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Alro Steel opens location in Cedar Rapids, Iowa

Metal and plastics distributor continues to grow its locations and product offerings year on year.

Grace Nehls, Former MMT Editor

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New Iowa warehouse. Source: Alro Steel

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

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. Cedar Rapids can also warehouse special inventory programs.

Alro operates more than 80 locations in 16 states and provides a broad inventory of products. It opened a facility in Oshkosh in 2020, relocated and expanded its main facility in Grand Rapids in 2021, then expanded its Toledo warehouse, then opened a facility in Philadelphia in 2023.

The company has acquired Pottinger Steel, Heimansohn Steel and Access Metals.

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