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KME Service Centre UK Ltd

About us


KME Service Centre UK Ltd (former Aurubis UK Ltd) is the UK's. largest supplier of precision rolled copper, phosphor bronze, nickel silver and brass strip and offer an extensive portfolio of additional high quality copper products including busbar, wire, rod, complex profiles and shapes. 

First established over 200 years ago in 1809 KME Service Centre UK Ltd has an outstanding reputation for product quality and customer service to our home and export customers operated under BS EN ISO 9001:2015. Our clients are mainly in the Automotive, Electrical, Electronic and General Engineering industries. We have a large base of loyal customers, who rely on our ability to meet the ever increasing demands of today's market such as "Kanban" and "Just in Time" inventories. In addition, our low minimum order quantities offer greater flexibility in purchasing decisions.

The UK's Largest Supplier of Precision Rolled Non Ferrous Alloys. Due to the extensive portfolio of products and alloys that KME Service Centre UK Ltd can offer its customers it is virtually impossible to list them all. If you cannot find the required product or alloy on this website then please contact our experienced Sales Team who can advise on price, availability and any technical questions you may have.
 

KME IS ONE OF THE WORLD'S LARGEST MANUFACTURERS OF COPPER AND COPPER ALLOY PRODUCTS AND HAS A WORLDWIDE DISTRIBUTION NETWORK.

KME offers innovative product solutions tailored to the respective individual requirements of our customers from the most various industrial sectors. The company, which is run by the IntekGroup Spa, has a European management. The central headquarter of KME is in Osnabrück. 
 

KME Service Centre UK Ltd is able to provide a range of services to satisfy customer requirements, working under our triple award stage two accredited BS EN ISO 9001/14001 & 45001 registration. We pride ourselves on our flexibility in that we can supply orders from as little as 10 Kg upwards, supplying modelmakers to major pressworkers. Our coil size ranges from 5 Kg to 2,000 Kg. Our range of services include:

Rotary Shearing/Slitting/De-coiling:
KME Service Centre UK Ltd has established itself as a market leader in the copper based alloys and high performance metals sector. With eight slitting lines and a multiskilled workforce KME produce a wide range of widths and gauges with an in-house capability to shear to half British standard tolerances.

Outwork Slitting / De-coiling / Re-coiling:
We have dedicated machines that offer service and flexibility to our customer base.

Traverse Wound Slitting / Multicoil:
Traverse winding offers long production runs with no breaks onto spools, where as Multicoil offers the latest technology from pancake coils to long production runs by linking the coils together.

Cut To Length / Blanking / Circles:
We offer a wide range of lengths and thicknesses. 

Edge Profiling / Dressing / Contour Milling:
De-burred edges offered from the KME Service Centre UK Ltd site.

Buss Bar / Wire:
KME Service Centre UK Ltd offer a wide range of Buss Bar / Wire products through the group as a stockholding service facility from our Birmingham site.

Processing / Management and Handling:
The knowledge and experience in all areas of the metals industry allows all the needs of our customers to be processed through KME Service Centre UK Ltd. In addition to the above we also offer many outwork processes prior to despatch which include:

Polished and Polythene coated, Tinned and Electro Plated applications.
Since the very begining our reputation for a first class product goes hand in hand with our service and reliability in the metals Service Centre industry.


In House Facilities

We also offer a range of outwork processes that can be applied to the reworked material including:


1. Electro Plating

2. Hot Dip

3. Polishing

4. Contour Milling

5. Polycoating

6. Decoiling and Recoiling

7. Edge Dressing

8. Straightening


KME Service Centre UK Ltd offers a precision shearing, cut to length and traverse winding service. This could be used to convert material that you currently consider as redundant stock into usable stock.

We will quote for most materials with in the following ranges:

Shearing
Maximum input Width 500 mm
Maximum input Weight 4000 Kg
Maximum output Width 470 mm
Maximum output Weight 3760 Kg

Maximum Gauge 4.50 mm Soft 4.00 mm Hard
Minimum Gauge 0.15 mm Hard 0.25 mm Soft
Minimum Width 3.96 mm
Coil inside diameters 150 to 500 mm

Cut to Length
Maximum input widths 6.00mm to 350 mm
Maximum input coil weight 2000 Kg
Maximum output Lengths 6.00 mm to 3500 mm
maximum output Gauges 0.30 mm to 3.50 mm

Traverse Winding Gauges 0.17 to 2.00mm Widths 5.00 to 60 mm
 


Technical Services

KME Service Centre UK Ltd is committed to be more than just a material supplier. We aim to be a partner with our customers.

