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Technical Information

At Metalex we fulfil thousands of metal orders everyday and we work exceptionally hard with our customers to ensure that they receive exactly what they need.

To aid you, we have created a number of technical information pages to guide you in making the correct choices regarding characteristics, specifications and tolerances for your metal requirements.

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The latest metals news from your favourite aluminium stockists

by | 12/07/2021 | Aluminium, Aluminium News, Aluminium Price Trends, Aluminium Tech, Green, Industry News, Innovation, Metal News, Metal Prices, Metal Uses, Recycling, Steel | 0 Comments

As your  expert aluminium supplier there's always plenty of news about the light yet strong metal that helps build our world. There's a big push for green steel at the moment, so we take a look at that. And one sculptor has just completed a 3D printed stainless steel...
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About aluminium 2024 – A high strength alloy

by | 28/06/2021 | Aluminium, Aluminium Alloy, Aluminium Grades, Metal Definitions | 0 Comments

Aluminium 2024 contains copper, magnesium, and manganese, all of which dramatically increase the strength of an aluminium alloy. On the downside, the high percentage of copper means the alloy isn't good at resisting corrosion. It usually contains tiny amounts of...
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Metal suppliers UK news digest – Developments in the metals world

by | 14/06/2021 | Aluminium, Aluminium News, Aluminium Price Trends, Aluminium Tech, Environmental, Green, Industry News, Innovation, Iron, Metal News, Metal Prices, Recycling | 0 Comments

Digital innovation helps make the aluminium smelting process more efficient, cheaper, safer and greener. Nissan creates an aluminium-rich, lighter, more efficient car at its Sunderland plant. A bottleneck in Malaysia means the EU and USA face ongoing shortages of...
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About aluminium 2014 – Tough enough for aerospace applications

by | 24/05/2021 | Aluminium, Aluminium Alloy, Aluminium Grades, Metal Definitions, Metal Prices, Metal Uses, Recycling, Sustainability | 0 Comments

  Aluminium Alloy 2014 is a copper-based alloy with very high strength and excellent machining characteristics at some tempers. Aluminium 2014 is the second most popular alloy in the 2000 series, the most popular being Aluminium 2024 alloy. Aluminium  2014 is...
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Metal suppliers news – Prices rally, record-breaking recycling and more

by | 10/05/2021 | Aluminium, Industry News, Innovation, Metal News, Metal Prices, Recycling, Steel, Sustainability | 0 Comments

As aluminium suppliers and steel suppliers in the UK, we are fascinated to see how fast our world is changing. Many of the changes are for the better, good for our environment and for the future. Here's the latest metals news, from our world to yours.  Liberty...
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About aluminium 2011 – Brilliant machining and poor weldability

by | 26/04/2021 | Aluminium, Aluminium Alloy, Aluminium Grades, Metal Definitions, Metal Uses | 0 Comments

  Aluminium 2011 was created to allow great machining at high speeds. Doing so can result in fine chips being produced, but they're easy to remove. Because it comes with such good machining characteristics, it's often used to create very detailed and highly...
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The latest news from your favourite metal suppliers UK

by | 12/04/2021 | Aluminium, Aluminium News, Aluminium Price Trends, Aluminium Tech, Environmental, Industry News, Metal News, Steel | 0 Comments

As experts in metal supplies we like to keep our fingers on the pulse. This time around there's the usual mix of good and not-so-good news, a blend of brilliant climate innovations on one hand and bad times for the UK steel industry on the other, plus stiff new EU...
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About aluminium 6262 – Heat treatable with great corrosion resistance

by | 22/03/2021 | Industry News, Aluminium, Aluminium News, Aluminium Tech, Metal News, Metal Prices, Stainless Steel, Sustainability | 0 Comments

Aluminium alloy 6262 is a popular heat treatable alloy. It comes with excellent corrosion resistance and it is also very strong. If you're going to do heavy cutting you'll need an oil lubricant, other than that you can easily cut it dry.About aluminium 6262 – Heat...
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Metal supplier news – Goodbye coking coal, Cumbria re-think, China gets tough

by | 08/03/2021 | Industry News, Aluminium, Aluminium News, Aluminium Tech, Metal News, Metal Prices, Stainless Steel, Sustainability | 0 Comments

There's plenty going on in the turbulent world of steel at the moment. As steel suppliers in the UK we're delighted to learn that there's no need for one of the nastiest fossil fuels around, coking coal, to play a role in steel production in future – it's goodbye to...
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About Aluminium 7075t6 – Low low weight and high stress resistance

by | 22/02/2021 | Industry News, Aluminium, Aluminium News, Aluminium Tech, Metal News, Metal Prices, Stainless Steel, Sustainability | 0 Comments

Let's dive deep into the fine detail behind aluminium 7075t6, a popular alloy that comes with a low weight and an unusually high resistance to stress, usually available as plate and round bar. About Aluminium 7075t6 – Low low weight and high stress resistance Let's...
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