Deep Intelligence Across Industries

Company Headquarters: Texas, United States Founded: 2008 Workforce: ~ 500 Company Working: Superior Silica Sands is one of the leading manufacturers and suppliers of premium silica sand in North America. The company is a fully owned subsidiary of Emerge Energy Services LP, a publicly traded, Master Limited Partnership traded on the NYSE under the ticker symbol EMES controlled by Insight Equity, a Southlake, Texas-based private equity firm that manages the assets of a portfolio of businesses worth roughly USD1.4 billion and 3.8 million tons of finished silica sand capacity. The company delivers the greatest level of quality and customer service, with three dry plants in Wisconsin and over 5mm TPY of premium northern white sand, as well as a broad network of transload facilities across the US and Canada. The sand facilities are in Barron County, Wisconsin; New Auburn, Wisconsin; San Antonio, Texas; and Kosse, Texas. It serves the industrial and energy sectors and is renowned for its high standards for products, services, and employees.

Company Headquarters: Japan Founded: 2004 Workforce: ~ 64,296 Company Working: JFE Mineral manufactures and sales of nickel ultrafine powder, positive electrode materials for lithium-ion secondary batteries, piezoelectric single crystals and other functional material products. The company encourage a research and development program that targets natural resources, blast furnace slag, and steelmaking slag by determining precisely the customer’s requirements. The Company mines, processes, and distributes limestone, dolomite, silica, and other ores, produces and distributes steel slag products, as well as produces and distributes nickel ultrafine powder and cathode materials. JFE Mineral also contracts steel-making works. JFE Mineral & Alloy Company is a leading global supplier of ferroalloys, plastics, and advanced materials. The company is committed to sustainable development and has a number of initiatives in place to reduce its environmental impact.

Company Headquarters: Nagoya, Japan Founded: 1948 Workforce: ~ 65,218 Company Working: Toyota Tsusho Corporation is one of Japan's diverse ranges of products and services provided to countries all over the world that are necessary for the development of affluent and comfortable societies. The business segment of the company includes metal, global parts & logistics, mobility, machinery, energy & projects, chemical & electronics, food, and consumer services. The company offers silica sand under its two subsidiaries by investing in mines of Kemerton Silica Sand and AustSand Mining. Kemerton Silica Sand is a Japanese joint venture between Tochu Corporation (67%) and Toyota Tsusho Corporation (33%). Toyota Tsusho is a prominent Japanese trade company. AustSand Mining is a joint venture between Tochu Corporation – 71%, Toyota Tsusho Corporation – 20%, and Tsuneishi Holdings Corporation – 9% with an annual production of 200,000 tons under 4 days/week of operation. It has a wide corporate offices, production, and distribution network across Asia-Pacific, Europe, North America, the Middle East, and Africa.

Company Headquarters: Nakashinden, Japan Founded: 1933 Workforce: ~ 2070 Company Working: Tochu Corporation is a leading manufacturer of silica sand in Japan. The business segment of the company includes natural silica sand for casting, resin-coated sand, silica sand, and high-presser die casting. To offer high-quality silica sand, the company is developing silica sand resources in Japan and abroad. The company provides silica sand to clients in the needed amount at any time and from any location due to its global resource network and fast production system using cutting-edge technologies. The domestic silica sand mines of the company include the Yunotsu silica sand mine and the Shimane prefecture mine. In comparison to Japan's limited resources, nations such as Australia and Southeast Asia still have significant silica sand deposits. The company through its subsidiary firms, has built two silica sand mines in Australia and imports a range of high-quality sand. In 2022, the total sales of the company is around 33.191 billion yen. It has nine production units, and seven subsidiaries and has a strong presence in Japan, Australia, Thailand, Indonesia, and Malaysia and exports its products globally.

