COMPANY · ABOUT US
We sell metal that's already been cut
2ndMetal is a metal merchant in the UAE. We buy certified off-cuts and surplus plate, pipe, bar and profile from fabricators and stockists, put a real price on every piece, and deliver it to whoever needs that exact piece. You buy from us — one counterparty, one invoice. The yard it came from stays confidential.
Most metal is sold in full sheets, full lengths and full bundles. Most jobs don't need a full anything.
Why we exist
Here's the thing about a metal yard.
Every one of them has a rack in the corner nobody talks about. Off-cuts. Drops. The half-plate left over because the job only needed the other half.
Certified. Paid for. Traceable. Priced as scrap.
Nobody decides that. It just happens — job by job, drop by drop, until the scrap dealer's number is the easy call.
Meanwhile, twenty minutes down the road, somebody is buying a full 1250 × 2500 sheet to cut one piece out of it, then stacking the rest against a workshop wall. Where it becomes their rack.
That was never a metal problem. It's an information problem wearing a metal costume.
Where it started
Rehan has spent his career in that world. He runs one of the region's largest stainless steel and metal fabrication operations, and the rack bothered him for years. Not because the pieces were worthless. Because they weren't.
Mark comes from the other side entirely — technology and marketing, building AI-powered products. We've been friends a long time, and for years we kept saying the same thing: we should build something together. A dozen ideas came and went.
Then Mark visited the factory and spent an afternoon photographing plate off-cuts like a tourist. And he noticed something Rehan's team does without thinking about it.
Every piece has its grade and heat number chalked on it. By hand. SA516 Gr.70. Heat number. Plate number. Full mill traceability — written in chalk, on material headed for the scrap dealer.
“Someone, somewhere, needs this exact piece. They just don't know it exists.”
— Rehan
That's the whole company in one sentence. Rehan knew the material, the yards, and what buyers actually worry about — certificates, availability, delivery. Mark knew how to build the thing that puts both sides in the same room. Days later there was a spec. Weeks later, a platform.
What we do
If you're buying
You search by the cut you need, not by the sheet you'd have to buy to get it. Every listing carries its real dimensions, its grade, whether it traces back to a mill certificate — ask and we quote it. We reconfirm availability and price with the yard before your order is final — these are one-off pieces and we'd rather tell you today than disappoint you on delivery day. Then we invoice you, collect the material and bring it to your door, or hold it for collection. Your call.
Browse what's in the yard today →If you're selling
You send the list — an Excel sheet, a WhatsApp message, photos of the rack. We price it with you and publish it, and your company name appears nowhere: not on the listing, not on the quotation, not on the invoice. When a piece sells we arrange collection from your yard, and you're settled weekly, with a statement per piece. The rack stays yours: sell something through your own channel and you withdraw it in the portal.
How selling through us works →House rules
Six things we don't bend on. They're enforced in the software, not just written on this page.
- 01
Ask, and you get a real number fast.
Every listing shows the spec, the weight, the quantity and where it sits — ask us for a price on WhatsApp and a real person quotes it within 4 business hours. Quotes exclude VAT; VAT is added on a proper tax invoice.
- 02
We don't claim paper we don't have.
A piece is marked MTC ✓ only when the mill test certificate exists and the heat number traces back to it. You get the document with the delivery. Everything else is listed as what it is.
- 03
Weights are theoretical, and we say so.
Density × dimensions, standard formulas — the same math your estimator uses. We don't put pieces on a weighbridge, so we don't pretend the number came off one.
- 04
Every piece is one piece.
Off-cuts are one-offs. Every listing is subject to prior sale and final availability confirmation, and we reconfirm with the yard before your order is final. We won't take your money on a maybe.
- 05
The seller stays invisible — by construction.
Confidentiality here isn't a policy we promise, it's how the software is built: the buyer-facing side of 2ndMetal cannot read who owns a piece or what we paid for it. Nothing on a listing, quotation, invoice or delivery note points back to a yard.
- 06
You buy from us.
We're the merchant, not a noticeboard. One counterparty, one invoice, one number to call if the material isn't what the listing said. We carry that, not you and not the seller.
The company
2ndMetal is the trading name. Here's who you're actually dealing with.
- Operated by
- HIRZ General Trading LLC
- Registered office
- Phase II - Dubai Investment Park First - Dubai - United Arab Emirates
- Founders
- Rehan (metal, yards, operations) and Mark (technology, product)
- We deliver
- Across the UAE
- What we handle
- Stainless, carbon, alloy, aluminium and more
- Terms of trade
- Buyer Terms & Conditions
Come and have a look
The stock moves as yards clear their racks, so what's there today isn't what was there last month. If your piece isn't listed, tell us what you're after under Material Wanted and we'll go looking for it.
Good metal. Second opportunity.