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Company Headquarters: Marktredwitz, GermanyFounded: 1903 Workforce: ~3,589 Company Working: CeramTec is a leading global manufacturer and supplier of advanced ceramic products. It operates through two business segments—medical and industrial. The medical segment is focused on BIOLOX ceramic components for medical implants due to their biocompatibility, high wear resistance, manufacturing precision, and quality. The industrial segment develops and supplies a broad range of specialized, high-performance critical components for applications in the automotive, aerospace & defense, machinery, electronics, medical, chemical, and other end-use industries. It has 20 production facilities across the Americas, Europe, and Asia. It held assets worth USD 3,376.12 million in 2018.

Company Headquarters: Texas, US Founded: 1987 Workforce: ~66,000 Company Working: Baker Hughes, a GE Company, LLC (BHGE LLC) operates as a subsidiary of General Electric, in which General Electric owns 62.5% shares of the company. It specializes in offering oilfield services and equipment services. The company operates through various business segments, which are oilfield services, oilfield equipment, turbomachinery & process solutions, and digital solutions. It offers oilfield products and services under its upstream, midstream, downstream, digital, and industrial business segments. The company's upstream business segment includes products for evaluation, production & optimization, subsea, drilling, completions, and well intervention. Additionally, it's well intervention services include coiled tubing systems and services for many well site operations. The company’s midstream business segment covers products for liquified natural gas and pipeline & storage. The downstream business segment covers products for refining and petrochemical & fertilizer processing. The industrial business segment covers products for power generation and specialty chemicals. BHGE LLC operates in more than 120 countries, worldwide. It offers oilfield services and oilfield equipment in various countries in the Middle East & Africa including Oman, the UAE, Angola, Nigeria, and Saudi Arabia. The company heavily invests in the research and development of new products and services. Its invested USD 408 million, USD 352 million, and USD 501 million in 2015, 2016 and 2017, respectively, for the development of advanced products. In 2018, the company launched more than 100 new products and issued more than 2,700 patents.

Company Headquarters: Snaith, UK Founded: 1925 Workforce: ~6037 Company Working: Croda International Plc (Croda) is a holding company for a group of companies that manufactures a diverse range of chemicals and chemical products, including oleochemicals and industrial chemicals. It supplies products to companies specializing in personal care, pharmaceutical, plastics, food processing, nutrition, fire prevention, engineering, and automotive industries. The company's adaptable structure enables it to create and supply novel, long-lasting chemicals that consumers can rely on in personal care, health care, lubricants, polymer additives, coatings & polymers, crop care, geotech, and home care, as well as industrial specialties. The company has a presence in more than 37 countries and works with 500 innovation partners.

Company Headquarters: Texas, United States Founded: 1999 Workforce: ~63,000 Company Working: ExxonMobil Corporation (ExxonMobil) is an American multinational oil & gas corporation. It performs crude oil refinement, makes lube base stocks and finished lubricants, transports, trades, and sells petroleum products. Additionally, the business produces and sells a wide range of specialty goods in addition to commodity petrochemicals such as olefins, aromatics, polyethylene, and polypropylene plastics. High-performance fuels and lubricant products made by ExxonMobil power global transportation, increase efficiency and lower the entire life-cycle emissions of our clients. It runs through a network of production facilities, transit hubs, and distribution facilities. North America, Latin America, Asia Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa are all operational regions for the company.

Company Headquarters: Kentucky, US Founded: 1924 Workforce: ~6,000 Company Working: Ashland is one of the leading providers of specialty chemical solutions, products, and resources across the globe. It serves a wide range of consumers and industries, such as energy, food and beverage, adhesives, architectural coatings, automotive, construction, personal care, nutraceuticals, and pharmaceutical. The company operates through three business units—intermediates and solvents, composites, and specialty ingredients unit. The company offers hydrate inhibitors under the specialty ingredients segment. These products are low-dose kinetic hydrate and can be used as an alternative to thermodynamic hydrate inhibitors (THI) or boosters to THI methods in other scenarios across the oil and gas industry. It has a vast geographical presence with over 100 offices across North America, Latin America, Asia-Pacific, Europe, and the rest of the world.

