Smm

Metals Market Information Servicessmm.cn

Shanghai Nonferrous Metals Network (SMM) operates a B2B information and pricing platform for the non-ferrous metals industry, providing 500+ proprietary pricing benchmarks, market analysis, industry conferences, and a B2B marketplace serving mining, smelting, processing, and end-use manufacturers.

Company typePrivate
Founded2000
HeadquartersShanghai, China
Headcount251–500
GTM typeB2B
OfferingServices

What Smm does

SMM (Shanghai Nonferrous Metals Information Technology Co., Ltd. / 上海有色网信息科技股份有限公司) operates China's leading B2B information and pricing platform for the non-ferrous metals industry, with a global footprint across Asia and beyond. The company's core offering is the SMM Price Index — over 500 proprietary spot pricing benchmarks produced by nearly 100 in-house analyst researchers who engage daily with mining, smelting, processing, and trading participants to generate authoritative prices used for transaction settlement, internal assessment, financial planning, and risk evaluation. The technology stack combines a web platform (smm.cn), a mobile app (掌上有机 / Zhang Shang You Se), a WeChat ecosystem, and an enterprise data product (SMM数据库 / Data Pro) covering copper, aluminum, lead, zinc, tin, nickel, and battery materials including mixed hydroxide precipitate (MHP), high-grade nickel matte, and battery-grade nickel sulfate.

SMM monetizes across multiple streams: subscription pricing data (entry-tier SMS alerts at ¥300/year for products like SMM#1 Electrolytic Copper), enterprise data products and reports, industry conferences (Tin Industry Chain Conference, Zinc Industry Conference, South China Nonferrous Metals Annual Conference, Global Lead-Acid Battery Supply Chain Innovation Conference, plus regional wire and cable events), B2B marketplace services (有色商机), integrated payments (安汇达), bill discounting (安票达), and professional networking (SMM+人脉). The platform also operates dedicated vertical channels covering new energy, AI computing power, wire and cable, steel, low-carbon, photovoltaics, recycling, and storage, signaling diversification beyond core metals.

The company serves a broad horizontal customer base spanning mining and smelting enterprises, metal processing and trading firms, end-use manufacturers (automotive, electronics, construction, energy), financial institutions, and metal recycling operations, with 4.49 million registered users and over 300,000 daily enterprise visits. SMM is privately held and headquartered at Lujiazui Software Park in Pudong, Shanghai, operating without disclosed venture or private equity backing.

Smm firmographics

Firmographics

Name: Smm
Legal name: 上海有色网信息科技股份有限公司
Website: https://smm.cn
Company type: Private
Founded year: 2000
Operating status: Operating
Headcount range: 251–500 employees
Short description: Shanghai Nonferrous Metals Network (SMM) operates a B2B information and pricing platform for the non-ferrous metals industry, providing 500+ proprietary pricing benchmarks, market analysis, industry conferences, and a B2B marketplace serving mining, smelting, processing, and end-use manufacturers.
Ownership category
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Where Smm is headquartered

Location

Headquarters

HQ city: Shanghai
HQ country: China
HQ region: Asia

Offices1 record

Markets served

Smm business model

Business model

GTM type: B2B
Offering type: Services
Cost components: Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Operations, Infrastructure

Revenue model

Pricing Data Subscriptions: SMM generates revenue through subscription services for pricing data. Example: SMM#1 Electrolytic Copper SMS service priced at ¥300/year for real-time price notifications via SMS.
Industry Conferences and Events: SMM organizes and hosts industry conferences including the 16th Tin Industry Chain Conference (Aug 19-21, 2026 in Changsha), Zinc Industry Conference (Aug 6-8 in Qingdao), South China Nonferrous Metals Annual Conference (Sep 9-11 in Nanning), and various regional wire and cable industry conferences, generating revenue through exhibitor participation and attendee fees.
Data Products and Reports: SMM provides market reports, analysis, and data products including supply-demand reports, import/export data, inventory tracking, and industry analysis reports across the non-ferrous metals value chain.

