Deep Intelligence Across Industries

Company Headquarters: London, UK Founded: 2011 Workforce: ~1,475 Company Working: Orion Engineered Carbons SA is a leading global manufacturer & supplier of carbon black, a solid form of carbon manufactured as pellets or powder. The company has two business segments: rubber carbon black and specialty carbon black. It offers specialty carbon black for various applications in coating systems, polymers, printing systems, and special applications such as battery, ceramics, foundry, non-woven, and graphite molded parts. It has four innovative centers in three regions: Europe, North America, and Asia-Pacific. Also, it has 14 manufacturing facilities present worldwide. The company has a major presence in Germany, the United States, South Korea, China, Brazil, and South Africa, and Germany holds the dominant market share in terms of revenue.

Company Headquarters: Minnesota, United States Founded: 1902 Workforce: ~90,000 Company Working: The 3M Company is a multinational conglomerate corporation based in the United States. The company was founded as a mining venture, but later diversified into other industries such as healthcare, electronics, and transportation. The name 3M comes from the company's original name, Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing, which reflected its roots in the mining industry. Today, 3M is known for its wide range of products, including consumer goods such as Post-it Notes and Scotch Tape, as well as industrial products such as adhesives, abrasives, and tapes. 3M has operations in more than 70 countries. The company is headquartered in Maplewood, Minnesota, and has been listed on the New York Stock Exchange since 1946. 3M is known for its commitment to innovation and research and has a long history of developing new products and technologies.

Company Headquarters: Netherlands Founded: 1911 Workforce: ~ 32,800 Company Working: AkzoNobel N.V. is a Dutch multinational chemical company headquartered in Amsterdam, Netherlands. It is the world's largest producer of paints and coatings, and it also produces a range of other chemicals, including mining chemicals. The company offers its products to aerospace, automotive, consumer goods, oil and gas, transportation, buildings, and infrastructure market. It operates in over 150 countries across the Americas, Asia pacific, Europe, the Middle East and Africa. In the mining sector, AkzoNobel provides specialized chemical solutions that contribute to various stages of mineral processing and extraction. The company offers a range of products, including flotation reagents, solvent extractants, dispersants, flocculants, and other chemicals that enhance the efficiency of mineral separation, extraction, and purification processes. AkzoNobel's mining chemicals are designed to address specific challenges faced by mining operations, such as improving recovery rates, reducing water and energy consumption, and minimizing environmental impact.

Company Headquarters: Tokyo, Japan Founded: 1907 Workforce: ~30,538 Company Working: Kirin Holdings Company, Limited. is among one of the manufacturers, developers, and marketers of non-alcoholic, and alcoholic beverages. The company also offers pharmaceutical products across the globe. Kirin Lager is the oldest beer brand of the company and has been brewed since 1888. Kirin Holdings Company, Limited. is formed based on the Japanese traditions of breweries that are retaining the application of hops and malted grains that are imported from Germany and also employ brewers from Germany to oversee the production process. The major product portfolio of the company is beer, spirits, wines, seltzer, new genre, chu-hi, hopposhu, kombucha, whiskey, tea, black tea, coffee, carbonated beverages, vegetable/fruit beverages, health/sports drinks, ionized natural water, and other pharmaceutical products. Kirin Holdings Company, Limited. markets its products under the brand names such as Kirin Tanrei Green Label, Kirin Nama-cha, Kirin Hyoketsu, Kirin Mets COLA, Kirin Fire, Kirin Gogo-no-Kocha, Kirin Sekai-no-Kitchen-Kara, Kirin Nodogoshi Nama, Kirin Ichiban, Baden, Kirin FREE, Berri, Chateau Mercian, and San Miguel Pale Pilsen. Moreover, the company has diversified business operations in both the Americas and Europe along with Asia Pacific.

Company Headquarters: France Founded: 2004 Workforce: ~ 21,100 Company Working: Arkema Group is a manufacturer of specialty chemicals with its segments categorized into four segments namely adhesive solutions, advanced materials, coating solutions and intermediates. High performance polymers and performance additives are the products that fall under the category of advanced materials, further the company provides coating resins and coating adhesives under its coating solutions category. Its wide range of market solutions consists of offerings for sectors such agriculture & food, packaging, oil & gas, building & construction, coatings, paints & inks, electricals & electronics, and chemicals & plastic, among other industries. Company facilitates the production of its large number of offerings through its 148 production plants spread across various regions. Moreover, it has a strong global presence with serving customers in around 55 countries worldwide.

