors in search rankings and spike bounce rates past 60%
Your marketing team publishes new alloy specs and case studies through Sanity Studio without waiting on developers or touching a line of code
Hide certifications and compliance documentation so procurement teams skip you during vendor qualification before you get a meeting
International buyers see localized content, regional pricing, and product availability that matches their market without manual coordination
Built on a Modern, Secure Stack
Our Development Process
From discovery to launch. Quality at every step.
Discovery & Catalog Audit
Week 1-2We map your full product line, ERP data structure, and sales workflow. We identify which products drive the most revenue and build the information architecture around how buyers actually search and decide.
Design & Prototype
Week 3-4Wireframes and high-fidelity mockups for catalog pages, RFQ flows, and the homepage. You get a clickable prototype before a single line of production code ships.
Development & Integration
Week 5-8Next.js front-end with a headless CMS and ERP data feeds. Product pages are statically generated for speed, with ISR handling inventory updates. Search indexing runs in parallel.
QA, Migration & Launch
Week 9-10Full cross-browser and device testing. Content migration from your existing site. 301 redirect mapping to protect your search rankings. Staged rollout on Vercel.
Post-Launch Optimization
Week 11-14Thirty days of monitoring, performance tuning, and conversion tracking setup. We analyze RFQ funnel data and make targeted improvements to catalog navigation based on what we see.
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