Kho Industries

What Kho Industries does

KHO Industries is a privately held, Singapore-headquartered multi-industry B2B commodities supplier incorporated in 2010, operating across five business segments: Mining (steam coal, iron ore, manganese, nickel, bauxite from owned mines in Kalimantan, Sumatra, and Sulawesi), Metallurgy (steel plates/sheets, I/H-beams, angle bars, channels, pipes, flanges, valves, fittings, hollow sections for oil & gas, marine/offshore, energy, and construction), Petrochemicals (industrial alcohols, esters, glycols, hydrocarbons, ketones, phthalates, laboratory-grade chemicals, and an extended specialty chemical catalog), Petroleum (crude oil, mazut M100, bitumen, diesel, gasoline, jet fuel, automotive gas oil, fuel oils), and Sulphur (granular/lump, flakes, powder for fertilizer, steel, paper, petrochemicals, and water purification applications). The company also offers value-added petrochemical services — custom and contract toll blending, bulk chemical storage and drumming, plus hazardous chemical warehousing and transportation logistics.

The business model is sales-led enterprise field-sales: bulk commodity orders are taken via website product-enquiry forms, email ([email protected]), and a Singapore phone line, with quote-based pricing per order rather than published list prices. Customer mix is segmented by vertical — mining/energy, offshore/oil & gas (primary), petrochemical processors, petroleum wholesalers, sulphur end-users, and construction/onshore infrastructure — and serves enterprise buyers globally through a described "vast network of supply chains" anchored at Southeast Asian ports.

There is no proprietary technology platform, no mobile app, no API, and no disclosed software stack; operations are supported by a static website with industry-segmented pages. Ownership is opaque (no board, investor, or shareholder disclosure), no funding rounds or external capital are documented, and no patents, trademarks, certifications, or awards are recorded. Strategic positioning leans on upstream mining asset ownership in Indonesia and a multi-segment portfolio that enables cross-selling between raw material extraction (mining) and downstream industrial application (steel, petrochemicals, petroleum, sulphur).

Name

Kho Industries

Legal name

KHO Industries

Website

https://khoindustries.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2009

Operating status

Operating

Short description

KHO Industries is a Singapore-headquartered multi-industry B2B commodities supplier serving global industrial customers across mining, metallurgy, petrochemicals, petroleum, and sulphur segments, with owned mining operations in Indonesia and value-added chemical blending and logistics services.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Industrial Commodities Supply

NAICS

Coal and Other Mineral and Ore Merchant Wholesalers (42352), Coal and Other Mineral and Ore Merchant Wholesalers (423520), Copper, Nickel, Lead, and Zinc Mining (21223)

SIC

Wholesale-Metals & Minerals (No Petroleum) (5050), Wholesale-Petroleum & Petroleum Products (No Bulk Stations) (5172), Miscellaneous Metal Ores (1090), Industrial Inorganic Chemicals (2810)

akta.pro primary industry

Industrial Minerals Trading (Phosphate, Potash, Sulfur, Borates, Barite, Talc) (IMAKAJAF)

akta.pro secondary industries

Commodity Monomers & Feedstocks (e.g., Methanol, Ethylene Oxide) (IMAEAAAD), Ferrous Metals Trading & Distribution (Iron Ore, Pig Iron, DRI/HBI, Ferroalloys) (IMAKAJAA)

Keywords

• Mining commodities supply
• Steel products distribution
• Petrochemical products supply
• Petroleum fuels distribution
• Industrial raw materials

