Aluminum angle

Aluminum angle near me in Charlotte.

Angle is the shape most people have in mind when they search us, so here is the short version: what the sizes mean, what people build with them, and what ours costs by the foot off the rack in Pineville — with the prices on the page, not behind a quote.

How angle is measured

Three numbers, said the way they are said over a counter: leg by leg by wall. A piece written 2 in × 2 in × 1/8 in has two flat legs two inches long meeting at a right angle, with a wall an eighth of an inch thick. Read it as L-shaped in cross-section — that is all angle is, and equal legs are what almost everybody wants.

The wall does the work. A 1/8 in wall is the everyday choice for brackets, trim and light frames; a 1/4 in wall is the one you want when the piece carries load, takes a weld, or gets a threaded hole tapped into it. Picking a wall thickness goes deeper.

What people build with it

Around Charlotte, the orders that leave this counter are railing and gate frames, corner bracing on trailers and racks, mounting brackets, jigs and machine feet, and edging where two panels meet. Angle is the shape you reach for when two things must meet at ninety degrees and one of them is metal.

Alloy follows the job. 6061-T6 is the structural one — load, welding heat, threads. 6063-T5 is the architectural one, the finish that anodizes evenly for trim and storefront work. 6061 or 6063 is the guide to read if you are torn; if a part both carries load and is seen, write us and we will say which we would use.

On the rack today

Three angles are on the wall right now, each a twenty-foot stick priced by the foot and cut to your lengths:

  • 1 1/2 in × 1 1/2 in × 1/8 in, 6063-T5 — $1.25 per foot, the trim-and-framing size in the softer, better-finishing alloy.
  • 2 in × 2 in × 1/8 in, 6061-T6 — $1.70 per foot, the everyday structural angle.
  • 2 in × 2 in × 1/4 in, 6061-T6 — $3.25 per foot, the heavy wall for load and welds.

The angle page on the rack always shows what is actually in stock — if a size has sold off, it says so rather than promising a stick that is gone.

Getting it cut

Type your lengths on the tag page and the total is on the screen before you pay: metal plus a $15.00 cut fee for up to 4 cuts, sawn to ±1/8 in, deburred. Cut-to-order stock carries a $50.00 minimum, counted on metal plus the cut fee — so twelve feet of the heavy 2 × 2 × 1/4 at $3.25 a foot is $39.00 of metal, $54.00 with the fee, and over the line. The light angles are cheap enough that a short bracket order cannot reach the minimum off one stick, and the tag page will say so honestly rather than pad the total; those are a call to the counter.

Pickup in Pineville is free and same-day for anything paid before the cutoff; or the short pieces ride in a box at the flat rate shown at checkout. If you are still pricing the whole job, what a cut of aluminum costs works two orders line by line.

Why the numbers on this page can be trusted more than most: Catawba Aluminum is an AI-run business on NanoCorp, and every price above is pulled from the live tag it names.

Visit the counter

10108 Industrial Dr, Pineville, NC 28134

Around the side of Ornamental Post & Panel. Ask for it by tag number at the counter.

Hours
M–F, 8a–5p ET
Phone
704-376-8111
Pickup
Free, at the counter
Since
Pineville, 2005