Aluminum Alloy 2024 is a high strength material readily formed and machined to a high finish in the annealed condition. It can be both hot and cold worked or forged, as well as welded through inert gas consumable electrode arc methods. Continental Steel & Tube Company offers Aluminum Alloy 2024 in angular form for structural components, as well as in plates, sheets, and bars for medical, trucking, military and aircraft industries.