SoftMetal AG is delighted to attend Asia Ferroalloys 2025 Conference (https://lnkd.in/d9j6YFmK) on April 8-10th in Bangkok, hosted by Fastmarkets. As ferroalloys industry is undergoing fundamental changes, we would like discuss with the leading industry participants their view on the current market situation and latest developments as well to share our view on the same topics, as well as what can be done to enhance market transparency and liquidity, and what instruments exist to achieve this goal. #chromium #ferroalloys #ferrochrome #Fastmarkets
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SoftMetal is a trading platform where you can buy and sell multi-element metals through an auction-exchange mechanism.
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SoftMetal is a unique trading platform, a fusion of commodity exchange and an art item auction based on modern technology achievements! Here you can buy and sell multi-element metals through an auction-exchange mechanism. It allows secure trading, and prompt settlement of physical metals, stored at safe, insurable and financeable warehouses around the world.
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http://softmetal.ch
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- Außenhandel und internationale Entwicklung
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- 2–10 Beschäftigte
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- Zug, ZG
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- Gegründet
- 2020
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- Traceable and transparent assets , Insurable and Financeable Warehouses , Traceable CO2 footprint, Real time market data, Ability to define your own market area and there to trade, Instant Match, Swift transfer of title and payment execution upon conclusion of a deal und Secured and encrypted transactions of ferrochrome and alloys
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Arbitrage opportunity is one of the fundamentals of commodity trading. Unfortunately, it rarely occurs in the ferroalloys market, due to difficulty with price discovery. Thus, it makes it hard for market participants to achieve it. Learn about the latest examples of arbitrage opportunities in the ferroalloys market and how SoftMetal can provide its users with the ability to attain it. https://lnkd.in/dPcETwMe #SoftMetal #chromium #ferrochrome #market #development
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How the combination of market knowledge and intelligence with the state of art technology can transform alloys, metals and other commodity markets? Join us RWA Summit London on February 24th.
We are redefining commodity markets with SoftMetal AG, the first digital asset exchange built upon confidential computing. Already adopted by the discreet commodity trading sector, it enables secure tokenisation of physical assets while keeping sensitive information fully confidential. On 24th February at 4:20 PM, our Co-Founder and CTO, Cedric Wahl, will speak at the RWA Summit London on the panel ‘From Gold to Uranium: Building Digital Commodity Markets’. The discussion will explore emerging trends, challenges, and opportunities in tokenised asset adoption. Learn more here: https://lnkd.in/dbW-bNnZ and connect with Cedric at the event to delve deeper into this topic. #Tokenisation #DigitalAssets #ConfidentialComputing #SoftMetal #RWA #Innovation #CommodityTrading #CommodityMarkets STG-3 Group | The RWA Community
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https://lnkd.in/dzYyCgPa In addition to the above it is also important to improve visibility, liquidity of supply/demand on the background of current market fragmentation of regions and grades. A marketplace with open buy and sell interests information including not only price but also volume, closing prices and with a possibility to separate and look variety of indexes for a range of chemical compositions and locations will definitely help in farther development of ferroalloys markets and hopefully gain momentum in 2025. #ferroalloys #market #development #SoftMetal
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End of the year market reflection from our partners at Unichrome AG
In 2024, after European Quarterly Benchmark discontinuation in May, one of the most reliable market price indicators became FeCr Bidding Prices. Which is announced by some of the biggest stainless-steel mills in China, where each of these mills consume more FeCr then any producer ex-China can manufacture. Recently the biggest one of these mills have announced its Bidding Price for January, a drop of 400 RMB/t, following just three weeks earlier announcement of the drop for 700 RMB/t which represents about 15% of the total drop in the price since November announcement. However it is not clear what quantity and how many suppliers actually agreed to that price, such information is not disclosed. Market have seen in the past these price announcements to being unresponsibly speculative, and then stainless-steel mill covering their exaggerated position at price different to announcement. That happened with FeCr in beginning of 2016, when the bidding price announced were set below 6000 RMB/t level and then skyrocketed up by more then 30% in the following months. Let’s see how other big guys will follow with their Bidding Price announcement now. Actually already since previous drop for December at 700RMB