Deep Intelligence Across Industries

Company Headquarters: Denmark Founded: 1997 Workforce: ~50 Company Working: Spica Technology Aps. (Spica Technology) is a leading wind turbine engineering company. The company develops, produces, and installs innovative software, electronics, and electrical equipment for new and existing wind turbines. The company’s turbine control system portfolio includes controller, data collection system, back-up modules, emulator, temperature monitor, and cables. It provides customized wind turbine control systems. It also provides training equipment for technicians. Spica Technology mainly operates in European countries.

Volkswagen AG (Volkswagen) operates through two business divisions, namely, financial services and automotive. The automotive division comprises its power engineering business and involves the development of vehicles and engines, production and sales of passenger cars, light commercial vehicles, trucks, motorcycles, large-bore diesel engines, gas engines, turbomachinery, special gear units, propulsion components, and testing system business. The company operates through four business segments, namely, passenger cars, commercial vehicles, power engineering, and financial services. It offers gas engines through its subsidiary, MAN. Volkswagen offers its products through various brands, including Audi, SKODA, SEAT, Bentley, Porsche Automotive, Scania, and MAN commercial vehicles. It has 122 manufacturing plants worldwide. The company has a strong presence in North America, South America, Asia-Pacific, and Europe. MAN SE, TRATON SE, and RENK AG are a few of its subsidiaries.

Company Headquarters: Zhejiang, China Workforce: ~280 Founded:1994 Company Working: Zhejiang Guoxing Wind Power Technology Co., Ltd is a structural steel manufacturer. It offers various products, including light steel structure, heavy steel structure, wind tower, and other industrial steel products. The company has two production bases covering around 70,000 square meters. It has around 280 workers, over 30 experienced welders, and 15 quality controllers and it performs NDT (Non-destructive test) according to customer requirements. The annual production capacity of the company of wind towers is around 400 sets

Company Headquarters: Shandong, China Workforce: ~2,000 Founded: 1993 Company Working: Qingdao Wuxiao Group Co., Ltd is one of the largest comprehensive industrial group. The company’s major products include steel towers and its appropriate structures for power transmission, broadcasting and television purposes, microwave communication, large land and offshore wind turbine tower, large diameter thick-wall straight-seam welded steel pipes, large forging flanges and rings, stainless steel pipes, high capacity storage VRB battery, stainless steel metal composite materials, and others. Suihua Wuxiao Electric Power Equipment Co., Ltd is a subsidiary of Qingdao Wuxiao Group Co., Ltd and was founded in 2004. It specializes in the manufacturing of wind tower frames and has three advanced wind tower production lines with an annual production capacity of 400 sets. Since the establishment, the company produced more than 600 sets of tower frames for many famous turbine manufacturers, including Vestas, Nordex SE, and Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy, S.A. The subsidiaries of the company are Qingdao Wuxiao Tower Co., Ltd., Qingdao Sanyu Mechanical & Electrical Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Qingdao Wuxiao Pipe Making Co., Ltd, Qingdao Wuxiao Logistics Co., Ltd.,Qingdao Jiaheng New Energy Equipment Co., Ltd., Suihua Wuxiao Electric Power Equipment Co., Ltd., and Inner Mongolia Sanxing Heavy Industries Co., Ltd.

Company Headquarters: Xinjiang, China Founded: 1998 Company Working: Goldwind is one of China’s earliest manufacturers in the wind power industry. Its core and technical team has more than 20 years of experience in wind power industry. The four major business segments include WTG (wind turbine generator) manufacturing, wind power services, and wind farm investment and development. Goldwind is also engaged in research and development, manufacturing, and sale of wind power components, construction, development and operation of wind farms and related maintenance services. It also manufactures and sells wind power equipment and accessories and development and operation of water treatment plants and solar power generation projects. The company offers innovative energy solutions with over 41 GW of installed wind power capacity worldwide and more than 21,000 wind turbine units running in 17 countries and 6 continents. It offers customized energy solutions to meet different requirements and profiles. The group has 266 subsidiaries, which include 26 directly owned subsidiaries and 240 indirectly owned subsidiaries. These subsidiaries include R&D and manufacturing companies for WTG components, wind farm investment and development companies, wind power service companies, water treatment units, and finance lease companies

Headquarters: Netherlands Founded: 1943 Workforce: ~149,000 Company Working: IKEA Systems B.V. is the global retail company that offers a wide range of well designed, effective home furnishing products at feasible prices. The company has total 355 stores in 29 IKEA group countries, out of which 33 stores are present in Asia including pickup and order points, store distribution site and shopping centers. The company has approximately 9,500 products across the IKEA range, and adds approximately 2,500 products, every year. The company is working on reducing wastes and ensuring efficient use of natural resources in any operation. For enhancing sustainability, the company is investing in wind farms and solar panels to generate energy. The company is investing in the installation of solar modules in building and in wind farms. Moreover, IKEA launched home solar for generating and using renewable energy at home within effective prices and budget. In the year 2017, the company’s home solar solution was introduced in Belgium and Poland, which involved turning rooftop into power stations.

