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Company Headquarters: Ohio, US Founded: 1866 Workforce: ~ 64,000 Company Working: Sherwin Williams Company specializes in the manufacturing of numerous types of paints and coatings products. The company makes its products available through a chain of over 5,000 stores which are operated by the company and through mass merchandisers, independent paint dealers, home centers, automotive retailers, hardware stores, and industrial distributors across various parts of North America, parts of Europe, China, Australia, and New Zealand. The company serves numerous industries such as transportation, construction, and packaging by offering a wide array of product under brands such as Miniwax, Purdy, Carbot and Krylon, among others. Also, it has around 136 manufacturing and distribution facilities across various geographical regions, further enabling the company to expand their market penetration.

Company Headquarters: Tokyo, Japan Founded: 2012 Workforce: ~ 77,991 Company Working: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Machinery Systems, Ltd. manufactures a diverse range of heavy machinery. Its products and services include power plants, chemical plants, environmental equipment, steel structures, industrial and general machinery, shipbuilding, aircraft, space systems and air-conditioning systems. The company’s expertise is in the engineering, electrical equipment, and electronics industry. Its products include aircraft, aerospace components, automotive components, hydraulic equipment, machine tools, power generation equipment, ships, missiles, and space launch vehicles. MHI operates through four reportable business segments: Energy Systems, Plant & Infrastructure; Logistics, Thermal & Drive Systems, and Aircraft, Defense & Space. MHI provides social infrastructure solutions in the fields of energy, including thermal, nuclear, renewable energy and the environment, including chemical plants. The company also provides modern transportation systems and services for land, sea, and air applications. It provides integrated defense systems for land, sea, air and space applications and related equipment and services. The company continues to concentrate on the development of the MRJ and growth investments on business scale expansion opportunities that would produce immediate results. The company operates in North America, Latin America, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Oceania.

GEM Co., Ltd. (GEM) is one of the largest battery recycling plants in China. GEM has been recycling for 20 years and has a world-leading position in battery recycling. GEM has industrialized the technology that recycles nickel, cobalt, manganese, and aluminum from scrap batteries. GEM has also built a production base of lithium-ion battery cathode material precursors. GEM stands for "Green, Eco-manufacture". It was inspired by a toothpaste experiment. In 2021, GEM was honored in the Forbes 2021 TOP 50 list of China's most innovative companies, 2021 Hurun China Top 100 Private Enterprises for Sustainable Development and Top 500 Chinese Enterprises.

Fortum Oyj is a Finnish state-owned energy company located in Espoo, Finland. It mainly focuses on the Nordic region. Fortum operates power plants, including co-generation plants, and generates and sells electricity and heat. The company also sells waste services such as recycling, reutilisation, final disposal solutions and soil remediation and environmental constructions services, and other energy-related services and products e.g. consultancy services for power plants and electric vehicle charging. Fortum is listed on the Nasdaq Helsinki stock exchange. In 2020 Fortum was the biggest company in Finland by its revenue. The majority of its income came from Uniper that became Fortum's subsidiary in March 2020. Uniper was nationalised by Germany on the 21 September 2022 for 8 billion euros. Fortum is Europe's third-largest producer of carbon-free electricity, Europe's second-largest producer of nuclear power

Neometals Limited is a company that operates in the lithium battery and Vanadium recovery industries. They develop and operate recycling and recovery plants for both industries. Neometals' lithium-ion battery recycling process targets the Consumer electronic batteries: Lithium cobalt oxide (LCO) cathodes, Nickel-rich electric vehicle and stationary storage battery chemistries: Lithium-nickel-manganese-cobalt (NMC) cathodes, and End-of-life cells: Lithium-ion battery production scrap. Neometals is an emerging, sustainable battery materials producer. The Company has developed a suite of green battery materials processing technologies that reduce reliance on traditional mining and processing and support circular economic principles. Neometals’ three core business units: Lithium-ion Battery (“LIB”) Recycling – to produce new battery materials from spent LIBs in a 50:50 JV (Primobius) with German plant builder SMS group. Primobius has a 10tpd commercial Shredding ‘Spoke’ operation in Germany, it is the recycling technology partner to Mercedes Benz and is planning its first 50tpd operation with Stelco Inc. in Canada; Vanadium Recovery - to produce high-purity V2O5 via processing of steelmaking by-product (“Slag”). Developing a 300,000tpa ~73:17 JV operation in Pori, Finland, underpinned by a 10-year Slag supply agreement with steelmaker SSAB. MOU with H2Green Steel underpins potential second operation in Boden, Sweden; and Lithium Chemicals – to produce battery quality LiOH from brine and/or hard-rock feedstocks using patented ELi™ electrolysis process owned by RAM (70% NMT, 30% Mineral Resources Ltd). Targeting initial 25,000tpa operation in Estarreja with Portugal’s largest chemical producer, Bondalti Chemicals S.A.

