CASE STUDY · RECYCLED METAL
A buyer-first recycled-metal marketplace: seller offers, LME tape, and validity windows on one desk, with financing review inside the quote—supported by service and subscription fees so buyers can keep sourcing quality lots.
LME Aluminium
$2593.85
−0.57%
WHY IT WAS NEEDED
Buyers need more than a photo of the metal. Origin, Incoterms, tonnage, LME-linked prices, and validity live in mail and files; the middle of the purchase still needs capital timing. Strong seller networks stay unused if they never reach a buyer desk.
Sourcing
Long-term offers, EXW / FAS, pickup points, and tonnage sit in different files. Inquiry has no single door; validity lapses before anyone notices a delist.
Quality supply never enters daily search, so deals stay in personal forwards.
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Pricing
Aluminium and copper print on an exchange window; the offer lives elsewhere. Checking a 3M LME ratio against the day’s high and low slows the decision.
Without tape on the desk, a quote has no explainable benchmark.
Working capital
Large lots and uneven payment cycles stall on cash timing. If financing sits outside the quote, review status cannot travel with the terms.
Capital that is not on the platform stays a verbal promise.
Collaboration
Joining an organization, role approval, and after-sales tickets scatter. Cross-border teams cannot see who may view offers or submit quotes.
Unclear roles mean a subscription cannot be delivered to the organization.
To run recycled-metal trade as a buyer service, offers, tape, financed quotes, and organization onboarding belong on one digital path.
HOW WE RETHINK IT
Replace forwarded files, verbal prices, and off-platform finance with search, LME check, quote against validity, finance review, then role invites. The platform serves buyers through fees and subscriptions; seller offers become operable inventory.
WHAT WE BUILT
The product is an operable close for buyers: offers can be found, tape can be compared, quotes can carry finance through review, and roles can join.
97.50% 3M LME
105 t
$2593.85
IF THIS SOUNDS FAMILIAR
You do not need a full commodity exchange first. If you serve buyers, pool seller offers, and must handle finance inside the quote, use this as a check.
LME
HOW IT WORKS
The path follows a buyer’s day: read tape and recommendations, filter offers, check terms in detail, submit a financed quote, then handle organization invites.
HOW IT IS BUILT
A buyer-facing trading system: the offer layer can be searched and inquired; the tape layer can be compared; the quote layer can review finance; the organization layer can onboard roles and return to tickets.
Architecture
The web desk and mobile clients share trade objects. Offers cover long-term listings, term filters, and validity. Tape presents LME and news. Quotes handle inquiry, financing marks, and review state. Organizations cover invites, role approval, and service tickets linked to orders.
Filters · Inquiry · Validity
Buyer · Supplier · Service
Term compare · Pending review
LME · Industry news
Keywords
WHAT WAS DELIVERED
Delivery is judged by a loop buyers can complete: search offers, read tape, submit a financed quote pending review, and handle organization invites. Unauthorized trade volumes are not listed here.
$2593
WHERE ELSE IT FITS
Any trade group that lets buyers subscribe to supply, lets sellers list offers, and needs tape plus funding inside the quote can reuse this desk.
Copper, aluminium, and zinc offers also need LME-linked prices and validity.
EXW / CIF and pickup points fit offer filters.
Review state in the middle of a buy fits a quote card.
Buyer, supplier, and service-provider invites share one organization model.
Service fees and tickets can attach to the same account.
Talk about your product
Pooling seller offers for buyers with tape and finance review in the quote? What to decide first is usually not which list to build—it is how offers are filtered, tape is compared, finance is reviewed, and org roles collaborate.
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