Financing the new critical metals economy with PrestaFlex

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The global economy is entering a new era: that of critical and strategic metals. After a century built on carbon, future growth now depends on copper, nickel, lithium, cobalt, graphite, manganese, aluminium, titanium, and rare earths such as neodymium, praseodymium, dysprosium, and terbium. These resources are the invisible foundations of the energy transition: batteries for electric vehicles, solar panels, wind turbines, smart grids, green hydrogen, and storage technologies.





In Europe and Switzerland, this industrial shift is both a sovereignty challenge and a sustainable investment opportunity. Securing supply chains, developing local refining capacity, and establishing a circular recycling economy have become economic and ecological imperatives.










A massive need for specialised financing





Players across the value chain—miners, processors, refiners, tech start-ups, and recyclers—require financial solutions suited to the sector’s complexity. Projects call for substantial investment, long timelines, and a rigorous financial engineering approach.





PrestaFlex Services Sàrl positions itself as a strategic partner for companies driving this shift toward critical metals, providing end-to-end financing structuring from feasibility through to capital deployment.





Our solutions include:














Metals at the heart of the energy transition





Demand is exploding across every field:









Each metal plays a specific role in building a low-carbon economy. Yet global production is often concentrated in a handful of regions, exposing Europe to critical dependencies.










An integrated and responsible approach





PrestaFlex evaluates every project with a holistic lens: business model, repayment capacity, ESG impact, and strategic potential.





Our experts support companies in securing financing while prioritising projects that:














PrestaFlex, a trusted partner for energy sovereignty





Drawing on experience in industrial and infrastructure finance, PrestaFlex acts as a professional financial intermediary between investors and companies. Our mission: to connect private and institutional capital with the key actors of the energy transition, while ensuring compliance, transparency, and sustainability in execution.





In a world where each megawatt of clean energy can require up to fourteen times more metals than fossil energy, financing becomes a strategic act.





PrestaFlex supports this mineral revolution with concrete, tailored, and responsible financing solutions.





An article by Munur Aslan, Managing Director at PrestaFlex





See also our articles Corporate financing Zurich and Corporate financing Geneva for a broader perspective.







  


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The global economy is entering a new era: that of critical and strategic metals. After a century built on carbon, future growth now depends on copper, nickel, lithium, cobalt, graphite, manganese, aluminium, titanium, and rare earths such as neodymium, praseodymium, dysprosium, and terbium. These resources are the invisible foundations of the energy transition: batteries for electric vehicles, solar panels, wind turbines, smart grids, green hydrogen, and storage technologies.

In Europe and Switzerland, this industrial shift is both a sovereignty challenge and a sustainable investment opportunity. Securing supply chains, developing local refining capacity, and establishing a circular recycling economy have become economic and ecological imperatives.

A massive need for specialised financing

Players across the value chain—miners, processors, refiners, tech start-ups, and recyclers—require financial solutions suited to the sector’s complexity. Projects call for substantial investment, long timelines, and a rigorous financial engineering approach.

PrestaFlex Services Sàrl positions itself as a strategic partner for companies driving this shift toward critical metals, providing end-to-end financing structuring from feasibility through to capital deployment.

Our solutions include:

  • Investment loans to finance infrastructure, equipment, and capacity expansions;
  • Industrial and energy leasing to preserve cash and modernise production;
  • Project finance and mezzanine financing to support strategic developments;
  • Private equity and co-investment to strengthen equity;
  • Circular solutions integrating recycling, sustainability, and metal traceability.

Metals at the heart of the energy transition

Demand is exploding across every field:

  • Batteries & e-mobility: lithium, nickel, cobalt, graphite, manganese.
  • Electrical conduction & renewables: copper, aluminium, silver, zinc.
  • Advanced tech & semiconductors: gallium, germanium, indium, tellurium, selenium.
  • Aerospace, defence & heavy industry: titanium, tungsten, vanadium, platinum, palladium, rhodium.
  • Hydrogen & durable storage: iridium, niobium, boron, platinum-group metals.

Each metal plays a specific role in building a low-carbon economy. Yet global production is often concentrated in a handful of regions, exposing Europe to critical dependencies.

An integrated and responsible approach

PrestaFlex evaluates every project with a holistic lens: business model, repayment capacity, ESG impact, and strategic potential.

Our experts support companies in securing financing while prioritising projects that:

  • promote European re-shoring of refining and recycling;
  • advance technological innovation in extraction and processing;
  • ensure full traceability and emissions reduction;
  • build resilient, sustainable supply chains.

PrestaFlex, a trusted partner for energy sovereignty

Drawing on experience in industrial and infrastructure finance, PrestaFlex acts as a professional financial intermediary between investors and companies. Our mission: to connect private and institutional capital with the key actors of the energy transition, while ensuring compliance, transparency, and sustainability in execution.

In a world where each megawatt of clean energy can require up to fourteen times more metals than fossil energy, financing becomes a strategic act.

PrestaFlex supports this mineral revolution with concrete, tailored, and responsible financing solutions.

An article by Munur Aslan, Managing Director at PrestaFlex

See also our articles Corporate financing Zurich and Corporate financing Geneva for a broader perspective.

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