Heavy metal at Waco Central Tube and Bar

​​​​LACY LAKEVIEW, ​​MCLENNAN COUNTY - ​Arkansas-based Central Tube and Bar has signed a lease on a 37,000-sf manufacturing facility in the greater Waco area and will hire more than 20 people in the near future, and more over the long haul, Dustin Ward, company president, said.

The company is slated to open their new location on April 25 at 2712 Old Dallas Rd., where it spent $2 million on improvements.

"Our Texas plant will allow us to service our existing customer base much better in Waco and the surrounding areas," Ward said. 

"It will also help facilitate our current growth patterns by giving us additional laser capacity. We have had this expansion in the works for some time and are very excited to finally be here."

The company makes tubing from carbon, aluminum and stainless materials, and provides such services as laser cutting, bending, sawing, shearing and parts finishing.

It is a prime supplier to Time Manufacturing, a homegrown Waco company with an international reputation for its truck-mounted hydraulic lifts.

The headquarters for Central Tube and Bar is Conway, Arkansas, and the company has another manufacturing facility in Tulsa, Oklahoma.