PGMs - strategy and planning

Using our globally recognised knowledge and understanding of today’s and tomorrow’s PGM industry across the entire value chain from rock-face to end-use developments and the metals markets, SFA (Oxford) is well placed to identify industry opportunities and threats in order to generate ideas to augment your business strategy and planning efforts.

SFA has spent many years building the most sophisticated, tried and tested models to predict developments in all facets of the PGM market to 2020 and beyond. Our diverse team of PGM experts, using SFA (Oxford)’s information and data platform, can then generate scenarios that can identify investment possibilities in the PGM industry uniquely matched to your business objectives. Our reputation is built on our ability to meet clients’ specific requirements, with utmost regard and sensitivity for confidentiality.

Some examples of SFA (Oxford) tailored strategic consulting assignments have included:

An ongoing evaluation of the threats and opportunities in end use technologies in order to augment internal client marketing efforts to identify new possibilities to generate value for its PGM in the market place
The augmentation of investment planning initiatives for a major financial institution by supplying real time market impact analysis, end use developments, mine and project evaluation and metals price forecasting
An evaluation of the optimal timing for new shaft development and an economic peer-group benchmarking assessment as part of a mine feasibility study
A number of strategic business planning workshops for major producers and diversified conglomerates to identify investment opportunities within the PGM supply chain
An independent identification of the investment opportunity of a junior PGM company and its assets for stock exchange listing purposes.

For a full list highlighting the breadth and depth of our tailored consulting services please see our lists of varied previous projects covering several major metals and commodities.