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The Midlands was not only the first industrialised region in England, but in the world. From the first coke-fired blast furnace at Ironbridge in Shropshire to the first mechanised factory at Cromford in Derbyshire and Boulton & Watt’s steam engine works in Birmingham, the Midlands was where the modern industrial age really began. The famous textile, car, machine tool, ceramic, carpet and brewing industries followed, and their legacy is still strong in an area that produces 21% of all UK manufacturing output (worth over £35 billion each year). And whether it’s structural steel for bridges or delicate stainless steel for the latest medical devices, much of this industry still relies on metal and steel suppliers.
Across the Midlands, people are looking for “places to buy metal near me”. Whether it’s a fabrication business buying cast iron in bulk to provide raw material for customer orders, a trader stocking up on angle aluminium, a machinery workshop using tool steel to make its own working bits, a supplier of electronic boards needing copper sheet or a model engineer needing brass for their latest project, the Midlands needs metal. And Rapid Metals can meet all these needs – and more. From regular supplies of large sheets in bulk to a specific block for a one-off application, Rapid Metals is here and ready to help.
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 the Midlands won’t have wasted metal when the job’s done. We can ship orders with lengths or sides up to 3000mm by courier, and we can supply larger items for collection in our branches or deliver locally.
Here are some of the metal and steel products that Rapid Metals can provide to our customers in the Midlands 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.
There are almost limitless uses for steel around the Midlands, 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 the Midlands, 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 the Midlands with its 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 the Midlands 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 the Midlands, 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 
