Faced with customers who are increasingly concerned about the origin of the products they buy, and more and more sensitive to environmental and social issues, Eramet has launched EraTrace. With this online traceability platform, the Group is increasing its transparency to customers across the entire value chain of its products.

Our customers ask us a lot about the origin of our raw materials, and the production conditions of the metals they buy from us. At the same time, the legislative framework for metal traceability is becoming clearer. With EraTrace, we wanted to anticipate these obligations and be proactive, to demonstrate to our customers that we can provide reliable information on the origin of our products and their CSR performance.

Benoît Lecacheux
Head of Technical Sales at Eramet

For every order placed, customers will be able to access a product passport and consult information on the manufacturing process and CSR performance linked to their purchases. Place, date, extraction location, carbon footprint and water consumption are specified for each product delivery.

Data security and transparency

Thanks to blockchain technology, the data presented on EraTrace transits between Eramet and its customers securely and transparently. “Data security is at the heart of our traceability approach. To support our platform project, we called on suppliers capable of meeting our cybersecurity standards,” explains Benoît Lecacheux.

Initially, this passport will be sent exclusively to customers of GCO, the Group’s Senegalese subsidiary specializing in the production of mineral sands. Eramet is already working to extend the initiative to customers of its other products, notably manganese alloys in 2024, followed by lithium in 2025.

Take a look at the product passport and traceability platform for mineral sands: