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Company Headquarters: Illinois, US Founded: 1932 Workforce: ~2,250 Company Working: Stepan Company (Stepan) is engaged in the manufacturing and sale of specialty and intermediate chemicals. It operates through the segments, namely surfactants, polymers, and specialty products. Surfactants segment offers oilfield biocides along with a wide range of surfactant chemicals such as anionic, cationic, nonionic, and amphoteric surfactants. The polymers segment produces polyester polyols and phthalic anhydride. The specialty products are chemicals used in food, flavoring, nutritional supplement, and pharmaceutical applications.

Company Headquarters: Selangor, Malaysia Founded: 1968 Workforce: ~2,800 Company Working: Scientex Berhad manufactures PVC leather cloth and sheeting, industrial stretch films, PP strapping bands, FIBC bags, form-fill & seal bags, woven bags, and raffia products. The company operates through two business segments, namely manufacturing and property development. Under the manufacturing segment, it deals with various product categories such as stretch films, custom films, specialty products, and converting. It provides artificial leather for automobile applications under its specialty products category. The company offers its products to a wide customer base by exporting them to more than 60 countries. Scientex Berhad has manufacturing plants in Malaysia, Vietnam, Myanmar, and the US. Apart from its manufacturing business, the company is also a prominent property developer with presence in Johor, Melaka, Perak, Selangor, and Penang, Malaysia.

Company Headquarters: Hanover, Germany Founded: 1871 Workforce: ~ 243,226 Company Working: ContiTech AG (ContiTech) is a multinational producer and distributor of several systems and functional parts made from rubber, metals, polyamide, and textile. It also offers electronic components for plant and machine engineering, as well as the automotive and mining industries. The company mainly has two groups, namely the rubber group and automotive group, through which it sells its products. The rubber group is further sub-divided into Tires and ContiTech. The ContiTech division is further segmented into seven units. Under the surface solutions unit, ContiTech offers artificial leather. The company has operation in 544 locations in over 60 countries, across regions including North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, and Latin America.

Company Headquarters: Tokyo, Japan Founded: 1926 Workforce: ~9,089 Company Working: Kuraray Co. Ltd (Kuraray) is a manufacturer and supplier of plastics, chemicals, elastomers and rubber, fabric, nonwoven fabric, man-made leather, hook and loop fasteners, and materials and products used in the dental industry. The company operates through six business segments, namely isoprene, vinyl acetate, functional materials, trading, fibers and textiles, and others. The man-made leather offered by the company is used in the manufacturing of garments, shoes, bags, consumer electronics, and furniture. It sells its products in various countries including Japan, China, Belgium, Germany, the US, and Singapore. It invested USD 0.19 billion in research and development in 2017.

Company Overview Company Headquarters: Japan Founded: 1941 Workforce: 4,161 Company Working: Nippon Shokubai Co., Ltd. is one of the leading specialty chemical companies in Japan. The company mainly manufactures and distributes industrial chemicals and catalysts across the globe. Its operations are carried out through three major business segments, namely, basic chemicals, functional chemicals, and environment and catalysts. The liquid argon is offered by the company under its ethylene oxide business. The product is applicable in the welding steel and metallurgical and electronic industries.

Company Headquarters: Italy Founded: 1927 Workforce: 3556 Company Working: SOL Spa is one of the major Italy-based companies engaged in applied research, production, and distribution of industrial, medical, pure, and high purity technical gases. It offers technical and medical gases, including oxygen, nitrogen, argon, carbon dioxide, acetylene, high purity gases, nitrous oxide, and food gases, among others. The products offered by the company are used in chemical, electronics, iron and steel, and foodstuff industries. The company has a global presence in 24 European countries, India, Morocco, Turkey, and Brazil.

Company Headquarters: Switzerland Founded: 2001 Workforce: 25,000 Company Working: Eurochem, an agrochemical company is primarily engaged in the production and sale of mineral fertilizers worldwide. It operates through five business divisions, namely, mining, oil & gas, fertilizers, logistics, and sales. It has a vertically integrated business model and offers argon under its industrial product segment. It produces gas and liquid argon by low-temperature rectification of tail gases obtained from ammonia production.

Company Headquarters: London, UK Founded: 1998 Workforce: ~7,000 Company Working: INEOS Group Holdings SA (INEOS) produces and sells petrochemicals, specialty chemicals, and oil products worldwide. The company operates through three segments—olefins and polymers Europe, olefins and polymers North America, and chemical intermediates. Among these, the chemical intermediates segment includes the following key businesses including INEOS Oligomers, INEOS Nitriles, INEOS Oxide, and INEOS Phenol. Additionally, it offers technology licenses for polyethylene, polypropylene, polystyrene, polyvinylchloride, vinyl chloride monomer, ethylene dichloride, and acrylonitrile to third parties. It serves the packaging, construction, automotive, white goods/durables, agrochemicals, and pharmaceutical industries. Its production network spans 171 sites in 24 countries throughout the world. Under its INEOS Oligomers division of chemical intermediates segment, the company offers specialty amines for custom H2S and CO2 removal applications through the GAS/SPEC business unit. The GAS/SPEC business unit is headquartered in Houston, Texas, with its major technical facility in Freeport, Texas.

Company Headquarters: Germany Founded: 1898 Workforce: 5,675 Company Working: Messer Group is the largest privately held specialist in industrial, medical, and specialty gases in the world. It offers a broad range of products including oxygen, nitrogen, argon, carbon dioxide, helium, hydrogen, acetylene, shielding gases for industrial, food and beverage, and medical applications. The group is also engaged in providing automatic dry ice production machines, CO2 cylinder filling plants, CO2 vaporizers, dry ice blasting equipment, CO2 production plants and recovery systems, CO2 storage tanks, and other CO2 accessories. The group has more than 90 operating companies in 35 countries across Europe, Asia, America, and Algeria.