June Commerce Club Featuring Nataly Marks, President, Triple-S-Steel Holdings, Inc.

The Port Bureau welcomed Nataly Marks, president of Triple-S-Steel Holdings, Inc., (“Triple-S Steel”) as the featured speaker at the Commerce Club luncheon on June 13. Having spent the first part of her career in banking, Marks joined Triple-S Steel in 2022 and became the company’s first-ever nonfamily president in February 2024.

Marks introduced her presentation by showing a video of Triple-S Steel operations. Founded in 1960 by Bruce Stein, Triple-S Steel is 100% family-owned company. They are a wholesale steel service center chain headquartered in Houston. The company has grown to more than 50 locations in the U.S., Canada, Colombia, and Dubai.

With over $2 billion in annual sales, Triple-S Steel sells more than one million tons of steel per year. The company’s chief customers include fabricators, manufacturers, and contractors. Marks noted the company often relied on the port’s infrastructure in maintaining deadlines for their customers.

Like many companies, recruiting and retention is a challenge. Working with employee interests to suit their position and an internship program for junior and senior college students are among the most important ways Triple-S Steel seeks to meet their workforce objectives. Triple-S Steel has an outreach to veterans and offers a quality leadership program. They also serve as a “second chance” employer.

Triple-S Steel is also evaluating technology and automation for the future, with a view toward transparency for customers. “We want to allow customers to see where their product is,” said Marks. They are also advocates for roadways to ensure quality transportation.

When reflecting on the shift she made from banking to her role at Triple-S Steel, Marks whimsically described it as shift from “stilettos and a suit to jeans and steel toe boots . . . Life at Triple S is filled with hard and gritty work, but lots of fun,” she said.

Thank you to our Commerce Club sponsors:

Annual Table sponsors:

Callan Marine • Chevron/Kirby • Enterprise Products Partners • Kinder Morgan • Houston Pilots • Intercontinental Terminals Company • Moran Shipping Agencies, Inc. • Pemex  •  Shell • Targa Resources • TGS Ceder Port Industrial Park  • WGMA

June Table sponsors:

Campbell Marine Transportation Co. • Triple-S  Steel Holdings • Port Houston