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Product Spotlight: Mild Steel Box Section

It continues to be one of our best sellers on our cut to size metal website and on our eBay store, so this week we’re blogging about our mild steel box section.

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How Aluminium Has Shaped the World

The Aluminium Federation has just celebrated its 50th anniversary and as a little celebration, they put together a list of fifty ways aluminium has changed the world for a better. It’s something we take for granted but it has allowed us to develop at a staggering

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New Method of Steel Production Cuts CO2

It has been reported this week that material chemists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have been working on a method of steel production which will cut the amount of carbon dioxide released during the process – potentially eliminating one

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Aluminium Oversupply Becoming Global Problem

Global aluminium output has skyrocketed in the first quarter of 2013 - predominantly in China – leading prices to fall to $1800 per tonne. The World Bureau of Metal Statistics estimates overproduction in the first two months of the year at 317,000 tonnes

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New to the Site: Aluminium Chequer Plate

Those of you who are regular visitors to our website will have noticed that we have added our first sheet metals this week, including aluminium chequer plate.

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Product Spotlight: High Yield Steel Rebar

Reinforced concrete has been instrumental in the construction industry since its invention in the 19th century. The combination of the qualities of concrete and steel rebar results in a material which has high relative strength, high tensile strength, great

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