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THE FUTURE NEEDS METALS

Kataman is a leading international trading and logistics company with the scale and scope to supply both ferrous and nonferrous metals to clients in more than fifty countries across six continents.

 

Metals are a fundamental driver in the world economy. For more than thirty years, Kataman has forged relationships throughout the metals industry while building a network of offices and agents around the world.

 

Kataman employs our knowledge, experience and expertise in the fast moving and volatile metals markets to monitor and manage our customer supply chains, inventory and price risks.

 

Critical metals are essential for future growth, particularly for mass electrification and infrastructure. Scrap and recycled metals are essential for sustainability. For Kataman’s team of traders, suppliers and recyclers, the future is already here.

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Our Services

SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT

Our supply chain management works all along the metals supply chain; we source, market, process, finance, warehouse, and transport across the globe. We ensure product consistency, reliability and sustainability so our clients can focus on performance.

INVENTORY MANAGEMENT

Our inventory management expertise enables Kataman to manage the complexities of the global supply chain and the variables of the manufacturing cycle to minimize your risk and exposure and maximize your production efficiencies as well as profit potential.

RISK MANAGEMENT

Our risk management services and solutions allow metal processors and manufacturers to deliver fixed prices to their customers without taking market risk. Every month we manage thousands of tons of price risk across all the terminal hedge markets. A pioneer, Kataman traded the first ever Hot-Rolled Coil steel futures contract in North America and later participated in the first US ferrous scrap derivative contract, both clearing on the CME.

SCRAP AND RECYCLING

Kataman’s scrap and recycling business encompasses producers, industrials, consumers and a wide range of intermediaries. Our international network links together our deep roots in local markets with long-term relationships in global markets to choose, purchase, process and deliver all grades of scrap metals, both ferrous and nonferrous. We are reliable, flexible and sustainable.

Our Metals

COPPER

Copper is essential to the rapid electrification of the world. A major industrial metal due to its electrical and thermal conductivity and corrosion resistance, Copper and its alloys are increasingly important to our future. Kataman works in all grades of Copper, including ore, cathode, manufacturing scrap, No. 1 and No. 2 scrap, wire chops and more. Given the interaction between the copper, brass, and zinc markets, Kataman has a unique cross-commodity capability based on our trading presence in these related markets.

ALUMINUM

Kataman is one of the world’s largest traders of Aluminum. Its low-density, corrosion resistance, and good electrical conductivity makes aluminum an essential global metal. Aluminum is abundant, light-weight, non-toxic, and easily recyclable; it’s useful everyday in the food and beverage, and medical industries. Aluminum is often combined with other metals and minerals to make lightweight strong alloys which are key structural materials in vehicles, aerospace and construction. Aluminum is a good electrical conductor and can be used in electric transmission lines.

OTHER CRITICAL METALS

The world is transitioning to clean energy and electrification, and metals will be a key driver. We offer critical metals needed for new technologies: Nickel for use in batteries and energy storage. Cobalt for use in batteries and high-strength alloys. Lithium for use in batteries. Magnesium for lightweight alloys. Vanadium for use in high-strength alloys and grid energy storage. Indium for use in photovoltaics and semi-conductors. Manganese for unique alloys.

IRON & STEEL

Iron and steel account for almost 90-percent of all metal production worldwide. Steel is a giant industry, affecting nearly every major economy in the world. Kataman helps our clients navigate between global markets and steel’s unique domestic complexities. We specialize in the markets of ferrous scrap, billets, rebar and coil, trading both US domestic and internationally.

SCRAP & RECYCLING

Kataman is one of the world’s leading buyers and suppliers of scrap copper, aluminum and steel. Kataman’s scrap base encompasses recyclers, producers, industrials, consumers and a wide-range of intermediaries. Recycling metal is essential to building a more reliable and sustainable industrial supply chain.

 

Consumption of scrap metals reduces the amount of CO2 that’s released into the atmosphere. For example: recycled copper uses 80-90% less energy than primary production which begins with mining ore; recycled aluminum uses 95% less energy, and recycled steel uses about 75% less energy.

Copper

Copper is essential to the rapid electrification of the world. A major industrial metal due to its electrical and thermal conductivity and corrosion resistance, Copper and its alloys are increasingly important to our future. Kataman works in all grades of Copper, including ore, cathode, manufacturing scrap, No. 1 and No. 2 scrap, wire chops and more. Given the interaction between the copper, brass, and zinc markets, Kataman has a unique cross-commodity capability based on our trading presence in these related markets.

Aluminum

Kataman is one of the world’s largest traders of Aluminum. Its low-density, corrosion resistance, and good electrical conductivity makes aluminum an essential global metal. Aluminum is abundant, light-weight, non-toxic, and easily recyclable; it’s useful everyday in the food and beverage, and medical industries. Aluminum is often combined with other metals and minerals to make lightweight strong alloys which are key structural materials in vehicles, aerospace and construction. Aluminum is a good electrical conductor and can be used in electric transmission lines.

Other Critical Metals

The world is transitioning to clean energy and electrification, and metals will be a key driver. We offer critical metals needed for new technologies: Nickel for use in batteries and energy storage. Cobalt for use in batteries and high-strength alloys. Lithium for use in batteries. Magnesium for lightweight alloys. Vanadium for use in high-strength alloys and grid energy storage. Indium for use in photovoltaics and semi-conductors. Manganese for unique alloys.

Iron And Steel

Iron and steel account for almost 90-percent of all metal production worldwide. Steel is a giant industry, affecting nearly every major economy in the world. Kataman helps our clients navigate between global markets and steel’s unique domestic complexities. We specialize in the markets of ferrous scrap, billets, rebar and coil, trading both US domestic and internationally.

SCRAP AND RECYCLING

Kataman is one of the world’s leading buyers and suppliers of scrap copper, aluminum and steel. Kataman’s scrap base encompasses recyclers, producers, industrials, consumers and a wide-range of intermediaries. Recycling metal is essential to building a more reliable and sustainable industrial supply chain.

 

Consumption of scrap metals reduces the amount of CO2 that’s released into the atmosphere. For example: recycled copper uses 80-90% less energy than primary production which begins with mining ore; recycled aluminum uses 95% less energy, and recycled steel uses about 75% less energy.

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