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Metalor Technologies
Swiss precious-metals refiner (LBMA Good Delivery).
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Did you know2024
Of the big Swiss refiners, Metalor leans the most industrial — and that reveals gold and the platinum-group metals as functional materials, not just financial assets. Metalor is a major maker of precious-metal electrical contact materials (the gold, silver and palladium contacts inside relays, switches and connectors that must not corrode or arc), bonding wire, and the precious-metal electroplating chemistry that plates connectors and circuit boards. So a gold refiner is also a critical materials supplier to the electronics and electrical-equipment industries: the same purified precious metals that become investment bars also become the contacts and platings inside the devices, grid hardware and switchgear the modern world runs on. Gold and PGMs are simultaneously a store of value and an irreplaceable conductor and contact material — and Metalor sits at both uses at once.
Metalor Technologies (Tanaka) ↗Concentration2024
Metalor completes the quartet of big Swiss gold refiners (with Valcambi, PAMP and Argor-Heraeus) that together process most of the world's gold — but Metalor is now owned by Japan's Tanaka Kikinzoku, a major precious-metals group. So the "Swiss gold refining" hub that dominates global gold processing is, at the ownership level, partly Japanese-controlled, and the concentration is tighter than national labels suggest: the handful of refiners that purify the world's gold are increasingly consolidated under a small number of parent groups spanning Switzerland and Japan. The geography of the plants is Swiss; the control is global and concentrated — which matters for who ultimately governs access to gold refining capacity and provenance certification. [verify: Metalor owned by Tanaka Kikinzoku, one of four Swiss refiners, confirmed]
Metalor Technologies (Tanaka) ↗