Company Headquarters: Tennessee, US Founded: 1917 Workforce: ~ 4,964 Company Working: Mueller Industries specializes in copper and copper alloy manufacturing and producing goods from steel, aluminum, and plastics. It offers copper tube and fittings, aluminum and brass forgings, brass and copper alloy rods and bars, aluminum and copper impact extrusions, refrigeration valves and fittings, fabricated tubular products, and plastic fittings and valves. It has a network of operations in North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and the Middle East. It supplies products into sectors such as building construction, defense, appliance, energy, and automotive.

Company Headquarters: Nürnberg, Bayern, Germany Founded: 1902 Workforce: 3,327 Company Working: Diehl Metall Stiftung & Co KG operates as a subsidiary of Diehl Stiftung & Co KG. It manufactures semi-finished products, high-precision stamped parts, forgings, and metal-plastic compound systems for electronic and other applications. It offers copper alloys, brass alloys, cell contact system, metal forming parts, pin fin heat sinks, synchronizer rings, press fir zones, and strips and wires. It serves customers in the automotive, heating, plumbing, and electronic industries worldwide. It has its operating locations in Europe, Asia, South America, and the US.

Company Headquarters: Sarpsborg, Norway Founded: 1889 Workforce: ~1065 Company Working: Borregaard LignoTech is a subsidiary of Borregaard ASA and is engaged in the development, production, and marketing of specialized biomaterials, biochemical, industrial applications, and biofuels. It operates through the following segments: Performance Chemicals, Specialty Cellulose, and Other Businesses. The Other Businesses segment consists of ingredients, industrial application, fine chemicals, and the Exilva project, among which industrial applications include concrete additives. The company supplies lignin-based high-quality products to the concrete admixture industry. The concrete additives are offered both in liquid and powder form. It has 16 sales office, in 16 countries. It has has production plants in Norway, UK, Germany, Spain, Czech Republic, USA, and 50/50 joint venture in South Africa.

Company Headquarters: Oslo, Norway Founded: 1904 Workforce: ~7,000 Company Working: Elkem ASA is one of the world’s fully integrated silicone manufacturers, with R&I laboratories, production sites, and sales offices located in Europe, North America, Latin America, and Asia Pacific. The company has 12 plants across Norway, China, Iceland, Canada, India, Paraguay, and the United Kingdom. In addition, several R&D centers, quartz mines, processing sites and an extensive global sourcing and sales network contribute to its global reach. The company operates through 3 major segments, namely, Elkem silicones, Elkem silicon products, and Elkem carbon solutions. It offers textile coating systems under its silicones segment.

Company Headquarters: Massachusetts, US Founded: 2015 Workforce: ~2400 Company Working: GCP Applied Technologies Inc. is a global provider of construction products that include admixtures and additives for concrete and cement. The company also offers high-performance waterproofing products, concrete management, and specialty systems. It operates through two business segments including specialty construction chemicals and specialty building materials. Specialty construction chemicals produce concrete admixtures and cement additives, which enhances the properties of concrete and other cementitious construction materials and improves the performance of Portland cement. Specialty building materials produces building envelope, residential, and specialty construction products that protect structures from water, vapor transmission, air penetration, and fire damage.

Company Headquarters: New Jersey, US Founded: 2016 Workforce: ~1,510 Company Working: AdvanSix manufactures and sells polymer resins in the US. It operates through four segments, including nylon, caprolactam, ammonium sulfate fertilizers, and chemical intermediates. Under the ammonium sulfate fertilizers segment, it provides ammonium sulfate that is used as a fertilizer and available in granular, mid, and soluble sizes. It operates under the principles of AdvanSix Operating System, an integrated manufacturing approach based on Lean manufacturing and Six Sigma methodologies, which help in eliminating waste and improve work processes rapidly. It has five production sites in the US.

