AS Silmet, located in the northeast of Estonian Republic, is one of the biggest rare metal and rare earth metal producers in Europe. Manufacturing of AS Silmet, employing about 550 people, includes three factories:

• factory of rare earth metals separation,
• factory of rare metals production,
• factory of metallurgy.

Our annual production ranges up to 3 000  mt of rare earth products and 700 mt of rare metal products.

Silmet is a truly global company. One can say that ca 99% of materials used in our production are bought outside Estonia and also 99% of products sold are sold to customers outside Estonia. We have clients and sources for materials in every part of the world – Asia, Europe, CIS countries, North- and South American countries.

For sure Silmet is one of the largest science-intensive high technology companies. Although most of its processes have been originally designed during the Soviet era, constant development and modernizing of the processes shows that the specialists working in Silmet today are as competent as their Soviet colleagues. We have developed a close cooperation with various units of Tallinn Technical University and University of Tartu. This helps us to prepare specialists for Silmet and maintain quick development of the company. We have the best analytical laboratory operating in metallurgy field in the Baltic States.

Silmet focuses on quality and customer satisfaction.

Silmet also makes large investments in environmental programs.