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About Alltrade Stainless Steel

An independent editorial rebuild of a Melbourne custom-cut domain. We kept the metal. We dropped the till.

Workers on a historic tubular steel plant floor

Photograph: Tubular steel plant floor, Gary, Indiana by M. Marshall. Licensed Public domain. Source file on Wikimedia Commons. Also listed on the image credits and licences page.

Wayback’s useful layer for alltradestainlesssteel.com.au is a shop homepage: “Stainless Steel Melbourne Custom Cut,” two Victorian counters, a price-match line, and a cut-to-size promise covering stainless, then brass, copper and galvanised. The merchant later consolidated under Alltrade Aluminium, Glass & Stainless Steel. That is a different website. This one is a journal.

What we publish

Long essays for Australian readers who have to choose an alloy before they ring a merchant. The map follows the old catalogue: grades and alloys, sheet, plate and finishes, custom-cut stainless and sections, fabrication, welding and care, kitchens and hygiene stainless, and marine, balustrade and outdoors.

What we refuse

Live sheet prices. “Number one in Melbourne” claims. Medical or structural advice dressed as a blog. Guest posts that exist only to plant a dofollow keyword. Invented mill certificates. If a number moves — a standard, an ASSDA bulletin, a food-contact clause — the primary source wins.

Fleet note

This domain sits in a fleet of independent Australian editorial rebuilds. The footer disclaimer is the legal sentence: trademarks remain with their owners; we are not an official booking or ordering channel. Callum Sherwood is the desk. Corrections go to contact the editorial desk. If you want to file a reported piece, read write for us and guest posts and the editorial standards.

Photographs are Creative Commons or public domain, self-hosted, and listed on the image credits and licences page. The privacy notice says what happens to a message.

Questions people ask

Are you the North Melbourne or Dandenong South warehouse?

No. Those addresses belonged to the historic Alltrade merchant. The shopfront catalogue now lives on alltradealuminium.com.au. This journal does not hold stock.

Why keep the old domain name?

Because the search intent never left: custom-cut stainless in Melbourne, 304 versus 316, kitchen benches, coastal balustrades. We kept the topic and retired the cart.

Who edits the pages?

Callum Sherwood is the editorial contact. Corrections with a primary source beat compliments. Write through the contact page.