In the early 1930s a critical need arose in the oil and gas industry for a durable and easily erected small
building system for production fields and refineries.  The Parkersburg Rig and Reel Company of
Parkersburg, West Virginia, put its engineers to work designing a new self framing, interlocking panel
building which became the forerunner of the Parkline Building System.

SMALL Specialty Structures has been proud to represent Parkline self-framing steel buildings in the
Chicago, IL area and northwest Indiana for the past 20 years. We furnish and install these high quality
enclosures for many major industrial customers including, but not limited to, electric utilities, oil and gas
pipelines, railroads, refineries, petro- chemical plants and fire protection customers.  Our capabilities
include both onsite field erection and pre-assembled buildings, with electrical and mechanical equipment
in place, delivered complete to the end user’s destination. SMALL Specialty Structures has successfully
completed projects for the likes of ExxonMobil, Midwest Generation, Buckeye Pipeline and the BNSF
Railroad.

From this beginning Parkersburg soon became recognized as a leading supplier of quality metal buildings,
not only to the oil and gas industry, but also to public utilities, railroads, and government agencies.
Complete buildings were now being shipped from a single source, eliminating the cost and time-
consuming process of component purchasing required for ordinary type construction.  In the post World War
II building booms buyers in all phases of commercial and industrial markets became attracted to the
Parkline style of buildings as a practical and attractive answer to a wide variety of small building needs. In
1973 Parkline, Inc. was formed as an independent company and acquired the assets necessary to produce
the complete line of Parkersburg self supporting metal buildings. In 1997 Parkline, formed an employee
stock ownership plan and  today, Parkline, through continuing research and product development programs
with an emphasis on customer service, is totally employee owned and the industry leader in its field.

Parkline's modern production facility in West Virginia now services the entire United States and Canadian
markets with both completely assembled and unassembled building systems.