Few people would have had the vision to foresee such great potential for the white metal, way back in 1965, especially in an industrial outpost like Kerala. But one man did. And his name was V.A.Mohammed Kunju, the Ernakulam based visionary who set up Oriental Steel Trunks and Agrico Industries in 1965. What started as a small trading firm at Market Road, the business centre of Cochin, has today become a colossus in retail and wholesale Aluminium & Steel trading in the state, providing complete solutions to the state’s diverse Aluminium & Steel needs. Oriental Metals was born in 1980, as a result of the company's corporate strategy to offer a more focused approach to Aluminium trading. Oriental Metals is the biggest distributor and dealer not only in Kerala, but in India. Oriental Metals is the leading name in wholesale marketing of iron & steel and Aluminium roofing products in Kerala. The authorized exclusive distributors for successful brands like Oralium, Duroof & Indira Aluminium, Oriental Metals deals in an entire range of aluminium and iron & steel products like roofing sheets, plain sheets, coils, checkered sheets, and extrusions besides stainless steel sheets and coils, pipes, and rods among a host of other products. With the manufacturing unit in Palakkad, the company is into full-fledged manufacturing of Aluminium and GI roofing sheets.