Cofermin Rohstoffe GmbH & Co KG, headquartered in Essen, Germany, runs offices in Katowice, Moscow, Tianjin and Tokyo. The company trades over 100 products worldwide, from alumina to zirconia, to markets such as foundry, steel, refractories, building materials, mineral processing, ceramics, glass, fertiliser, welding, and waterjet cutting. Cofermin supplies Europe, Russia and Asia for a large number of international raw material and additives producers. Key areas of Cofermin’s activities is the development of new resources, especially secondary raw materials.
Cofermin was founded in 2000 by four managing partners Tim Geldmacher, Pawel Golak, Bernhard KrŸger and Ralf Ossen, all ex-Frank&Schulte experts in marketing and distribution, processing and trading of ores and minerals.
Today the company employs 40 people in trading and administration throughout the world. In China, Cofermin operates a processing plant for refractory minerals and additives. The company founded Cofermin Chemicals GmbH & Co. KG in...