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tings, and other materials, such as bolts, nuts, gauges
and thermometers, gaskets, Teflon tape, and sealings.
It threads, grooves, and cuts pipe per customer re-
quest.
The Structural Steel Center offers carbon steel, stain-
less steel, and aluminum shapes and forms. It cuts
plates and sheets to the sizes required by its custom-
ers. It also offers galvanized steel grating and expand-
ed metal sheets. The Petroleum Equipment Division
offers all the necessary products for new gas station
construction and maintenance, including everything
from the underground storage tanks, to the monitoring
systems, to the nozzles that fill vehicle gas tanks. The
Valve Automation Center offers pneumatic and electri-
cal actuators.
CIB’s products come predominantly from U.S. manu-
facturers - some directly and some from master dis-
tributors. “We also buy some products, like pipe, di-
rectly from foreign mills, through traders,” Quijano
adds. CIB is affiliated with several major professional
organizations, such as the Petroleum Equipment Insti-
tute, the Puerto Rico Manufacturers Association, and
the Mechanical Contractors Association, which keep
the company up to date on new products, regulations,
and other matters that affect the industry.
CIB is also part of Affiliated Distributors, the largest
group of electrical, mechanical, industrial, and heat-
ing, ventilation, and air conditioning supply distribu-
tors in North America. This gives the company a com-
petitive advantage to negotiate with its major vendors
AT A GLANCE
WHO:
CIB Corporation
WHAT:
Distributor of industrial and petroleum-
related products
WHERE:
San Juan, Puerto Rico
WEBSITE
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