McMaster-Carr is trusted by industrial customers around the world to keep manufacturing lines running, operations moving, and turn new ideas into real products. Since 1901, we’ve earned that trust by offering the right products, making them easy to find, and delivering them quickly.
Our industry-leading e-commerce experience, indispensable product selection, and world-class service bring hundreds of thousands of customers to our site each day. But we never stop innovating. We turn ambiguous problems, new challenges, and disruptive technologies into opportunities to refine our operations, expand our offering, and deliver the best experience for every customer. Behind it all are our people: curious, exceptional problem-solvers who take pride in getting every detail right for our customers.
Reliance Steel & Aluminum Co. started in 1939 as a small, local distributor of steel reinforcing bar in Los Angeles, California. Within ten years of our inception, we had added magnesium and aluminum to our line of products.
The postwar metals industry boom in the United States, coupled with visionary leadership, allowed us to pursue a decades-long course of expansion through growth and acquisition. This paved the way for our IPO in 1994, which allowed continued strategic growth in terms of location, products, and customers. Since then, Reliance has completed more than 55 acquisitions and risen to become the largest metals service center in North America. Through a network of more than 290 locations in 39 states and ten countries outside of the United States, the Company provides value-added metals processing services and distributes a full line of over 100,000 metal products to more than 125,000 customers in a broad range of industries.
Reliance Steel & Aluminum Co. is a Fortune 500 company and has been named to the Fortune list of “The World’s Most Admired Companies” since 2007. 75 years after our humble beginnings, we continue to celebrate, affirm, and encourage our core values, both in our business practices and our local communities, keeping our family of companies successful.
Alro Steel is a distributor of metals and plastics, with over 80 locations in 16 states. We focus on being a one-stop shop for cut-to-size metals and plastics with next-day delivery to over 50,000 customers in North America. Alro was founded in 1948 in Jackson, Michigan by Al & Robert Glick. Place your order online at www.alro.com. Alro sells a broad inventory of products under the following companies: Alro Steel, Alro Metals, Alro Metals Outlet, and Alro Plastics.