Glencore Polska Metals Sp. z o.o., headquartered in Gdańsk (al. Grunwaldzka 186), is a Glencore group company registered in the Polish National Court Register under KRS 0000630425 (entered on 29 July 2016). Its sole shareholder is Glencore International AG, and according to the register its main business is other business and management consultancy; its scope of business also includes market research, among others. On the group’s location map, Gdańsk is listed as a Glencore marketing office.
Glencore describes itself as one of the world’s largest diversified natural resource companies – a producer and marketer of more than 60 commodities, with around 140,000 employees and contractors and a strong footprint in over 30 countries. The group’s marketing activities cover, among others, copper, cobalt, nickel, zinc and lead, ferroalloys, aluminium and alumina, iron ore, gold and silver. The group sources commodities from its own mines and plants as well as from third-party suppliers, and transports, stores, processes and delivers them to industrial customers, including the automotive and steel sectors and semi-fabricators.
Glencore is also a major recycler of end-of-life electronics, lithium-ion batteries and other products containing critical metals; the group’s recycling facilities in North America, South America and Europe recover copper, nickel, cobalt, lead and precious metals from materials including copper and brass scrap, drosses, sludges and dusts. In Europe the group processes, among others, electric arc furnace dust at the Portovesme lead and zinc smelter in Sardinia. As an IGMNiR member, Glencore Polska Metals represents the international trade in non-ferrous metals and raw materials conducted by a global resources group.