Cargill in Singapore
Singapore is the regional hub of Cargill in Asia-Pacific. We established our office there in 1981 and today our team comprises about 700 employees across four locations Four of Cargill’s global business units are headquartered in Singapore alongside a number of regional and global trading desks.
Activities
Cargill’s business activities conducted from Singapore comprise:
- Animal Nutrition & Health: Cargill Animal Nutrition & Health started operations in 1974 in South & Southeast Asia (SSEA) with its first plant in Indonesia and has deep-rooted expertise in nutritional science and innovation. We are a customer-driven, total solution provider, offering a wide range of digital and nutrition products and services to feed manufacturers, animal and aqua producers and feed retailers. We have regional representatives based in Singapore.
- Food and Bioindustrial: We produce and market a variety of food ingredients and systems to customers across the region. These include starches and sweeteners, cocoa and chocolate, edible oils, specialty ingredients like texturizers and health-promoting ingredients, as well as bio-based solutions for various industries and applications.
Meanwhile, Cargill Toshoku’s team of experienced and knowledgeable food professionals provide global food solutions to its Japanese and Southeast Asian partners. Toshoku's trading office in Singapore sources processed food, food ingredients, food chemicals and packaging materials for its customers in Japan and other parts of the world.
As a commitment to help nourish a growing population and meet changing consumer needs, our Innovation Centre at Neuros enables the creation of innovative, healthy and cost-effective agri-food solutions.
Across industries, manufacturers are looking for smarter ways to formulate their products in order to improve performance and/or gain total cost efficiencies. For decades, we’ve been reliably selecting, modifying and reacting various nature-based chemistries to create specific, innovative solutions for our industrial customers. We draw on the whole Cargill portfolio of products and services to create solutions to help our customers increase performance, and lower costs – all in a responsible, sustainable manner. In June 2022 we expanded this capability via the acquisition of the bio-based performance technology business from Croda.
- Agricultural Supply Chain: As one of the world’s leading merchants of grains and oilseeds, Cargill connects producers and users of grains and oilseeds around the globe. We operate on an integrated global basis to source, store, trade, process and distribute grains and oilseeds including wheat, corn, oilseeds, barley and sorghum, as well as vegetable oils and meals. We have a broad global presence in grain origination, shipping and processing, offering a range of farmer services and risk management solutions, and have significant expertise in handling identity preserved and differentiated products.
In Singapore, we trade and market wheat, soybeans, corn, soybean meal and other feed ingredients, providing cost effective access to Asian markets for Cargill products originated around the world. We also lead the development and execution of distinctive business solutions for grain and oilseeds customers in Asia and capture emerging opportunities in intra-Asia trade flows.
- Metals: Cargill’s metals business provides value-adding services and solutions along the global ferrous supply chain such as steel and iron ore risk management, metallurgical expertise, and integrated supply logistics.
- Palm Oil: Cargill owns and operates oil palm plantations and mills in Indonesia’s South Sumatra and West Kalimantan provinces that cover close to 92,000 hectares and employ close to 18,000 people. We sustainably produce high quality crude palm oil and palm kernel from fresh fruit bunches grown on our own plantations and sourced from local smallholders. The Singapore office provides functional and operational guidance to our Indonesian palm operations.
- Risk Management: We are a dedicated provider of agricultural and energy risk management solutions. We also develop over-the-counter risk management products tailored to the individual customer’s risk profile.
- Trade & Structured Finance: Headquartered in Singapore, we work with customers and Cargill’s commercial business units to provide financial solutions. Our structuring expertise aids in mitigating documentary, cross-border and credit risks associated with trade finance. In addition to meeting Cargill’s own trade and trade-related funding needs, we optimize Cargill’s physical trade flows to generate trade finance derived liquidity in emerging markets for customers. We also engage in risk management involving foreign exchange, credit and money markets.
- World Trading Unit: The palm and laurics trading team is based in Singapore and handles the palm origination, logistics and palm market trading. We serve customers such as private and public companies and government agencies around the world.
- Transportation & Logistics: Throughout our history we have developed deep expertise in efficiently transporting bulk commodities and finished products between continents and across countries. The expertise and quality expectations we have developed to support own global operations also help our customers who seek to gain operational efficiency, manage volatility, reduce costs, and ship products safely. We offer global ocean transportation solutions across all dry market commodity segments as well as tankers.
Contact
Cargill Asia Pacific Holdings Pte Limited
Co Regn No: 200401312G
138 Market Street
#17-01 CapitaGreen
Singapore 048946
Tel: +65-6295-1112
Fax: +65-6393-8898
Press Releases
Cargill presents trends-inspired, innovative gourmet chocolate solutions at Food Hotel Asia 2024 (press release April 23, 2024)
Aalst Chocolate, a Cargill company, marks 20 years and eyes growth in Asia through customer-driven innovation (press release October 4, 2023)
Cargill launches Asia Pacific digital business studio with support from the Singapore Economic Development Board to accelerate food and agriculture innovation (press release September 6, 2022)
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