Trading & Investment

Passion & Expertise: Decades of wisdom wrought from steel
September 7, 2020
There are few materials in the world that inspire as much strength and endurance in people as steel does. For Samsung C&T’s Trading & Investment Group, steel is taken very seriously as one of its major trading commodities. In fact, the company engages in a range of global steel trading operations, running coil centers and stainless […]

Passion & Expertise: Following the thread of a career in textiles
August 20, 2020
If any industry proves the need for a trading company to be flexible and adaptable it is the textile business. As clothing is one of life’s basic necessities, there will always be demand for textiles, but the industry is constantly evolving as supply locations shift and consumption extends from practical needs to the very heights […]

The past, present, and future of logistics
August 6, 2020
As with most areas of the economy this year, the logistics business is having to evolve fast. We are seeing a kind of acceleration of the Fourth Industrial Revolution with demand for digitalization rising and harnessing the power of technology in every sector. At the basic level, logistics involves the commercial activity of transporting goods to customers. […]

Passion & Expertise: Fertilizer for life
July 17, 2020
It seems fertilizer not only helps crops grow, but can be the source of a fruitful career too. Having been with Samsung C&T Trading & Investment Group for nearly 30 years, Principal Professional Park Hun-bae has spent those decades accumulating expertise in the fertilizer business. In 1992, Park joined what is now known as the […]

Out of the woods: Turning waste into energy
July 6, 2020
As the world continues to seek sustainable energy solutions, some of the answers have been lying around us all the time – like wood pellets! Wood pellets are a source of bioenergy, natural waste that has been broken down and reprocessed into pellets typically between 1-3 cm in length. In this article, we will explore why […]

Passion & Expertise: The trader born with steel in his veins
June 23, 2020
Our passionate expert today is someone who you might say was born to do his job! Originally from Britain’s stainless steel capital, Birmingham, Farrell went straight into the stainless steel business after university in 2007. After years of building up steel trading experience, he joined the sales team working for Samsung C&T’s Otelinox stainless steel […]

SC&T office spotlight: Otelinox
June 18, 2020
Otelinox is the focus of this latest installment of our Office Spotlight series, which aims to highlight the efforts of Samsung C&T Trading & Investment Group’s dozens of offices worldwide. Around 80 kilometers northwest of the Romanian capital Bucharest, we find Otelinox stainless steel precision mill in the picturesque surroundings of Targoviste – for a […]

Passion & Expertise: The trailblazer
June 11, 2020
It is not easy to achieve results in any business when you are starting from scratch. But Senior Professional Joo Byung-do has done exactly that since joining a new department handling electrolytic copper cathodes within Samsung C&T Trading & Investment Group’s Energy & Metal Division in 2012. He is credited with cultivating new markets and […]

The values that unite Samsung C&T employees worldwide
May 28, 2020
As Samsung C&T marks its 82nd anniversary, it is a moment to reflect on just how far the company has come since it opened up as a trading entity in South Korea all those years ago. Within Samsung C&T Trading & Investment Group, there are staff placed throughout 45 countries in about 90 offices, but as […]

Passion & Expertise: The know-how to organize and improve healthcare
May 6, 2020
With the world’s focus more than ever on the need for adequate healthcare, it is increasingly important to ask who has the expertise to be able to deliver medical infrastructure where it is needed. Thanks to many years of experience in organizing projects from transportation and IT to education and transmission of electric power, Samsung […]