Company Headquarters: France Founded: 1978 Workforce: ~ 6,900 Company Working: SNF Group is a renowned multinational corporation specializing in the production and supply of high-performance mining chemicals. With an extensive history dating back to 1978, SNF has solidified its position as a leading player in the mining industry, offering innovative chemical solutions that enhance extraction processes, increase efficiency, and promote sustainable mining practices. SNF is a privately held, specialty chemical company based in the Rhone-Alpes region of France, with a long-standing presence on every continent. With 21 production sites in Europe, Asia, Australia, and America, with a production capacity of 1,325,000 tonnes, SNF has the largest Mining Chemicals production capacity in the world. SNF products are sold into 130 countries, across every sector of the economy, with 70 subsidiaries located in more than 40 countries, in 3 major economic regions (The Americas, Europe, and Asia).

Company Headquarters: Luterbach, Switzerland Founded: 1962 Workforce: ~3,891 Company Working: Schaffner Holding AG (Schaffner), an international leader in the field of electromagnetic compatibility and power quality, provides solutions that ensure efficient and reliable operation of power electronic systems. The company operates through three divisions, namely electromagnetic compatibility (EMC), power magnetics, and automotive. The EMC division is the market leader in the production of EMC filters. It manufactures and develops standard and custom components that protect power electronic systems from EMI and safeguard their operation in power grids. It has four production facilities in China, Thailand, the US, and Hungary and has R&D and sales and application centers across Asia-Pacific, North America, and Europe.

Company Headquarters: US Founded: 1883 Workforce: ~47,300 Company Working: PPG Industries, Inc. manufactures and distributes coatings, specialty materials, and glass products. It operates through two segments—performance coatings and industrial coatings segments. The performance coatings segment offers a variety of protective and decorative coatings, sealants, finishes, paint strippers, stains and related chemicals, transparencies, and transparent armors. The industrial coatings segment includes industrial coatings, automotive OEM coatings, specialty coatings and materials, and packaging coatings business units. The industrial coatings and automotive OEM coatings business unit provides adhesives, coatings, metal pretreatments and sealants for the consumer electronics, OEM, agricultural, appliances, construction equipment, building products, and transportation vehicles. The company operates in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East & Africa, and Asia-Pacific.

Company Headquarters: UK Founded: 1824 Workforce: ~10,130 Company Working: Laird PLC is a UK-based company that that develops, designs, and markets components and solutions for protecting and connecting electronics. The company operates through three segments — performance materials, connected vehicle solutions, and wireless & thermal systems. The performance materials segment designs and provides electromagnetic interference shielding materials, thermal materials, precision metals, and magnetic and ceramic products. The connected vehicle solutions segment manufactures, design, and sells various products in the vehicle connectivity market. The wireless and thermal systems segment covers products that enable connectivity in various markets including industrial control systems, antennae, and active engineered thermal management systems. The products offered by the company include EMC components, EMI shields & gaskets, inductors, precision metals, thermal interface materials, RF/microwave absorbers & dielectrics and wireless chargers. The company operates globally.

Company Headquarters: Woburn, US Founded: 1917 Workforce: ~55,000 Company Working: Chomerics is a global leader in the application and development of electrically conductive and thermal interface materials. It is a division of Parker Hannifin Corp, which is a world leader in ‘Motion and Control’ technologies. It operates through three segments, namely EMI shielding, thermal interface materials, and LCD display protection and enhancement. Under the EMI shielding segment, it manufactures an extensive selection of EMI gaskets and air ventilation panels, among others. It is a total solutions provider of EMI shielding, thermal management, integrated display products, engineered plastics, and metal-based assemblies.

Company Headquarters: Tokyo, Japan Founded: 1998 Workforce: ~149 Company Working: COSMO OIL LUBRICANTS Co., Ltd (Cosmo Oil Lubricants) operates as a division of Cosmo Energy Holdings Co., Ltd combining the lubricating oil section of Cosmo Oil Co., Cosmo Petrotec Co., and the lubricating oil research section of Cosmo Research and Institute Co. It is engaged in the manufacturing and sale of a variety of lubricating oil and grease products for automobile and industrial applications. It offers a wide range of products namely automobile lubricants, metalworking fluids, greases, industrial lubricants, and base oils. The refrigeration oil is offered through the industrial lubricant’s product line. It has pioneered in the development high-grade refrigeration lubricant to serve the customers across the domestic and overseas markets.

