Non-Ferrous Trader Closes First Deal in Two Days and Builds Five New Trading Relationships on Metalshub

JM Inter-Metal is a Polish trading company based in Skawina, near Kraków, run by its owner, Jakub Mirocha. It buys and sells manganese, nickel, scrap and aluminium among other raw materials. Jakub handles sourcing, sales and customer relationships largely on his own. Every hour spent chasing a counterparty by phone is an hour not spent trading.

In early 2026, that constraint bit hard. JM Inter-Metal needed a primary aluminium (A7 grade) source, fast, with material due in Poland within weeks. A fixed set of contacts and a phone wasn’t going to get there in time. JM Inter-Metal had already been on Metalshub’s free Invited Supplier tier since mid-2025 and had been weighing an upgrade since that summer. The deadline settled the question.

JM Inter-Metal signed as a Premium Supplier on 10 March 2026. Instead of only waiting for buyers to come to them, JM Inter-Metal started publishing its own enquiries and let Metalshub match it to counterparties on the buy side too. The first enquiry went out one day after the welcome email. The first deal closed two days after onboarding.

In its first months as a Premium Supplier, JM Inter-Metal has:

• Closed its first deal two days after onboarding
• Built five new counterparty relationships through Metalshub introductions
• Concluded deals in primary aluminium ingots and nickel with counterparties it hadn’t worked with before

None of this replaced the relationships JM Inter-Metal already had. It added a second channel in Metalshub’s marketplace, where a request to buy or to sell reaches qualified counterparties.

Most Premium Suppliers join Metalshub to sell. JM Inter-Metal also buys through it, for its own trading book and for customers it supplies. That gives Metalshub a reason to introduce it to new counterparties on both sides of the table, not just one. Metalshub’s Customer Success team backed that up with direct introductions to relevant counterparties, turning a cold enquiry into a warm one from the start.

For a business where one person carries sourcing, sales and every customer relationship, that’s less time spent maintaining a fixed network and more time spent trading.