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Interlink Metals & Chemicals

Interlink Metals & Chemicals is a chemistry topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Interlink Metals & Chemicals rather than just read about it. In short: Interlink Metals & Chemicals (also styled Interlink Metals and Chemicals AG) is a Swiss titanium trading company headquartered in Fribourg, Switzerland. Founded in 1992, it trades and supplies titanium products internationally and has, since the 1990s, been one of the Western trading channels for Russian titanium.

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Reference excerpt

Interlink Metals & Chemicals (also styled Interlink Metals and Chemicals AG) is a Swiss titanium trading company headquartered in Fribourg, Switzerland. Founded in 1992, it trades and supplies titanium products internationally and has, since the 1990s, been one of the Western trading channels for Russian titanium. Its founder and chairman is the businessman and pianist Igor Raykhelson. The company has been a party to commercial litigation in Switzerland with the Russian producer VSMPO-AVISMA and is connected to related Russian criminal proceedings against Raykhelson.

History The United States company Interlink Metals and Chemicals Inc. was established in 1990, and the Swiss company in the early 1990s. In 1992, Interlink and the titanium–magnesium plant at Berezniki in the Urals—then the largest Russian producer of titanium (100%) and magnesium (50%)—formed a joint trading company, Berezlink, to handle exports; the plant was considering granting Interlink exclusive rights to export its titanium and magnesium. Interlink maintained a representative office in Moscow, and its annual turnover in the CIS was reported at the time to be around US$60 million. Through the 1990s, titanium from the Avisma plant, which later became part of VSMPO-AVISMA, was marketed internationally through Interlink.

Operations Interlink trades titanium and titanium products for industries including aerospace, medical, automotive and energy, and describes itself as one of the world's largest traders of titanium products.

Bahrain project In March 2024, Interlink announced that its subsidiary Bahrain Titanium would build a titanium production facility at Askar on the south-eastern coast of Bahrain, in a project valued at about US$200 million. The company signed a 25-year lease for a 50,000 m² plot with Edamah, the real-estate arm of the Bahraini sovereign wealth fund Mumtalakat, with support from the Bahrain Economic Development Board. The first phase was planned around an electron-beam furnace and a vacuum-arc remelting furnace, with an initial capacity of about 4,000 tonnes per year.

Legal disputes

Russian criminal proceedings In June 2025, Russian investigators arrested Mikhail Voevodin, a former chief executive of VSMPO-AVISMA, on large-scale fraud charges. According to Kommersant, Forbes and RTVI, investigators alleged that between 2016 and 2020 Voevodin had colluded with Raykhelson to purchase charge (billet) material for VSMPO-AVISMA through companies said to be linked to Raykhelson at prices inflated by about 25–30% over those of the previous supplier, with estimated losses of 4–5.1 billion rubles. Raykhelson, who lives abroad, was charged in absentia; in March 2026 a court in Yekaterinburg ordered his arrest in absentia and he was placed on an international wanted list. Raykhelson has denied wrongdoing, describing the case as politically motivated retaliation connected to the Swiss litigation.

Swiss proceedings In December 2024, Interlink obtained an ex parte asset attachment (séquestre) of about CHF 20.3 million against assets it linked to VSMPO-AVISMA. A first-instance court invalidated the attachment, and in March 2026 the Cantonal Court of Vaud dismissed Interlink's appeal and ordered it to pay costs.

United States proceedings In September 2025, Raykhelson filed an application in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York under 28 U.S.C. § 1782, seeking evidence from financial institutions for use in his defence in the foreign proceedings.

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Interlink Metals & Chemicals

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Interlink Metals & Chemicals claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In chemistry, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Interlink Metals & Chemicals before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Interlink Metals & Chemicals ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Interlink Metals & Chemicals

In research: Interlink Metals & Chemicals appears in chemistry research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Interlink Metals & Chemicals in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Interlink Metals & Chemicals is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics Companies established in 1992, Metal companies of Switzerland, Swiss company stubs, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Interlink Metals & Chemicals outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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