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Metro West Steel is in the ending phase of a 14,000 s/f warehouse facility

Metro West Steel, a design/build company, is currently in the ending phases of completing PolyRack, a 14,000 s/f $2.5 million warehouse/office space where they supplied design/build services, joist, deck, miscellaneous metals, and 3,000 s/f of Dri-Design architectural metal wall panels in a variety of different sizes, colors, and joint lines. PolyRack was designed by Vision 3 Architects, and construction organized by general contractor New England Construction. Metro West Steel is the distributor for Dri-Design Metal Panels in the northeast. Dri-Design metal panel systems are a single skin metal panel rain screen system that creates affordability through the fusion of automation and technology. The rain screen application has sufficient durability and dominating performance characteristics. Dri-Design does not just offer aluminum panels, but zinc, copper, stainless steel, titanium, crystallized titanium, copper anodized, aluminum anodized, and Rimax materials.
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