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CRU
Independent Expert Intelligence - on the global metals, mining, and fertilizer industries
About CRU
CRU delivers independent, expert intelligence into the global commodities markets. Our work draws on unrivalled data, unbiased insights, and strategic thinking to help businesses navigate today’s increasingly complex landscape with clarity, confidence, and speed. Delivering knowledge across four core offerings: data, insights, strategy, and communications, we support clients in addressing supply chain challenges, decarbonisation, and the energy transition, translating complex dynamics into actionable guidance. Founded in 1969, CRU has a long track record of rigorous primary research and robust data methodologies, supported by expert global teams. We have completed an IOSCO audit of all commodity prices, underscoring the integrity of our pricing, governance, and processes. Today, CRU employs over 420 experts across 14 offices in Europe, the Americas, Asia, and Australia.
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Signals from CRU
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Research & Knowledge
CRU expert Piyush Goel breaks down the potential impact of China's export controls on critical heavy rare earths and the widening price divergence between Rotterdam and Chinese benchmarks.
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Presence & Recognition
CRU director of Energy Transition Simon Price opened the 16th CRU Silicon Market Forum in Norway as the #1 networking event for the global silicon community.
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Presence & Recognition
CRU is hosting its annual CRU Breakfast event on Tuesday 20 October at The Waldorf Hilton, London, under the theme The Critical Decade: Opportunities in a Shock-Prone World.
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Research & Knowledge
CRU published a newly updated Rare Earths Special Report delivering a crucial, data-driven reality check on the rare earths market.
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Presence & Recognition
CRU senior analyst Vishnu Patidar will break down the answer to the question of how to scale data centers across the fiber network at the Fiber Network Council APAC webinar tomorrow.
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Products & Services
CRU is launching a new CRU solution in October to help organisations move from fragmented market signals to a clearer view of raw-material risk.
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Presence & Recognition
CRU is hosting an upcoming webinar exploring climate scenarios for steel and heavy industry and navigating business risks.
Reported by Adeola Oni
Presence & Recognition
CRU steel analyst Matt Watkins was featured in Swedish publications Placera.se and Affärsvärlden for expert analysis on the key challenges SSAB faces in its green steel transformation
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Research & Knowledge
CRU Principal Consultant Ionut Lazar published an article in AGBI Arabian Gulf Business Insight explaining how US tariffs and the Iran war have created a structurally uncertain global aluminum market.
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Research & Knowledge
CRU published the CRU Daily Aluminium Price Assessments to provide market-driven clarity for navigating contract negotiations across the European aluminium supply chain.
Reported by Vlasios Voudouris
Research & Knowledge
CRU expert analysis was featured in the Wall Street Journal report on the impact of El Niño on river-borne logistics at a major mine in Papua New Guinea.
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Research & Knowledge
CRU notes that LFP has a 60% better cell energy density compared to sodium-ion.
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Research & Knowledge
CRU forecasts cost parity to be achieved in the next year at the cell-level, but not at system level until 2030s.
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Research & Knowledge
CRU explored data centres as a key use-case for sodium-ion in an insight published on LinkedIn.
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Presence & Recognition
CRU International visited Oregon Steel Mills facilities in Portland, Oregon to see the manufacturing of steel plate from raw material arrival to final plate products.
Reported by Hector Edoardo G.
Research & Knowledge
CRU is responding to a gap in raw-material risk management by working on new strategies and solutions.
Reported by Adeola Oni
Presence & Recognition
CRU will speak at the AI for Finance Summit 2026 in London on September 16th, hosted by LinqAlpha and Finteda at Deutsche Bank.
Reported by Vlasios Voudouris