Based in the Southern Counties, GCS Steels supply and fabricate a range of steel materials including universal steel beams, universal steel columns, specialist lintels and an extensive range of reinforcing products.

George Cohen, Sons and Company was a scrap metal merchant with offices in Commercial Road, London. The company was founded by George Henry Cohen (d.1890) as Messrs. George Cohen & Co. in 1834 and changed its name to George Cohen, Sons and Co. in 1883 on the appointment of Michael Cohen, son of the founder. After the First World War the company won a number of large contracts to dispose of surplus munitions including 400,000 tons of high explosives and other shells. The company also engaged in demolition work, with projects including the towers of Crystal Palace, which had survived the great fire, the Dome of Discovery and Skylon at the Festival of Britain, and London’s tram system. In 1940 the company moved its head offices to Hammersmith.

In 1956 a holding company, ‘The George Cohen 600 Group Limited’, was formed to control the original company and its many subsidiaries. The ‘600 Group’ name, derived from the company’s first address, 600 Commercial Road, had been in informal use since 1945 or earlier.

In 1970 the ‘600 Group’ set up a joint venture, ‘Six Hundred Metal Holdings’, with Thorn Electrical Industries to operate the two companies’ metal-handling businesses. In 1975 the company name was changed to ‘The 600 Group Limited’, and in 1981 to ‘The 600 Group PLC’.

In 1987 George Cohen, Sons and Company was renamed GCS (Steels) Limited, part of the 600 Group. The scrap metal business was acquired by Monks Ferry (Ship Breaking) Ltd. of St. Helens.

GCS (Steels) Limited traded successfully for over thirty years from Northern Iron Works, Princes Street, Northam, Southampton and then subsequently Northern Works, Fareham Road, Bridgemary, Gosport until its closure on 28th June 2013.

GCS Steels is now a wholly owned subsidiary of Pyramid Trading Limited which also incorporates Pyramid Steel Limited, Rent Free Gas & Beverley Steel and who’s present Managing Director and former employee of GCS Steels will undertake to keep the good name of GCS Steels a trading success.

We feel that we can be the right steel supplier to meet your needs, please email us at gosport@gcssteels.co.uk or call us on 01329 822082 to discuss our Complete Steel Service. We also have Crane Off-Load facilities and Small Vehicles for Restricted Access.

Bognor Regis, Chichester, Fareham, Gosport, Havant, Lymington, Midhurst, Petersfield, Portsmouth, Salisbury, Southampton, Titchfield, Winchester, Hampshire, West Sussex.