About
Metal Supply Experts GmbH provides board-level advisory and execution across the full commodity transaction lifecycle. Mandates span strategy, supply chain structuring, trade finance, regulatory compliance, and commercial execution.
Engagements are delivered for port operators, industrial holdings, specialty manufacturers, trading houses, and investment vehicles across Western Europe, CEE, Central Asia, and the Americas. Founded 2018 in Canton Zug, Switzerland.
Sectors
Primary and secondary aluminium, ferroalloys, non-ferrous metals. LME pricing, premium capture, logistics hub design.
Cement, clinker, aggregates. EU market entry, river and sea corridors, CBAM carbon reporting.
Specialty micropowders, ceramics, zeolites. Index-based pricing, automotive and electronics quality regimes.
Fuel ethanol, bioethanol, SAF. ISCC EU certification, RED III compliance, GHG pathway structuring.
Lithium, cobalt, tungsten, bismuth. Battery manufacturing, upstream mining investment coordination.
Deposit evaluation, fund architectures, Swiss-law investment structures. Southern Europe, Central Asia, EMEA.
Throughput optimisation, bulk and break-bulk standardisation, multi-site benchmarking.
Trading house setup in Switzerland. Compliance frameworks, operational control towers, risk design.
Selected Mandates
Biofuels & Sustainability Certification
MSE provides ethanol producers with a fully integrated pathway into the European certified sustainable fuels market — from ISCC EU certification of the production facility through contracted offtake with tier-1 European energy companies. MSE acts as exclusive commission agent under Swiss law.
Full project management of producer facility certification: auditor selection (SGS, TUV), GHG lifecycle calculations, mass balance system design, Proof of Sustainability documentation, Union Database onboarding. 9 years of hands-on ISCC EU auditing experience.
Direct relationships with biofuels procurement desks at major European energy companies. Formula-priced offtake against S&P Global Platts T2 FOB Rotterdam benchmarks. Coverage: Germany, UK, Denmark, Belgium, Switzerland.
Contract of Affreightment on IMO-classed chemical tankers. Multi-modal inland logistics. Trade finance through Swiss banks — LCs, revolving credit facilities.
Full EU regulatory stack: RED III (Directive EU 2023/2413), RTFO (UK), CBAM, Nabisy, Union Database. National transposition monitoring across all target markets.
Specialist capability in ISCC EU waste/residues from processing of alcohol pathway — enabling beverage producers to monetise distillation residuals as certified sustainable feedstock at premium EU pricing.
GHG quota. Largest automotive market. Double counting eliminated Jan 2026.
RTFO to 14.6% by 2032. UK-US Economic Prosperity Deal. Duty-free quota 1.4 Bn L.
DDC certification. Waste pathway recognised. Active buyer market.
Antwerp — optimised port of entry. Duty EUR 102/m³ denatured. ARA hub liquidity.
Waste-based ethanol tax exemption up to CHF 0.75/L. KliK Foundation. Agrola.
Technology
Lot-level origin tracking embedded into shipping and customs documentation. Audit-ready measurement, reporting, and verification (MRV) aligned with ISCC EU sustainability declarations and EU Union Database requirements.
Scope 1–3 carbon accounting per shipment. CBAM-compliant reporting frameworks and verified emissions reduction documentation through route and modal optimisation.
Tokenised settlement architecture linking physical commodity flows to on-chain ESG data. T+0/T+1 settlement capability with KYC/KYB/AML compliance aligned to Swiss FINMA, FATF, and OFAC frameworks.
Founder & Director
Founder & Managing Director
25+ years in global commodities, industrial operations, and cross-border execution. Career foundation at UC RUSAL — the world's largest aluminium producer outside China — where senior roles included Director of Sales & Marketing, General Director of the Trading House, and COO/Director SCM at RUSAL Marketing GmbH (Zug).
Under direct leadership: P&L responsibility up to ~$4.5B, direction of approximately 8% of global primary aluminium flows, OTIF improved to 96%, DSO reduced to 38 days, demurrage/detention cut by 40%, and $65–67M in annual margin uplift through end-to-end supply chain and multimodal logistics restructuring across EMEA, Asia, and the Americas.
Subsequently served as CEO of Eurocement Holding AG (Zurich, 2022–2024), leading international commercial strategy for one of Europe's largest cement producers. Founded MSE in 2018.
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