Whois & Analysis for metalsupermarkets.com

Metal Supermarkets is a Canadian franchise that primarily focuses on selling small quantity metals, cut to the customer’s desired size.

Metal Supermarkets is the largest franchise in the small quantity metals industry and the only one with international reach.

An alloy is a mixture of metals or a mixture of a metal and another element.

Alloys are defined by a metallic bonding character.

An alloy may be a solid solution of metal elements (a single phase) or a mixture of metallic phases (two or more solutions).

Intermetallic compounds are alloys with a defined stoichiometry and crystal structure.

Zintl phases are also sometimes considered alloys depending on bond types (see also: Van Arkel-Ketelaar triangle for information on classifying bonding in binary compounds).

Aluminium or aluminum (in North American English) is a chemical element in the boron group with symbol Al and atomic number 13.

It is a silvery-white, soft, nonmagnetic, ductile metal.

By mass, aluminium makes up about 8% of the Earth's crust; it is the third most abundant element after oxygen and silicon and the most abundant metal in the crust, though it is less common in the mantle below.

Aluminium metal is so chemically reactive that native specimens are rare and limited to extreme reducing environments.

Instead, it is found combined in over 270 different minerals.

The chief ore of aluminium is bauxite.

In metalworking, rolling is a metal forming process in which metal stock is passed through one or more pairs of rolls to reduce the thickness and to make the thickness uniform.

The concept is similar to the rolling of dough.

Rolling is classified according to the temperature of the metal rolled.

If the temperature of the metal is above its recrystallization temperature, then the process is known as hot rolling.

If the temperature of the metal is below its recrystallization temperature, the process is known as cold rolling.

In terms of usage, hot rolling processes more tonnage than any other manufacturing process, and cold rolling processes the most tonnage out of all cold working processes.

Roll stands holding pairs of rolls are grouped together into rolling mills that can quickly process metal, typically steel, into products such as structural steel (I-beams, angle stock, channel stock, and so on), bar stock, and rails.

Most steel mills have rolling mill divisions that convert the semi-finished casting products into finished products.

Brass is a metal alloy made of copper and zinc; the proportions of zinc and copper can be varied to create a range of brasses with varying properties.

It is a substitutional alloy: atoms of the two constituents may replace each other within the same crystal structure.