Valmont Industries

Valmont Industries is an Omaha manufacturer founded in 1946 by Robert B. Daugherty, and it’s listed on the New York Stock Exchange as VMI. Its infrastructure business makes steel and composite utility transmission and distribution structures, lighting and traffic poles, telecom structures and coatings, while its agriculture side builds Valley center-pivot irrigation. The company reported $4.1 billion in fiscal 2025 sales and more than 11,000 employees, with plants in 21 countries. In its third quarter of 2026, North American utility sales rose 23% to $469.6 million as grid spending held up, while telecom sales fell by about a third. Valmont said it’s raising prices to recover steel and zinc costs.

Twenty-one countries hold Valmont plants, and the company says it does business in more than 100. That footprint, paired with 11,000-plus employees, is why a utility planner in Nebraska and a grower in Queensland can specify from the same supplier without waiting on a single origin point.

The catalog splits cleanly in two. On the infrastructure side Valmont groups its work into four lines: utility, lighting and transportation, telecom, and coatings. The first covers transmission and distribution structures in steel and composite. The second covers roadway and area lighting poles plus traffic structures. Telecom covers the monopoles and concealment work that carriers buy. Coatings sits apart from the rest because galvanizing and finishing are sold as a service, not only applied to Valmont’s own steel, so a fabricator can send work in without buying a pole.

The agriculture side is organized around irrigation, water delivery, ag technology and aftermarket parts. Keeping aftermarket as its own line matters to anyone running older machines, since a pivot bought twenty years ago is a parts relationship, not a one-time purchase.

Buyers evaluating Valmont against a regional fabricator usually land on two questions. The first is lead time, which is where the 21-country manufacturing base does its work. The second is whether one vendor can carry both the structure and its finish, which the separate coatings line answers directly.

The company’s stated values are passion, integrity, continuous improvement and deliver results, and it runs under the tagline Working Together. Adding Value. Its public sustainability positioning is narrower than the marketing line suggests: Valmont describes a solar tracker that earned a circularity certification in November 2024, and frames irrigation as part of a carbon-neutral direction, but it names no company-wide environmental standard on its corporate pages.

For contractors and specifiers browsing this directory, the useful summary is that Valmont is a manufacturer rather than an installer. It supplies structures, poles, coatings and irrigation equipment to utilities, departments of transportation, carriers, distributors and growers, and the job of erecting what it makes falls to the contractor on site.

Sources: https://www.valmont.com/company, https://www.valmont.com/infrastructure, https://www.valmont.com/agriculture, https://www.valmont.com/projects