Headquarters: Shanghai, China Founded: 2005 Workforce: Approximately 20,000 Company Working: JA Solar Holdings Co. Ltd is a solar development company that manufactures solar PV module, solar cells, and panels for power plant & off-grid solar installations as well as it manufactures mono-crystalline and multi-crystalline solar cells. It has offices in countries such as China, Japan, Philippines, United Kingdom, India, the U.S., Thailand, the Netherlands, Australia, and Switzerland. JA Solar has several subsidiaries for enhanced marketing and has been developing a wide global sales network sales. JA Development Co., Ltd (British Virgin Islands), JA Solar Malaysia Sdn. Bhd. (Malaysia), JA Solar Vietnam Company Limited (Vietnam), JA Solar USA Inc. (U.S.), JA Solar Hong Kong Limited (Hong Kong), JingAo Solar Co., Ltd and Yangzhou JA Solar PV Engineering Co., Ltd (China) are some of its subsidiaries. JA Solar manufacturers high-performance solar products and uses its strengths in PV-research and development to consistently optimize its unique technologies in cell production and model construction. The company is a pioneer in selective diffusion technology and passivized emitter rear cells (PERC).

Headquarters: Seville, Spain Founded: 1941 Workforce: Approximately 12,468 Company Working: Abengoa Solar, SA is engaged in designing, promotion, construction, installation and operation of its own solar power stations. It is a pioneer in Concentrated Solar Power and Thermal technologies and operates in the segments of solar photovoltaics, and concentrated photovoltaics. It owns Europe's first commercially operating concentrating solar power plant, the 11 MW PS10 Solar Power Plant that uses concentrated solar thermal technology. Abengoa Solar has total installed capacity of approximately 1,223 MW in commercial, approximately 540 MW under construction and 210 MW in the pre-construction phase which is distributed in 29 plants locations, across the world. The company has worked on solar tower technology s (PS10 and PS20), which consisted of field of heliostats technology to constantly tracks the sun for solar radiation. Furthermore, Abengoa operates in parabolic trough technology.

Headquarters: Seoul, South Korea Founded: 1999 Workforce: Approximately 8,000 Company Working: Hanwha Q CELLS offers solar panels for segments such as residential, commercial & industrial, and power plants. Its solar panels combine the best features of all known cell technologies to achieve high performance levels at low cost of electricity (LCOE). Such use of advanced technology ensures Q CELLS solar modules achieve maximum luminous efficiency under real, day to day conditions, even under cloudy skies. Hanwha Q CELLS has presence in 14 countries in 5 continents. Its headquarters for Technology & Innovation are located in the Solar Valley in Thalheim, Germany, where the "Engineered in Germany" product portfolio is developed. Excellent scientists and engineers make continuous improvements to their existing technologies in the in-house research center, developing new innovative product generations. Products are manufactured in international facilities at China, Malaysia, and South Korea. Hanwha Q CELLS has a solar module manufacturing capacity of 8.0 GW, which makes the company one of the biggest solar module manufacturers in the world.

Headquarters: Shangrao, China Founded: 2006 Workforce: More than 12,500 Company Working: Jinko Solar operates from 18 countries in 5 continents, 6 production plants in 4 countries and 21 warehouses in 9 countries, with 33 sales offices catering to the requirements of customers in more than 80 countries. It had a vertically integrated solar product value chain, with an integrated annual capacity of 8.0 GW for silicon ingots and wafers, 5.0GW for solar cells, and 8.0 GW for solar modules, as of March 31, 2017. It had about 15,000 full-time workers, worldwide, with more than 19 GW cumulative shipments of solar panels until 2017 and was ranked one of the top companies for global shipment of solar modules in 2016 (6.65 GW). It is the first Chinese PV manufacturer whose modules have passed the intensive UV test in terms of IEC61345 from TUV Rheinland, which is the major international standard of the industry. Jinko Solar offers a wide range of products such as solar cells, solar module, and mounting system. Its solar panels are mainly of monocrystalline and polycrystalline structure. These solar panels are as per global specifications and conventional standards with linear performance warranty.

