Plavena is a B2B commodity intelligence firm and trading desk, founded in India — the world's fastest-growing import market for metals, energy, and agricultural bulk. We produce the weekly intelligence brief that reads the market from that vantage. And we operate a trading desk that puts that knowledge to work in real deals.
Pages of structured intelligence delivered every Monday
Asia
Primary demand anchor across all intelligence and trading
What We Do
Intelligence. Trading. Two businesses built on the same edge.
01 — INTELLIGENCE
The Weekly Brief
Every Monday, a 10-page structured intelligence document covering the commodity markets that matter to procurement desks, trading firms, and investors with exposure to metals, energy, and bulk. Built on live data. Written for action.
Live LME, ICE, and FRED price data — no estimates in the price table
India vs global spread tracked every issue
Three commodity deep dives per week
Deal flow alerts in Pro and Enterprise tiers
Delivered as PDF every Monday at 08:00 IST
02 — TRADING DESK
Commodity Brokerage
Plavena introduces and facilitates commodity trades across metals, energy, and agri-bulk — with India and Southeast Asia as the primary demand anchors. We work with verified counterparties on both the supply and buy side. B2B only. Commission on completed trades only.
Iron ore, copper scrap, coal, ferroalloys, chrome SA
"India pays a different price for copper than China does. For iron ore. For coal. For everything. That differential — the spread between what Asia's fastest-growing importer pays versus the global benchmark — is the signal most Western desks are missing every single week. We track it. We publish it. We trade it."
The India Edge
Why India-based intelligence is different
01
Proximity to demand. India is now the world's largest steel producer, second-largest coal importer, and a top-five buyer of most base metals. Understanding what Indian buyers see — and pay — is material intelligence for any seller or broker.
02
The spread is real. CFR India prices routinely diverge from CFR China by $5–$20/t depending on the commodity and the week. Plavena tracks and publishes this differential in every issue.
03
Network access. Trading from India means direct relationships with steel mills, refineries, logistics operators, and commodity traders across the subcontinent — counterparties that are hard to reach from London or Singapore.
Differentiation
What makes Plavena different
DATA
Live prices, not estimates
The Prices & Signals table is built from verified live feeds — FRED, LME, ICE — not editorial estimates. Numbers are timestamped and sourced.
Analyst estimatesLive feed verified
FOCUS
India & Asia demand vantage
Most commodity intelligence is written from London, Singapore, or New York — demand-consuming markets. Plavena is written from inside the fastest-growing import ecosystem.
Western supply-side lensIndia demand-side lens
FORMAT
Structured for action
Ten sections. Same structure every week. No filler, no padding. The brief is designed so a trader can find prices in under 10 seconds and the deep dive in under 30.
Unstructured newsletters10-section standard doc
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