125 Years of SBQ Leadership Republic Steel is North America's leading supplier of special bar quality steel (SBQ). We've led the way in SBQ innovation and production for 125 years. We provide SBQ solutions to makers of cars, trucks, off-highway vehicles, machinery, farm equipment and other demanding users of steel bar products. With sales over $1.5 billion annually, Republic Steel makes and sells more SBQ than anyone else in the world. Republic Steel's SBQ products are far from ordinary. We engineer our bar and coil and treat it with special processes just for you. And we do it better than anyone else. You could say that we are just a little too crazy about special bar quality steel. And we are steel making history after 125 years.