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Birmingham has a long, rich and famous manufacturing history, and metal has been at the heart of that for centuries. As early as the 16th century, the West Midlands was known for its metalworking and its ironsmiths. After the dramatic transformation of the Industrial Revolution, Birmingham became one of the world’s great industrial cities, known as ‘The Workshop of the World’. The city was known not so much for its heavy industry, but for its engineering, production, machining and craftsmanship. Birmingham turned raw materials into everything from tableware and jewellery to machine tools and cars. When it came to making things with metals, Birmingham was unsurpassed.
That reputation remains. Birmingham may not be the true ‘Workshop of the World’ anymore, and its manufacturing industry does not dominate the local economy as it did in the past, but it’s still there. Employment in manufacturing is still well above the national average and Birmingham and the West Midlands generate over £10 billion each year for the national economy. Whether for a giant company investing in mass production, a small trader or a hobbyist, Birmingham needs metal and steel suppliers and is full of people looking for “places to buy metal near me”.
Rapid Metals is the answer to your requirements for metal of all types and quantities. We’ve been metal and steel suppliers to the Midlands for over 25 years. We can provide the metal you need, whatever the purpose, whether through our online store or if you come to our physical locations in Nuneaton and Redditch.
Rapid Metals can provide a range of metals in a broad choice of shapes, profile and forms. Rapid Metals allows our buyers to customise the dimensions of many of the orders, so our customers in Birmingham and beyond won’t have wasted metal when the job or order has been completed. We can ship orders with lengths or sides up to 3000mm by courier but can supply larger items for collection in our branches or by local delivery.
Here are some of the metal and steel products that Rapid Metals can provide to customers in Birmingham through our online store.
Rapid Metals is proud to be a leading supplier of engineering steel, which we offer in many different grades for a wide range of engineering applications. These include Bright Drawn Mild Steel and En1, En3, En8, En16, En19, En24 and En36. Depending on the grade, these can be supplied as block, sheet, bar and strip in a variety of sections.
The uses for steel in and around Birmingham are numerous, and Rapid Metals can provide the material you need for any task. You can see the full range of options for buying steel sections at our online store. While not all grades are available in all these forms, the range includes common types of bar, tube, strip and sheet, as well as customisable angle, box section, oval tube, threaded rod and tread plate.
We can provide a similarly broad range of stainless steel, in 303, 304 and 316 grades. This can be shipped in flat, round, square and hexagonal bar, angle, tube and sheet. Whatever task or purpose you have stainless steel metal in mind for in Birmingham, we can provide you with the perfect and customisable metal.
If you need D2 tool steel, Rapid Metals can provide blocks cut to your specific sizes. Provide a length, width and height and all six faces of your block will be cut to your requirements, plus 5mm allow for the block being out of square. Whether large or small, by either quantity or size, contact us to discuss your requirements and we’ll do all we can to supply what you need. We can also supply D2, O1, and Silver Tool Steel round bars, available in a wide range of diameters to suit your needs.
Our range of aluminium products (in 6000 Series aluminium) includes sheet metal, plain aluminium plate and tread plate. We can supply bar aluminium in round, flat, square and hexagonal section, and aluminium tube, channel, tee-section, angle and box section. Most of these can be ordered in various standard dimensions or to a custom size as required.
Whether it’s providing Birmingham supplies for welding, engineering, plumbing or other uses, our brass range will fit the bill. We offer brass bar in flat, round, hexagon, square section, angle, tube or sheet, with the metal in a range of thicknesses and lengths, which can also be customised to fit specific needs.
Rapid Metals supplies SAE660 bronze in round bar in a selection of metric and imperial diameters, and to custom lengths.
If you’re in Birmingham or the surrounding area and need cast iron for plumbing or decorative uses, Rapid Metals can provide G250 cast iron in round or square section bar of between 35mm and 200mm diameter and to custom lengths.
Copper is one of the most versatile and commonly used metals in all sorts of industries and crafts. We can supply it as flat strips, round bar, round tube and sheet. The bar and tube can be shipped in lengths of your choice. The sheet can be provided in thicknesses of between 1mm and 2.5mm and fully customisable lengths and widths.
Not everything we sell is metal – we also provide plastics. These products include end caps in black or white Acetal engineering plastic (perfect for tubes or pipes) and round plastic bar for cutting or machining as needed. We can also work with our suppliers to provide plastic sheet which, like our metal, can be cut to custom sizes.
Whatever metals you need, if you’re in or near Birmingham, Rapid Metals can provide you with what you need. Browse our online store to place an order or contact us to discuss your requirements.
Angle 
Box Section 
Channel 
Aluminium Flat 
Hexagon 
Round 
Round Tube 
Aluminium Sheet 
Aluminium Square 
Tee Section 
Tread Plate 
Oval Tube 
Threaded Rod 
En24t Cut Block 
Rectangular 
Round 
Square 
