Ocean Partners was established in October 2004 as a result of a management buy-out from the Alcan/Pechiney Group.

For more than a decade, the Ocean Partners' team has applied technical, commercial, financial, and political insight to deliver successful trading services to miners, smelters, and refiners. We bring expertise in every aspect of the business, from our backgrounds as mining engineers, geologists, metallurgists, and finance.

Ocean Partners operates offices in Canada, Hong Kong, Mongolia, South Africa, United Kingdom, and the United States; also retaining agency representation in Australia, Chile, India, Japan, Peru, Russia, Serbia, and Turkey which assist in providing global coverage.

History

The existing management team of Ocean Partners built a successful non-ferrous concentrates trading business over the course of more than a decade within the Pechiney Group, a French owned company whose main activities were in the fields of aluminium and packaging.

In December 2003, Alcan Inc. of Canada completed the takeover of Pechiney and set about a review of its new acquisition.  Alcan’s core businesses, like Pechiney, were aluminium and packaging.  In May 2004, Alcan’s management came to the conclusion that, whilst the Ores & Concentrates Division was profitable and a well managed business, it had no strategic fit to the rest of Alcan.  Alcan gave the encumbent management the opportunity to acquire the business themselves, and that process was successfully concluded in October 2004.

A Solid Management Team With A Track Record Of Success

• Strong management team with a 13 year track record of working together to build a profitable business at Pechiney World Trade.

• Management team includes mining engineers, geologists, and metallurgists.

• Majority of senior team members have supplemented their technical academic backgrounds with post-graduate degrees in business.

• Majority of senior trading staff started their careers with mining/smelting companies, and understand the dynamics within producer organizations.

• The management team has developed a strong global network of relationships and contacts in the base metal mining/smelting sector.

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