Who's Who in the US Flagpole Industry: Manufacturers, Online Sellers, Installers and Dealers

Buy a flagpole and you are dealing with one of four kinds of business, sometimes two or three rolled into one. There are manufacturers, who extrude, taper and finish the shafts. There are online stores, who sell poles, flags and hardware to anyone with a card. There are installers, who dig the hole and set the pole plumb. And there are dealers and distributors, who sit between the factory and the job and often manage the whole thing.

Knowing which is which saves time. A homeowner who wants a 20 ft pole by next weekend and a school district writing a Division 10 spec for twelve buildings need very different kinds of help, and the industry is set up to give both. This guide walks through the main names in the US trade, using only what each company says on its own website (checked in October 2026), and links to each one so you can read more.

The manufacturers

These are the companies that actually make flagpoles. Some sell direct, some sell only through dealers, and several do both.

Eder Flag

Eder Flag was founded in 1887 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and is employee-owned today. It runs a manufacturing campus in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, and is the largest flag and flagpole manufacturer in the United States. It makes flags as well as poles, hardware, trucks, winches and foundation sleeves, which means one factory can supply nearly every part of a flagpole job.

Eder's commercial line runs in named series, each with its own wall and base width, from budget residential poles through heavy-duty, internal halyard, architectural and the Hurricane series rated for coastal wind. Eder publishes a flag-flying wind rating for each model, tested against its own U.S. wind map, and recommends a flag size for every pole. It sells online and through a network of authorized dealers.

Concord American Flagpole

Concord American Flagpole is an aluminum flagpole and component maker based in Grapevine, Texas. Its site says it has made poles in the USA from its start in 1948, that it extrudes, spins and builds in-house, and that it runs three manufacturing facilities. It sells through flag and banner dealers and Division 10 sales representatives rather than to the public.

Concord's catalog covers commercial poles from 17 ft to over 100 ft, residential kits and a full range of parts: ornaments, trucks, cleats, internal halyard components, ground sleeves, collars and lighting. Its site offers a specification drawing tool for architects, a wind speed map page, a flagpole dictionary and a lifetime warranty on aluminum shafts (residential kits excluded).

Pole-Tech

Pole-Tech was established in 1985 and works from East Setauket, New York. Its about page describes two buildings on 7.3 acres, with tapering, cutting, welding, straightening, heat treating and polishing done in-house, and a licensed professional engineer on staff who specializes in pole design. Its project list includes the Washington Monument, the WWII Memorial, the Kennedy Center and the Statue of Liberty, as well as the Olympic Games in Atlanta and Salt Lake City.

Pole-Tech works in aluminum, stainless steel, bronze, fiberglass and steel, and its range goes well past standard flagpoles: outrigger and wall-mount poles, counterbalanced tilting poles, fire-department slide poles, camera and antenna poles, and lighting. It takes formal bids and publishes a wind speed chart by model.

Acme/Lingo Flagpoles

Acme/Lingo is a fifth-generation family business. John E. Lingo, a former tugboat captain on the Delaware River, started it in 1897 at one of the spar yards along the river, making ship masts and spars and later wooden flagpoles. Jeff Lingo, the fifth generation, opened the current Southampton, New Jersey location in 2004.

The company makes aluminum flagpoles up to 80 ft, steel poles over 80 ft (its large poles run 90 to 150 ft), stainless steel poles and "Automatic" poles that raise and lower the flag at sunrise and sunset. It is a maker and an installer, with installation, repair and maintenance covering much of New Jersey, southeastern Pennsylvania, northern Delaware and Arizona. Its site says its poles fly in every US state, all US territories and more than 60 other countries.

Flagpole Farm (Titan telescoping poles)

Flagpole Farm makes the Titan telescoping flagpole and lists locations in Meridian, Idaho and Paynesville, Minnesota. Titan poles come in 15, 20 and 25 ft sizes, light and heavy duty, in anodized 6105-T5 aluminum, and the site says the heavy-duty poles can withstand 95 mph winds. They carry a limited lifetime warranty and ship free on retail orders to the lower 48. This is a homeowner product built for a do-it-yourself install, and the company supports it with guides and replacement parts.

The online flag and flagpole stores

Online stores are where most homeowners start. They show prices, carry a broad mix of flags and hardware, and ship to the door. Several also install.

• Flagpoles Etc. is a family-owned seller and maker in Wixom, Michigan. It sells aluminum, fiberglass, nautical, wall-mount and large steel poles, along with lighting and hardware, and offers installation, repair, maintenance and relocation. Its wind chart page points buyers to the ASCE Hazard Tool.
• Liberty Flagpoles is based in Hampden, Massachusetts. It sells telescoping, sectional, fiberglass and nautical poles, plus a large steel series, and offers professional installation of in-ground poles up to 35 ft in Western Massachusetts and Northern Connecticut. Its blog posts regularly and includes half-staff updates.
• FlagandBanner.com is Arkansas Flag & Banner, Inc., headquartered in Little Rock with a second location in North Miami. Beyond flagpoles it makes custom flags, banners and signs, and its installation teams, located across the country, install its own products: flagpoles, banner programs, signage and more.
• Colonial Flag is a family-owned flag maker and pole seller with a showroom in Sandy, Utah. It sells residential and commercial poles and giant powder-coated steel poles from 80 to 150 ft, with manual or electric winches.

Each of these businesses has found its own niche, from regional installation to custom printed banners. For a buyer, the useful question is simply which one is set up for the job in front of you.