Company Headquarters: El Sharqeya, Egypt Founded: 2004 Workforce: ~N/A Company Working: Cairo Fresh for Minerals and Quarries Materials is a leading high-quality Silica sand supplier and exporter across the globe. It is registered with the Ministry of Trade and Industry under Chamber of Commerce No. 103020 and with Exporting License No. 63696. It is also a member of the Egyptian Federation for Mining and Quarries Materials. The company manufactures high-purity minerals such as silica sand, quartz ore, kaolin, dolomite, limestone, calcium carbonate, quick lime, micro silica, and hydrated lime aggregate. Also, it offers coral pebbles and gravel, pebbles for decoration, quartz silica sand filter media, and silica gravel filter media according to ASTM Mesh Numbers, EN12904, AWWAB100-96, and USGA standards. The company has a manufacturing facility with numerous screening plants and uses its machinery. The annual production of silica sand is 500.000.000 million Tons. The major market of the company is Egypt, Cyprus, Greece, Spain, India, United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Malta, Turkey, Qatar, Senegal, Algeria, Libya, Japan, Syria, Lebanon, Georgia, Croatia, Philippines, Iraq, and Sultanate of Oman.

Company Headquarters: Berlin, United States Founded: 1949 Workforce: ~200 Company Working: Badger Mining Corporation (BMC), is a family-owned manufacturer and supplier of high-quality industrial silica sand products in North America. It offers grain silica sand and coated silica sand products that are utilized in a wide range of industrial and environmental applications. Oil and gas production (hydraulic fracturing), metal casting, construction, recreation, filter media, glass, and agriculture are among the markets the company serves. The customized mining, washing, drying, and coating processes of the company turn silica sand into Badger Sand, the market's finest performing finished product. BMC has unrivaled expertise in industrial sand processing and product development, especially in the more specialized fields of sand testing, coating, and distribution, among others. The ISO-certified production and process management systems of the company ensure consistent quality with every load. It has three silica sand mines that are in Fairwater, Wisconsin, Taylor, Wisconsin, and Kermit, Texas. Taylor, WI is the location of a coating facility. Also, it operates trans-loading facilities in North America through a network of subcontractors.

Company Headquarters: Pombal, Portugal Founded: 1991 Workforce: ~ N/A Company Working: IMOSA Indústrias Mineiras do Mondego, SA (IMOSA) is a Portuguese company that began industrial operations in 1998. It is part of the Saint-Gobain group, one of the world leaders in construction materials. IMOSA operates the "Nasce gua" quarry in Guia-Pombal and specializes in the extraction and classification of silica sand (wet and dry) of high purity and various granulometric, particularly adapted for the glass, filtration, construction (sand for rendering, adhesive cement, ready-mixed concrete, artifacts, etc.); sports fields (golf courses, etc.) application. The high quality of sands makes them ideal for a variety of applications. IMOSA is USGA quality, safety, and environmentally certified. It has several units, including a wet sand washing and classification unit, a drying and dry classification unit, bagging, social facilities, an analysis laboratory, a support warehouse, and fuel transformation and storage stations. Because of its proximity to the ports of Figueira da Foz and Aveiro, as well as the Oeste, A17, A1, and IC8 lines, IMOSA has a strong presence across the globe.

Company Headquarters: Antwerp, Belgium Founded: 1872 Workforce: ~5017 Company Working: Sibelco Group is a leading producer of material science globally. The company mines, processes, and sells industrial minerals with a concentration of silica, clays, feldspathic, and olivine all over the world. The company offers various products in the field of construction, glass & electronics, ceramics, coatings, polymers, water filtration, industry & consumer, recycling, metallurgy, and other various sectors. It produces quartz and cristobalite, two crystalline forms of silica, as sands and flours for a variety of uses in solar technology to smartphone displays, from flame retardants to drinking water sanitation. The company has 43 clusters, 118 production sites, and six technical centers in 32 countries across Europe, Asia-Pacific, and America.

Company Headquarters: Lake Street Cairns, Qld, Australia Founded: 1967 Workforce: ~80 Company Working: Cape Flattery Silica Mines Pty., Ltd (CFSM) is one of the leading producers of silica sand in the world with one of the world's greatest reserves and production capacities for silica sand. It is a completely owned subsidiary of Mitsubishi Corporation since 1977. CFSM has been providing silica sand, a raw material for glass used in solar power generation, display glass, and other applications, to many Asian nations for over 50 years, including Japan through an integrated supply chain that makes use of the logistics and sales network of Mitsubishi Corporation to cover all operations from mining and processing to exports and sales. The company offers silica sand of various quality and different mesh sizes of +20 to +270 for various industrial applications across the globe.