Trading & Investment

As the world strives for carbon neutrality, hydrogen is earning a brighter spotlight as a growing energy source for the future. Hydrogen is odorless, invisible, and can be produced in a variety of ways without any concerns about depletion or regional differences. Hydrogen’s potential as an energy source expands to all sectors, including home, industry, […]

Shipping products by sea is one of the most practical logistics solutions, as sea freight can include all kinds of cargo. In addition, when carrying cargo of equal weight and transporting the same distance by sea and air, the carbon dioxide emitted by sea transport was about 44 times less than air transport. Because of this, […]

It’s been a question on many traders’ lips this year: are we witnessing the start of a commodities supercycle? To put it simply, commodities supercycles refer to a long-term trend of price increases. For example, if demand increases while supply shortages persist for a period of years, this can create a supercycle. This phenomenon can last […]

Whatever the business interest, we find passion and expertise at Samsung C&T. Our latest example is Principal Professional Kyle Hong, who works as a fertilizer trader for the company’s Trading & Investment Group. Over almost two decades, Hong has quite literally helped the fertilizer trading business grow up to become a vital part of Samsung […]

When you hear the word “ammonia,” you might immediately associate it with a pungent odor. However, would you believe that it is also a life-giving commodity hidden behind our lives? As a basic raw material for all nitrogen fertilizers, which are in turn among the most frequently used in the world, ammonia is key to […]

If there is one factor that repeatedly comes up in business success stories, it is the importance of building solid relationships. In this latest installment of our Passion & Expertise series, we see how being a “people person” has benefited Professional Alexey Provalov, head of the Steel team at the Moscow office of Samsung C&T […]

The last year may stand out as extraordinary for all of us, but Samsung C&T has been able to deal with these unprecedented circumstances based on the resilience it has built up since 1938. The company’s remarkable history has seen it grow from its beginnings as a Korean trading outfit to an ever-expanding global organization […]

PT. Gandaerah Hendana and PT. Inecda, subsidiaries of Samsung C&T Trading & Investment Group that operate palm plantations in Indonesia, have been certified to the ISO 14001 Environmental Management System (EMS) standard. The two palm plantations cover 19,700 hectares on Indonesia’s Sumatra Island, with the capacity to produce 90,000 tons of crude palm oil (CPO) […]

Plastic has revolutionized the world in the modern era, ushering in both convenient and potentially life-saving applications. From laptops to medical devices, it is difficult to imagine the world without plastic. But over recent decades, plastic has become so practical that it has been used for seemingly endless daily needs – including things like single-use […]

What kind of device are you using to read this article? Whether it is a smartphone or a laptop, one thing is certain: that device was not produced from scratch in just one country. For example, the lithium in the battery of your phone may be from Chile, while it is quite possible that each […]