A full technical service is available both from our own engineers and the engineers of our supply partners. We have for many years focused on total service and helping provide our customers with the total solution to their metal requirements. This is achieved by working with our supply partners and our customers at the design and development stage.



Outwork Processes

Details of the many outwork processes that we can arrange will be shown on this page.
 


 

We supply both rolled and drawn products in a wide range of alloys. The following table gives a broad summary of the range that we currently supply. 
 

MORE INFORMATION

Alloy Category

Number of Alloys

Rolled Copper

7

Rolled Brass

11

Rolled Leaded Brass

2

Rolled Tinned Brass

4

Rolled Phospher Bronze

8

Rolled Cupro Nickel

2

Rolled Nickel Silver

6

Rolled Cu-Ni-Sn

1

Rolled High Performance Alloys

19

Rolled Austenitic Stainless Steel

14

Rolled Ferritic Stainless Steel

2

Rolled Matensitic Stainless Steel

2

Drawn Copper

2

Drawn Brasses Containing Lead

9

Drawn Brasses Lead Depleted

1

Drawn Brasses Lead Free

4

Drawn Welding Rods and Wire

3

 

KME Service Centre UK Ltd history dates back over 200 years. During this time the company has been a producer of non-ferrous metals as well as a precision shearing and service centre.

This section aims to provide various pieces of information that may be of use to our wide range of customers. This information covers the following areas

High Performance Alloys (HPA's)- many of these have been developed by our very own KME Group in Germany. These can sometimes provide the solution to a problem that is difficult to resolve with a 'standard' alloy.

Metal Markets - with the reliance and effect on the official daily metal prices, there are various ways that a customer can seek to limit his exposure to future unknown movements in the metal prices.

Frequent Questions - This is a section that will be developed to share the ansers to a whole range of questions that are raised.

Metal Finishes - In addition to the actual metal, there is a wide range of finished and coatings that can be supplied to help achieve the required finished product. These include polycoatings, edge dressing, contour milling, straightening, polishing, decoiling, recoiling, cut to length, hot dip, electro plating etc

Alloys - In addition to the full range of alloys that are available from the KME Group via Germany, Italy & Netherlands, we are also able to offer many specialist alloys from our other supply partners, such as Aluminium & Nickel Silver for example.

Production Process - The actual facilities based within KME Group enable a wide range of finished product to be produced locally at KME Service Centre UK from the various range of sizes and then many different forms such as sheet, cut to length, multi-coil etc.


MORE INFORMATION

The success of KME Service Centre UK Ltd is the result of a very strong team who work together to satisfy customer requirements. To contact anyone of the team please click here:

If you just wish to send a general message you can either send an email.

15th May 2023

KME Service Centre UK Limited announce a new Managing Director, Christopher Meese, whom is the current Director for KME Yorkshire Limited, the sales agency for the mill direct business in the UK & Ireland.

An integration process will commence and complete over the coming months.

We would like to thank our outgoing Managing Director, Brian Middleton, for his 18 years of service, commitment and un-wavering support to the UK Team.

 

1st August 2022 

KME SE closed the acquisition of Zutphen from Aurubis

KME  SE  (“KME”)  has  executed  on  July  29th,  2022  the  agreement  signed  with  Aurubis  AG  (“Aurubis”),  after  approval  by  the  competent  merger  control  authorities  in  May  2022, and therefore has completed the purchase of part of Aurubis’ flat rolled products business (“FRP”). According  to  the  agreement,  the  FRP  plant  in  Zutphen  (Netherlands) as well as the slitting  centres in Birmingham  (United Kingdom), Dolný Kubín (Slovakia), and Mortara (Italy) with a total turnover of about  280 million and about 360 employees has been transferred to KME SE.  

KME Service Centre UK Ltd.


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