Company Headquarters: New Delhi, India Founded: 1959 Workforce: ~33,498 Company Working: Indian Oil Corporation Ltd (IOCL) carries out oil & gas exploration, production, refining, pipeline transportation, and sale of natural gas & petroleum products. Additionally, it produces and sells petrochemicals and engages in a sizable amount of alternative energy business. High-speed diesel, jet fuel, light petroleum gas, gasoline, bitumen, heavy fuel oil, naphtha, lubricants, and greases are some of the refined petroleum products offered by IOCL. The business established subsidiaries in the US, the Netherlands, Sweden, Mauritius, the UAE, and Sri Lanka. More than 35 countries, including Sri Lanka, Mauritius, Bangladesh, Nepal, several Middle Eastern nations, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, and African nations, import SERVO lubricants. In each of the three key product categories—automotive oils, industrial oils, and greases—SERVO holds the largest market share. The first oil brand from the Asia-Pacific region to receive approval from marine engine builders like MAN B&W and Wartsila Sulzer is SERVO, which is the sixth oil brand overall. It is a Maharatna business owned by the Indian government.

Company Headquarters: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Founded: 1982 Workforce: ~49,000 Company Working: PETRONAS Dagangan Berhad (PETRONAS) is one of the leading retailers and marketers of downstream oil and gas products. Petronas operates the business through three core segments retail, commercial, and others. The commercial segment offers petroleum products to the remaining commercial sector such as petrol stations and gas dealers. The retail segment deals with the distribution of petroleum products in the retail sector. The others segment includes liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) and lubricants. The refrigeration oil is offered under the lubricants segment. PETRONAS has an extensive distribution network in the Malaysian market with its retail network considered as Malaysia’s largest petroleum retail network, with over 725 Kedai Mesra and 1000 stations. Beyond Malaysia, Petronas operates three downstream companies that are PETRONAS Energy Philippines Inc in the Philippines, PETRONAS International (Thailand) Co Ltd in Thailand, and PETRONAS (Vietnam) Co Ltd in Vietnam.

Company Headquarters: Indiana, US Founded: 1916 Workforce: 1,600 Company Working: Calumet Specialty Products Partners, L.P. (Calumet) is a leading producer of high-quality and specialty hydrocarbon products. It is engaged in the processing of crude oil and other feedstocks into customized lubricating oils, solvents, and waxes. It produces nearly 3,500 unique specialty products for use in commercial, industrial, and consumer applications. It offers refrigeration oil under its special oils & waxes product portfolio. It operates 11 facilities across North America, wherein five are refineries, three are specialty products manufacturing facilities, and the rest are blending and packaging facilities. It offers its products and services in approximately 52 countries across the globe, serving approximately 4,400 customers.

Company Headquarters: Courbevoie, France Founded: 1924 Workforce: ~107,776 Total is an integrated oil & gas company that operates globally. It has four operating business segments, namely exploration & production; gas, renewables, & power; refining & chemicals; and marketing & services. The exploration & production segment is engaged in oil & gas exploration and production activities. The gas, renewables & power segment develops downstream gas and low-carbon electricity. The refining & chemicals segment is engaged in refining, base petrochemicals, polymer derivatives, the transformation of biomass, and the transformation of elastomers. This segment also includes the activities of trading and shipping. The marketing & services segment includes worldwide supply and marketing activities of oil products and services. Under this segment, it manufactures and markets products primarily derived from crude oil. The company offers automotive coolants under the coolants & antifreeze product line. The company has distribution activities and related services throughout the world and its product and services offerings are available in 150 countries.

