Built on Service Since 1969
Family-owned. St. Louis rooted. Fifty-six years of showing up for the people who keep this region’s operations running.
Our Story
The Largest Independent Distributor You’ve Never Had to Think Twice About
Superior Industrial Supply has spent more than five decades becoming one of the largest independent Midwest distributors of hose, fittings, fasteners, and industrial MRO supplies — without losing the thing that made customers stick around in the first place: people who pick up the phone and actually know your account. From a single St. Louis facility, we’ve built the kind of inventory depth and supplier relationships that let a family-owned business compete with the nationals, while still operating like the local shop we’ve always been.
Our Team
The People Behind Every Order
Three hundred combined years of experience means there’s almost nothing your account team hasn’t seen before — and almost no fitting, spec, or supply problem they can’t help you solve.
Part of Something Bigger
A Long-Term Partner, Not a Buyer Looking for an Exit
In recent years, Superior Industrial Supply joined the Raycap Holdings family — a group built specifically to strengthen local industrial distributors like ours, not flip them. Raycap invests in the systems, purchasing power, and technology that a 56-year-old family business couldn’t easily build alone, while leaving the relationships, the team, and the way we do business exactly as our customers have always known it.
That distinction matters. A financial buyer chasing a quick exit tends to cut corners — fewer reps, less inventory, slower answers. Raycap’s model is the opposite: it’s a long-term platform, which means the investment goes into making us better at the job we’ve always done, not into making us leaner ahead of a resale.
- Same Team, Same NumberYour rep, your counter, your customer service line — unchanged.
- Group-Level Purchasing PowerStronger supplier relationships translate to better pricing and availability.
- Continued Technology InvestmentThe systems behind our VMI and vending programs keep getting better, not cut.
- Long-Term StabilityBuilt to grow the business for the next 56 years, not to prepare it for a sale.
Ready to Work With a Team That Knows Your Name?
Request a quote or give us a call — you’ll talk to the same people every time.