Introducing Solidity Trade

Welcome to the official blog of Solidity Trade:

This blog is aimed at keeping you informed on news concerning our company, our work and the progress we are making in developing Africa with a market-oriented approach.

Solidity Trade has the mission to source West African commodities and secure the logistics to build a solid relationship with international buyers. Our purpose is to help West African producers and their communities to market and sell their raw materials while meeting international standards of quality.

In the spirit of this mission, company founders Lam Tran and Fabien Nervais teamed to work on a project aimed at developing a product inherent to the African landscape — Ghanaian unrefined shea butter. Unrefined shea butter is a useful product that has several applications in cooking, hair, and skin care.

Increasingly, international companies are incorporating shea butter into their products such as shampoo, soaps, or lotions. Shea butter has tremendous potential for growth, however, this potential hasn’t adequately been addressed through Africa. The lack of availability in capital and the difficulty to access international markets haven’t allowed local African businesses to grow to their full potential and go beyond their own local market in a profitable way.

Based on this fact, Solidity Trade has developed a new business model that serves a dual purpose:

1. Creating jobs in poor areas to alleviate poverty
2. Lifting up the economic barriers to give access to international markets

For more information on an example company we have helped to market unrefined shea butter in the Northern America, please download the following PDF: Unrefined Shea Butter