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Suppliers of Metals and Metal Powders Worldwide
Who are we?William Rowland Limited are a long-established metals and alloy supply com...
Aluminium
The most widely used non ferrous metal, (approx 26 million tonnes consumed annually), comes in a variety of forms and specifications for in...
Base Alloy
Base Alloy is one of the eutectics, i.e. it has a sharp melting point (124°C). Unlike Bend Alloy, Tool Alloy and Press Alloy, which ex...
Bend Alloy
This alloy, one of the group of low melting point (fusible) alloys, based on bismuth metal, is the most widely used in industry. One of it...
Casting Alloy
This alloy is one of the most interesting in the range of low melting point bismuth based alloys. On solidification from the molten sta...
Chromium
As U.K. distributors for DELACHAUX – FRANCE, we supply their range of chromium metal products, including Standard Chromium Metal (Cr 9...
Contact Us
SHEFFIELD (Head Office)
9-13 Meadow Street, SheffieldSouth Yorkshire, S3 7BL
United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0) 114 276 9421
Fax: +...
Directions
Directions from the M1 motorway to William Rowland Ltd in Sheffield:
Leave the M1 motorway at Junction 33 take the Sheffield Parkway A630...
Ferro Alloys
FERRO ALUMINIUM
Melting Range
1225-1275ºC
SPECIFIC GRAVITY
5.1
Used as a deoxidant in steel making and avail...
High Grade Copper
Copper Cathode: To BS EN 1978 : 1998 Cu CATH 1:
Cu> 99.99%, Ag< 0.0025%, Bi< 0.0002%, Pb< 0.0005%.(As+Cd+Cr+Mn+P+Sb) 0...
High Purity Metals
The products of PPM PURE METALS available through William Rowland Limited include: Germanium, Arsenic, Indium, Gallium, Antimony, ...
Interactive
Digital Metal Components SystemView our "Digi-Slider", designed especially for you. To view it you may need to allow pop-ups from this si...
Lens 136 Alloy
H.G. Lens Alloy is one of an interesting range of bismuth-based alloys to which the element indium is added to give a substantially lo...
Low Melting Point Alloys
NON-ELEMENTAL
On site at William Rowland Birmingham we operate a foundry that produces Tin and Low Melting Point Bismuth ba...
Metal Applications
Metals for Aerospace
Many consider the Wright Brothers’ first flight of the Kitty Hawk in 1903 to be the starting point of ...
Materials for Metal Joining & Repair
Nickel & Cobalt-based Braze Filler Metal Products: Powders, Pastes, Transfer Tapes, and Preforms for met...
Metal Powders & Applications
William Rowland offers you a range of metal and alloy powders comprising:
Powders for Powder Metallurgy
Stainles...
Metal Products
William Rowland's unparalleled product range ensures a consistent supply of high quality metals and raw materials to a wide range of i...
Metals for Aerospace
From planetary exploration, space shuttle flights and satellite communication through to the civilian sector of helicopters, pro...
Metals for Automotive
Alloys and metals, which are used by our foundry customers today to service the different applications within the automotive se...
Metals for Construction
It was the Bessemer process which allowed the mass-production of steel on an economically viable scale. It is largely due to ...
Metals for Defence
From planes and rockets in the sky, ships and submarines in the sea to motorcycles and tanks on land, as an industrial sector defe...
Metals for Food Processing
As with all great discoveries the invention of stainless steel was almost missed. It is purported that Brearley, who becam...
Metals for Marine
Today’s shipping vessels are far more diverse, just as the types of goods that now travel by sea vary enormously, with produc...
Metals for Petrochemical
Today as the demand for oil and gas increases more exploration is being undertaken to reveal new oil and gas fields. This in...
Metals Supply Worldwide
We import and export metals to and from countries all over the world.
Some of the countries are listed below:
Austria...
INCO CARBONYL NICKEL POWDERS
Carbonyl Nickel Powders & Coated Products: Nickel Carbonyl gas can be decomposed under a number of different product...
Non-Ferrous Metals
ALUMINIUM
Symbol
Al
Atomic Weight
26.98
Melting Point
660°C
Specific Gravity
(@ 20°C) 2.69
...
Other Metals
Using a varying range of techniques and equipment, the Foundry is also able to offer Tin, Bismuth and Zinc in semi manufactured forms.Ti...
Powders for Powder Metallurgy
Stainless & tool steel powders:
Fully alloyed stainless steel powders produced by water atomisation for P/M comp...
Powders for Tungsten Heavy Alloy & Cemented Carbide Manufacture
Fused Tungsten Carbide
William Rowland are a Distributor of:
Wol...
Press Alloy
H.G. Press Alloy is one of the eutectics, i.e. it has a sharp melting point (138°C) and like the majority of Bismuth based alloys it ...
