For metal suppliers
Buy requests with exact lines, for Canadian metal suppliers, 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. Reply with a price, a ship date and the country of melt.
- Reply by email or in the supplier portal
- A purchase order on our paper when we award
- One customer to deal with: CanadaFab
What metal suppliers get
Orders sized to one job, from one customer.
We turn a buyer’s list into exact lines before it reaches you, so you can price it at the counter and cut it without a phone call.
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Buy requests, one job at a time
Grade, form, size, cut length, pieces, the delivery address and the date needed, for metal you carry.
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Reply as you would to anyone
By email or in the supplier portal. A reply commits you to nothing until a purchase order.
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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. The buyer’s identity is never needed, and our offer to the buyer never names you.
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Buyers anywhere in Canada
Projects and CNC jobs across the country, routed to suppliers that deliver where the metal goes.
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Paid on your terms
We pay on the credit terms of the account you open for us.
The request
What a buy request carries, and what you send back.
Each request is one job: the lines, the cut sizes and where the metal goes, a partner shop or the buyer’s site.
- Grade, form and standard for each line
- Size, cut length and pieces, in the units the list uses
- Where to deliver, and the date it’s needed
- The time to reply by: the same day for a metal request, and the time on the request for a CNC job
- Your reply: price, availability, ship date and country of melt
Reply to the email and your answer lands on the right request; a person at our desk confirms the price, the date and the melt.
Sized to the job
Cut-to-size suppliers and service centres, each where it fits.
Each buy request goes by what you stock, whether you cut to size and where you deliver.
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Cut-to-size suppliers
Small orders and blanks for one job: pieces cut to length, close to the shop or the site.
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Service centres
Full lengths, sheets and plate, cut to order, where the volume or the plate size calls for them.
What we need back
What to send with your price, and with the metal.
Why the country of melt matters| What we need | When | Why |
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| 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 to the shop or the site, and we file it on the buyer’s order. |
| Cut length and piece count, on the packing slip | With the metal | Whoever receives the metal checks both against your certificate and the list. |
The purchase order
Acknowledge it, ship it, and attach the certificate.
When we award a line, the purchase order comes from us. You acknowledge it in your portal by the time it gives, then record the shipment with the heat’s mill certificate when the metal leaves. We book the pickup and pay against the purchase order.
- Acknowledge the pieces, the price and the ship date
- Pieces, packages and weight when it ships
- The certificate’s number, heat, mill and country of melt
- The pickup booked by us, with its label in your portal
Before the first request
What we check before we send you requests.
We verify every supplier before its first buy request.
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Quality certificate
ISO 9001 or your own quality system, with its expiry date.
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Liability insurance
The insurer, the coverage and the expiry date.
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Mill certificates
A sample, to confirm the heat number and the country of melt are on it.
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A dated price list
By grade, form and region, so our quotes use your prices.
Applying
How applying works.
A few minutes, and no drawings or files. Nothing is saved in this preview: each step goes to the demo server only to show the next, your answers stay in your browser for two hours, and at the end your own email app opens with them, addressed to us.
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Create your account
Your name, the company, a work email, the head office’s province and your language, then confirm the email.
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Five short steps
Company and locations, stock, cutting and certificates, the reply contact, and the agreement’s main points.
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Email it to us
Your answers go to info@canadafab.ca from your own inbox, with your current price list and its date.
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We reply and verify
We write back to every application, verify the company and send the full agreement to sign.
CanadaFab
Questions
Questions suppliers ask.
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.
Does a reply commit us to anything?
No. A reply commits you to nothing until a purchase order.
Where does the metal go?
To the partner shop that machines the job, or to the buyer’s site for a metal order, cut to size, with its mill certificate. The request names the address and the date.
Who books the freight?
We rate the leg from you and book the cheapest option that meets the date, which can be your own truck. The request says which.
Why do you need the country of melt?
Buy Canadian counts steel only if it’s melted and poured in Canada, and aluminum only if it’s smelted and cast here. We record the country of melt from your mill certificate on every order, whatever it is.
How do you choose who gets a request?
By what you stock, whether you cut to size and where you deliver: requests go to suppliers that can fill the lines and deliver where the metal goes.
We have order minimums. Can we still join?
Yes. Tell us whether you cut to size with or without a minimum, and small orders go where the minimum fits.
Will buyers know who we are?
No. Our offers, quotes and invoices never name you. On a CNC order, the buyer’s content record shows the country of melt from your mill certificate and the province the metal was cut in.
Apply to join our network of Canadian metal suppliers.
A few minutes, and no drawings or files. We write back to every application from info@canadafab.ca.
