The Best Places to Buy Metal for Industry Online and In-Store

We stock and supply a variety of metals including alloys, aluminum, brass, bronze, carbon steel, cast iron, copper, stainless steel, tool steel, threaded rod, expanded metal, key stock, drill rod, and flat ground stock. Metal shapes include, angle, channel, T, beam, flat, hex, rounds, square bar, sheet, plate, pipe, round tube, square tube, and rectangular tube. In addition, Alro stocks stainless steel safety grating and stainless steel stair tread, perforated metal sheet, and expanded metal sheet.

Structural Metal Shapes stock Includes: structural carbon steel, structural stainless steel, and structural aluminum in angle, channel, Tee, and beam.

The Alro online metals supplier store, AlroOnlineStore.com, is your one stop shop for metals stock. Customers can browse our vast metal inventory. Place an online order today!

Alro offers metals processing services that include: Oxy-Fuel Cutting, Plate Grinding, Plasma Cutting, Plate Laser Cutting, Press Brake/Forming, Production Sawing, Precision Sawing, Saw Cutting, Shearing, Thermal Processing, Tube Laser Cutting, Waterjet Cutting, and Tube Cutting and Chamfering.

Checkout our 75 Alro locations that span over 15 states. As a metal supplier we provide high quality service to exceed the expectations of all our customers, large and small. Alro processes and distributes metal products with next day delivery to over 50,000 customers in North America. Contact us today for your all your metal supply needs.

We stock and supply a broad range of metals and plastics in a wide range of grades and shapes including sheet, rod, tube, angle, channel, and more. The Metals Outlet stores specialize in small and large metal and plastic orders, perfect for hobbyists, do-it-yourself (DIY) people, machine shops and maintenance departments as well as large businesses. In addition to prime stock metals, Alro Metals Outlet stocks remnants and drops at great prices. Our knowledgeable staff is able to assist with metal selection and can shear or cut metals to any size you need, while you wait.

Integrity. Loyalty. Honesty. These principals have guided Alro Steel since our founding in 1948 by brothers, Al and Robert Glick. Focused on exceeding our customers’ expectations, we build relationships with all our customers, large and small. We live by our mission statement: To ensure the long-term success of Alro and its people by exceeding our customers’ expectations. Your one stop shop for online metals. Our sales team can take your order today and have your order cut-to-size with next day delivery.

Alro processes and distributes metal products with next day delivery to over 50,000 customers in North America. From humble beginnings in 1948, Alro Steel was incorporated in a small garage in Jackson, Michigan. The name "Al-Ro" was derived from the first two letters from brothers Al & Robert Glick. Al began the company during a steel shortage in the 1940's which was due to the military demands of World War II. Al found a niche matching up companies with steel needs to companies with excess steel. Today, Alro has grown to over 75 locations in 15 states.

Carbon steel grades include: 1018, 1020, 1045, 1060, 1117, 1144, 11L17, 1215, 12L14, A36, CQ Strip, Stressproof, A1008, A1011, A500, A529, A513, A519, A53, AR235, AR400, AR500, A514, A516, A572, A588, A606, A653, A992, A-53 Tested, A106 Seamless, Aluminized, Galvanized, Galvannealed, Expanded Metal, and Grating.

Aluminum grades include: 2011, 2024, 3003, 5052, 5083, 6061, 6061 Extruded, 6063, 6063 Extruded, 7075, Cast, Mold Plate, and Cast Tool & Jig.

Stainless steel grades include: 201, 303, 304, 309, 316, 409, 410, 416, 420, 430, 440C, 15-5, and 17-4.

Alloy grades include: 4140, 4150, 41L40, 4340, 52100, 6150, 8620, 86L20, and ETD150.

Tool Steel grades include: A2, A6, A11, D2, DC53, H13, L6, M2, M4, O1, O6, P20, S5, S7, Viscount 44, W1, drill rod, and flat ground stock.

