About Crest Metals
A Dubai-based trading house for precious metals and stones
Crest Metals buys precious metals and stones from licensed suppliers and sells them to refiners, bullion dealers, jewellers and institutional buyers in international markets.
Company overview
Crest Metals FZCO is a precious metals trading company licensed by the Dubai Multi Commodities Centre (DMCC). The company buys and sells non-manufactured precious metals, jewellery, pearls and precious stones. It purchases from licensed suppliers and sells to refiners, bullion dealers, jewellery manufacturers and institutional buyers.
Crest Metals manages each transaction from purchase to delivery: verifying the supplier and the goods, arranging assaying and refining with accredited partners, agreeing price and terms with the buyer, and organising insured delivery and settlement.
The company does not own mines, refineries or vaults. It uses accredited specialists for these physical steps, which keeps its cost base low and its focus on trading, compliance and execution.
What a trading company adds
Precious metals are mined, refined and used in different parts of the world. A trading company buys the metal where it is produced and sells it where it is needed, taking responsibility for the commercial, documentary and logistical work in between.
Location
We move metal from producing markets to the international centres where it is refined, stored and sold.
Timing
Suppliers and buyers rarely transact on the same day. We buy, hold and sell to bridge that gap, and schedule delivery and settlement accordingly.
Form
We have doré and raw gold assayed and refined into bars that meet the specifications buyers require.
Our position in the value chain
Crest Metals buys from upstream suppliers, uses accredited partners for the physical work in the middle of the chain, and sells to downstream buyers.
Supply
Licensed suppliers, producers and aggregators.
Trading
Purchase, due diligence, pricing, sale and settlement.
Specialist partners
Approved assayers, refiners, vault operators and secure logistics providers.
Demand
Refiners, bullion dealers, jewellers, traders and institutional buyers.
Why Dubai
Why Crest Metals is based in Dubai
Dubai is one of the world's largest centres for the physical gold trade, located between major producing regions and the refining, investment and jewellery markets of Asia, Europe and the Middle East. It offers free zone licensing, direct air links to producing markets, secure logistics and a federal regulatory framework for precious metals dealers.
Crest Metals is located in Uptown Tower, within the Dubai Multi Commodities Centre, the free zone at the centre of the UAE's precious metals and diamond trade.
Strategic priorities
Near term
- Broaden our network of licensed suppliers and international buyers.
- Deepen partnerships across refining, logistics and trade finance.
- Strengthen compliance and operating capabilities as volumes grow.
Long term
- Expand into new markets and product categories.
- Pursue recognised industry certifications.
- Continue to raise the standard of governance and risk management.
Corporate information
- Legal name
- Crest Metals FZCO
- Entity type
- Free Zone Company
- Jurisdiction
- Dubai Multi Commodities Centre (DMCC), Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- AML/CFT supervisor
- UAE Ministry of Economy and Tourism, as a Dealer in Precious Metals and Stones
- Trade licence
- DMCC 990348
- Registration number
- DMCC203067
- Licensed activities
- Non-Manufactured Precious Metal Trading; Jewellery Trading; Pearls and Precious Stones Trading
- Registered office
- Unit UT-11-CO-198, DMCC Business Centre, Level 11, Uptown Tower, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Start a transaction with Crest Metals
Tell us what you supply or what you want to buy. We reply with the documents we need for onboarding and the next step for your first lot.