Metal Rods

Find industrial metal rods and rod stock with the best composition for your application

Metal rods make metal stock storage practical and easy. Companies buy and sell rods, and then undergo processing them into other metal products. Rods also serve as building materials themselves, most commonly as concrete support rods. Most metal rods have round cross sections (i.e. they are long cylinders). Still, there is also square metal rod stock as well as other polygon shapes, such as a metal rod or bar with a hexagonal cross section.

Ferrous metals, like steel and cast iron, account for a great deal of metal bars. There are even stainless metal rods. However, there are other compositions:

1. Aluminum metal rods are ductile and easy to work with, but still rather strong. They're also corrosion resistant.

2. Cobalt rod is strong and highly resistant to corrosion. This metal has the added benefit of being temperature tolerant.

3. Copper bar and its alloys (like brass and bronze) are fairly ductile and workable, with varying strengths (depending on the alloy). They are also good conductors and resist corrosion.

4. Nickel is strong with superior corrosion resistance and temperature tolerance.

5. Titanium is very strong, especially as compared to its weight. It is also corrosion resistant.

Buy steel rods and other ferrous metal rods and bars from quality metal rod manufacturers

The various types of ferrous rod stock are among the most common and most plentiful metal rods. Fabrication with rods containing iron include casting, forming, machining and welding.

Buy metal rods of various compositions, including rare metals

Many applications are better served by non-ferrous metal rod stock, like the aluminum metal rod. Some applications have a "gold" standard metal that is always, or nearly always, chosen. But sometimes there are options, in which case you can prioritize the metals that have the best properties for the job at hand and then consider cost.

Place very small or large custom orders

If you can avoid it, don't waste time re-cutting rod to accommodate your industrial process. Also, if you only want a small order and have nothing to do with extra rod stock, find a company that will work with you. There are a number of metal rod sources, so if you don't find what you want the first time, check out another company.

• If you produce products that must take a lot of wear, tool steel is a good option. It's carbon and iron based, and it is also highly hardened. The drawback, however, is that it's not as easy to work with as other types of rod stock.

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