Your aluminium suppliers

Aluminium suppliers of sheet & coil

• Aluminium sheet products: We provide aluminium sheet in different grades for general purpose sheet metal applications as well as specialised uses such as marine applications that required increased corrosive resistance. You have the choice of paper interleaved, naked or PE (Polyethylene) protective film to suit any application
• Aluminium coil products: Our teams around Australia can provide customer with both mother coil or slit coil as required for applications including air conditioning, transport, marine, manufacturing, fabrication, agriculture and general industrial raw material and finished products.

Aluminium suppliers of plate & treadplate

• Aluminium plate: BlueScope Distribution provides aluminium plate products that can be used in high strength structural applications, welded marine applications and road transport vehicles. Furthermore, our commodity plates can be used in a variety of general manufacturing and fabrication applications 
• Aluminium treadplate: At BlueScope Distribution, we supply aluminium tread plate for a wide variety of applications including step treads, shop floors, marine foot traffic, and decorative bar fronts. Our range includes both 5052 O (5 Bar) mill finish tread pattern plate and 3003 H22 bright propellor plate in a range of gauges and dimensions.  

Aluminium extrusion suppliers

• Aluminium extrusion: We sell a wide range of standard geometric, standard industry specific and customer exclusive aluminium extrusion shapes in a variety of alloy & temper combinations as well as finishes. Our range of standard geometric aluminum extrusion product profiles include flat bar, angle, channel, round bar, tee section, tube, oval, square hollow and rectangular hollow.

Sheet, plate & treadplate aluminium processing services

• Aluminium routing: BlueScope Distribution can square or bevel cut aluminium into extremely complex shapes with precision, ease and accuracy. Our capability includes drilling and etching (otherwise known as marking) the product which helps with material use, assembly, and identification. 
• Aluminium laser cutting: Our teams can arrange laser cutting serviced depending on customer needs.
• Aluminium slitting and shearing: BlueScope Distribution have the in-house ability to cut aluminium coil up to 4mm thick down to custom sheets sizes up to 6 metres in length. Slitting services are also available to cut coils into narrower sizes.
• Protection film: We offer the option of applying a temporary PE (Polyethylene) protective film to the aluminium to minimise quality risks, reduce product waste and improve processing efficiency.
  

Aluminium extrusion processing services

• Aluminium profile 3D prototyping: Our teams can test aluminium component designs by providing 3D prototypes produced from the drawings supplied by our customers. 

• CNC precision product fabrication by machining: including square or bevel cutting, mill, shape drill, tap, notch, slot & punch, swage, knurl, digital print  
• Bracket, corner stakes, connector cutting
• Square & mitre cutting
• Precision cut to length
• Extrusion routing
• Edge deburring

To learn more about our range of steel processing services, please visit our processing page.

• Kitting services: We can supply aluminium to our customers in kit form, in order to provide efficiencies for our customers when they are assembling the final aluminium products. Our kits can include value added services to multiple gauge, grade, dimensional sheet, plate and treadplate products, complemented by our aluminium standard and exclusive extrusions.
• Project management solutions: Our BlueScope Distribution teams are experienced in handling and processing aluminium coil products to suit the project requirements of our customers.
• Just-in-time delivery: Our teams help to ensure our clients projects are running smoothly by removing bottlenecks, reducing WIP, improving production efficiencies and coordinating the delivery of aluminium just-in-time.
• Stock management strategies: Our sales teams discuss and plan your holistic aluminium portfolio and tailor one or multiple strategies to suit your business needs.
• Forecasting support: BlueScope Distribution works with customers to help them better understand their purchasing trends, future requirements and project injections to smooth manufacturing processes and reduce bottlenecks.
• End-to-end supply chain: BlueScope Distribution offers customers end-to-end aluminium project management solutions to deliver personalised supply chain co-ordination.
• B2B integration: Our team can arrange business-to-business system integration requirements with customers, uncovering ways to manage system automated stock management solutions.