by Adam Rogers | 28, Dec, 2020 | Aluminium, Aluminium Alloy, Aluminium Extrusion, Aluminium Grades, Metal Definitions, Recycling, Sustainability
About aluminium 6061 – Ideal for engineering and structural applicationsAluminium 6061 and 5052 are fairly similar, but 6061 is a lot stronger thanks to being a heat-treatable alloy. Loved for its many useful features, it is used more often than 5052 in engineering...
by Adam Rogers | 14, Dec, 2020 | Metal News, Aluminium, Aluminium Alloy, Aluminium Extrusion, Aluminium News, Steel, Sustainability
Ocean-floor exploitation, monolith mystery, sheet steel ships and golf clubsAs experts in metal supplies UK we’re always on the look-out for exciting news. Here are four of the best stories form early December 2020, and here’s wishing you luck whatever...
by Adam Rogers | 29, Sep, 2020 | Aluminium, Aluminium Extrusion
Aluminium Extrusion – Everything you need to knowExtruded aluminium can be formed into any shape or size. It’s so popular and versatile that around half of all the aluminium we process and ship is extruded. If you’re after round bar, square bar, flat bar,...
by Adam Rogers | 13, Apr, 2020 | Aluminium, Aluminium Extrusion, Industry News, Metal News
Metal Suppliers News Metalex Products is currently working overtime at its sites in Poole, Horsham, Birmingham, Chepstow and Milton Keynes to process orders for aluminium plate and bar billets being used in the rapid production of medical equipment. Metalex Products...
by Adam Rogers | 19, Feb, 2020 | Aluminium, Aluminium Alloy, Aluminium Extrusion, Aluminium News, Aluminium Plate, Aluminium Price Trends, Industry News, Metal News, Metal Prices, Sustainability
Aluminium Suppliers News Metalex products – Focus aluminium – Predictions for 2020 We all operate in a global economy these days. No company, person or country is an island, Metalex included, and global issues are having an impact in all sorts of ways, some expected...
by Adam Rogers | 22, May, 2016 | Aluminium Extrusion, Aluminium, Aluminium Price Trends, Industry News, Metal News
Aluminium extrusion and the environmental cost of miningWe sell aluminium products, from aluminium sheet supplies to aluminium extrusion products and more. As a responsible supplier we’re also interested in the methods used to mine the metals we sell, and right now...
