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Formosa Chemicals & Fibre Corp — CNM

Company Headquarters: Amsterdam, The Netherlands Founded: 2006 Workforce: ~3,300 Company Working: AMG Advanced Metallurgical Group (AMG) is one of the leading producers of specialty metals, alloys, and materials. It operates through two segments, namely AMG Critical Materials and AMG Engineering. Under the AMG Critical Materials segment, the company offers various materials, aluminum, lithium, antimony, superalloys, and silicon metal, among others. AMG Superalloys UK, a production site for superalloys, offers various nickel-based alloys that find applications in the automotive, aerospace, energy, and electronic industries. It operates through the production facilities spread across Germany, France, the UK, Mexico, the US, the Czech Republic, Brazil, India, Sri Lanka, and Mozambique as well as sales offices in Russia and Japan.

COMPANY OVERVIEW Company Headquarters: Luxembourg Founded: 2011 Workforce: ~9,800 Company Working: Aperam is a leading manufacturer of stainless, electrical, and specialty steel. It is the fourth-largest producer of specialty alloys in the world. The company operates through three business segments—stainless & electrical steel, services & solution, and alloys & specialties. Through the specialty alloys essentials sub-segment, under the alloys & specialties segment, it offers nickel and cobalt alloys that are high-performance alloys exhibiting anti-corrosion, thermal expansion control characteristics, and hightemperature resistance. The production site of Aperam in Imphy, France, offers nickel and cobalt alloys, along with certain specific stainless steels. It has an industrial distribution network consisting 14 Steel Service Centers (SSCs), 17 sales offices, and six transformation facilities. Aperam has customer bases in over 40 countries and sells its products to the customers in the aerospace, construction, electrical, medical, and oil & gas industries.

COMPANY OVERVIEW Company Headquarters: Pennsylvania, US Founded: 1996 Workforce: 8,800 Company Working: Allegheny Technologies Inc (ATI) is a global manufacturer of specialty materials and complex components. The company operates its business through two business segments, i.e., high-performance materials & components (HPMC) and flatrolled products (FRP). Under the HPMC segment, ATI offers high-performance materials, nickel-based alloys and superalloys, in long product forms such as ingot, billet, bar, rod, wire, shapes and rectangles, and seamless tubes, plus precision forgings and castings, and machined parts for end markets as aerospace and defence, oil and gas, chemical, electrical and medical industries. The FRP segment produces and distributes several forms of superalloys including plate, sheet, engineered strip, and precision rolled strip products. The company has manufacturing facilities located in the US, the UK, Poland, and China, along with sales presence across the US, China, Singapore, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, India, France, Italy, Germany, Norway, Spain, UK, South Africa, and the Middle Eastern countries.

Company Headquarters: Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel Founded: 1968 Workforce: ~12,600 Company Working: Israel Chemicals Ltd (ICL), together with its subsidiaries, is involved in the production of magnesium hydroxide. The company operates through two business segments—namely essential minerals and specialty solutions. The essential minerals segment is further divided into potash and magnesium, phosphate, and specialty fertilizers. The specialty solutions segment is further sub-segmented into industrial products, advanced additives, and food specialties. Under specialty solutions, its subsidiary, ICL Industrial Products, produces magnesium oxide and is a global leader in specialty magnesia which is used in agriculture, construction, environmental, and general chemical grades. It sells its products through marketing companies, agents, and distributors.

COMPANY OVERVIEW Company Headquarters: Indiana, US Founded: 1912 Workforce: ~1,157 Company Working: HAYNES INTERNATIONAL (Haynes International) is one of the leading manufacturers and distributors of highperformance nickel‐ and cobalt‐based alloys for corrosion resistant and high-temperature applications. The company offers alloys in various forms including sheet, plate, bar, billet, seamless and welded pipe and tubing, fittings and flanges. It supplies high-performance alloys to the aerospace, power, chemical, wastewater treatment, and pharmaceutical industries. It operates through two business segments, namely corrosion-resistant alloys and high-temperature resistant alloys. Under the high-temperature resistant alloys segment, the company offers superalloys for hot sections of gas turbine engines in the aerospace and energy industries. Through the corrosion-resistant alloys segment, it offers superalloys for chemical processing and power plant emissions control. The high performance alloys are majorly sold under the brand names HAYNES and HASTELLOY. The company has six manufacturing facilities located in the US, and direct sales presence across the US, China, Japan, Singapore, the UK, Italy, France, and Switzerland.

Company Headquarters: Kagawa, Japan Founded: 1947 Workforce: ~24 Company Working: Kyowa Chemical Industry Co., Ltd (Kyowa) is engaged in the production and marketing of magnesium hydroxide. The magnesium hydroxide is utilized in a wide range of applications, including industrial, pharmaceutical and food additives. The company accounted for sales revenue worth USD 190.0 Million in 2018.