Quality
The Company has demonstrated its commitment to high-quality metals and metal powders over many years.
In 1988 both sites were amongst ...
Reach
In June 2007 REACH - Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals came into force. Our guideline to the REACH process i...
NICKEL AND NICKEL Alloys
Inco Special Addition Alloys are used in the production of nickel-base alloys and ductile iron. These direct addition alloys...
Stainless Steel & Non-Ferrous Semi's
Stockholding Division
To complement our existing UK activities, we are now developing a non-ferrous Stockho...
Rowspray Thermal Spray Powders
Metal & Alloy Powders
Chemistry
Application
Options
Aluminium, 99%+ AlAtomized
Dense, high conducti...
Tool Alloy
Tool Alloy, one of the well known group of low-melting point bismuth based alloys, is solid below 100°C and liquid at about 230°C....
News Articles
After a delay of roughly two years the long awaited for arrival of Boeing’s 787 “Dreamliner” at the Farnborough airshow was the caus...
Bicycles.
The modern bicycles that we see today are indeed a far step from the bone-shakers of yesteryear. Their popularity is such that, reportedl...
Metals in medicine:
In day to day life we see many differing forms and types of metal and alloys all around us. Often they pass unnoticed, the tung...
52,500 or so was the number of coins found in an earthenware pot which weighted in at a staggering 160kgs. The Roman coins where made from debased sil...
A comprehensive report carried out by Global Industry Analysts (GIA) has predicted that the global metal powders market will be worth a healthy $4.9 b...
We recently spoke in a previous article about the manufacturing process behind golf clubs and the metals and casting process involved in producing the...
Vedanta Resources, the India-focused mining group have secured the purchase of Anglo American PLC’s zinc assets for an eye watering price of $1....
Following a decision by European policymakers, central bankers and the International Monetary Fund to provide a $1 trillion rescue package to boost th...
Speciality materials group, Umicore are set to invest $42.8 million in the production of lithium ion battery materials in Kobe, Japan, boosting the co...
As all eyes were drawn to Augusta, Florida earlier this month in preparation for the commencement of the golfing season, it provided the team at Willi...
The price of copper gained in New York and London this week as a wavering dollar drove demand for commodities as the currency and inventories monitore...
China, supplier of around 90 percent of the world’s rare earth minerals, has recently stopped accepting applications for new mines bidding to pr...
In preparation of his forthcoming inauguration, Chile’s President-elect, Sebastián Piñera has informed his government of plans to ...
The LME is currently preparing to launch the world’s first cobalt and molybdenum futures contracts that will commence trading on the exchange on...
The turn of the decade has assisted a strong rally in metal stocks over the past few weeks with both ferrous and non-ferrous metals experiencing the N...
With many industry members glad to see the back of 2009, the turn of the New Year has been greeted with the news that the global aluminium market is h...
Chinese metal authorities were left incensed this week after it was announced that the world"s two biggest miners, Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton had comp...
For the past few months, the prices of base metals, predominantly Aluminium, Copper and Zinc have experienced a dramatic surge following a rise in con...
With the recent news of an economic crisis affecting Dubai and the Middle East, it was hoped by forecasters that the repercussions of such information...
China"s largest non-ferrous metals producers, China Minmetals Corporation have announced recently their intentions to acquire a stake in Hunan Non-Fer...
US ferrous powder producing giant, the Hoeganaes Corporation has announced in recent weeks their intention to open a new market support facility in Da...
Global aluminium producer Norsk Hydro ASA, have recently announced their intentions to sell its automotive structures business to an established auto ...
Granta Design and the MPIF have recently announced that the revolutionary Global Powder Metallurgy Property Database will soon be made available as a ...
Resident speakers at the recently held BIR Convention in Amsterdam have conveyed quite divergent and conflicting outlooks for the future of the non-fe...
Russian metal giants, Norilsk Nickel have finished developing, and are now looking to implement a new form of technology for manufacturing nickel powd...
Zinc casting alloys are welcoming a new generation into the family in the form of Zinc-Aluminium Foundry Alloys 8, 12 and 27. The new alloy has been t...
Russia's largest base and precious metals minerNorilsk Nickelhave seenitsnet profitin the first six months of 2009 plunge 84% from the previous year, ...
With metals traders eagerly preparing themselves for the upcoming LME week, two of the first minor metal contracts to be introduced for commencement i...
For the first time in months, base metal prices were buoyed in the pre-market announcements at The London Metal Exchange (LME) earlier this week. Theo...
Multi-national mining and resource group Rio Tinto have announced this week their intention to sell an 80% stake in Ghana's solitary bauxite mine, to ...
The recession of 2008/2009 has affected a vast majority of businesses on a global level, and the metal supply industry is no exception to this. Worldw...
