Muscling into the
Canadian Market
Filling Canada’s need for piling products
By Jennifer Paterson
American Muscle Docks & Fabrication has its roots
in the fabrication business – it was born from an
amalgamation between Valley Manufacturing, a
metal fabricating and stamping company, and Follansbee
Dock Systems, which it purchased in 2012.
“Being that we are a fabrication business at heart, we work
with the metal from raw to refined,” said Luke Diserio, the
company’s CEO. “We manufacture our dock hardware all
under one roof, in order to control quality and have the ability
to quickly handle customized product demands.”
The company’s roots are also in the U.S., as it was founded
in West Virginia, and it has a distribution network across the
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U.S., but the majority of its products are sold in the northeast
and in Canada.
“The Canadian market is a good fit because we build our
products heavier and stronger, so they are suited for harsher
water environments,” said Diserio.
Fabricating and manufacturing
The company fabricates, builds and sells completed boat
docks and hardware worldwide. Its focus is fabricating metal
dock hardware for floating and stationary applications, such
as wood docks, steel truss docks and steel channel dock kits.
“We fabricate and manufacture the metal hardware to
A dock system with additional
low-profile kayak dock
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