Metal merchants

Free issue us your round tubes for us to shape and fabricate.

Multiple lengths of stainless steel oval tubing wrapped in protective sleeving ready for shipment

Working with you to get the best for business and clients

We rely on our suppliers to provide us with premium-grade metals to ensure the optimal quality of our tubing. In turn, metal merchants come to us for our tube-forming services. We purposely don’t hold stock at our workshop, because we believe that when you free issue us with your tubing to shape, it works out best for everyone.

Free issue your material to us: how it works and why it is a good idea

When you free issue us with tubing to shape, it means you get to use your own stock: you simply pay us for our forming charges. And your clients get to benefit from the advantages of shaped tubing.

We can keep your overheads lower and your profit margins higher by using your own lorry networks for deliveries. Just deliver the tubes to our Dorset-based workshop and collect them again once we’ve shaped them.

  • We use your stock
  • You send us your 'off-the-shelf' round tube
  • You only pay us for our forming services
  • No minimum order quantity (£50 set-up fee for under 5 lengths)
  • We quote quickly — usually within minutes
  • We turnaround jobs quickly too — from 2/3 days, depending upon order size
  • We clean and check every finished tube before it leaves our workshop
  • You collect the shaped tubes when they are ready
Multiple lengths of high quality stainless steel round tubing ready to be formed

Popular sizes

Tube can be formed from various wall thicknesses. e.g - 1.5mm, 2mm or 3mm

Round Tube
Diameter
3/4"
1"
1 1/4"
1 1/2"
2"
2 1/2"
3"
4"
Flat-sided Oval Tube
Oval tube
Twisted Oval Tube
D-shaped tube
Radiused Square tube
Twisted square tube
23x12mm
23.5x13.3mm
23.5x13.3mm
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17x17mm
17x17mm
31x15mm
30.1x17.5mm
30.1x17.5mm
34x12mm
23x23mm
23x23mm
39x19mm
39.5x20.5mm
39.5x20.5mm
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28x28mm
28x28mm
48x21mm
47x25mm
47x25mm
50x18mm
33x33mm
33x33mm
62x31mm
61x37mm
61x37mm
65x28mm
45x45mm
45x45mm
78x39mm
76x50mm
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-
-
-
91x51mm
95x56mm
-
99x40mm
66x66mm
66x66mm
119x70mm
121x76mm
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138x49mm
88x88mm
88x88mm
Timeless engineer preparing round tube for forming

Expand your product range

If you’re in the business of selling metal architecture, see us as an extension of your catalogue. Whether you want to offer twisted oval balustrades or flat-sided oval tube, we have the expertise and tooling to form those for you.

As one of the original innovators of shaped metal tubing, we now boast the largest range of profiles and sizes in the world. By working with us you can expand your existing product range without having to invest. We currently offer six different shaped tubes, which we’ve developed over 30 years – and we are still creating new profiles. Our engineers can work with standard off-the-shelf tubing sizes, or we customise it to make new sizes.

You can sell more stock by reaching out to new and existing customers who have bought round tube to let them know about these bespoke profiles and their joining systems.

Exceptional customer service

We are set up to turn around jobs very quickly – even large orders – which means that your clients will receive their tubing in exceptional time.

If you need us to, we are very happy to work alongside you with your clients.

This is especially useful in the designing and prototype stages (we are used to working under NDAs).

multiple lengths of metal tubing ready for forming in the Timeless wrokshop
Multiple stainless steel joiners for connecting oval shaped metal tubing together at 90º bends

Sales and marketing support

If required, we can meet with your customers or send them samples of tube profiles.

We can send you marketing assets such as product images for any collateral that you may be producing.

We can provide you with product literature and samples for appropriate exhibitions. We’ve even attended trade shows with our metal merchant partners before to give additional sales or technical support.

Our Sales Executive can visit you and your team to explain how you can benefit from working with us, and how you can best sell the tubing.

White-label our products to increase your reach

We know that the opportunities to supply shaped metal tubing are vast; there are so many viable applications across so many industries. And we know that our shaped metal tubing offers a host of advantages over round metal tubing, and indeed, other materials altogether. Our vision is to work with reliable partners to get our beautifully fabricated shaped tubing products out to the world.

With so many untapped markets available, we feel that there is space for trusted partners to choose how and where they want to promote our tubing products, promoting them under their own brand.

Speak to us about the option of white labelling to see how this powerful strategy can help increase your reach.

Worldwide shipping

Explore our range of shaped tube profiles

An ergonomic, tactile shape that is perfect for handrails and balustrades in conjunction with structural glass and brickwork. A low-maintenance design commonly used for architectural and marine purposes.

Clean, rounded lines and a flat-sided profile provide strength for architectural purposes – with a flat side useful for fixing to other elements.

With a smooth top, flat section and incredible lateral strength, this ingenious design prevents water ingress and it’s easy to install. Ideal for handrail in public buildings and on marine craft.

Blended radius corners and a slight convex side provide greater strength than standard round tubing. This great alternative to box section tubing is popularly used for baluster railings and furniture.

Aesthetically striking, with the power to make a significant impact. Provides impressive strength integrity while being lighter and more cost-effective than conventional solid twisted bars.

Innovative spiral forming applied to a classic oval tube design. This stunning twisted tube profile creates a mesmeric effect that is ideal for decorative metal architecture on buildings and boats.

mutiple types of shaped metal tubing with joiners that allows tubing to be connected to each other at tight angles
Timeless joiners for shaped tubing

Joiners for connecting Oval shaped tubing

We currently offer a system of joiners for oval and twisted oval tubing, which enable you to produce handrail and balustrades with uncompromising, seamless joins. If you have a large project that requires joiners for other tube profiles then speak to us to find out more.

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Contact us for expert advice, quotes and free samples.

Product

We can develop new sizes

Don't see a size you need? Just specify the size you require in your message.

We can develop new sizes

Don't see a size you need? Just specify the size you require in your message.

We can develop new sizes

Don't see a size you need? Just specify the size you require in your message.

We can develop new sizes

Don't see a size you need? Just specify the size you require in your message.

We can develop new sizes

Don't see a size you need? Just specify the size you require in your message.

We can develop new sizes

Don't see a size you need? Just specify the size you require in your message.

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