Company Headquarters: The Hague, The Netherlands Founded: 1907 Workforce: 82,000 Company Working: Royal Dutch Shell (Royal Dutch) is an international energy company operating through three business segments, namely integrated gas, upstream, and downstream. The integrated gas segment manages the liquefied natural gas (LNG) activities and the production of gas-to-liquids fuels and other products. The upstream segment is engaged in the exploration and extraction of crude oil, natural gas, and natural gas liquids, while the downstream segments manages different oil products and chemicals activities, which is a part of an integrated value chain that trades and refines crude oil and other feedstocks into a range of products which are moved and marketed around the world for domestic, industrial, and transport use. The downstream segment also manages oil sands activities. The company’s product portfolio includes gasoline, diesel, heating oil, aviation fuel, marine fuel, biofuel, lubricants, bitumen, and sulfur. Additionally, it also produces and sells petrochemicals worldwide. It has operations in more than 70 countries across the globe. It has interests in 21 refineries worldwide with the capacity to process a total of 2.8 million barrels of crude oil per day. It provides refrigeration oil for the marine industry under its marine lubricants product profile. It operates four base oil manufacturing plants, 31 lubricant blending plants, nine grease plants, and three gas-to-liquid base oil storage hubs. It has total 10,325 patents, including granted and pending. Its main technology centers are located in India, the Netherlands, and the US, with other centers in Brazil, China, Germany, Oman, and Qatar. It held assets worth USD 399,194 million in 2018.

Company Headquarters: Tokyo, Japan Founded: 1888 Workforce: 9,030 Company Working: JXTG Nippon Oil & Energy Corporation (JXTG Nippon) is a fully integrated company offering petroleum products. The products offered by the company include lubricating oils, engine oils, gasoline, kerosene, as well as fuel cells, storage batteries, and others. It offers refrigeration oil under its lubricant’s product portfolio. It is engaged in business activities such as refining, manufacturing, marketing, and sale of petrochemical products along with import and sale of gas and coal as well as the supply of electricity and hydrogen. It has a refining capacity of 1.93 million barrels per day. It operates 16 manufacturing bases in Japan and is a subsidiary of JXTG Holdings, Inc.

Company Headquarters: Australia Founded: 1994 Workforce: ~50000 Company Working: BHP Billiton Aluminium Australia Pty Ltd (BHP Billiton Aluminium Australia) engages in the mining of bauxite and refining of alumina. The company operates as a subsidiary of BHP Billiton Group.

Company Headquarters: Huixian , China Founded: 1994 Workforce: ~50,000 Company Working: China Hongqiao Group Limited (China Hongqiao), along with its subsidiaries, engages in the manufacture and sale of aluminum products primarily in China. Its products include molten aluminum alloy, aluminum alloy ingots, aluminum alloy casting-rolling products, and aluminum busbars. China Hongqiao also engages in the research and development of bauxite, sells electricity, and provides financial leases and inspection services. The company is a wholly owned subsidiary of China Hongqiao Holdings Limited.

Company Headquarters: China Founded: 2001 Workforce: ~100000 Company Working: Aluminum Corporation of China is one of the leading mineral resources development companies in China. The company is engaged in nonferrous metals smelting and processing, related trading, and engineering and technical services. It was established as a joint stock limited company to provide fabricated aluminum products. The company caters to a wide range of industries including aviation, aerospace, transportation, packaging, printing, and electronics. The company owns advanced technology and equipment and is considered to be one of the largest in Asia. The company has a presence in over 20 countries and has consistently been ranked among the Fortune 500 since 2008.

Company Headquarters: US Founded: 1995 Workforce: ~1500 Company Working: Century Aluminum Company (Century Aluminum), along with its subsidiaries, produces primary aluminum in the US and Iceland. The annual primary aluminum production capacity of the company is approximately 1.01 million tonnes per year. Century Aluminum became a publicly owned company in March 1996. It is the second-largest producer of primary aluminum in the US. The company has three aluminum smelters in the US and one in Iceland.

Company Headquarters: Bahrain Founded: 1968 Workforce: ~2,500 Company Working: Aluminium Bahrain (Alba) manufactures and sells alumina and aluminum-related products. The company exports its products to other countries in the Middle East, Europe, the Far East, South-East Asia, Africa, and North America. The company produces 981,000 metric tons of aluminum per annum. Around 50% of their production is sold to the downstream business in Bahrain.