Company Headquarters: Texas, US Founded: 1994 Workforce: ~300 Company Working: SPI Pharma (SPI) is a subsidiary company of Associated British Foods plc (ABF), it is a part of ABF Ingredients division. SPI Pharma offers a wide range of magnesium hydroxide powders that vary in particle size and density. The company provides innovative solutions for the pharmaceutical and nutritional industries. SPI’s product line comprises antacid actives, compressible calcium powders, drug delivery systems, vaccine adjuvants, functional excipients, and taste-masked actives. The company distributes and sells its products through distributors and agents in North America, Europe, and the Middle East & Africa. The company has operations in France, the US, and India. SPI reported a sale of USD 139.31 million by the end of 2018.

Company Headquarters: Tokyo, JapanFounded: 1897 Workforce: ~11,010 Company Working: Ube Industries, Ltd (Ube Industries) is engaged in the development and manufacturing of chemicals, pharmaceuticals, cement & construction materials, machinery, and energy & environment products worldwide. It operates through 70 consolidated subsidiaries. The company offers ceramic fiber made of silicon, metal (titanium, zirconium or aluminum), carbon, and oxygen through the chemicals business under the brand name Tyranno Fiber. This fiber finds application in woven fabric, plastic matrix composites, metal & ceramic matrix composites. The products offered by the company find applications in automotive, IT/electronics, building & construction, pharmaceutical, energy, agricultural/fishery, and aerospace end-use industries. It holds assets worth USD 6,754.41 million. It has operations at 30 locations across Asia, the Americas, and Europe along with eight factories as well as five laboratories in Japan.

Company Headquarters: Colombes, France Founded: 2003 Workforce: ~20,000 Company Working: Arkema is engaged in the manufacturing and supply of specialty chemicals and advanced materials. It operates through three segments: high-performance materials, industrials specialties, and coating solutions. The company offers value-added solutions to various markets including construction, electronics and electrical, food, agrochemicals, oil and gas, packaging and paper, renewable energies, transportation, water, health, hygiene, beauty, and sports. Hydrate inhibitors are offered under the industrial specialties segment. Arkema has 136 production sites and 15 research centers, with six R&D centers dedicated to sustainable development, in 55 countries across the globe.

Company Headquarters: Herrliberg, Switzerland Founded: 1936 Workforce: ~2,939 Company Working: EMS-Chemie Holding (EMS-Chemie) is engaged in the manufacturing and distribution of polymers and other chemical products. It operates through two business segments—high-performance polymers and specialty chemicals. The high-performance polymers segment comprises EMS-Grivory and EMS-Eftec. EMS-Grivory operates through three business units in Europe, the Americas, and Asia, and offers polyamide materials for the automotive and electrical & electronics industries, among others. The company provides polyamide 12 for numerous applications in electronics, sanitary fittings, fuel & air brake lines, and sheathing for fiber optical waveguides, and food & beverages. The company operates 26 production sites in around 16 countries, and sells products worldwide through distributors/traders.

Company Headquarters: Minnesota, US Founded: 1923 Workforce: ~49,000 Company Working: Ecolab is a global leader in water, hygiene, and energy technologies. The company operates through four segments, namely global industrial, global institutional, global energy, and others. The global industrial segment includes five operating units—water, food & beverage, paper, life sciences, and textile care. These operating segments offer water treatment and process applications and cleaning and sanitizing solutions for various end-use industries such as food & beverage, chemicals, power, and manufacturing. The company offers water treatment solutions to various end-use industries such as food & beverage, chemical, pulp & paper, and mining through the global industrial segment. It also offers water treatment solutions to petroleum and petrochemical industries in both upstream and downstream applications through the global energy business segment. Ecolab delivers products and services across 170 countries.

Company Headquarters: Paris, France Founded: 1858 Workforce: ~88,775 Company Working: SUEZ specializes in providing water and waste management products and services. The company operates through five business segments, namely water Europe; recycling & recovery Europe; international; water technologies & solutions (WTS); and others. It offers chemicals, equipment, services (water distribution & treatment, and consulting), and engineering and construction contracts. Coagulants are offered under the water technologies & solutions business segment for applications such as industrial waste streams and influent clarification systems. It has operations in Europe and internationally.