Headquarters: Changzhou, China Founded: 1997 Workforce: ~13,556 Company Working: Trina Solar majorly operates in China with the State Key Laboratory of PV Science and Technology, a state-of-art facility designed to foster technological innovations. The laboratory covers 15,000 square meters and is located within the Changzhou Trina PV Industrial Park. It is a national platform for driving PV technological developments in China. It received accreditation from China’s Ministry of Science and Technology on November 3, 2013 and has become one of the leading R&D centres in the field of photovoltaics since then. It sells its products in more than 70 countries with some of its offices in Beijing, Madrid, Shanghai, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo, Zurich, Mexico City, and San Jose. Trina solar modules around the world are displacing over 27 million tons of CO2, equivalent to planting 4.9 million acres of trees. Changzhou Trina Solar Energy Co., Ltd. Sun Era Industries Ltd., Brannon Solar, LLC, and Trina Solar are some of its subsidiaries. With almost 20 years in the solar industry, Trina Solar’s experience, high-quality products and technological innovations have led the company to be one of the leading photovoltaic module manufacturers in the world. The company operates under the segments of utility products and solutions, commercial, and residential. The company has a wide range of solar panels under monocrystalline, multicrystalline, dual glass monocrystalline, and dual glass multi-crystalline structure. The solar panels offered by the company cover all the global specifications and conventional standards.

Company Headquarters: Regensburg, Germany Founded: 1913 Workforce: 2,900 Company Overview: SGB-SMIT Group is a power company with its business in transmission and distribution of power. The company is the manufacturer of transformers of various types to suit different industries. It offers a wide range of products including, large power transformers, medium power transformers, oil distribution transformers, cast resin transformers, compact-substations, and special transformers. It company offers its transformers for five major end-use sectors, which include power generation, power distribution, industry, railways, and infrastructure. The company also provides transformer services under SGB-SMIT group, under which the specialists carry out regular maintenance of the transformer, thus improving the operating life of the transformers. It has an experience of more than 100 years, with which it is one of the largest manufacturers of transformers in Europe. SGB-SMIT Group has its manufacturing plants in Germany, the Netherlands, the US, Romania, Malaysia, India, China and the Czech Republic. The company has offices in three continents, namely North America, Europe, and Asia. Some of the subsidiaries of SGB-SMIT Group are Starkstrom-Gerätebau GmbH, (Germany), Sächsisch-Bayerische Starkstrom-Gerätebau GmbH, (Germany), SGB MY Sdn. Bhd. (Malaysia), Royal SMIT Transformers B.V., (the Netherlands), SGB-USA Inc., (U.S.), OTC Services, (U.S.).

Company Headquarters: Waukesha, Wisconsin, U.S. Founded: 1970 Workforce: 5,000 Company Working: SPX Transformer Solutions, Inc., is one of the largest U.S. manufacturers of power transformers and a valued supplier of complete transformer service solutions, components and replacement parts. It also offers a variety of substation-applicable training classes for all skill levels including a large number of comprehensive LTC maintenance courses.

Company Headquarters: Straume, Norway Founded: 2013 Company Working: Enhanced Drilling Services (EDS) provides drilling services and technology to the international oil and gas industry. EDS operates through three operational segments, which are enhanced drilling, cannseal and group/others. Cannseal technology is mainly used in mature oilfields to seal off the inflow of water and gas. The company offers a wide range of oilfield capabilities including MPD, dual gradient drilling, cementing, clean-up operations, safety enhancement technology, and mud removal technology. EDS has worked on more than 600 wells in its lifetime with its RMR and CTS technology. The company has offices and workshops in various countries including the UK, the US, Australia and Azerbaijan. Also, the company has workshop in Canada and an office in Malaysia.

Company Headquarters: Rhode Island, US Founded: 1920 Workforce: Approximately 400 Company Working: Taco Inc. is a third generation, family-owned company also known as Taco Comfort Solutions. It develops and manufactures products and systems for both, residential and commercial applications. These include circulators/pumps, valves and controls, air-dirt separators, heat exchangers, buffer and expansion tanks, domestic hot water recirculation and accessory products, and sophisticated building management controls. It has nearly 100 years of experience in the HVAC industry. Its engineering expertise is passed through its expansive factory training and online learning programs.

