RMM chooses Vietnam as gateway to Asian copper market

Achim Doering (2nd, L), chairman and CEO of RMM, and Vietnam chief representative Claus Roemer (L) together with Dao Ha Trung (R) at the opening ceremony - Photo: Kinh Luan

HCMC – Germany’s trading company RMM Metallhandel GmbH has decided to choose Vietnam as the gateway to enter the Asian copper market, and officially opened RMM-Asia’s representative office in HCMC on Tuesday.

“We have more than 30 years’ experience of international trade in the sector of non-ferrous metals, especially playing the linking role between copper consumers and copper producers,” said Achim Doering, RMM’s chairman and general director.

RMM provides customers with copper and copper alloys, but at the same time purchase copper scrap to bring it back to the recycling systems, he said at the opening ceremony organized at the Park Hyatt Hotel in downtown HCMC.

Established in 1997 with the headquarters in a town 70 kilometers from Cologne, RMM has cooperated with well-known copper producers to provide refined copper, copper rod and copper cathode.

At the ceremony, Doering also recalled his first visit to Vietnam in 2009, when he met Dao Ha Trung, chief representative of the German media group WAZ and also chairman of Thien Minh Group, who gave his support to help RMM enter the Vietnamese market. Trung is also Austrian honorary consul in the city.