Company Headquarters: Helsinki, Finland Founded: 1920 Workforce: ~4,800 Company Working: Kemira is a global chemicals company engaged in the development and manufacturing of products and solutions for the chemicals industry. It operates through two business segments including paper & pulp and industry & water. It offers a broad range of products such as coagulants, flocculants, biocides, and other water treatment chemicals. It provides coagulants for a broad array of water treatment applications including phosphorus removal, sludge conditioning, control the formation of hydrogen sulfide, prevent odor & corrosion, and struvite control. Around 70–80% of all the raw materials of Kemira used in the manufacturing of coagulants are recycled by-products from other industries. Kemira was awarded by CEFIC (The European Chemical Industry Council) for utilizing recycled by-products as raw material for manufacturing water treatment products. The revenue earned from the sale of coagulants accounted for around 20% of the total revenue generated in 2018. The company operates 84 manufacturing sites and legal entities in around 40 countries.

Acron Group — CNM

Company Headquarters: Zug, Switzerland Founded: 2001 Workforce: ~23,000 Company Working: EuroChem Group AG (EuroChem) manufactures and markets agricultural chemicals. The company produces nitrogen, phosphate, and NPK fertilizers, as well as offers feed phosphates, industrial acids, and mineral raw materials. It operates production facilities in Belgium, China, Kazakhstan, Lithuania, and Russia. It operates through 4 segments, namely, mining, fertilizers, commercial, and others. It has seven production sites for fertilizers spread across the US, Germany, Russia, and China. The sales and distribution operations of the company span across five regions: Europe, Russia/CIS, North America, Latin America, and Asia. It has an annual capacity of 350,000 tonnes of ammonia production.

Company Headquarters: Amsterdam, Netherlands Founded: 2013 Workforce: ~3,600 Company Working: OCI NV is a leading global producer and distributor of nitrogen products providing sustainable solutions to agricultural and industrial customers around the world. Its production capacity spans 4 continents and comprises approximately 16.1 million metric tons per year of nitrogen fertilizers, methanol, diesel exhaust fluid, melamine, and other nitrogen products. It operates 9 production sites globally. It operates through business segments, namely, Nitrogen Europe, Nitrogen US, Methanol US, Methanol Europe, Fertiglobe, and others. The company has started production of green ammonia in 2019 through its Dutch fertilizer complex with an annual capacity of 6.9 million metric tons. It offers ammonia under its Fertiglobe segment and sold 2.1 million metric tons of ammonia in 2019. Its fertilizer distribution infrastructure includes a wholly owned ammonia export terminal at the port of Rotterdam, warehousing capacity across the US, Europe, the Middle East and North Africa, rail car fleets in the US and Europe, and a 15 KT ammonia vessel.

Company Headquarters: Saskatoon, Canada Founded: 2017 Workforce: ~22,300 Company Working: Nutrien Ltd. (Nutrien) is engaged in the production and distribution of products for agricultural, industrial, and feed customer. It operates through 4 business segments, namely, retail, potash, nitrogen, and phosphate. It produces and distributes over 25 million tons of potash, nitrogen, and phosphate products globally. It has a strong global footprint with operations and investments in 14 countries with more than 1600 retail locations. The annual production of Nutrein for ammonia is 7.1 million tons from 9 production facilities located in North America. The company produced 6.61 million tonnes of ammonia in 2019. Nutrien was formed by the merger of Agrium Inc. (Agrium) and Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan Inc. (PotashCorp), two fertilizer giants of Canada.

Company Headquarters: Deerfield, US Founded: 1946 Workforce: ~3,000 Company Working: CF Industries Holdings, Inc. (CF Industries) a global leader in nitrogen fertilizer manufacturing and distribution. It operates through the following business segments, ammonia, granular urea, urea ammonium nitrate solution (UAN), ammonium nitrate (AN), and others. The others segment includes nitrogen products such as diesel exhaust fluid (DEF), urea liquor, nitric acid, and aqua ammonia. The company produced 10.25 million tons of ammonia as of December 2019. It operates 70 manufacturing plants, out if which 28 are for ammonia, 40 are for UAN, and rest for granular urea.

Company Headquarters: Oslo, Norway Founded: 1905 Workforce: 16,757 Company Working: Yara is the world’s leading fertilizer company and the second-largest producer of ammonia in the world. As a part of its crop nutrition-focused strategy, Yara has simplified its operating model and changed its operating business segments effective from 1 January 2019. The new segment structure is comprised of three segments, namely sales & marketing, new business, and production. The sales & marketing segment includes the crop nutrition, base chemicals, industry reagents, and animal nutrition (excluding South Africa) business units. The “new business” segment includes the environmental solutions, mining applications, animal nutrition - South Africa, and industrial nitrates business units. Under the sales & marketing and the new business segments, the company offers feed acidifiers through the animal nutrition sub-division. Yara has 28 production plants, 200 infrastructure points, and 10,800 Yara-branded retail outlets worldwide. It has production sites in six continents, market operations in more than 60 countries, and sales operations in about 160 countries globally.

