Nickel is Lustrous Silvery White Metal and its properties like strength, toughness, high resistance to corrosion and oxidation has made it favourite for alloy making. Most wide use of it is making stainless steel.
In fact, about 65% of nickel is used to manufacture stainless steels, and 20% in other steel and non-ferrous (including "super") alloys, often for highly specialized industrial, aerospace and military applications. About 9% is used in plating and 6% in other uses including coins and a variety of nickel chemicals.
Globally, the main end uses of Nickel are shown in following chart.
Uses of Nickel
We supply LME Registered Nickel for plating and alloying in the form of full plate cathodes and cut cathodes in various sizes.
Nickel Full/Cut Plate
It is a silvery-white lustrous metal with a slight golden tinge. It is one of the four elements that are ferromagnetic around room temperature, the other three being iron, cobalt and gadolinium. The metal is corrosion-resistant, finding many uses in alloys, as a plating, in the manufacture of coins, magnets and common household utensils, as a catalyst for hydrogenation, and in a variety of other applications.