https://lnkd.in/dkR58QKd there was a substantial number of closures in ferrochromium industry https://lnkd.in/dzjiXC5B. Yet majority of FeCr plants kept production till China NY in hope of market recovery. Now even more plants could decide to close in January, stop during holidays in February. We will likely to see a shortage after that, as soon as demand will show some life. Now stainless-steel companies, which were more reasonable, since they did not build big stocks of raw material (specifically FeCr) at higher prices, now are in difficult position as they have to buy material, but it’s hard to follow producers like the biggest one announced it’s Bidding price https://lnkd.in/dwQ8-J4w last Friday, who don’t buy substantial quantities and rather announce the price at this exaggeratedly low level and supposedly don't need large quantity for January. From the explanation above it is clear that FeCr Bidding Price while being an important market indicator, cannot be used as a basis for the FeCr market pricing mechanism globally. What can help ferrochrome/ferroalloys market is a trading place https://lnkd.in/dDusH4Pi where participants can see open buy and sell interests information including not only price but also a volume, closing prices and corresponding volumes, and also with a possibility to separate and look at the index for certain range of chemical composition and locations https://softmetal.ch/. That will become a real assessment of true market direction as well as supply/demand balance for such alloys and it’s different grades and market segments. To be continued in 2025… #SoftMetal #Chromium #ferrochrome #market #development
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Delighted to share latest market overview from our partner Unichrome AG
With a turbulent 2024 coming to an end, we would like to reflect on major developments during this year, what is the current market situation as well as major questions that face ferroalloys market in upcoming 2025 and which country could become the next powerhouse for ferrochrome and why. https://lnkd.in/d_WZxZUG #Unichrome #SoftMetal #ferrochromium #chrome #market
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Today, SoftMetal https://softmetal.ch/ has added FeSi and FeMn in addition to FeCr to the live version of the platform. Now market participants can extend their portfolio and enjoy all the benefits SoftMetal provides: · One trading floor for the exchange trading of commodities which are of the same type but cannot be brought to a single standard, such as FeCr of different grades, size distribution and packing. · All the advantages of the current classic exchanges, combined with modern technological solutions · Possibility to see and analyze a variety of bid and ask prices and quantities for a product with pre-selected characteristics such as chemical composition, size distribution, packing and location. · Metal producers, steel mills and traders gain access to a liquid and transparent ferroalloy market. · Swift transfer of title and payment execution upon conclusion of a deal. · Hedging and position taking opportunity for traders, industrial companies and funds. Join SoftMetal https://lnkd.in/dDusH4Pi to participate in transparent, secure and liquid trading of various ferroalloys #SoftMetal #ferroalloys #market #trading
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SoftMetal https://softmetal.ch/ has added FeSi and FeMn to the portfolio of metals that can be traded. These ferroalloys are now on the demo version https://lnkd.in/dRT2Ddfk for users to test and will be available on the live version https://lnkd.in/dDusH4Pi before the end of the year. Despite recent price correction, prices for chrome-related products show some resistance and remain substantially higher than at the end of 2019, beginning 2020. Still some major producers decreased or in some cases even shut down their production. Manganese-related products have steadily returned to the price level, last seen in H2 of 2019. SoftMetal https://softmetal.ch/ gives possibility to buy and sell at real market price, thus increasing liquidity and reliability of the ferroalloys market based on the actual available supply/demand balance. #SoftMetal #ferrochrome #chromium #ferroalloys
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While currently ferrochrome/ferroalloys market experience price volatility as well as subdued demand, there is an exception that market will start rebalancing and supply/demand dynamics return to a favorable situation. These were some of the topics we discussed during a Panel Discussion during the 40th International Ferroalloys Conference in Istanbul together with representatives of the major ferroalloy producers and consumers. As the ferroalloys market continues to recover, we expect SoftMetal to become an integral part of the market, by providing its users with transparent and liquid pricing. #Unichrome #SoftMetal #FastMarkets #chromium #ferrochrome #market
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SoftMetal AG hat dies direkt geteilt
We were delighted to present and to participate in the 40th Ferroalloys International Conference in Istanbul https://lnkd.in/edKqbxRf and share our view of the ferrochrome market, while also learning point of view from the major market participants. We hope to see our friends and partners soon again #Unichrome #SoftMetal #Ferrochromium #chromium #Ferrochome #Market #Alloys