For metal suppliers
Buy requests with exact lines, one job at a time.
We source metal for buyers anywhere in Canada, for their projects and for the CNC jobs we run. Each buy request gives you exact lines: grade, form, size, cut length, pieces, where it goes and by when.
What you get
Orders sized to one job, from one customer.
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Exact lines
We turn a buyer’s list into exact lines before it reaches you, so you can price it at the counter.
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A purchase order when we award
On CanadaFab’s paper, naming the shop or the site the metal goes to.
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No buyer to vet
You sell to CanadaFab, and our offer to the buyer never names you.
How buy requests work
From buy request to shipment, in four steps.
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A buy request arrives
By email or in the supplier portal, for metal you carry, with the time to reply by.
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You reply
Price, availability, ship date and country of melt. A reply commits you to nothing until a purchase order.
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We award the line
The purchase order comes from us. You acknowledge the pieces, the price and the ship date.
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Ship with the certificate
Record the shipment with the heat’s mill certificate. We book the pickup.
What to send
With your price, and with the metal.
| What | When | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Price and ship date | With your reply | The line on the buyer’s quote or offer reads from it. |
| Availability | With your reply | From stock or on mill order: it sets the date we promise the buyer. |
| Country of melt | With your reply | Buy Canadian counts steel only if it’s melted and poured in Canada, and aluminum only if it’s smelted and cast here. |
| The mill certificate, with its heat number | With the metal | It travels with the metal, and we file it on the buyer’s order. |
| Cut length and piece count | On the packing slip | Whoever receives the metal checks both against your certificate. |
What we check
Before we send you requests.
| A metal supplier in Canada | The network is Canadian only, and buy requests go to suppliers that deliver where the metal goes. |
|---|---|
| Quality certificate | ISO 9001 or your own quality system, with its expiry date. |
| Liability insurance | The insurer, the coverage and the expiry date. |
| Mill certificates | A sample, to confirm the heat number and the country of melt are on it. |
| A dated price list | By grade, form and region, so our quotes use your prices. |
Apply
Apply as a metal supplier.
A few minutes, and no files. We write back to every application.
Questions
Questions suppliers ask.
More in Help- Who places the order, and who pays?
We do. The purchase order comes from us when we award a line, and we pay against it on the credit terms agreed when your account opens.
Read in Help- Do buyers see our name?
No. Buyers see a Canadian metal supplier and its province, never your name or city.
Read in Help- Do we need to cut to size?
No. Cut-to-size suppliers get small orders and blanks; service centres get full lengths, sheets and plate.
Read in Help