The Boyd Blog

Industrial Product Buyer Guide: Tips for Ordering from a Metal Company

Are you new to the metal service industry and feeling a bit overwhelmed by the intricacies of ordering industrial metal products?...


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Enhancing Work Performance and Projects with Expanded Metal

Engineers are always looking for materials to improve work performance and efficiency. One such material to consider for your...


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Metal Bending Services with the Boyd Metals Press Break

Press brakes are a vital piece of metal-forming equipment that allows our team to deliver products ready for immediate use...


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What You Need to Know About Our Tube Laser Cutting Machine

Boyd Metals is proud to offer our customers a wide range of cutting-edge technology. Our high-quality cutting equipment includes ...


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Everything You Need to Know About: Metal Grating

With a variety of different materials, classifications, and purposes, it can be difficult to determine which type of metal...


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Investing In The Future: Millennials, Gen Z, & the Metal Industry

As many of us know, change is one of life's few guarantees. This is becoming more apparent than ever in the metals industry as we...


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4 Ways to Get the Most out of Your Bids

Much thought, intricacy, and strategy are required to craft the ideal bid for your clients. And when bidding is the name of the...


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The Power Of Supporting Your People

Here’s a sad truth: We live in a recognition-deprived world of business. If you think we’re wrong, ask yourself, how often do you...


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Do More. Stress Less. Tips for Boosting Productivity

Ask 10 random people if they have ever had more on their plate than they could handle. Chances are, 10 exhausted people will...


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Cost vs Relationships: The Value of Being Known

Tommy is new to the world of business. With the passing of his father, he has inherited a struggling automobile parts shop and is...


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Is Your Vendor Management Strategy Costing You?

As a business grows over time, so does their list of vendors. What started out as a short list of necessary vendors gradually...


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Smile Under Stress: 3 Takes on Workplace Positivity

Making a commitment to focus on workplace positivity will prove beneficial to the entire company. When employees work together...


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Interview with David Lyman, VP & GM of Boyd Metals in Little Rock, Arkansas

David Lyman is definitely a company man. He's will be celebrating 20 years with Boyd Metals in February and has worked in three...


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Invest in Your Team - 4 Great TedTalks We Recommend

Our team is our greatest asset at Boyd Metals. We've mentioned it in articles recently, and still believe that it should be a...


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Planning for the Future - Boyd Metals Company Update

Anyone in their 20’s or older understands that as we age and mature our needs change. What we require to succeed and grow both...


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Building a Healthy Team - Recommended Reading
Healthy employees make for great teams, and great teams achieve goals. Boyd cares about their employees and maintains a healthy...

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The Boyd Difference - We Take Care of our People

At Boyd Metals, we treat our people - our customers and teammates, like family. The relationships we have in and around the place...


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5 Questions with Richard Schultz, GM of Boyd Metals in Oklahoma City

As the General Manager of Boyd Metals in Oklahoma City, Richard Schultz's attention is in high-demand. Fortunately for you, we...


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Spot a Bad Fabrication Project Before you Bid

If you run your own business, you are familiar with this struggle. You need a continuous flow of new clients and new projects so...


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Getting Started in a New Market with Ronny Testa, GM of Boyd Metals

We announced last year that we were opening a new location in Tyler, Texas. The location has been open for just over six months...


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3 Strategies for Keeping your Team Happy and Productive

It ALMOST goes without saying - a company is only as good as its employees. We want to make sure to say it anyway, and maybe in...


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3 Surefire Ways to Boost Employee Morale

Low employee morale can quickly begin to affect your company’s success in a negative way.

It’s important for managers and leaders...


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How to be Freakishly Productive this Week

They say a messy desk is a sign of genius. Unfortunately genius status won't get things done for you. As we are pressed to get...


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3 Steps to Simplifying Your Vendor List

You've heard of “just-in-time,” and “just-in-case”. These two sayings seem to epitomize the spectrum of approaches fab shops,...


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Quoting 101: 5 Considerations Before You Deliver a Price

When it comes to pricing a metals project, one common misconception customers will have is that there is one standard price for...


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2 Secrets for Bidding a Project in Half the Time

The bidding process is one of the most important steps in a company’s pathway to revenue generation. Completing an accurate and...


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