Company Headquarters: Geleen, The Netherlands Founded: 2010 Workforce: ~ 2,879 Company Working: OCI Nitrogen (OCI) is one of the European market leaders in mineral fertilizers and manufactures ammonia used in fertilizers and melamine. It primarily operates through three segments, namely fertilizers, melamine, and industrial products. Under the fertilizers segment, it manufactures agricultural-grade ammonium sulfate. It has eight production sites in the US, the Netherlands, Algeria, Egypt, and China. It has its sales operations in 57 countries across Europe, the Americas, Asia-Pacific, and the Middle East & Africa.

Company Headquarters: Hamburg, German Founded: 1900 Workforce: ~ 1,521 Company Working: HELM AG (HELM) is one of the world’s major independent chemicals marketing and national and regional distribution companies. It operates through four business segments, namely chemicals, fertilizer, crop protection, and pharma. Under the fertilizers segment, it manufactures ammonium sulfate that is used as a nitrogen fertilizer. It has more than 100 subsidiaries, sales offices in over 30 countries in Europe, the Americas, Asia-Pacific, and Africa.

Company Headquarters: Heerlen, The Netherlands Founded: 1902 Workforce: ~ 21,054 Company Working: Royal DSM is a science-based company, engages in the health, nutrition, and materials businesses. It operates through three segments, namely nutrition, materials, and innovation center. Under the nutrition segment, it manufactures ammonium sulfate for fertilizers and animal nutrition. DSM has operation units in 200 sites and offices in around 46 countries across the globe.

Company Headquarters: Perth, Australia Founded: 2015 Workforce: ~25,784 Company Working: South32 is a metal and mining company that operates through the following segments: Worsley alumina, South Africa aluminum, Mozal aluminum, Brazil alumina, South Africa energy coal, Illawarra metallurgical coal, Australia manganese, South Africa manganese, Cerro Matoso, and Cannington. The Worsley Alumina segment deals with bauxite mining in the South West of Australia and transports it on an overland conveyor belt to a refinery where the bauxite is turned into white alumina powder, which is then exported to smelters around the world. South32 holds an 86% interest in Worsley Alumina, while Japan Alumina Associates (Australia) Pty Ltd owns 10%, and Sojitz Alumina Pty Ltd owns 4%.

Company Headquarters: Mumbai, India Founded: 1958 Workforce: ~36,000 Company Working: Hindalco Industries Ltd is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Aditya Birla Group. It is engaged in the production and marketing of aluminum and copper products. The company operates through three business segments, which are Novelis, aluminum, and copper. The aluminum segment deals with the production and selling of alumina and hydrate, wherein bauxite mining is the first step as bauxite ore is used as a raw material for the production of alumina. The company’s bauxite mines are located in the Indian states of Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra, and Odisha. Its alumina refineries are located in Belagavi in Karnataka, Muri in Jharkhand, Renukoot in Uttar Pradesh, and Utkal in Odisha. It has a presence in more than 12 countries across the globe, with 51 manufacturing units.

Company Headquarters: Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India Founded: 1981 Workforce: ~6,042 Company Working: National Aluminum Company Limited (NALCO) is a Navratna central public sector enterprise (CPSE) under the Indian Ministry of Mines. The company has the largest integrated bauxite-alumina-aluminum complex India. NALCO is the lowest cost producer of metallurgical alumina in the country and accounted for over 43% of aluminum exports in 2017-2018. It has a bauxite mine output of 7.2 million tons and alumina refinery with an annual capacity of 221 million tons per annum in the financial year 2018-2019.

Company Headquarters: West Bengal, India Founded: 2001 Workforce: ~722 Company Working: Aluminum Corporation of China Limited (CHALCO) is a leading mineral resources development company in China. It also provides nonferrous metals smelting and processing, related trading, and engineering and technical services. The company was established as a joint-stock limited company to provide fabricated aluminum products. It operates through five business segments, namely, alumina, primary aluminum, energy, trading, and corporate and other operating segments. It caters to a wide range of industries, including aviation, aerospace, transportation, packaging, printing, and electronics. The company is engaged in the whole bauxite mining value chain, from exploration and mining of bauxite and coal, the production, sales, and R&D of alumina to offering primary aluminum and aluminum alloy products in the global market. The company operates through 39 subsidiaries.

