Cross-border commodity transactions.
Structured and executed.

About

Independent advisory and execution platform

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

Industries served

Metals & Alloys

Primary and secondary aluminium, ferroalloys, non-ferrous metals. LME pricing, premium capture, logistics hub design.

Building Materials

Cement, clinker, aggregates. EU market entry, river and sea corridors, CBAM carbon reporting.

Advanced Materials

Specialty micropowders, ceramics, zeolites. Index-based pricing, automotive and electronics quality regimes.

Energy & Biofuels

Fuel ethanol, bioethanol, SAF. ISCC EU certification, RED III compliance, GHG pathway structuring.

EV Battery Metals

Lithium, cobalt, tungsten, bismuth. Battery manufacturing, upstream mining investment coordination.

Mining & Investment

Deposit evaluation, fund architectures, Swiss-law investment structures. Southern Europe, Central Asia, EMEA.

Terminal Operations

Throughput optimisation, bulk and break-bulk standardisation, multi-site benchmarking.

Trading Infrastructure

Trading house setup in Switzerland. Compliance frameworks, operational control towers, risk design.

Selected Mandates

Engagements executed by MSE

Terminal Ops
Engaged by a global port and terminal operator to standardise bulk and break-bulk operations across European and Asian facilities. Throughput benchmarking, cost-to-serve dashboards, 3PL partnership frameworks.
Building Materials
Structured EU market entry for an international cement holding with 60+ Mmt/year production capacity. Elbe and Baltic river logistics corridors, terminal handling, and CBAM-compliant carbon reporting for cross-border clinker and cement flows.
Advanced Materials
Full commercial P&L responsibility for a Central European specialty materials manufacturer (Al₂O₃, ZrO₂, zeolite). 13-week S&OP cycle, index-based pricing with contribution-margin guardrails, ISO 9001/IATF 16949 quality roadmap.
Commodity & Energy
Cross-functional procurement and logistics optimisation for a European-based commodity and energy group. Quarterly strategy and risk cadences, supplier governance aligned to AML/ESG requirements.
M&A Advisory
Due diligence, valuation, and capital structuring for industrial mineral assets across Southern Europe. Technical and financial analysis, DCF/IRR modelling, investor materials, offtake logistics planning.
Rare Metals
Developed a strategic concept and business case for a Rare Metals trading desk within an international commodity group. Separately: authored a feasibility study for gallium/scandium/vanadium extraction from ~30M tonnes of bauxite residue at a major alumina refinery, with residual matrix proposed as feed for an adjacent cement plant.

Biofuels & Sustainability Certification

EU market access for international ethanol producers

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.

ISCC EU Certification

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.

Tier-1 EU Buyer Access

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.

Logistics & Trade Finance

Contract of Affreightment on IMO-classed chemical tankers. Multi-modal inland logistics. Trade finance through Swiss banks — LCs, revolving credit facilities.

Regulatory Compliance

Full EU regulatory stack: RED III (Directive EU 2023/2413), RTFO (UK), CBAM, Nabisy, Union Database. National transposition monitoring across all target markets.

Waste Pathway Expertise

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.

400,000+
metric tons delivered
Certified sustainable ethanol to tier-1 European energy companies. Verified ISCC EU chain-of-custody for every shipment.
9 years
ISCC EU auditing experience
Proofs of Sustainability, mass balance templates, sustainability declarations. Full chain-of-custody from feedstock to buyer.
EUR 700–900
per m³ — certified ethanol EU pricing
Waste-pathway certified ethanol at approximately double standard fuel-grade value. From July 2026, Platts raises T2 minimum to 75% GHG savings.

Target Markets

Germany

GHG quota. Largest automotive market. Double counting eliminated Jan 2026.

United Kingdom

RTFO to 14.6% by 2032. UK-US Economic Prosperity Deal. Duty-free quota 1.4 Bn L.

Denmark

DDC certification. Waste pathway recognised. Active buyer market.

Belgium

Antwerp — optimised port of entry. Duty EUR 102/m³ denatured. ARA hub liquidity.

Switzerland

Waste-based ethanol tax exemption up to CHF 0.75/L. KliK Foundation. Agrola.

Technology

Digital infrastructure for traceability and settlement

Chain of Custody

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.

CO₂ Traceability

Scope 1–3 carbon accounting per shipment. CBAM-compliant reporting frameworks and verified emissions reduction documentation through route and modal optimisation.

Programmable Settlement

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

Sergey Belskiy

Sergey Belskiy

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.

Education MSc Metallurgy of Non-Ferrous & Rare Metals, MISiS Moscow
ADP, London Business School
Industry Published in Aluminium International Today
Guest Lecturer, London Business School
LME Operations Certification
Recognition Honorary Medal, Union of Metal & Steel Suppliers
Bloomberg and Financial Times coverage

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Registered Office
Metal Supply Experts GmbH
Schulhausstrasse 19
6318 Walchwil, Canton Zug
Switzerland
Phone
+41 41 710 64 20
Registration
CHE-298.384.297
Canton Zug Commercial Register
Governing Law
Swiss law · ICC Geneva / Zurich Chamber of Commerce

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