A profile of the founder
Rishabh Rampuria is the Founder and Chairman of Rampuria Trading, an international commodities trading company engaged in the sourcing, financing and global distribution of metals, energy and agricultural commodities. Rampuria Trading forms part of the Rampuria Group, a family enterprise established in 1985 with interests spanning solar energy, telecommunications, real estate development and international trade. Building on that heritage, he founded the trading business to connect producers and industrial consumers across India, Switzerland, Dubai and the wider international market.
Background and education
A graduate of the University of Manchester, Rishabh Rampuria combines an international academic grounding with a commercial upbringing inside a diversified industrial group. That combination shapes how he approaches physical trade: an appreciation of macro market structure alongside a practical understanding of what it takes to move a cargo from a producer's gate to an industrial buyer's plant — contracts, inspection, financing, freight and delivery.
Rather than pursuing volume for its own sake, he built Rampuria Trading around a defined set of commodity groups where the company can add genuine commercial value: non-ferrous and ferrous metals, energy products, and agricultural commodities. Each is supported by direct producer relationships, disciplined counterparty due diligence and clear documentation.
Metals: aluminium, copper and minerals
Metals sit at the centre of the firm's activity. Under his leadership, Rampuria Trading trades aluminium in its principal traded forms — ingots, billets, wire rod and scrap grades — alongside copper cathodes, copper scrap and semi-finished copper products. The company also handles ferrous material and industrial minerals for smelters, rolling mills, fabricators and cable manufacturers.
Aluminium and copper are unusually demanding markets: pricing is referenced to exchange benchmarks, quality specifications are exacting, and delivery schedules are tied to production planning at the buyer's end. Rishabh Rampuria has structured the business to meet those requirements with pre-shipment inspection, clearly defined quality clauses and pricing mechanisms agreed in advance, so that industrial consumers can plan procurement with confidence through volatile cycles.
Energy and agricultural commodities
Alongside metals, the company originates and distributes energy commodities and agricultural products. In energy, activity focuses on refined products and related industrial feedstocks, coordinated through the firm's Middle East presence in Dubai, where proximity to producers, storage and shipping routes supports reliable regional distribution.
In agricultural commodities, the firm works with grains, pulses, oilseeds and related products, drawing on long-standing sourcing relationships in India and South Asia. Agricultural trade rewards patience and reputation: seasonality, crop quality and logistics all influence performance, and counterparties return to trading houses that honour contracts when markets move against them. That principle — performing on obligations in difficult markets — is central to how Rishabh Rampuria has positioned the company.
International presence: India, Switzerland and Dubai
Rampuria Trading operates across three complementary locations. India provides origination and sourcing depth in metals and agricultural commodities. Switzerland, a long-established centre for physical commodity trading, supports trade structuring, financing and European counterparty relationships. Dubai serves as the Middle East gateway for energy trading, logistics coordination and regional distribution.
This structure lets the company follow a transaction end to end across time zones, from origination through financing to delivery, while remaining close to both suppliers and industrial consumers. Expanding that international footprint — and the counterparty network behind it — has been a consistent focus of the founder's strategy.
Commercial philosophy
His leadership is defined by disciplined execution, commercial integrity and long-term relationship management. In international trade, where transactions cross jurisdictions, currencies and regulatory regimes, he treats process as a commercial asset: verified counterparties, documented obligations, considered credit exposure and transparent communication at every stage of a shipment.
He is equally deliberate about risk. Physical commodity trading carries price, credit, performance and logistics risk simultaneously; the company's approach is to identify and price those risks explicitly rather than absorb them inadvertently, using structured contracts, inspection regimes and appropriate trade finance instruments.
Building for the long term
Building on the Rampuria Group's entrepreneurial heritage, Rishabh Rampuria is focused on developing trusted international partnerships and delivering reliable commodity trading solutions while maintaining the highest standards of professionalism, operational excellence and client service. His stated ambition is not to be the largest trading house, but a dependable one — a counterparty that producers and industrial consumers can rely on across market cycles.
That outlook informs how the business grows: selectively, with new commodity lines and geographies added only where the firm has the relationships and operational capability to execute properly. It also shapes the company's view of responsibility in international trade, from compliance and sanctions screening to the environmental and social expectations that increasingly accompany physical supply chains.
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