Razvan Dragu is a metals and minerals specialist with over two decades of hands-on experience across the global mining and smelting supply chain. As Founder and CEO of Finelbe Inspect BV, he has built a reputation for delivering independent, technically rigorous inspection, sampling, and analytical oversight services to miners, traders, and smelters operating in some of the world’s most complex commodity environments.
His career spans Europe, Africa, Latin America, and Asia, with operational exposure from mine sites to major ports and metallurgical complexes. Razvan’s expertise is rooted in the fundamentals of weighing, sampling, and assaying (WSA)—areas where small deviations can translate into significant commercial risk. He is known for his uncompromising stance on sampling integrity, frequently challenging poor industry practices and advocating for strict adherence to international standards such as ISO 12743 and ISO 10251.
Before founding Finelbe Inspect, Razvan held senior technical and operational roles within leading organizations, including ALS Inspection UK and Nyrstar, where he led weighing, sampling, and assaying frameworks across European operations. This combination of laboratory, field, and logistics experience allows him to bridge the gap between theory and real-world execution—particularly in high-pressure environments such as vessel load/discharge, rail logistics, and smelter intake systems.
Through Finelbe Inspect, Razvan promotes a philosophy of “boots on the ground” inspection—deploying experienced inspectors who understand not just procedures, but the consequences of getting them wrong. His work often involves auditing sampling systems, designing fit-for-purpose sampling protocols, resolving commercial disputes, and supporting due diligence for critical mineral supply chains.
In parallel, Razvan founded Finelbe Laboratory Construct, a specialized arm focused on the design and construction of chemical and metallurgical laboratories. This venture addresses a growing gap in emerging and established markets alike: the need for reliable, well-designed analytical infrastructure that can support accurate, defensible results. By combining field inspection knowledge with laboratory design expertise, he offers a fully integrated approach—from sampling in the field to analysis in controlled environments.
Razvan is a regular voice in industry discussions around critical raw materials, supply chain transparency, and the evolving role of independent inspection. His speaking engagements are known for being direct, experience-driven, and occasionally provocative—grounded in real case studies rather than theory.
At his core, Razvan represents a generation of professionals who learned the trade on site—on conveyor belts, in laboratories, and on vessel decks—bringing a pragmatic, detail-oriented perspective to an industry increasingly shaped by automation and data.
