Kempstar

Kempstar is an independent commodity trading firm focused on the distribution, supply and trading of liquid fuel throughout the United States. Who We Are Leadership Mission Values Kempstar was formed in 2015 as a partnership among a team of successful entrepreneurs, seasoned commodity experts and senior executives. Together this partnership has the tools and insight to properly manage risks while providing the best possible prices with unsurpassed service. From major oil companies and biofuel refiners, to blenders and retailers, Kempstar is able to add value at each stage of the supply chain. Kempstar’s organizational structure encourages an entrepreneurial and collaborative approach. Everyone’s primary focus is on delivering results, and delivering them efficiently and safely.

• Kempstar is an independent commodity trading firm focused on the distribution, supply and trading of liquid fuel throughout the United States.

• Kempstar was formed in 2015 as a partnership among a team of successful entrepreneurs, seasoned commodity experts and senior executives. Together this partnership has the tools and insight to properly manage risks while providing the best possible prices with unsurpassed service. From major oil companies and biofuel refiners, to blenders and retailers, Kempstar is able to add value at each stage of the supply chain.

• Kempstar’s organizational structure encourages an entrepreneurial and collaborative approach. Everyone’s primary focus is on delivering results, and delivering them efficiently and safely.

Leadership

Kempstar’s leadership team provides the direction and vision for the company while maintaining deep ties to the day-to-day operations of the firm. Our structure places a premium on performance. We empower our leaders. We strive to enhance the depth and stability of our leadership teams. Our organizational structure ensures that employee and stakeholder interests are closely aligned and is an important factor when attracting talent.  As a privately owned business we don’t have to answer to external shareholders. Instead, we focus on the long-term interests of the organization. We put customers first.

Mission

We conduct business ethically and responsibly. We strive for our people, assets and processes to be the best.

Values

• We meet our commitments to our partners, on-spec and on-time. Always recognizing that it takes several good acts to build trust, and only one bad act to lose it.
• We search for opportunities and harness the initiative of our employees to achieve success.
• Our success depends on our ability to maintain a safe work environment for our employees and partners.
• It is more than a set of principles. It’s a set of beliefs, a matter of discipline, and a way of focusing our business to relentlessly drive toward the end state we wish to achieve.

Trading

• We trade energy: we create markets for fuel products; we deliver railcars, safely, on-specification and on-time; and we engineer innovative financing structures to the benefit of our customers.

• Commodities are not always produced close to where there is demand. Physical traders act as distributors, supplying customers and moving products around the world

• The balance between supply and demand in energy and commodity products can be affected by many factors. In the longer term, demand trends are driven by economic conditions, technological advances or changes in government policy

• In the short term, weather or political unrest can affect the balance between demand and supply, and leave commodities producers, processors or distributors with too much or not enough product

• In addition to long term supply arrangements with customers – ensuring industrial customers have a steady supply of product they need to continue with the smooth day-to-day running of their operations – physical commodity trading firms seek to identify and address short term market imbalances.