The industrial metals market melts down – and more news from our world
You need aluminium 7075? Not a problem. You want 6082 aluminium flat bar or aluminium 6262? No worries. As aluminium suppliers, UK wide, we’re keeping our finger on the sector’s pulse through thick and thin. Right now things are looking ‘interesting’ for the metal...
Copper crashes, London Metal Exchange in hot water, metal detector fail, smelter cuts and UK government tariffs.
The global copper price crash rumbles onwards, adding pressure to an already difficult time for industrial metals. On the other hand metal prices in general are predicted to soar before long as our sector heads for the ‘worst quarter since the financial crisis’ in...
Aluminium stockists battle production surges, coal fired steel in Japan
We sell aluminium square bar and aluminium flat bar. We’re popular aluminium extrusion suppliers. We sell loads of steel. And, like every other sector, our world is enduring constant change at the moment. Here are just some of the news stories affecting metal...
Record 21-year inventory low, aluminium goes green, and more.
As a highly experienced aluminium stockist, we’re watching with great interest as the market, metal stocks and more fluctuate. In a week when the London Metal Exchange announced aluminium inventories are declining fast, with the latest inventory at just 453,875 mt,...
Azovstal plant news, worldwide aluminium woes, Japan brings steel home
Mariupol looks like it might soon be in Russian hands. Ukrainian fighters are making moves to abandon the massive steel plant where hundreds of them have held out despite relentless bombardment by Russia. Ukrainian officials say the soldiers, who’ve been sheltering...
Tata harnesses sewage bacteria to help the environment, Azovstal Steel Plant latest, recycling records beaten
Defending the Azovstal steel works in the besieged city of Mariupol has become ‘priority number one’ for Ukraine. The plant is the last place Ukrainian resistance is holding out in the city. The area has become the heart of the war and efforts continue to defend it,...
Metal supply woes – covid, supply chains, protests, war and more.
Need 6061 aluminium UK? In the market for 6082 aluminium round bar? The world of metal supply is looking particularly turbulent at the moment thanks to Russia’s war on Ukraine, the need to deal with climate change, the global cost of living crisis, ongoing worldwide...
About mining metals under the ocean
As a trusted metals supplier we know exactly how important the products we sell to the world we all live in. The built environment, transport across the planet itself and beyond, communications, the goods we buy on an everyday basis, metals are crucial in so many...
Space metals – Which metals are tough enough for lift off?
The forces you get when a space rocket takes off are quite something, especially during the phase of ‘maximum aerodynamic pressure’ when the rocket’s actually thrusting through the earth’s atmosphere. Despite these powerful forces the craft’s liquid fuel systems have...
Aluminium plate supplier special – 2022 aluminium supply and prices
At Metalex we sell an awful lot of aluminium. This time we’re delving into the aluminium sector. At one end China’s covid outbreaks are affecting supplies and pricing. At the other end Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has led to supply worries and prices are already on...
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