The roots of the Institut für Seltene Erden und Metalle AG date back to 2008. A group of experts was convened under an exclusive mandate to address supply bottlenecks in the manufacturing processes of major industrial companies in the field of rare earth elements.

Over time, such a large volume of data was accumulated that in 2011 the Institut für Seltene Erden und Metalle AG was formally registered as a registered association (e.V.) in Düsseldorf and has since served as a central repository for all related information.

An increasing number of inquiries regarding the valuation of various metals led, in 2013, to the decision to leverage our organically developed network to regularly monitor and provide prices for approximately 600 metals across the entire value chain.

Our new website will be launched with a fresh design, a new database structure, and the latest security standards. We offer interested users daily updated prices for around 600 metals from the fields of rare earth elements, strategic metals, base metals, specialty metals, and isotopes.

Together with our newly established partner company, we offer metal analysis at the highest technical level. With our GD-MS metal analysis unit, we are able to identify 74 elements. This allows us to determine the purity of a metal with an accuracy of up to 99.99999%.

The ISE trading platform is now online. Buyers and sellers of metals have a marketplace where ONLY verified individuals can trade and only verified goods are offered. All goods have been inspected, analyzed, and evaluated.

Together with our Swiss partner company, we are now able to offer you storage solutions for high-value metals. We have access to 5000 sqm of indoor storage space and 2000 sqm of outdoor storage to meet your needs. Everything is, of course, maintained according to the most modern and highest security standards. Our warehouse receipts are internationally accepted.

The Institut für Seltene Erden und Metalle AG is now operating as a Swiss joint-stock company in the canton of Zug. The reasons for the relocation are its proximity to our warehouse, which we have been operating since 2020 in the Zurich Airport Free Trade Zone, and to the financial institutions with which we have been offering commodity trading programs since 2019.

The ISE database is now also available online. For a closed user group, we offer around 900 real-time prices for pure metals and approximately 4500 prices for metal products. For all pupils and students, we continue to publish a free average price of all metals based on the last six months.

The storage capacity in the Zurich Free Trade Zone has now increased to a total of 5500 sqm.

The Institut für Seltene Erden und Metalle AG is moving its new headquarters to the heart of the city of Lucerne. In Lucerne’s town hall, ISE AG has taken the entire first floor as the sole tenant. The office offers enough space for two conference rooms, a training room, and spacious office areas.

ISE AG has parted ways with its long-standing partner in metal storage, Cosmotrans AG. With its new handling partner, Trans Sped AG, ISE AG is now able to offer, in addition to the well-known services in the Free Trade Zone, also global secure transportation.