Company Headquarters: London, UK Founded: 1873 Workforce: ~46,000 Company Working: Rio Tinto is one of the leading mining and metal companies across the globe. It operates through four business segments, namely, aluminum, copper & diamonds, energy & minerals, and iron ore. Under its aluminum segment, the company operates five bauxite mines, four alumina refineries, and 14 aluminum smelters, along with three research & development centers. Rio Tinto is the largest producer of bauxite across the globe. In 2019, it produced 55.1 million tons of bauxite. The company has a strong global presence with about 60 operating sites (mines, smelters, and refineries) across 35 countries and 37,000 suppliers across the globe.

Company Headquarters: Sagamihara, Japan Founded: 1935 Workforce: ~51,500 Company Working: Ohara Corporation is primarily engaged in the manufacturing of the finest optical glass. The company is also a supplier of optical glass blanks, glass ceramics, polished substrates, and metrology services. It offers its products through the optical glass, fused silica & quartz, low expansion glass, glass-ceramics & advanced products, polished substrates, and IR materials & optical crystals segments. The company offers its products to many fields including photography, microlithography, astronomy, telecommunications, and data storage. It has manufacturing and sales facilities in Japan, Taiwan, Malaysia, Germany, China, and the US. The company currently has a capacity to melt 300 tons of glass and 30 million pressings per month. Ohara Corporation is a wholly owned subsidiary of Ohara Inc.

Company Headquarters: Shiga, Japan Founded: 1944 Workforce: ~6,875 Company Working: Nippon Electric Glass Co., Ltd. (Nippon Electric) is engaged in the manufacturing of specialty glass-based products. It operates through two major business units—electronics & information technology and performance materials & others. The company has manufacturing plants located in Japan, the US, China, Taiwan, the Netherlands, the UK, Malaysia, and South Korea. It has sales presence in nine countries, namely Japan, South Korea, China, Taiwan, Malaysia, the US, Germany, the Netherlands, and the UK. Some of the major industries served by the company are automotive, semiconductors, medical, and electronics.

Company Headquarters: Mainz, Germany Founded: 1884 Workforce: ~15,347 Company Working: SCHOTT AG (SCHOTT) is engaged in the manufacturing of glass products. It operates through three segments, namely precision materials, optical industries, and home appliances. The company offers a wide range of products such as glass-ceramic cooktops, solar power modules, glass metal enclosures, and colour filters. It serves the home appliance, pharma, electronics, optics, life sciences, automotive, and aerospace industries. The company has production sites and sales offices in 34 countries globally. SCHOTT AG is solely owned by Carl Zeiss Foundation. It invested USD 95.12 million in research and development from 2017 to 2018.

Company Headquarters: New Delhi, India Founded: 1979 Workforce: ~25,000 Company Working: Jindal Steel & Power Ltd. engaged in the production of products and solutions for the steel, power, mining, and infrastructure sectors. Its product portfolio includes rails, parallel flanges and beams, plates and coils, angles and channels, wire rods, round bars, fabricated sections, Jindal speed floor, semi-furnished products, power, minerals, panther cement, and sponge iron. The company produces efficient and economical steel and power products through backward and forward integration. It offers high carbon silico manganese products as a result of backward integration, which is further used in the manufacturing of steel. Its silico manganese plant has a production capacity of 30,000 tons per annum.

Company Headquarters: Yamaguchi, Japan Founded: 1973 Workforce: ~4,889 Company Working: Tokuyama Corporation is engaged in the production and sale of a range of chemical products in Japan and internationally. It operates through five business segments: chemicals; specialty products; cement; life & amenity; and others. The specialty products segment provides polycrystalline silicon; fumed silica and tetrachlorosilane; aluminum nitride; high-purity chemicals; and methylene chloride for metal cleaning. It sells fumed silica, the main product of this business segment, under the brand name-‘REOLOSIL”. It spent USD 8,927.91 million on research and development in the fiscal year 2018. Among this, USD 2,211.93 million was spent on the specialty products segment.

Company Headquarters: Brussels, Belgium Founded: 1863 Workforce: ~22,000 Company Working: Solvay is a chemicals and materials company engaged in the manufacturing and marketing of chemical and plastic products. The company operates in three business segments that are Materials, Chemicals, Solutions, and Corporate and Business Services. The material segment includes specialty polymers and composite materials businesses. The chemical segment is engaged in chemical intermediates that are used in end products with the help of various technology, applications, and industrial innovations for optimized cost, this segment includes mainly mono technology, including Peroxides, Coatis, Soda Ash, the Rusvinyl joint venture as well as Silica. The last solution segment provides various formulations and applications experts by customized specialty also. This segment includes Novecare, Technology Solutions, Aroma, and Special Chem businesses, which operate in diverse niche markets. The company also serves various applications like aerospace, automotive, agriculture & feed, batteries, building, consumer goods, electronics, food industry, healthcare, and various other industries. The company also owns more than 200 brands few of which are Abex, acetone, actizone, aeropaste, bicar, caso, cerox, and many more.