Company Headquarters: Midland, US Founded: 1883 Workforce: ~98,000 Company Working: DowDuPont is a holding company that develops agricultural products, specialty materials, and chemicals. It operates through 534 manufacturing sites and the agriculture, performance materials and coatings, industrial intermediates and infrastructure, packaging and specialty plastics, electronics and imaging, nutrition and biosciences, transportation and advanced polymers, and safety and construction segments. DowDuPont planned to create three independent companies called Corteva Agriscience, Dow, and New DuPont, where Covetra Agriscience will represent the agriculture division of the company, while Dow will represent the materials science division, and New DuPont the specialty products division. In April 2019, DowDuPont completed separation of materials science division through the spin-off of Dow Inc and is likely to complete the separation of its agriculture division in June 2019.

Company Headquarters: Cologne, Germany Founded: 2004 Workforce: ~15,441 Company Working: LANXESS AG (LANXESS) is a holding company that offers specialty chemicals, chemical intermediates, additives, specialty chemicals, and plastics. The company operates through four business segments, including advanced intermediates, specialty additives, performance chemicals, and engineering materials. The advanced intermediates segment consists of industrial chemical intermediates, chemical precursors, and specialty active ingredients. The specialty additives segment focuses on the manufacturing specialty additive chemicals, such as plastic and rubber additives, phosphorus-based and brominated flame-retardants, plastic additives, such as flame-retardants and plasticizers, and lubricants. The performance chemicals segment covers application-oriented processes and functional chemical operations. The high-performance materials segment includes plastic engineering materials. The ARLANXEO segment offering synthetic rubber is shut down since April 2018. LANXESS operates around 74 production sites in 33 countries across Europe, the Middle East & Africa (EMEA), North America, Latin America, and Asia-Pacific.

Company Headquarters: Minnesota, U.S. Founded: 1902 Workforce: 91,000+ Company Working: Dyneon GmbH is a subsidiary of 3M and is renowned as a world leader in advanced fluoropolymer technology. 3M is a technology-driven company that manufactures industrial, safety, and consumer products. The company operates through various segments including healthcare, automotive, security, electronics, energy, transport, telecommunication, mining, oil & gas, and others. The industrial segment provides products such as tapes, abrasives, adhesives, ceramics, sealants, and specialty materials. The healthcare segment supplies medical and surgical equipment, skin health and infection prevention products, drug delivery systems, dental and orthodontic products, health information systems, and food safety products. The safety and graphics segment offers personal protective equipment, traffic safety and security products, and commercial graphics systems, among others. 3M operated globally in the Americas, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and the Middle East & Africa.

Company Headquarters: Germany Founded: 2005 Workforce: ~16,500 Company Working: Covestro AG develops, produces, and markets polymeric materials for various industries, including automotive, electronics & electrical, building & construction, medical, and lighting. The company has 30 production sites worldwide and operates under three major business segments- polyurethanes, polycarbonates and coatings, and adhesives and specialties. Under its polycarbonates segment, the company manufactures high-performance plastic polycarbonates in the form of granules, composite materials, and semi-finished products which are primarily used in the automotive, construction, electrical and electronic, and other industries. Covestro Deutschland AG, Covestro GmbH, Covestro Pvt Ltd, and Covestro Polymers Co Ltd, are some of the major subsidiaries of the Covestro Group.

Company Headquarters: Italy Founded: 1997 Workforce: ~6000 Company Working: Versalis SpA, owned and controlled by Eni SpA, produces petrochemical products such as basic chemicals, polyethylene, elastomers, and styrenes. Versalis is among the leading manufacturers of polyethylene and polystyrene, used mainly for flexible packaging. It operates through the intermediate and polymer segments and offers polyethylene products such as low- and high-density polyethylene, very low- and linear-density polyethylene, and pharmacopeia-compliant polyethylene. The company serves various end-use industries such as automotive, packaging, medical, construction, and packaging.

Company Headquarters: Switzerland Founded: 1998 Workforce: ~7000 Company Working: INEOS, is renowned as a global manufacturer of petrochemicals, specialty chemicals, and oil products. The company has 32 manufacturing sites in six countries globally. The company operates through olefins & polymers Europe, olefins & polymers North America, and chemical intermediates. It produces polyolefins ranging from HDPE, LLDPE, LDPE, and m LLDPE to PP products. The company serves numerous industries such as packaging, construction, automotive, durables, agrochemicals and pharmaceuticals.

Company Headquarters: Austria Founded: 1994 Workforce: ~6600 Company Working: Borealis AG is a leading provider of innovative solutions in the arena of polyolefin and base chemicals for various end-use industries such as infrastructure, energy, automotive, pipes and fittings, healthcare, and packaging. Borealis provides services and products globally in collaboration with Borouge, a joint venture with the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC). Borealis has operations in around 120 countries and functions through the polyolefin and base chemicals segments. The company earned sales revenue of around USD 8.9 billion in 2017