(Inside our Main Fab Shop)>>> In 1937, after some thirteen years "On the Road" as a traveling salesman for a Birmingham cement company, Wesley A. "Cotton" Caldwell saw a need and an opportunity in Jackson, Mississippi. Having developed relationships with local contractors, he realized that this still small but growing city needed a local source for fabricated reinforcing steel and numerous other related items. As this area began to rapidly grow during the 1950's, Cotton saw more opportunities. He led the construction of Mississippi's first steel mill, was key to the development of the Flowood, Mississippi industrial area, and brought an Ohio manufacturer, Magna American Corp., to Raymond, MS to build garden tillers (and the Amphicat!) here in Mississippi. We are most proud of his philanthropic contributions to the city and state he adopted as his own. Cotton Caldwell, Sr. passed away in 1982, leaving the firm in the able hands of his younger son, John H. Caldwell. John, a graduate of Mississippi State in Engineering, has worked full time in various capacities for the firm since 1952. Under his watch, CMCo has grown its sales many times over, added a fabrication facility in Mobile, Alabama, and built a state-of-the-art shop in Flowood, Mississippi. John Sr.'s guidance, along with the third generation of family working here, will continue to steer the firm forward well into this new century.