Company Headquarters: Guastalla, Reggio Emilia, Italy Founded: 1951 Workforce: More Than 200 Company Working: Saer Elettropompe S.p.A. is among the key manufacturers and suppliers of surface and submersible pumps and motors. Its internal design and R&D department allows it to offer new customizable products with flexibility and innovation based on specific requirements of its customers within short periods. It also provides products and solutions in different materials to meet different environmental and design needs of customers in a wide range of applications. Its centrifugal electrical pumps and submersible and surface motors have a wide range of applications. The firm manufacturers various types of pumps that are utilized in sectors such as civil, industrial, agriculture and irrigation, underground extraction, mining, oil and gas, and water treatment.

Company Headquarters: Cressier, Switzerland Workforce: Approximately 400 Founded: 1947 Company Working: Emile Egger & Cie SA is a medium-sized, privately owned industrial enterprise. It focuses on the development and production of high quality, customized solids handling centrifugal pumps and iris diaphragm valves across a wide range of industries such as sewage, chemical, petrochemical, steel, textile, and others. Previously, the company was specialized in the pumping of fluids laden with solids and gases. It has its subsidiaries in European countries, Asia-Pacific and North America and a strong sales and distribution network.

Company Headquarters: Suzhou Jiangsu, China Founded: 1989 Workforce: Approximately 2,300 Company Working: BACOENG is engaged in the manufacture of pumps, valves, auto parts, and machine tools and offers OEM services. The company has two manufacturing units in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces of China. Additionally, the company maintains two warehouses located in the US and the UK. The company focuses on quality, long-lasting products with quick and flexible installation of systems. Indoor hot water system involves, electromagnetic valve, water pump, booster pump, and intelligent solutions with full control over traffic, time and temperature.

Company Headquarters: Montorso Vicentino, Italy Founded: 1959 Workforce: Approximately 250 Company Working: Calpeda S.p.A. manufactures over 2000 types of pumps with power ranging from 0.5 to 200 kW. It is committed to study, develop, manufacture and industrialize pumping systems. It offers a range of pumps to suit a variety of uses, such as domestic applications, groundwater, industrial fields, wastewater and sewage applications, for civil plants, agricultural and irrigation applications, and building-service sector. Moreover, the firm has a strong distribution network with a wide product range. It has a strong distribution network in Europe.

Company Headquarters: Toronto, Ontario – Canada Founded: 1934 Workforce: Approximately 1,000 Company Working: The company is engaged in the design, engineering, and production of fluid flow equipment. It is actively involved in providing quality products and services to its customers for various industries. The firm makes efforts to reduce fuel use, energy consumption, water use, and waste to landfill. The firm’s business units are ISO 14001 certified. The company has a wide range of product offerings in terms of hot water circulation pump. The company has seven manufacturing facilities at different locations, namely Buffalo, New York; West Midlands and Manchester, UK, Bengaluru, India; Shanghai, China; Dubai, United Arab Emirates; and Sao Paulo, Brazil with more than 1000 employees.

Company Headquarters: Sydney, Australia. Founded: 2018 Workforce: 11-50 Company Working: Enosi foundation is an Australia based blockchain energy market operator with a focus on increasing the utilization of clean locally generated energy. Enosi develops blockchain based open-sourced systems that are used to sell excess energy generated from renewable energy sources, such as solar PV within communities. In addition to that, the Enosi platform creates smart contracts, which will enable rapid deployment and the use of the renewable energy. Smart contracts are generated through a mobile application, which is commonly known as a “Decentralised Application” or dApp. The app does not require a centralized server or third party server as it runs on decentralized blockchain network. For higher adoption of blockchain based distributed energy applications, Enosi foundation has set up partnership programs with energy retailers, such as Solar Analytics and Energy locals, who are based in Melbourne.

Company Headquarters: Essen, Germany Founded: 2017 Workforce: 10 Company Working: Conjoule GmbH is a Germany based start-up that uses blockchain technology for energy trading applications. The company is focussed on blockchain technology for peer-to-peer energy sharing applications as it provides freedom of choice of supply and transparency in operations. The company has two pilot projects running since October 2016 and has recently raised EUR 4.5 million (USD 5.40 million) in funding from TEPCO, Japan. Conjoule predominantly operates in local energy marketplace where homes producing renewable energy by solar PV and small-scale wind can sell their surplus energy directly to the local community.