The installers

Flagpole installation is mostly local work. It needs a crew that can locate utilities, dig or auger the hole, set a foundation sleeve or shoe base, pour concrete, and stand the pole plumb, often with a crane or lift on taller poles. Some manufacturers and stores install in their own regions, as Acme/Lingo and Liberty do. Others run crews or partner networks that cover a much wider area.

A smooth installation depends a great deal on the information the crew is handed. The crew needs to know the pole model, the exposed and overall heights, the foundation type and depth, the soil, and what is under the ground. When the dealer has already sized the pole to the address, the installer's job is straightforward.

Dealers and distributors

Dealers are the part of the trade most buyers never think about, and the part that does the most for them on commercial jobs. A factory like Eder or Concord makes hundreds of models. A dealer knows which one fits a given address, checks it against the wind and the flag, prices the freight, arranges the crew and handles the warranty if anything goes wrong.

This is where America's Dealers and Distributors (ADD) sits. ADD is an authorized Eder Flag dealer, headquartered with its warehouse in Baltimore, Maryland, and it supplies and installs flagpoles in the 48 contiguous states. It also ships supply-only with freight for buyers who have their own crew. Every flag and pole it sells is made in the USA, and it can provide a certificate of domestic origin, which matters on federally funded projects.

What ADD has done with the dealer role is put the working parts of it on the website, where anyone can see them:

• The prices are published. ADD's flagpole price list shows 64 Eder models from 15 to 80 ft, in seven series, each with its price. There's no login and no "call for price" on the aluminum range.
• The wind is checked at the address before they quote. Every address has an adopted design wind speed, and two houses twenty miles apart can need different poles. ADD holds the design wind speed for every town it covers.
• The flag-flying rating is shown, not only the bare-pole figure, because a flag pulls far harder than bare metal.
• A Flagpole Finder asks three quick questions and names the pole, the flag and the price, with every height drawn to scale next to a building and a six-foot person.
• A price check for contractors turns a pasted CSI 10 75 00 spec section into a budget figure in seconds.

Then there's how they handle people. One person reads each request and replies with a real number, usually the same business day. One quote covers pole, foundation, flag and labour, and ADD manages the job from the first call to the flag going up. The installers are experienced, licensed and insured, with certificates provided before they mobilize and the drawings a permit application needs. There's a warranty on every pole, and ADD handles the claim with Eder. As the site puts it, they would rather spend fifteen minutes on the phone than sell you the wrong pole.

That is our view of where the trade is heading: the knowledge a good dealer has always carried in their head, written down and put in front of the buyer.

The industry at a glance

From each company's own website, checked October 2026.

Common threads across the trade

Read enough of these sites and a few patterns stand out.

Most commercial poles are aluminum and cone-tapered. That's the default from 20 to 80 ft. Above that, steel takes over. Several companies on this list, including Acme/Lingo, Colonial and ADD, offer steel poles to 150 ft. ADD's steel poles run from 100 to 150 ft in 5 ft steps, made in the USA, sized to the site's wind and soil, set by crane and priced per site. You can see them on its large commercial flagpoles page.

Wind ratings follow the NAAMM standard. Metal flagpoles in the US are designed to ANSI/NAAMM FP 1001-07, and makers cite it on their wind pages. Where they differ is which wind map they quote. Concord's wind page refers to the ASCE 7-05 map, Flagpoles Etc. points buyers to the ASCE 7-16 hazard tool, and Eder matches its flag-flying ratings to its own published wind map. Each is a sound choice; just make sure any two numbers you compare are on the same basis.

Lifetime shaft warranties are common on commercial aluminum. Concord and Eder both offer one on shafts, and Flagpole Farm offers a limited lifetime warranty on its telescoping poles. Finish, hardware and flags are normally covered separately and for shorter terms, so it's worth reading what each warranty includes.

Spec tools are spreading. Concord's drawing tool, Acme/Lingo's drawing generator, Flagpole Warehouse's specification generator and ADD's spec price check all aim at the same buyer: the architect or estimator who needs a submittal-ready answer without waiting days for it.

Which kind of company fits your project?

Use this checklist to match the job to the right part of the trade.

• [ ] A single residential pole, 15 to 25 ft, you'll install yourself. An online store or a telescoping kit maker is set up for exactly this.
• [ ] A single pole at a home or business, installed. Look for someone who installs at your address, quotes the pole and the labour together, and asks for the address before quoting.
• [ ] A commercial pole, 30 to 80 ft. You want the model, base width, wall thickness and flag-flying rating named in writing, sized to your wind zone. A dealer with published specs makes this easy.
• [ ] A Division 10 spec on a construction job. You need submittals, certified drawings and a price that matches the spec section. Dealers and factory reps handle this every day.
• ] A program across several locations, such as a school district or chain. One spec, each pole sized to its own address, one held price and one named contact. See ADD's page on [flagpoles for schools for how that works.
• [ ] A giant pole, 100 ft and up. This is steel, crane work and site engineering, priced per site.
• [ ] A federally funded job. Ask for a certificate of domestic origin up front.

A few questions buyers ask

Can I buy straight from the factory? Sometimes. Eder sells online as well as through dealers. Concord sells through dealers and Division 10 reps. Pole-Tech takes bids and works with dealers and architects. For an installed commercial pole, a dealer usually handles more of the job than a factory would.

Is a dealer more expensive than buying direct? Not necessarily. ADD publishes its list prices, so you can see the number before you call. It also has a stated policy: show them a written quote on the same Eder pole and they'll beat it.

Who handles the warranty? It depends on who sold the pole. With ADD, there's a warranty on every pole and ADD handles the claim with Eder for you.

How do I know a pole is right for my address? Ask for the flag-flying wind rating and the wind zone for the address, on the same basis. Give your address up front, so the pole can be sized to it.