How we got started

Early in 2000...

I took the opportunity to fulfill my dream of opening my own business. Working from my garage behind my house, I spent many hours fabricating miscellaneous parts for John Deere. During this time I was also a welding instructor at Tennessee Tech in Knoxville. One of my students Andy Burleson asked about stainless steel fabrication. His brother, Randy Burleson owner of Aubrey's and other local restaurants, needed a stainless steel fabricator.

After meeting with Randy, my vision of opening my own fabrication shop was going to happen. In 2003, during my father's last few months, I realized I couldn't run Specialty Stainless on my own. Chris Covington, a former student, came to work for Specialty Stainless Inc. Over the next several years we worked hard to provide an exceptional product and service and needed to hire two welders and one fabricator. In 2007, I earned my mechanical contractors license and formed the partnership of Specialty Stainless LLC with Chris and Rusty Goddard. We continued hiring and purchased new equipment to help us grow.

Specialty Stainless is a NSF certified fabricator. We currently have many local and national restaurant customers as well as hotels, school systems and other government customers. We also fabricate residential counter tops, hood systems, and outdoor grill systems.

The Specialty Stainless team consists of:
Myself (Bill Giron) , Chris Covington, Rusty Goddard,
Will Davison, Kevin Gidcumb, Austin Grigsby, Todd Warren, Bob Auer,   Drew Geary, Trevor Luttrell, and Mike Schiavone

Each member of this team has helped to fulfill my vision of being the best stainless fabrication and services company.
Thank you all for your commitment to Specialty Stainless.

To our customers, thank you for your business. We consider our relationship with each one of you Priceless.

We look forward to the future,

Thank you,
Bill Giron