Headquarters

HQ city

Singapore

HQ country

Singapore

HQ region

Asia

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Supply Chain, Operations, Infrastructure, Personnel, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Mining Commodities Sales: Sale of natural resources including Steam Coal, Iron Ore, Manganese Ore, Nickel Ore, and Bauxite Ore extracted from Indonesian mines. Revenue generated through direct commodity sales to energy, infrastructure, and manufacturing industries.
2. Steel and Metallurgy Products: Supply of steel products including plates/sheets, I-beam/H-beam, angle bars, channels, pipes, flanges, valves, fittings, and hollow sections for oil & gas, marine/offshore, energy, and construction industries.
3. Petrochemical Products Distribution: Distribution of extensive range of petrochemical products including alcohols, esters, glycols, hydrocarbons, ketones, phthalates, and specialty chemicals. Also offers toll blending, bulk chemical storage, drumming, warehousing, and transportation services.
4. Petroleum Products: Wholesale distribution of petroleum products including Crude Oil, Mazut M100, Bitumen, Diesel (D2), Gasoline, Jet Fuel, Automotive Gas Oil, and Fuel Oils.
5. Sulphur Products: Sale of sulphur products including granular/lump, flakes, and powder for fertilizer, steel, paper, petrochemicals, water purification, and other industrial applications.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Kho Industries supplies natural resources (Steam Coal, Iron Ore, Manganese Ore, Nickel Ore, Bauxite Ore from owned Indonesian mines), steel and metallurgy products (plates/sheets, I/H beams, angles, channels, pipes, flanges, valves, fittings, hollow sections), petrochemicals (industrial alcohols, esters, glycols, hydrocarbons, ketones, phthalates, specialty chemicals, laboratory grade chemicals), petroleum fuels (Crude Oil, Mazut M100, Bitumen, Diesel, Gasoline, Jet Fuel, AGO, Fuel Oils), and sulphur products (granular/lump, flakes, powder) to industrial customers across mining, oil & gas, marine/offshore, energy, construction, fertilizer, and petrochemical sectors. The company also offers toll and contract blending, bulk chemical storage and drumming, hazardous chemical warehousing, and transportation logistics as supporting services.

Product overview

Kho Industries is a multi-industries company operating across five business segments: Mining (Steam Coal, Iron Ore, Manganese Ore, Nickel Ore, Bauxite Ore), Metallurgy (Steel Plate/Sheet, I Beam/H Beam, Angle Bar, Channel, Pipes, Flanges, Valves, Fittings, Hollow Sections for marine/offshore, energy, and construction), Petrochemicals (Industrial alcohols, esters, glycols, hydrocarbons, ketones, phthalates, laboratory grade chemicals, and extended specialty chemical catalog), Petroleum (Crude Oil, Mazut M100, Bitumen, Diesel, Gasoline, Jet Fuel, Fuel Oils), and Sulphur (Granular, Flakes, Powder for agriculture and industry). The company also provides value-added services including Toll Blending, Bulk Chemical Storage & Drumming, and Warehousing & Transportation. Operations are headquartered in Singapore with a corporate office in Indonesia, serving global markets primarily in energy, infrastructure, marine, offshore, and industrial sectors.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Mining Ores (Steam Coal, Iron Ore, Manganese Ore, Nickel Ore, Bauxite Ore) Steam Coal, Iron Ore, Manganese Ore, Nickel Ore, and Bauxite Ore sourced from owned Indonesian mines for energy, infrastructure, and manufacturing industries.
• Steel Plate/Sheet Steel plates and sheets for shipbuilding, offshore structures, construction, boilers, pressure containers, and energy industries.
• I Beam/H Beam Structural steel I Beams and H Beams for bridge construction, building, steel structures, and civil engineering projects.
• Angle Bar Equal and unequal angle bars for building construction, ships, offshore structures, and industrial machinery.
• Channel Structural channels in various sizes for warehouses, factories, shipbuilding, oil & gas, and construction applications.
• Pipes High-grade pipes and tubes for the energy industry, petrochemical industry, oil & gas, and construction sectors.
• Flanges Functional flanges for shipbuilding, offshore structures, boilers, pressure containers, and petrochemical plants.
• Valves Industrial valves for shipbuilding, refineries, petrochemical plants, pipelines, and processing industries.
• Fittings Pipe fittings for shipbuilding, offshore structures, petrochemical plants, and processing industries.
• Hollow Sections Hollow sections in various sizes and shapes for oil & gas, petrochemical, energy, civil engineering, and offshore structures.
• Sulphur Products (Granular/Lump, Flakes, Powder) Sulphur in granular/lump, flakes, and powder forms for fertilizer production, mining of precious metals, steel production, paper, sugar, gasoline, water purification, asphalt, concrete, batteries, caprolactam, rubber, and other industrial applications.
• Petroleum Fuels (Crude Oil, Mazut M100, Bitumen, D2 Diesel, Gasoline, Jet Fuel, AGO, CST-180, CST-380) Wholesale petroleum products including Crude Oil, Mazut M100 (heavy fuel oil), Bitumen, D2 Diesel, 89 Octane Gasoline, Jet Fuel, Automotive Gas Oil (AGO), CST-180 Fuel Oil, and CST-380 Fuel Oil for energy, automotive, aviation, marine, and industrial power generation applications.
• Industrial Petrochemicals (Alcohols, Esters, Glycols, Hydrocarbons, Ketones, Phthalates) Industrial alcohols, esters, glycols, hydrocarbon solvents, ketones, and phthalate plasticizers for manufacturing and processing industries.
• Specialty Petrochemicals Extended range of specialty petrochemical products including solvents, acids, bases, and specialty industrial chemicals for diverse manufacturing applications.
• Laboratory Grade Chemicals Laboratory grade dry reagents, acids, high purity solvents, and bio reagents for cell biology, molecular biology, and protein chemistry applications.
• Toll Blending Services (Custom & Contract) Custom and contract chemical blending services with partner facilities equipped for liquid and powder chemical processing, formulation, testing, and packaging.
• Bulk Chemical Storage & Drumming Services Bulk chemical storage and drumming services with automatic drum fillers for consistent and accurate filling of hazardous chemicals.
• Warehousing & Transportation Services Hazardous chemical warehousing and transportation logistics with an established network for chemical delivery to customers.

