About Us & Why We are
The Best For the Job
Sustainable growth and the desire to make it happen drives us. We strive hard with our product knowledge and global reach to meet the client’s and plant managers’ needs in the metal and mineral industry.
We create value by understanding and exploring the need for a furnace raw material and the market for the finished product. Our knowledge helps us in connecting the finished product of one client as the raw material for another until it reaches the final consumer.
We are a team of trading professionals who have gathered a variety of experiences with the top trading companies globally and finally decided to work together to create more value to the global trade and opportunity.
We believe in transparency and commitment to perform by our innovative and simple approach on logistics, warehousing, and quality control.
With our head office in Dubai, we are able to control and ensure the right quality of the product to the client in the given timeframe. We are working through our local office in Johannesburg, South Africa, and a representative office in Kitwe, Zambia to ensure the contractual delivery of the right product to the customers.
Our Strength
Our team has deep experience in Africa, with more focus on South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe from where we source most of our material from the mines and the beneficiation plants. Our logistical strength helps us to securely and timely move the cargo from the source to the end users in China, Europe, and the Americas.
We get personallly involved with miners and concentrate plants in placing our equipment in their mines to assure quality control and regular supply of the desired cargo. We strongly believe in creating employment opportunities for the local people hence we prefer to work with few local companies in various countries as joint ventures to keep good control on the complete supply chain.
We have our own excavators, tipper trucks, and side tipper trucks deployed in various mines for keeping a strong control on the smooth flow of the cargo to the warehouse. We have very strong tie-ups with various warehouses in South Africa and Zambia primarily for cargo safety and smooth movement.
Our Trading Portfolio
Providing a Range of
Minerals Trading options.
We trade to bridge the gap between the area of surplus to the area of real demand. We bridge the gap through our innovative logistical solutions to meet the client’s requirements. With our local presence in Zambia, Zimbabwe, and South Africa we source the right blend of raw material to meet the factory requirements.
We primarily trade ferrous( Iron Ore, Chrome Ore, Manganese ore, Milli Scale ) and non-ferrous raw materials (Copper, Zinc, Lead Concentrate). However, we are not limited to these portfolios.
We have secured good relationships with a few concentrate plants in Zambia for the trade of lead and zinc concentrate. We move the cargo from Zambia to Durban and the loading port is Durban for most of our non-ferrous concentrates.
The cargo is procured in Zambia through our spot and long-term contracts with the concentration plants. Stored and tested in a warehouse and that we move to Durban in lots of 250-500 MT lots. Our typical Zinc and lead concentrate have a Zn content of 30% and above, and Lead Concentrate with lead content above 40%. We do also trade a typical mix of lead and zinc concentrate. We mostly specialize in sulphide concentrates but we also do oxide concentrates.
Chrome
We source various grades of Chrome ore including UG2. Our main focus is on the LG material originating in the Bushveld Complex in South Africa.
Our chrome source is also from Zimbabwe and Madagascar.
Through our strength and relationship in ZImbabwe and Madagascar, we also export a smaller volume of products from these countries
Manganese
Manganese includes Semi- carbonate, High Fe, and High Silica with origins around the Hotazel and Postmasburg area in the Northern Province of South Africa.
We also trade high grade manganese ( above 44% of Mn content) from Zambia but in a very limited quantity, depending on clients’ requirements.
Mill Scale
We have long term offtake agreements with a few rolling mills in South Africa where we buy in long term agreements with rolling mills there. The typical quantity of mill scale varies from 2000-3000 Mt every month. This product is typically for mills in SOuth East Asia .
The typical content of the mill scale generated is Fe above 71% with SiO2 + Cao to be lower than 1.5%. The mill scale generated is kept in a very clean and covered ambience to avoid any contamination.
Copper Concentrate
Its in a very initial stage of our trading portfolio where we are building relationships with various concentration plant to source right product and market it in China.
Our Recent Investments
We firmly believe in creating more value in the complete supply chain to create regular and consistent quality and quantity for our clients.
We have invested in mining equipment to add an additional 2,000 MT per month to our trading volume of chromium ROM
We have invested in a Washplant which will be fully managed and operated by us with an output capacity of 4,000 MT per month. We specifically wash LG material so that we get good grain size and high chrome to iron ratio of the produced concentrates
UAE
Shams Business Center
Sharjah Media City Free Zone,
Al Messaned, Sharjah, UAE
Phone
+971 52 6344001
operations@mercansia.com
South Africa
39, Laddier Street
Centurion, Gauteng,
SA 0157
Phone
+27 (73) 823-7502
operations@mercansia.com