Company Headquarters: Oslo, Norway Founded: 1905 Workforce: ~35,000 Company Working: Norsk Hydro ASA (Norsk) is engaged in manufacturing aluminum products and producing renewable energy. It operates through five business segments, which are primary metal, bauxite and alumina, metal markets, rolled products, energy, and other eliminations. The bauxite and alumina segment covers the production of alumina, bauxite mining activities, and related commercial activities. It has bauxite mines in Pará, Brazil. In 2018, the company’s bauxite production reached 6.2 million tons, generating a revenue of USD 3.3 billion.

Company Headquarters: Moscow, Russia Founded: 2007 Workforce: ~64,000 Company Working: RUSAL is a globally leading aluminum producer. Its main products are primary aluminum, aluminum alloys, foil, and alumina. The company has a vertically integrated business model with assets right through the production process—from bauxite and nepheline ore mines to aluminum smelters and foil mills. It has access to rich bauxite deposits to meet growing production demands for the next 100 years. The bauxite mines of the company helped produce high-quality alumina using the Bayer extraction method and sintering technology. It has 44 plants in 19 countries across five continents.

Company Headquarters: Canada Founded: 1902 Workforce: ~64,000 Company Working: Rio Tinto Alcan Inc. (Rio Tinto), formerly known as Alcan Inc., is involved in the mining and production of aluminum, bauxite, and alumina. The company has a presence in over 35 countries across the globe and operates through five segments—iron ore, aluminum, copper and diamonds, energy and minerals, and other operations. The company’s pioneering technological innovations include the Mine of the Future program and low CO2 aluminum producing from hydropower.

Company Headquarters: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US Founded: 1886 Workforce: ~4,500 Company Working: Alcoa Corporation (Alcoa) is a leading company in the metal industry that is engaged in the production of bauxite, alumina, and aluminum products. It operates through three business segments, namely, aluminum, alumina, and bauxite. The company operates seven active bauxite mines across Brazil, Guinea, Saudi Arabia, and Australia. In 2018, Alcoa generated a revenue of USD 1.2 billion from the bauxite segment. In the same year, the company shipped a total volume of 46.9 million dry metric tons of bauxite. Of the total shipment, 5.7 million dry metric tons were shipped to third parties.

Company Headquarters: India Founded: 1992 Workforce: ~250 Company Working: Gujarat Foils Limited (Gujarat Foils) engages in the manufacturing and supply of aluminum foil bare, aluminum sheet, aluminum foil-coated (plain and printed), aluminum foil-laminated (plain and printed), house foil, and containers. The company caters mostly to the food & beverage, pharmaceuticals, and packaging industries.

Company Headquarters: India Founded: 1938 Workforce: ~1,000 Company Working: Kennamental India Limited (Kennamental India) is a wholly owned subsidiary of Kennametal Inc. The company engages in the production and supplying of hard metal products and machine tools for a range of industries such as aerospace, defense, general engineering, mining, construction, and transportation. The company operates through two segments—hard metal products and machine tools.

Company Headquarters: India Workforce: ~7,000 Founded: 1981 Company Working: National Aluminium Company Limited (NALCO) is a Navratna central public sector enterprise (CPSE) under the Indian Ministry of Mines. The company has the largest integrated baxuite-alumina-aluminum complex in the country. NALCO is the lowest cost producer of metallurgical alumina in the country and accounted for over 43% of aluminum exports in 2017–18. The company has an alumina refinery with an annual capacity of 22.75 lakh tonnes per annum, a smelter with a capacity of 4.60 lakh tonnes per annum, and an aluminum rolled products unit with a capacity of 50,000 MT per annum.

Company Headquarters: India Founded: 1965 Workforce: ~60,000 Company Working: Vedanta Limited (Vedanta) is a subsidiary of Vedanta Resources Plc. It is a natural resource company that engages in the exploration, extraction, and processing of oil, gas, and minerals. The company operates through the oil & gas, zinc and lead-India, silver-India, zinc-international, iron ore, copper, aluminum, and power segments. The company is one of the largest aluminum producers in India with a capacity of 2.3 metric tons per annum and a 40% share of the Indian aluminum market. Vedanta’s facility in Lanjigarh, Odisha (India), is considered one of the world’s largest single-location integrated alumina refinery complexes and is the first zero-discharge refinery in India.