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Commodity markets move fast – our consulting gets you a head start in the race to keep up

Disruptive innovation and other in-market factors are combined with external factors such as the energy transition, throwing up unforeseen risks and opportunities. Stress-testing your commercial strategy through consulting with experts and peers is essential to preserve a competitive position and sustain growth. Our consultants help you stay one step ahead of the competition.

Why partner with us

  • Identify opportunities to maximize profits and take advantage of market developments. We specialize in hard-to-find information, thanks to our in-depth knowledge of the markets we serve
  • Set contracts through commodity price-valuation and capture full Value in Use (VIU) factors unique to your product. Use Fastmarkets’ rich transaction-based data and expertise to gather fully independent and accurate valuations to ensure your trading contracts are best-in-industry
  • Assess opportunities and risks with independent advice grounded in industry fundamentals. We provide fully independent market feasibility studies, which identify the opportunities and threats in a specific market or product and the strengths and weaknesses of a proposed project
  • Get the third-party validation needed to secure capital and investment. Our consultants conduct complete financial analysis to assess project viability. Our team are experienced in analyzing everything from plant flow sheets and input/sales sheets to conducting NPV valuations
  • Stress test your strategy through our in-depth understanding of commodity markets and best practise. Our team of technical engineers can advise on greenfield/brownfield operational excellence, asset valuation, technology solutions, material options, asset valuations and liquidation as well as environmental advisory
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With consultants who are embedded in the markets we serve, you’ll get insights and a clear understanding of the competitive landscape

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Advisory: confidentiality

We understand the importance of confidentiality. Our consultancy team routinely sign non-disclosure agreements and will never use your information in any other projects or services.

Consulting case studies: Metals
Architecture, Building, Office Building
Green steel feasiblity study
Person, Steel, Clothing
Aluminium scrap sourcing strategy and secondary aluminium market feasibility stud
Outdoors, Road, Landmark
Iron ore market feasibility study
Architecture, Building, Factory
Ferrous metals procurement and risk management
What our metals market customers are saying about us
We had the pleasure of working with the Fastmarkets consultancy team…we were consistently impressed by their ability to deliver high-quality work within the agreed timelines. The team demonstrated a deep understanding of the iron ore market and brought a thorough, analytical approach.
SIMEC Mining
Fastmarkets demonstrated outstanding knowledge of the market, a great deal of flexibility and the ability to tailor their approach consistently with the needs of the final client in the Middle East towards their product diversification and restructuring goals.
Managing director and partner, Boston Consulting Group
Consulting case studies: Battery raw materials
Debt financing for graphite mining and production
Outdoors, Nature, Lake
Developing a proper price indexation system for a lithium producer’s contracts to ensure stability and stronger commercial outcomes
Soil, Nature, Outdoors
Lithium production feasiblity study
What our battery raw materials customers are saying about us
Fastmarkets led a special due-diligence project whose work and analysis was significantly more comprehensive than other recognized market research firms we have worked with in the past.
Global project and corporate finance, BurnVoir Corporate Finance
Fastmarkets is fantastic and has helped my understanding of this industry massively.
Raw material manager, Jaguar Land Rover
Consulting case studies: Agriculture
Nature, Outdoors, Countryside
US biomass-based diesel and ethanol feedstock markets
We were very pleased with the work that Fastmarkets did…[they] provided a great work product for what we were trying to accomplish. The Fastmarkets team were always very responsive in our requests, which we very much appreciated.
Director, Cresta Fund Management
Consulting case studies: Forest products
Plywood, Wood, Indoors
Paper and pulp production feasibility study
Drax Power Limited commissioned Fastmarkets to conduct a comprehensive risk assessment on pulp and paper mills in North America. From the work supplied it was clear upon completion that we made the right choice to work with Fastmarkets on this project.
Vice president, Drax
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Fastmarkets consulting
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ventures by empowering
you to make quicker and
better-informed investment
and commercial decisions

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Fastmarkets combines the commodity intelligence of these familiar names:

Metal Bulletin • American Metal Market • Scrap Price Bulletin • Industrial Minerals • RISI • FOEX • The Jacobsen • Agricensus • Palm Oil Analytics • Random Lengths • FastMarkets and more