Who we are, what we do: We are an independent provider of news and analysis about the markets of steel and steelmaking raw materials.

What we provide our customers with: We provide market intelligence in the form of on-line services and regular reports.

Market segments: long products, flat products, steel tubes & pipes, coal and coke, iron ore and other ferrous raw materials (scrap, pig iron, HBI, DRI), ferroalloys, stainless steel.

Regions: We cover all of the global market.

Information sources: We rely on market sources by making personal phone calls to market participants. But at the same time we pay a great deal of attention to verification and analysis of received information. We also analyze large volumes of statistics and use a lot of other data, most of which is collected by ourselves.

Where we are located: Our head office and majority of our staff are in Ukraine (Dniepropetrovsk). We have partner offices in Russia and USA (they are mostly involved in sales).

Our clients are producers and consumers of steel and raw materials, traders and service companies all around the world. Among them:

producers — Arcelor-Mittal, Posco, BaoSteel, Vale, BHP-Billiton, Erdemir, EZDK, Esfahan Steel, Gerdau, Hyindai Steel, Nippon Steel, Salzgitter Mannesmann, US Steel, Severstal, Magnitogorsk, Novolipetsk etc.

traders — Balli Group, Stemcor, Corus Intertrading, Voest-Alpine Intertrading, Duferco, Glencore, Cargill, Metal One, Noble Resources, ThyssenKrupp Mannex, Stena Metal, Sodjitz, Leman Commodities etc.

financial companies — BNP Paribas, HSBC, Nomura, Macquarie, Morgan Stanley, Credit Suisse, Fortis, London Metal Exchange, Renaissance etc.

How wide the range of our services is: Our publications and services are divided into news, analytics and individual services. There are also conferences and ample opportunities for advertising and promotion.

News and market reports serve as an on-going monitoring of the situation in key regional markets per all major ferrous and non-ferrous product groups.

Analytical reports are based on factor analysis and market balance calculation, and are backed by price forecasts. All reports are divided into 3 main groups: monthly analysis, quarterly forecasts, long-term forecasts and special studies.

Individual services are provided in the form of in-depth market research and consulting services.

Metal Expert, jointly with Business-Forum, is an organizer of series of annual international meetings of the steel market participants. The conferences will be devoted to the most important segments of the steel and raw materials market.

Advertising in our publications and at the web-site, as well as individual services provided by Brand-Service, is a powerful tool for promotion of industrial brands, products and services.