Company Headquarters: Paris, France Founded: 1890 Workforce: ~13,097 Company Working: Eramet Group is a metallurgical and mining company with a primary focus on the extraction, production, marketing, and distribution of alloying metals, especially manganese and nickel. There are two subdivisions in manganese alloys, namely, ferro-manganese (FeMn) and silico-manganese (SiMn). The company is also involved in the production and transformation of alloys. Their alloys segments include forged parts, closed die-forging, long or flat products, and metal powder. The company offers two grades of silico manganese SiMn with (65% (min) Mn, 17% (min) Si, 2%(max)C, 0.17%( max)P, and 0.03 (max)S) specifications and SiMn Low B with (65% (min) Mn, 17% (min) Si, 2%( max)C, 0.17%( max)P, 0.03% (max)S, 0.25% (max)Ti, and 0.02%(max) B) specifications.

Company Headquarters: New Delhi, India Founded: 1954 Workforce: ~69,808 Company Working: Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) is a steel and iron manufacturing company. It is owned by the Government of India (GOI) with a 75% equity stake. It operates seven integrated steel plants at different locations across India. The company has nine iron ore, seven flux, and six coal mines in Jharkhand, Odisha, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, and West Bengal. It has 37 branch offices, 25 departmental warehouses, and 24 consignment agency yards. The company has approximately 1,970 distributors across the country. It produces silico manganese at its Chandrapur Ferro Alloy plant in Maharashtra.

Company Headquarters: China Founded: 1998 Workforce: ~11,080 Company Working: Wanhua Chemicals (Wanhua) is engaged in the R&D, production, and sale of polyurethane series products. The company’s product portfolio includes polyols, thermoplastic elastomers (TPU), petrochemicals, water-based resins, isocyanate, specialty amines, thickener, formulated polyols, functional materials, tert-butyl alcohol, MIBK, neopentyl glycol, polyurethane catalyst, propylene for polymerization, polycarbonates, and hydroxy-functional polyacrylic dispersion. The company has five manufacturing facilities across the globe and has more than ten subsidiaries in Europe, the Middle East, America, Japan, Russia, India, and so on. The company offers cast polymers under polyol as CASE polyols, isocyanate as Monomeric MDI, and modified MDI and thickener as HEUR (hydrophobically modified ethylene oxide).

Company Headquarters: Tokyo, Japan Founded: 1997 Workforce: ~17,743 Company Working: Mitsui Chemicals (Mitsui) manufactures petrochemical products. The company operates in five business domains that include mobility, healthcare, food & packaging, next-generation, and basic materials. Under the basic chemicals segment, the company offers functional chemicals, functional polymeric materials, polyurethane, basic chemicals, petrochemicals, and films & sheets. The company has around 31 domestic and 23 overseas R&D facilities worldwide. It offers novel cycloisocyanate diisocyanate 1,4-H6XDI, and high-performance polyurethane elastomer for TPU (thermoplastic polyurethane) and CPU (casting polyurethane elastomer). Its products are used in a range of applications, such as exterior, interior, drive/control other (automobiles), wires/cables, industrial machinery/devices, films/sheets, medical device materials, and daily life/household materials.

Company Headquarters: Mumbai, India Founded: 1939 Workforce: ~5,000 Company Working: Godavari Biorefineries is a biorefining company involved in the production of sugar, and bulk and specialty chemicals. The company’s product portfolio includes sugar, alcohol, chemicals, sugarcane wax, biofuels, power, and compost. It offers sugarcane waxes under the trade name Naturawax. The company has manufacturing plants located at Sameerwadi, Bagalkot district in Karnataka and Sakarwadi, Ahmednagar district in Maharashtra. Besides, the company also has overseas operations in New York, the US and the Netherlands, Europe. The company has its presence globally in North America, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Australia, and Asia Pacific.