Charlotte region, NC and SC I-85 I-77 I-40
NCUS 74
Southeast of Charlotte on US 74; ATI's titanium operation in Monroe is one of the county's largest employers.
Union County lies southeast of Charlotte on US 74. ATI's titanium operation in Monroe is one of the county's largest employers; in 2015 ATI announced a $69.8 million facility next to its Monroe site, adding 70 jobs. The clusters are aerospace manufacturing, titanium and specialty metals, and metal forging.
Metal means weight, and weight means short boxes with heavy walls and full flap bottoms. Union is also farm country, so growers here are octabin buyers in season.
Union County stacks are heavy more often than not. Titanium and specialty metal work asks for strong boxes with full flap bottoms, and the empties that come out are the same. Forging and aerospace suppliers also care about contamination, so a note on what the box held matters as much as the count.
The lanes on this page: aerospace manufacturing, titanium and specialty metals, and metal forging.
Union names aerospace manufacturing, titanium and specialty metals, and metal forging. ATI makes titanium alloys in Monroe and announced a new facility beside its site, and the state calls it one of the county's largest employers. Forging and specialty metal work uses strong boxes with full flap bottoms for heavy shapes, and the same boxes come out the other side scuffed but square. For such stacks the honest details are the wall count, any cutting oil on the board and whether the boxes were kept indoors.
Union County docks that run aerospace, titanium and forging work should treat staging as part of the description. Set heavy boxes on pallets and wipe any oil from corners. Record the wall count and bottom of each lot on a sheet. Keep the boxes indoors where the forging work is done, and note whether any stood in a yard. A buyer in this trade reads detail carefully, and a clean sheet answers questions before they are asked.
The county runs southeast of Charlotte on US 74, with Monroe as the main city and Indian Trail on the way to Charlotte. It borders Mecklenburg to the west and Lancaster County in South Carolina to the south, so a Monroe stack can be matched across the line.
Say a Union County metals dock has ten 4‑wall boxes at 48 x 40 x 24 in with full flap bottoms, and eighteen 5‑wall boxes at 48 x 48 x 36 in. Both held machined or forged parts. A request that says "ten 4‑wall, eighteen 5‑wall, parts boxes, light oil on three of them" is clearer than any longer message, because the oil note decides which boxes can be reused and which go for baling.
Union is the one North Carolina county here that faces Lancaster County in South Carolina, so read that page too.
Yes, as boxes. Describe the footprint, the wall count and the condition, and say if oil or cutting fluid reached the corrugated. A stained or oily box is graded lower or sent to the baler, and saying so early saves a round of questions.
Count, footprint and wall count are enough to start.
No prices, minimums or times are stated here.