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Your order has a 98.5% or better chance it will go out the same day you order from Parker Steel!

Getting your order picked, packed and shipped is a top priority at Parker Steel. Now that we are ISO 9001:2000 approved we track our delivery perforance. Our goal is to ship out 98.5% or our orders the same day. The deadline for our customes is 3:00pm EST for truck shipments and 4:30pm for any UPS shipments. If orders come in after that we can not guarantee that the order will go that day but often it does. So far this year to date we are at 99% and in September so far we are at 98.8%
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MetricMetal.com New Website is Up!!!!!!!

Parker Steel is proud to unveil our new website at www.metricmetal.com We have a whole new look, that is easier to navigate, organized, contains new products, and is filled with usefull information. We now have an interactive conversion calculator to quickly shortcut your imperial to metric conversions. We also added an Industry News page, that has up to the minute steel related news and information. You can easily download, view or request our 2006/2007 Reference Guide, request a quote online, and even fill out a credit application. Please visit our new site to see all of the new changes. Let us know what you think by commenting on this blog, or by letting a sales person know, when you call to place your order at Parker Steel. As always our TollFree number is 1-800-333-4140.

Multiple Precision Cuts Coming Soon to Parker Steel

News from Parker Steel/ MetricMetal.com. We announce that we have just purchased a Marvel Series 2125 automatic high production vertical band saw. Parker will be able to offer you production cutting at competitive prices. Length tolerance will be plus / minus 0.4 millimeters ( +/- 0.16”). We will be able to cut bars, tubes and structural shapes up to 508mm x 635mm ( 20” x 25”). In addition to vertical cuts of 90 degrees and miter cuts of 45 degrees we can offer you any angle up to 60 degrees. This saw will be operational in December 2006. We are constantly trying to offer you better services to enhance our value to you.Please check out our website at www.metricmetal.com or call us Toll Free: 1-800-333-4140

Steel Scrap prices are collapsing, did you cash in big?.

Steel Scrap prices are collapsing, did you cash in big?.

If you had read and acted on our July 12th blog you would have made out very well. Within the next two weeks had you sold your scrap steel as we had advised then you would have made your company 27% more on the steel scrap you sold than you would than you would if you sold today.



On July 12th we advised you on our blog site to sell your scrap steel right away. We said then that “Now is a great time to sell your excess metal scrap. Steel scrap composite prices is $248.75 per ton based on number one heavy melting steel in Pittsburg and Chicago. Steel scrap is selling for more money per ton than any time in history for a summer month”.



Our advise was that you must sell you scrap now. Within five weeks of that July 12th date the price of steel scrap crashed 27 percent to $195.83 per ton. On a $100,000 sale of scrap you would have reaped a huge $27,000 more on the sale than had you waited until this week to sell. Keep reading this site for more big money making and money saving ideas.