Industry
Metals
Metals
Excel on six imperatives to become a market leader
Our Experience
690+
global engagements over the past 10 years
80+
global due diligence projects
Trade wars, the lingering impact of Covid-19, the rise of metal-intensive electric vehicles and, above all, an intense focus on sustainability are just some of the forces disrupting the metals industry today, demanding bold new strategies and a relentless focus on operational efficiency.
We can help you navigate this fast-changing landscape and master the digital technologies and commercial capabilities that will enable you to compete, innovate, and grow. Our metals consulting experts work in every global region, helping many of the world’s top performing extractors and manufacturers of aluminum, gold, copper, iron, steel, and rare elements achieve the operational efficiencies that power breakthrough results. Around the world, we help our clients with capital projects management, cost transformation, commercial excellence, and a range of sustainability strategies that can help metals companies reduce carbon emissions as they pursue green steel, green aluminum and more.
What does it take to outperform? We’ve identified six imperatives for metals companies: scale of operations, lowest cost of production, digital capabilities, M&A expertise, backward integration, and brand premium/differentiated product portfolio. Our deep experience across every subsector of the metals industry—from exploration to primary metal production, fabrication, and distribution—combined with a wealth of domain expertise across every area of operations, ensures that you meet these challenges and emerge a market leader.
AI in Metals
Companies in the metals industry are applying generative and agentic AI to a broad range of use cases, spanning engineering, field operations, sales and marketing, and support functions. We have helped companies deploy AI to address:
• Contract optimization to analyze and assign a health score to each contract and identify and address leakage
• Raw materials price forecasting, analyzing data from more than 100 sources
• Production run optimization to improve overall equipment effectiveness and enable commercial and operations teams to make more strategic decisions
These and similar projects have results in significant EBITDA lift and related savings and revenue improvements.
Real Outcomes
From utilities and banks to retailers and even yacht racers, we’ve helped companies in virtually every industry apply AI technologies to their most promising opportunities.
How We Help
We’ve worked with companies to build generative and agentic AI into every facet of industrial operations, from the factory floor to the supply chain to procurement and beyond. We focus on real-world solutions that generate real value and that quickly scale to meet your ROI targets.
