Noble Core is a commodity merchant company supplying non-ferrous metals — primarily from recycled streams — from Rotterdam, Europe's hub for the commodities we supply, to smelters and producers worldwide. A focused book, an experienced desk, and a network that reaches well beyond metals when our customers need it.
Noble Core is a commodity merchant company based in the Port of Rotterdam. We connect collectors and processors of secondary material with the smelters and producers that consume it — physical trade, with all the logistics, finance and compliance that comes with it.
Every shipment goes through the same disciplines. The work behind a clean contract is in these layers.
Working with collectors, dismantlers and industrial scrap generators to aggregate volumes that match smelter feed specifications. Small streams become bulk parcels.
Every parcel is graded, sampled and matched against buyer specifications — from ISRI codes for scrap to LME-compliant secondary alloys.
Container, bulk and break-bulk shipping from Rotterdam and partner ports. Customs, surveying, warehousing and last-mile haulage handled as a single line.
Working capital between supplier and end-user, so counterparties on both ends keep operating. Letters of credit, pre-payment structures, and tailored arrangements.
LME-based hedging, fixed-price contracts and structured pricing — designed around the realities of secondary-material flow rather than imposed on top of it.
Waste-shipment regulation (EVOA / WSR), KYC, ESG documentation and full chain-of-custody tracking — non-negotiable and increasingly demanded by smelters and regulators.
Noble Core works across the full breadth of the non-ferrous market — sourcing, qualifying and supplying material wherever our expertise creates value. We trade on our own book: we take ownership, carry the risk, and stand behind every trade.
A principal trading house — active across every stage below, on our own book.
End-of-life products, industrial scrap and by-products — secured directly through our supplier network.
Material graded, sampled and matched to specification — ready for primary industry feed.
Smelters and refiners that convert raw material into refined metal and alloys.
Automotive, construction, packaging, electronics — where the material returns to use.
Our core book is non-ferrous metal in various forms — refined, alloyed, and as scrap or by-product feedstock for smelters. The list is indicative; specifications and grades are agreed per contract.
Our principal trading focus — recovered from incineration bottom ash across four distinct fractions.
Specifications agreed per contract.
Non-ferrous is our foundation, but it is not the whole desk. We actively trade petroleum products and petrochemicals alongside our metals book — building the relationships, the market access and the execution to back it up. These are pursued businesses, not by-products.
An active trading book in fuel oil, gasoil, gasoline and base oil — backed by a dedicated counterparty network across producing and consuming regions.
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A growing book in polymers, solvents and feedstocks — moving material into industrial buyers across Europe, the Middle East and beyond.
Read more →Producing aluminium from recycled scrap takes roughly 5% of the energy required to produce it from bauxite. Copper, zinc, lead — the same story with different multipliers. Every tonne we route from waste-stream to smelter is a tonne that doesn't have to be mined.
EU regulation is catching up: the Critical Raw Materials Act, the revised Waste Shipment Regulation, and rising scope-3 reporting from end-users are reshaping how secondary material moves. We work with that frame, not against it.
Volumes to sell, smelter capacity to fill, or a trade structure to discuss — reach out directly. We answer.
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