Red metal grades include: 260 brass, 360 brass, 110 copper, 145 tellurium, 172 beryllium, 17510 beryllium, 932 bearing bronze, 954 aluminum bronze, and 959 aluminum bronze.

Cast iron grades include: 65-45-12 ductile, 80-55-06 ductile and G2 gray iron.

greenthing said:
Looking for some affordable alternatives..

This question is more geared towards hobbyists and small volume producers. Where do you buy your metal for your machining projects?Looking for some affordable alternatives..

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"Affordable" - for "revenue" shops of small size just as much as for hobbyist/retiree/R&D folks ..actually means buying just what you need - in the "right" alloy, to a close to finished size - for a specific job or project - and ending-up with the very least amount of scrapped parts, chips, or "drops" left-over.

Seriously.

The "apparent" unit cost is higher that way than scrounging old barbells and other scraps, but YOUR scrap rate is less, and you do not end-up looking like a scrapyard in yer own limited space with a growing pile of cash tied-up in "so called stock".. that may be mostly salvaged junk in unknown alloys that is ony THERE because you did NOT have a use for it, still do not have a use - and may never.

Now..... where to get the "just in time" goods for operating off a "lean" stockpile?

- Recyclers, I've gotten a few odds and sods - the Bronzes, mostly - from Moses Glick.

Otherwise, for "new" metals, given I do not need "certifications". At all.

-- Online Metals

-- Speedy Metals

-- Allmetals

-- Quality metals

And others, depending on speciality.

Perforated stainless? Thick shiney-wood Alloy bed plates? Blanchard-ground rectangles and rounds? Tee-slot extrusions? Thompson shafting?

It's all "out there" AND - critical need -"cut to order" - not a twin-screw Peterbilt with 50 tons of bar right off the mill "minimum order" ..as a service to fabicators, repair shops, and such if you but search.

Basically whomever online has a decently long history and a good reputation.

- Then McMaster-Carr. Or even MMC "first" if time is critical.

Locally it's "too difficult" where I perch.

Metro DC's only "Heavy Industry" is damned lies and other political bullshit. No more "metal" in those than there is nutritional value.

EVERYTHING of any value has to be shipped-in.

Florida? Prolly much the same, just for dfferent reasons.

2CW

"Affordable" - for "revenue" shops of small size just as much as for hobbyist/retiree/R&D folks ..actually means buying- in the "right" alloy, to a close to finished size - for a- and ending-up with the very least amount of scrapped parts, chips, or "drops" left-over.Seriously.The "apparent" unit cost is higher that way than scrounging old barbells and other scraps, but YOUR scrap rate is less, and you do not end-up looking like a scrapyard in yer own limited space with a growing pile of cash tied-up in "so called stock".. that may be mostly salvaged junk in unknown alloys that is ony THERE because you did NOT have a use for it, still do not have a use - and may never.Now..... where to get the "just in time" goods for operating off a "lean" stockpile?- Recyclers, I've gotten a few odds and sods - the Bronzes, mostly - from Moses Glick.Otherwise, for "new" metals, given I do not need "certifications". At all.-- Online Metals-- Speedy Metals-- Allmetals-- Quality metalsAnd others, depending on speciality.Perforated stainless? Thick shiney-wood Alloy bed plates? Blanchard-ground rectangles and rounds? Tee-slot extrusions? Thompson shafting?It's all "out there" AND - critical need -"cut to order" - not a twin-screw Peterbilt with 50 tons of bar right off the mill "minimum order" ..as a service to fabicators, repair shops, and such if you but search.Basicallyonline has a decently long history and a good reputation.- Then McMaster-Carr. Or even MMC "first" if time is critical.Locally it's "too difficult" where I perch.Metro DC's only "Heavy Industry" is damned lies and other political bullshit. No more "metal" in those than there is nutritional value.EVERYTHING of anyhas to be shipped-in.Florida? Prolly much the same, just for dfferent reasons.2CW