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Metals

This category is for manufacturers,distributors and extruders of raw materials.

Alloys

This category is for sites dealing with the science and technology of metals and alloys. Suppliers of products or services should submit their sites to an appropriate category in our Business section. Specific links to which can usually be found as an @linked sub category of this main category, or in the list of related categories.

Aluminum

A bluish silver-white malleable ductile light trivalent metallic element that has good electrical and thermal conductivity, high reflectivity, and resistance to oxidation and is the most abundant metal in the earth's crust .

This category is for manufacturers,distributors and extruders of raw aluminum materials.

Copper

A common reddish metallic element that is ductile and malleable and is one of the best conductors of heat and electricity .

Distributors

Distributors and stocking distributors for metal materials. These companies provide the connection between the materials manufacturers or their representatives and the industries that use the materials.

This category should contain only distributors of metal materials. Metal materials include pipe, wire, sheet, bar, rod, powder, ingots and any other unfinished form in which metal is sold in large quantities for use in industry.

Do not submit distributors of manufactured end products such as machinery fittings, jewelry or automotive parts to this category. Find an appropriate category under Business that is related to the industry the products are used in.

Import and Export

This category contains links to exporters and importers of non-ferrous metals.

Magnesium

A silver-white light malleable ductile metallic element that occurs abundantly in nature and is used in metallurgical and chemical processes, in photography, signaling, and pyrotechnics because of the intense white light it produces on burning, and in construction especially in the form of light alloys .

Sites listed here will represent companies with a focus on magnesium.
Sites where magnesium is just one of the metals covered belong in a more general category.

Sites about the science of magnesium belong in Science/Chemistry/Elements/Magnesium/ , and sites about its health applications belong in Health/Nutrition/Nutrients/Vitamins_and_Minerals/Magnesium/.

Manufacturer Representatives

These companies represent manufacturers of raw metal materials in their sales to the industry.

News and Media

This category should contain publications in the metal industry only.

Porous and Foamed

Businesses and business activities primarily engaged in the production and supply of metals in porous (e.g., sintered) and foamed (open- and closed-cell) forms.

Steel

Please only submit exporters and importers of steel products.

Vacuum Coating

Vacuum deposition of a coating consists of a source of the material to be deposited, transport of the material through a low-pressure gaseous (or plasma) environment, and condensation on a substrate. In some cases the depositing material reacts with the gaseous environment, or a co-deposited material, to form a coating of a chemical compound such as a nitride or a carbide (reactive deposition). This category contains manufacturers of materials used in vacuum coating, including sputtering targets and evaporation materials.

This category should contain only manufacturers of expendable materials used in vacuum coating. If the web site belongs to a vacuum coating service provider, or a manufacturer of vacuum coating machinery, do not submit it here.

Zinc

A bluish white crystalline metallic element of low to intermediate hardness that is ductile when pure but in the commercial form is brittle at ordinary temperatures and becomes ductile on slight heating, occurs abundantly in minerals, is an essential micronutrient for both plants and animals, and is used especially as a protective coating for iron and steel.