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Trafigura: One of the world's largest independent commodity traders, with core activities in metals, minerals, oil and petrochemicals across global supply chains. Highly comparable to Kho's diversified mining-to-petrochemical distribution model, but at materially greater scale and geographic breadth.
• Gunvor Group: Independent global commodities trader specializing in oil, gas, metals and bulk commodities. Like Kho, it operates physical supply chains serving industrial end-markets across multiple geographies without public listing.
• Mercuria Energy Trading: Privately held global commodities trader active in crude oil, refined products, metals and petrochemicals. Comparable to Kho as a privately held, multi-commodity trading house serving industrial buyers with bulk physical supply.
• PETRONAS Chemicals Group: Major Southeast Asian petrochemicals producer and distributor of alcohols, glycols, esters and downstream chemical derivatives. Closely matches Kho's petrochemical product catalog and regional industrial customer base.
• Adani Enterprises: Diversified Indian conglomerate with mining, metals, petrochemical and commodity trading arms, including coal and iron ore operations. Closely matches Kho's vertically integrated mine-to-distribution model across coal, metals and chemicals, though at much larger scale.

Broad incumbents

• Glencore: Largest diversified natural resource company globally, with dominant positions in metals & minerals, oil and agricultural products. Overlaps with Kho across coal, nickel, iron ore, petroleum and petrochemicals, but operates at a vastly larger scale with mining-to-marketing integration.
• Mitsui & Co: Major Japanese sogo shosha with extensive Asia-Pacific commodity trading across metals, energy, chemicals and steel. Comparable to Kho as a regional supplier of mining ores, steel products and petrochemicals to industrial buyers across Southeast Asia.
• Itochu Corporation: Japanese sogo shosha active in metals, minerals, energy, chemicals and steel products globally. Comparable breadth to Kho's five-vertical commodity portfolio, with deep Asia-Pacific trading relationships.
• Sumitomo Corporation: Japanese trading house with global operations spanning mineral resources, steel products, chemicals and energy. Directly comparable to Kho's multi-vertical industrial commodity distribution model, with far broader geographic reach.

Regional players

• Indika Energy: Indonesian integrated energy company with coal mining, logistics and downstream energy businesses. Strongly comparable to Kho as a Singapore/Indonesia-headquartered supplier of Indonesian-origin coal and energy commodities to Asian markets.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

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Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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