Marc-Antoine Calvet

Business Line Manager - Fertilizers at SOLEVO Group

Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

About

Experience

  • Business Line Manager - Fertilizers at SOLEVO Group
    Mar 2019 - Present · 7 yrs 4 mos

    SOLEVO is a leading blender, packer and distributor of agricultural and industrial inputs in Africa. With 70+ years of presence in the continent, SOLEVO assists farmers by providing them with a full range of fertilizers, seeds, crop protection products and industrial chemicals they need with a guaranteed quality and good value. We have operations in 11 countries: Angola, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ghana, Egypt, Ivory Coast, Madagascar, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal & South Africa with more than 600k mt distributed yearly. Previously a branch of Louis Dreyfus Commodities.

  • Import Export Manager at Baconco
    Jun 2017 - Dec 2018 · 1 yr 7 mos

    Baconco is a subsidiary of Thoresen Thai Agencies PLC. We manufacture and sell top tier chemical fertilizers. Baconco is among the biggest NPK manufacturing plants in Vietnam with a steam granulation (100,000 tons/year), an urea melt granulation (100,000 tons/year), a USP reactor (100,000 tons/year), a compaction unit (80,000 tons/year), a bulk blending unit (300,000 tons/year) and a bio coating unit. We are the fastest expanding self financed fertilizer company in Vietnam, focusing on quality, service, technologies (robots,...), environment (waste water plant,...) and welfare of our employees. Baconco became the quality reference on the Vietnamese market and a growing player on the NPK world market with a presence in more than 30 countries. Our 3 plants on total 220,000sqm are located in Phu My IZ (BR-VT) with direct access to the Baria Serece port.

  • Junior Trader at Mekatrade Vietnam Co. Ltd
    Oct 2015 - May 2017 · 1 yr 8 mos

  • Junior Trader at Mekatrade Asia Pte. Ltd., Geneva Branch
    Jan 2015 - Sep 2015 · 9 mos

  • Cottonseed Merchant Assistant (SN Citec plant) at Geocoton (Groupe Advens)
    Apr 2014 - Oct 2014 · 7 mos

    - Helped optimizing the plant's supply workflow of cottonseeds - Implemented new sales administration processes to better follow sales level - Carried out market studies and weekly reports on cottonseed oil and cake in Burkina Faso - Helped replying to public and international calls for tender for oil and co-products