Pricing tiers

Model	Billing	Price
Subscription	Annual	SMS Price Notification Service - SMM#1 Electrolytic Copper

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels5 records

Smm product offering

Product offering

Core offering

SMM (Shanghai Nonferrous Metals Network) provides benchmark spot prices, market analysis, supply-demand data, and industry intelligence for the non-ferrous metals sector, covering copper, aluminum, lead, zinc, tin, nickel, and specialty metals. The company publishes over 500 proprietary pricing indices produced by nearly 100 in-house analyst researchers and supplements this with enterprise data products, B2B trade-matching, conferences, exhibitions, payment and bill-discounting services, and industry mapping tools.

Product overview

SMM is a comprehensive nonferrous metals information service platform providing the authoritative 'SMM price' as the industry benchmark, combined with a multi-channel portfolio including the 掌上有色App for mobile access, SMM数据库 (Data Pro) for enterprise analytics, 有色商机 for B2B trading, 安汇达 for payments, 安票达 for bill discounting, and SMM+人脉 for professional networking. The platform organizes industry conferences and provides sector-specific channels (产业频道) covering new energy, computing power, wire & cable, steel, low-carbon, photovoltaics, and recycling. SMM serves over 4.49 million registered users with daily visits exceeding 300,000 enterprises, positioning itself as a global metal operator community.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

掌上有色: Mobile application for accessing SMM pricing and news on the go
安汇达
安票达
SMM+
SMM算力
SMM MHP
SMM高冰镍
SMM电池级硫酸镍

Quantifiable outcome

500+ price benchmarks used for industry transaction settlement
+2 more outcomes

Companies that use Smm

Customer profile

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Smm technology and API

Technology

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API: No
API docs
API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature1 record

Smm partnerships and signals

Strategic signal

Partnerships

Eight partnerships are on record, tiered notable and minor.

Mining Mineral Resources (MMR)notableStrategic or Co-development Partner · 4 August 2026Mining Mineral Resources (MMR), Africa's largest tin smelter and the only RMI-certified smelter in the Democratic Republic of Congo, announced attendance at the 2026 SMM 16th Tin Industry Chain Conference. MMR highlighted its end-to-end tin value chain through partnership with NASCO in South Africa for downstream alloy production.
Honghe Yongsen Mining Co., Ltd.notableStrategic or Co-development Partner · 4 August 2026Honghe Yongsen Mining Co., Ltd., a tin mining company founded in 2004 in Gejiu City, Yunnan Province with annual sales revenue of approximately 2.5 billion yuan, is co-hosting the 2026 SMM 16th Tin Industry Chain Conference.
Ningbo Jinlong Copper Industry Co., Ltd.notableStrategic or Co-development Partner · 4 August 2026SMM's Copper Division conducted an on-site visit to Ningbo Jinlong Copper Industry Co., Ltd., a top-10 enterprise in Zhenhai District founded in 1989, to discuss cooperation in the copper billet processing industry and deepen industry chain cooperation. Both sides engaged in pragmatic discussions on supply-demand patterns, strategic development plans, platform empowerment, and business collaboration.
Hunan Ruiyi Resources and Environment Technology Co., Ltd.notableStrategic or Co-development Partner · 31 July 2026SMM and Hunan Ruiyi Resources and Environment Technology Co., Ltd., a Central South University-affiliated company specializing in secondary lead recycling, announced the 2026 Global Lead-Acid Battery Supply Chain Innovation Conference to be held in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The conference focuses on industrial policies, market trends, technological upgrades, and circular economy.
Jiangsu Myande Energy-Saving Evaporation Equipment Co., Ltd.minorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ Distributor · 31 July 2026Jiangsu Myande Energy-Saving Evaporation Equipment Co., Ltd., a company specializing in wastewater treatment and salt recovery solutions for the secondary zinc smelting industry, announced participation as exhibitor at the 2026 SMM Zinc Industry Conference.
Fushun Sairuite Environmental Protection Technology Co., Ltd.minorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ Distributor · 31 July 2026Fushun Sairuite Environmental Protection Technology Co., Ltd., a high-tech enterprise founded in 2016 specializing in sorting equipment for the resource recycling sector, announced participation as exhibitor at the 2026 SMM 3rd South China Nonferrous Metals Annual Conference.
Eishin CorporationminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 29 July 2026SMM and Eishin Corporation are jointly producing a '2026 Global Secondary Copper Industry Distribution Map' to provide industry practitioners with insights on global policy trends and market dynamics in the secondary copper sector. Eishin operates through Shinto Holdings Group with a recycling network across 30 business locations in Japan.
Shanghai Eagle Metal Materials Co., Ltd.minorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 17 July 2026Shanghai Eagle Metal Materials Co., Ltd. (Eagle Metal), a non-ferrous metals trader established in 2000 headquartered in Shanghai with operations spanning China, Singapore, Hong Kong, London, Chicago, announced participation as host and exhibitor at the 2026 SMM Zinc Industry Conference.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Smm competitors and assessment