Glencore plc is a Swiss multinational commodity trading and mining company with headquarters in Baar, Switzerland. Glencore's oil and gas head office is in London and its registered office is in Saint Helier, Jersey. The current company was created through a merger of Glencore with Xstrata on 2 May 2013. As of 2015, it ranked tenth in the Fortune Global 500 list of the world's largest companies. In the 2020 Forbes Global 2000, Glencore International was ranked as the 484th-largest public company in the world. As of July 2022, it is the world's largest commodity trader. As Glencore International, the company was already one of the world's largest integrated producers and marketers of commodities. It was the largest company in Switzerland as well as the world's largest commodities trading company, with a 2010 global market share of 60% in internationally tradable zinc, 50% in internationally tradable copper, 9% in the internationally tradable grain market and 3% in the internationally tradable oil market. Glencore has a number of production facilities all around the world and supplied metals, minerals, crude oil, oil products, coal, natural gas and agricultural products to international customers in the automotive, power generation, steel production and food processing industries.

Umicore is a leading circular materials technology company with an extensive expertise in the fields of material science, chemistry and metallurgy. The company overriding goal of sustainable value creation is based on the ambition to develop, produce and recycle materials in a way that fulfils their mission: "materials for a better life". The company divides its operations into four divisions: Energy Materials, Recycling, Catalysis, and Performance Materials. The Energy Materials division manufactures a range of specialised metal and metalloid products for industrial use, including fine metal powders for diamond and hard metal tools, as well as oxides and salts of cobalt, lithium and nickel for use in batteries, glass and ceramics. The Recycling business segment covers four main activities: its core business is the recycling and refining of various precious and other non-ferrous metals, as well as certain nonmetals such as selenium. The Recycling segment, based in Hanau, Germany, also encompasses a management unit, which sells precious metals in ingot form to industrial clients and offers access to related financial instruments for hedging purposes. A Catalysis is Umicore's third business segment, its largest in terms of revenue, is composed of two subdivisions, Automotive Catalysts and Precious Metals Chemistry. Performance Materials concentrates on the production of specialised items, chiefly from precious metals and zinc.

Company Headquarters: Germany Founded: 1953 Workforce: ~109,509 Company Working: Lufthansa Technik is a part of Lufthansa group is among the leading providers of maintenance, repair, and overhaul services (MRO) for civilian commercial aircraft. The Lufthansa Technik group comprises 30 plants offering technical aviation services worldwide. The company also holds direct and indirect stakes in 64 companies. Lufthansa Technik AG serves more than 800 customers worldwide, including OEMs, aircraft leasing companies, operators of VIP jets, governments, and armed forces, as well as airlines. Around one-third of its business comes from entities in the Lufthansa Group and two-thirds from clients outside the Lufthansa Group. The volume of demand for aircraft maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO) services continued to rise in the year 2022 as a result of the recovery of passenger traffic. The Passenger Airlines segment includes, on the one hand, the network airlines Lufthansa German Airlines, SWISS, Austrian Airlines, and Brussels Airlines. As part of the multihub strategy, they offer their passengers a broad range of flights from their global hubs in Frankfurt, Munich, and Zurich as well as their national hubs in Vienna and Brussels. Lufthansa German Airlines also includes the regional airlines Lufthansa CityLine, Air Dolomiti, and Eurowings Discover, the Lufthansa Group’s holiday airline. Besides the network airlines, Eurowings also belongs to the Passenger Airlines segment. This airline provides a comprehensive range of point-to-point connections for European short-haul destinations, in particular from German-speaking countries. Besides its Passenger Airlines business segment, the Lufthansa Group also comprises aviation services. This includes the Logistics, MRO, and Catering segments in particular. The Lufthansa Group also includes the Additional Businesses and Group Functions. These comprise Lufthansa AirPlus, Lufthansa Aviation Training, and Lufthansa Systems especially.

Company Headquarters: US Founded: 1970 Workforce: ~ 2,100 Company Working: Engineering simulation services and software are provided by ANSYS Inc (Ansys). Its product line includes software for electromagnetic field simulation, fluids products, virtual reality and optics, cloud computing, and 3D design. Engineers, designers, researchers, and students in the aerospace and defense, automotive, construction, consumer goods, electronics, semiconductors, energy, materials and chemical processing, high tech, industrial equipment, healthcare, and sports industries use the company's software and services extensively. It distributes goods via a network of independent distributors and resellers. Business operations for the corporation are conducted across North America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia-Pacific. In the US, Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, serves as the home office for Ansys.