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The Alibaba of Metals?

Alibaba is best known for being THE b2b marketplace for matching suppliers with business customers.

Now as everything in the supply chain is rising in costs, Reibus International is running an industrial metals marketplace.

B2B doesn’t get the spotlight consumer businesses get but is where a lot of opportunity lies.

[Read on about the industrial metals marketplace]

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