EKC.AG was founded in 2006 as "Europakontakt e.K." by the entrepreneur Vladimir Platunov (today´s CEO of EKC.AG). A globally active raw material's trader specializing in energy and industrial resources and also take over the entire logistics, financing and warehousing.
The German company EKC.AG has been supplying chromium to Russia for more than a year, despite international sanctions. Since February 24, 2022, the company has denied any ties to defense enterprises and claims that Russia has its own reserves of chromium and does not need to import ore. According to Handelsblatt, from January 2023 to April 2024, EKC exported chromium to Russia for about 24 million euros, which was more than half of the total annual imports of this metal to Russia during this period.
| April 22, 2025 | German company denies accusations of supplying chrome to Russian army |