Deep Intelligence Across Industries

Company Headquarters: Moscow, Russia Founded: 1961 Workforce: ~11,201 Company Working: Acron is a leading vertically integrated NPK producer, among the top ten global producers by NPK capacity. It has 2 chemical production facilities and a mine in Russia with aggregate capacity of over 7 million tons of commercial products. Acron has an extensive logistics and distribution network with sales in 78 countries. It has mining licences in Russia and Canada for over 400 million tons of recoverable potash resources in terms of KCl. In 2019, the company sold 7.6 million tonnes of its key products. It is a member of the International Fertilizer Industry Association, the Russian Fertiliser Producers Association, and the European Fertilizer Import Association. It is listed on Moscow Exchange and London Stock Exchange.

Company Headquarters: Switzerland Founded: 1906 Workforce: ~1,134 Company Working: Oerlikon group is engaged in the manufacturing of advanced materials, surface engineering, and polymer processing. The company operates mainly in two business divisions, namely surface solutions, and man-made fibers. The surface solutions segment includes brands such as Oerlikon Balzers, Oerlikon Metco, and Oerlikon AM, and its man-made fiber segment includes brands such as Oerlikon Barmag, Oerlikon Neumag, and Oerlikon Nonwoven. The company provides ceramic coating products under the Oerlikon Metco brand. It offers a wide range of products to diverse industries, including aerospace, general industries and tooling, automotive, power generation, and apparel & industrial textiles. The company has around 236 production sites, 77 sales offices, and 39 regional offices in 37 countries across the globe.

Company Headquarters: Cheshire, UK Founded: 1953 Workforce: ~5,373 Company Working: Bodycote is one of the leading producers of thermal processing services. The company provides expertise across the heat treatment and specialist thermal processes to four core markets, namely aerospace & defense, energy, automotive, and general industries, such as industrial machinery, construction, electronics, and medical equipment. The company offers ceramics coatings under the surface technology segment. The company has around 185 manufacturing facilities and operates in around 23 countries worldwide.

Company Headquarters: Windsor, UK Founded: 1856 Workforce: ~8,560 Company Working: Morgan Advanced Materials is engaged in the manufacturing of a range of carbon and ceramic components. The company’s product portfolio includes thermal ceramics, molten metal systems, electrical carbon, seals and bearings, and technical ceramics. Under the technical ceramics segment, the company offers advanced ceramic coating products with name engineered coatings. It offers its products to a broad range of industries that include industrial, transportation, chemical and petrochemical, semiconductor and electronics, energy, security and defense, and healthcare. The company has established its manufacturing sites in the UK, the US, Russia, and Germany and has widespread presence across the globe.

Company Headquarters: Kety, Poland Founded: 1953 Workforce: ~200 Company Working: Alumetal S.A. is a holding company, which develops and manufactures secondary aluminum casting alloys. Its products include aluminum master alloys, aluminum for steel deoxidation, and fluxes and salts. Currently, the company collectively produces 233,000 tons of products annually in its four manufacturing plants. The company’s prominent clientele is from tier-1 automotive manufacturers such as VW and Nemak Group. Almost 90% of the company’s revenue is generated by the automotive industries at home and overseas. Nearly 60% of the company’s products are exported to overseas markets.

Company Headquarters: Amsterdam, Netherlands Founded: 2006 Workforce: ~2,982 Company Working: Advanced Metallurgical Group, N.V., is engaged in manufacturing and marketing specialty metals and metallurgical vacuum furnace systems and the provision of engineering services. It operates through two business segments, namely, AMG critical materials and AMG engineering. The AMG critical materials segment is involved in developing and producing specialty metals, alloys, and materials. The AMG engineering segment is engaged in designing, engineering, and producing vacuum furnace systems and operating vacuum heat treatment facilities, primarily to cater to the aerospace and energy industries. Under the critical materials segment, the company produces a wide range of master alloys, which includes common aluminum master alloys to specialty master alloys. The segment accounted for over 80% of the overall revenue in 2019. The company has operations in more than 30 countries across the globe.

Company Headquarters: Hanau, Germany Founded: 1851 Workforce: ~15,000 Company Working: Heraeus holding is an international family-owned company engaged in the production of precious metals and technology. The company operates in businesses that include precious metals, medical components, quartz glass products, sensors, specialty light sources, and products and services used in electronics, chemicals, and photovoltaics applications. It has 11 production sites located in the US, South Africa, and countries in Europe and Asia with a sales network in around 100 countries across the globe.

Company Headquarters: Antwerp, Belgium Founded: 1872 Workforce: ~10,000 Company Working: Sibelco is among the oldest manufacturers of quartz sand in the market. More than 140 years old, Sibelco initially started in Belgium and extended its presence to the UK and many other countries across the globe. Currently, it operates in more than 40 countries with around 200 production sites globally. It manufactures magnetite, olivine, silica, kaolin, quartz, chromite, bentonite, glass cullet, and Wollastonite, among others. Its operating business segments are built environment, glass solutions, energy solutions, water & environmental solutions, coatings, polymers & chemical solutions, Covia, and others. Kaolin is manufactured under the glass solutions segment. The products manufactured by the company are sold across many end-use industries, including agriculture, ceramics, construction, and glass.

Company Headquarters: Paris, France Founded: 1880 Workforce: ~16,305 Company Working: Imerys is a global leader in the manufacture and supply of mineral-based specialty solutions for a wide variety of industries from process manufacturing to consumer goods. The company has two major business segments—minerals, and high-temperature materials and solutions. The high-temperature materials and solutions segment is further broken down into refractory, abrasives & construction, and high-temperature solutions business areas. Under the refractory, abrasives & construction section the company has refractory producers, building & infrastructure, and abrasives. Under the building & infrastructure section, kaolin is produced along with other minerals such as ball clay, bentonite, calcium aluminate-based binders, graphite, metakaolin, perlite, and talc. Imerys has its presence across North America, Latin America, Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA), and Asia-Pacific.