Company assessment

Broad incumbents

Wood Mackenzie: Global research and consultancy covering energy, metals, and mining. Comparable to SMM's higher-end analytics and consulting offerings for institutional and corporate customers.
Bloomberg L.P. Global financial data and analytics platform with extensive commodities coverage including metals pricing. A broad incumbent whose metal price service competes with SMM at the institutional/financial customer end of the market.
LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group / Refinitiv): Global financial markets infrastructure and data provider offering commodity prices, news, and analytics via Refinitiv/Reuters. Broad incumbent competing with SMM for institutional commodity intelligence buyers.

Direct peers

Fastmarkets: Specialist price reporting agency focused on metals, mining, and forest products. Fastmarkets produces benchmark pricing assessments for base, minor, and battery metals directly comparable to SMM's 500+ price benchmarks.
Asian Metal: China-based non-ferrous metals information and price reporting service covering minor and base metals. Direct competitor to SMM with overlapping coverage of Chinese and international metals markets.
Argus Media: Independent commodity price reporting agency covering energy, ferrous and non-ferrous metals. Argus is the closest functional peer to SMM, both producing benchmark price assessments used for transaction settlement across global commodity markets.
CRU Group: Independent metals and mining intelligence provider offering prices, analytics, and consulting. Overlaps directly with SMM's pricing, data, and consulting offerings across the non-ferrous metals value chain.
S&P Global Commodity Insights (Platts): Major global commodity intelligence business (formerly Platts) covering energy and metals with benchmark price assessments. Competes with SMM in non-ferrous metals pricing for institutional and trading customers.
Mysteel (我的钢铁网): Leading Chinese metals information and pricing platform covering steel and ferrous/non-ferrous markets. Direct competitor to SMM in China with comparable price index products, conferences, and enterprise data subscriptions.

Others

Shanghai Futures Exchange (SHFE): Chinese derivatives exchange listing non-ferrous metal futures contracts. Infrastructure provider adjacent to SMM — futures settlement prices feed into SMM's market analysis and SMM provides brokerage matching (SMM期货服务) into this ecosystem.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

Smm financial estimates

Financial estimate

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Smm leadership team

Management profile

Number of profiles

Smm funding detail

Funding detail

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

Smm M&A and investment

M&A and investment

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

Frequently asked questions about Smm

What does Smm do?

Is Smm a public or private company?

Smm is a private company. It is classified as unknown and is currently operating.

When was Smm founded?

Smm was founded in 2000. It employs 251 to 500 people.

Where is Smm based?

Smm is headquartered in Shanghai, China, in the Asia region.

How does Smm make money?

Three revenue lines are on record. Pricing Data Subscriptions are the primary driver. The others are industry Conferences and Events and data Products and Reports.

Who are Smm's main competitors?

Broad incumbents on record are Wood Mackenzie, Bloomberg L.P. and LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group / Refinitiv). Direct peers are Fastmarkets, Asian Metal, Argus Media, CRU Group, S&P Global Commodity Insights (Platts) and Mysteel (我的钢铁网). Shanghai Futures Exchange (SHFE) is listed as an others.

Does Smm have an API?

No public API is recorded for Smm.