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Alro Steel Opens New Facility in Iowa

The Cedar Rapids location will enable Alro to provide customers throughout Iowa with cut-to-size metals and next-day delivery.

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Source: Alro Steel

Alro Steel has announced the opening of a new location at 9620 Earhart Lane SW, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The 197,000-square-foot, custom-built metals service center will enable Alro to provide customers throughout Iowa with cut-to-size metals and next-day delivery.

According to the company, the Cedar Rapids location has ample storage space for a wide range of metals, including carbon steel, stainless steel, alloys, aluminum, red metals and more. Shapes include bar, sheet, plate, pipe, tube and large structural shapes. The facility has multiple saws for bar, structural and precision cutting, with quick access to a wide variety of additional processing services such as plate and tube laser, plasma cutting, waterjet cutting and more. The Cedar Rapids location can also warehouse special-inventory programs.

Alro Steel was founded in 1948 by brothers Al and Robert Glick in Jackson, Michigan. The company is a distributor of metals and performance plastics, offering cut-to-size metals and plastics with next-day delivery in North America. Alro operates over 80 locations in 16 states and provides a broad inventory of products under the following companies: Alro Steel, Alro Metals, Alro Metals Outlet and Alro Plastics.