Company Headquarter: Vancouver, Canada. Founded: 2011 Workforce: 28 Company Working: BTL Group is a blockchain technology based in Vancouver, Canada which has its operations on developing blockchain technologies for various industries and businesses. The company is the creator of Interbit, a next-generation blockchain platform, which has the unique capability of joining thousands of Interbit blockchains that can enable enhanced security along with data integrity and privacy than other blockchain platforms. One of the most important advantages of the BTL’s Interbit platform is that businesses and enterprises can build their own applications focusing on trading, settlement, remittance, audit, and back-office processes. BTL Group believes that this flexibility of their blockchain platform must enable Interbit to become the professional-grade blockchain development tool of choice among various businesses. In Europe, the BTL Group is currently testing its Interbit platform with the trading arms of oil and gas supermajors along with leading energy traders including Eni Trading & Shipping, Total, Gazprom Marketing & Trading Limited and Vattenfall for delivering gas trading and settlement.

Company Headquarters: Vilnius, Republic of Lithuania Founded: 2017 Workforce: 21 Company Working: WePower is a blockchain based energy trading and financing firm with specific focus in renewable energy. Renewable energy producers such as solar and wind power operators can raise operating capital by issuing their own energy tokens using WePower. This is different from other blockchain based operators since power producers with WePower will have their own tokens rather than a standard token issued by other blockchain providers. The main advantage of using this WePower technology is that renewable energy produced by individual producers can be traded directly with buyers by selling energy upfront at below-market rates. WePower is currently in the process of launching a pilot project in Elering, an Estonian transmission and distribution operator for its blockchain technology implementation. The primary goal of this project is to demonstrate the capacity of Ethereum blockchain technology in recording of country-level energy production and consumption data. The company believes that this will enable blockchain based power markets to venture into reality.

Company Headquarters: Perth, Australia Founded: 2016 Workforce: 28 Company Working: Power Ledger is an Australia based energy trading platform developer that uses blockchain for its operations. The company is mainly focused on blockchain based decentralized energy platform for buying and selling of energy. One of the main advantages of Power Ledger’s blockchain platform is that it is an automated market trading and transparent platform for its users. Power Ledger’s operations is unique in itself as the company uses dual-token blockchain ecosystem layers namely POWRTM and Sparkz for operation. POWRTM is the Power Ledger token that is used in the Power Ledger blockchain ecosystem for energy trading applications and creates Sparkz. Sparkz are then used in transactions for real currencies or fiat money for energy trading. Power Ledger is mainly focused on the sale of renewable energy that are generated at residential, commercial and industrial developments to the existing grid network.

Aker Solutions ASA was established in the year 2008 with headquarters in Fornebu, Norway. The company is a global provider of products, systems and services to the oil and the gas industry. The company operates currently in 46 locations over 20 countries such as Brazil, Australia, Canada, India, Nigeria and Norway with almost 14,000 employees. Its diversified business is primarily focused on the exploration, development and production and decommissioning. The company offers services from subsea to surface and concept to decommissioning. Some of the subsidiaries of the company are Aker Solutions Enterprises LDA, C.S.E. Mecânica e Instrumentacâo Ltda, Aker Solutions Ghana Ltd, Aker Solutions APAC Sdn Bhd, Aker Powergas Pvt Ltd and Aker Solutions Asset Integrity and Mgt. Canada Inc. Aker Solutions ASA, competes with companies such as Claxton Engineering, BP PLC., Statoil ASA, AF Gruppen ASA and John Wood Group.

AF Gruppen ASA was established in the year 1985 with headquarters in Oslo, Norway. The company has operational presence in 35 countries such as Sweden, India, China, and Indonesia with 300 offices. Its diversified business is primarily focused on the civil engineering, building, property, environment, and energy and offshore. The company employs 3049 personal as of 2016. The company has considerable and varied activities aimed at the oil and gas industry, with core areas such as the removal, dismantling and recycling of decommissioned offshore installations. AF Gruppen has built and operates Europe's most advanced reception facility for decommissioned offshore installations: Vats Environmental Base, Norway. The operation also offers offshore studies, review of hazardous waste and rig services. The company has subsidiaries such as AF Bygg Oslo, AF Byggfornyelse, AF Bygg Østfold, AF Nybygg, AF Bygg Prosjektpartner, Strøm Gundersen, LAB and AF Bygg Sweden. AF Gruppen ASA competes with companies such as DNV GL, BP PLC, Statoil ASA, Deepocean Group and Ramboll Group A/S.