The Atlantic Steel Company was chartered in 1901 as the Atlanta Steel Hoop Company to manufacture steel ties for bailing cotton and hoops for binding barrels of rosin.

Eight Atlanta entrepreneurs formed the company to provide a local source for the steel ties and binds used to prepare these products for shipment. In 1906, the company name was changed to Atlantic Steel Company. The company was reorganized and incorporated as Atlantic Steel Company in 1915 and became Atlantic Steel Industries, Inc. in 1983.

The Dixisteel trademark was created in 1922 by Charles F. Stone. By the 1950s, Atlantic Steel’s Dixisteel product line included cotton ties, nails, bale ties, woven wire fence, rivets, wrought washers, welding rods, metal forgings and stampings, and various types of wire products, mainly barbed and galvanized. The market for fabricated steel buildings had grown significantly by 1960, and a subsidiary, Dixisteel Buildings, Inc. (later Atlantic Building Systems, Inc.), was created to focus on this product line.

The company built a modernized plant in Cartersville, Georgia, in 1974. In 1979, Atlantic Steel was acquired by Ivaco, Inc. through a stock purchase. The Cartersville plant was sold in 1996, and in the following year Jacoby Development purchased the property on which the main plant was located in midtown Atlanta. Atlantic Steel ceased operations on December 31, 1998. The site was later developed into Atlantic Station, a multi-use complex of residential units, offices, shops, restaurants, and entertainment venues.