12-2009: Dynamic Structural Steel featured in Minnesota Business Magazine.

Dynamic Structural Steel
By Holly Dolezalek for Minnesota Business

Proctor, Minn., is a town of 2,800 people about 8 miles southwest of Duluth, in the northeastern tip of the state just before it stabs into Lake Superior. According to the 2000 U.S. census, the median income for a household in Proctor is $38,322, and about 5 percent of the population lives below the poverty line.

Any new business would have an impact on Proctor’s economic landscape, but Dynamic Structural Steel isn’t just any new business. In just three years, the company went from $2 million in sales to $15 million, from 23 employees to 56. And it’s bringing business back to northern Minnesota.

“We’ve been able to job [get work in] Chicago, South Dakota, Iowa, Canada, Wisconsin and other places, which means we’re getting more work back to this area that might have gone instead to the Twin Cities,” says owner Jason Erickson.

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