Our Services

The ISE is internationally recognized and valued by most financial institutions, auditors, industries, and governments. An ISE documentation leaves no open questions or doubts regarding your goods. Our warehouses in Embrach enjoy an excellent worldwide reputation and adhere to the highest security standards. Thanks to their high sensitivity, our GD/MS analyses provide a decisive advantage for all high-tech industries. Our valuations are based on two databases containing over 20,000 different prices, which are offered on our website in real time. Our SKRs are electronically accessible via QR code and can be verified by ISE personnel, making them tamper-proof.

As part of the ISE network, you are never alone with your decisions and your metals.

As a seller, this means that your goods are stored in the ISE warehouse, and the complete documentation has been prepared by ISE.

As a buyer, this indicates that you have already completed a preliminary transaction with an ISE customer and have established yourself as a qualified purchaser.

No. ISE conducts independent analyses and valuations.

A partner could not do this.

Glow Discharge Mass Spectrometry (GDMS) is a proven technique for the quantitative determination of trace and ultra-trace elements in metals, alloys, semiconductor materials, and many other solid samples. Thanks to its high sensitivity and low detection limits, even the smallest impurities can be reliably detected – a decisive advantage for numerous high-technology industries.

The Institut für Seltene Erden und Metalle AG does not buy or sell metals. Our core business is the storage, analysis, and valuation of high-purity metals and rare earth elements.
Our clients include both buyers and sellers of metals. We are happy to facilitate connections between our clients.

No, such guarantees do not exist. ISE cannot assume responsibility for the intentions of third parties. Furthermore, past successes are no guarantee of future results. The storage and documentation of your goods are at your own risk.

We can only guarantee that your goods are stored securely, that you receive flawless, internationally recognized documentation of your goods, and that we will do our utmost to connect you with a buyer.

Because we can. No license is required to determine prices for non-exchange-traded goods. However, certain rules apply. A price is established when there are at least six price indicators within a three-month period. The average of these indicators is then calculated to determine the price. If fewer than six price indications are available, we base the price determination on the smallest unit, which can sometimes be as little as one gram or one meter. Prices for pure metals in the database can be extrapolated linearly, while prices for metal products are extrapolated on a degressive basis.

Currently, our databases display over 20.000 different prices updated daily on our website. Some historical data goes back as far as 2011. This breadth of information makes the ISE offering unique on the internet.

The "Metals" database contains approximately 1000 prices for pure metals, all of which can be extrapolated linearly.

The "Metal Products" database contains around 19.000 prices for metal products. Metal products are synthetically manufactured goods. Like all synthetically produced goods worldwide, their price development is not linear but degressive. This means that the larger the total purchase volume of a product, the lower the price per individual unit.