Deep Intelligence Across Industries

Company Headquarter: Sweden Founded: 1957 Workforce: ~ 6000 employee Company Working: ArjoHuntleigh was founded in 1957 by a Swedish entrepreneur, Arne Johansson. ArjoHuntleigh originally manufactured components and machine parts for other manufacturers, including medical devices. Arne Johansson was one of the first companies to understand the need for bathing and transfer equipment in healthcare, elderly care, as well as for improved ergonomics for healthcare professionals. He developed a series of innovative products that could meet these needs in Sweden. Shortly thereafter, ArjoHuntleigh started selling its products outside Sweden. The global demand for medical and healthcare is heavily influenced by global megatrends, which are expected to contribute to the attractive, long-term growth of the market.

Company Headquarters: Hamamatsu City, Japan Founded: 1935 Workforce: NA Company Working: Kyowa Leather Cloth Co., Ltd (Kyowa Leather) is a manufacturer of synthetic surface leather materials that are primarily used in automobile, housing, fashion, and lifestyle applications. The company has ISO9001 and ISO14001 certifications. It owns an in-house quality assurance center to maintain product quality and develop new products. The products offered by the company are made from different raw materials such as polyurethane, olefin, and PVC (polyvinyl chloride). The company has 11 business locations and affiliates in Japan and two overseas.

Company Headquarters: Rajasthan, India Founded: 1994 Workforce: NA Company Working: Mayur Uniquoters Limited (Mayur Uniquoters) is one of the largest producers and suppliers of artificial leather using release paper transfer coating technology. The company offers artificial leather for automobiles, footwear, furnishing, and garment applications. Its products find applications in door trims, gear boot, steering wheel covers, knob covers, sun visors, boots, roof lining, sports shoes, slippers, footwear, chairs, sofas, bean bags, cushion-covers, pads, gloves, footballs, and others. The company has operation in several countries of Europe, the Middle East & Africa, Asia-Pacific, North America, and Latin America.

Company Headquarters: Taiwan, China Founded: 1973 Workforce: ~NA Company Working: San Fang Chemical Industry Co., Ltd (San Fang Chemical) is engaged in the manufacturing and distribution of artificial leather, fiber, and films. San Fang Chemical offers artificial leather of various substrate types including nonwoven, microfiber, and knitwear. The company operates through various subsidiaries, which help them to have an established geographical presence.

Company Headquarters: Yamaguchi, Japan Founded: 2005 Workforce: NA Company Working: FILWEL Co. Ltd (FILWEL) is a major manufacturer and supplier of artificial leather materials. The artificial leather products are developed based on textile and high polymer technology and are used across various application including shoes, accessories, and briefcases. Belluria is a popular brand name of the company in the women’s shoes lining segment. The company has a large production capacity with an established distribution network in Asian countries. AIR WATER INC is the parent company of FILWEL.

Company Headquarter: Taiwan Founded: 1981 Workforce: ~1,224 Company Working: GlobalWafers Co., Ltd. manufactures semiconductor substrate materials. It produces and sells silicon wafers for semiconductor applications. The company’s product portfolio offers Epi wafers, polished wafers, etched wafers, ultra-thin wafers, and deep diffusion wafers. It also provides superiority, ingot, wafering, and epitaxial services. The company has several affiliated companies such as SunEdison Semiconductor, Topsil, GlobiTech, GlobaI Wafers Japan, and many more. It has a presence in Asia, North America, and Europe.

Company Headquarter: Germany Founded: 1995 Workforce: ~3,600 Company Working: Siltronic AG (Siltronic) operates as a manufacturer of hyperpure silicon wafers and chips with diameters of up to 300 mm. The company's wafers are manufactured from silicon monocrystals which are made either in a Czochralski crystal growing furnace or by using float-zone technology. Its products are used in key components of computers, flat-screens, navigation systems, and control systems for the automotive industry and many other applications. The company operates in Europe, Asia, and North America.

Company Headquarter: Japan Founded: 1926 Workforce: ~22,783 Company Working: Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd. is a manufacturer and supplier of synthetic resins and other chemical products such as fertilizers. It also manufactures electronic materials such as semiconductor silicon, synthetic, and rare earth quartz. The company produces and sells substrates such as silicon on insulator (SOI) wafers and GaN on silicon wafers. The company has strong R&D capabilities that drive the growth of the organization. It operates both in Japan as well as overseas markets.

Company Headquarter: France Founded: 1992 Workforce: ~1,450 Company Working: Soitec SA is specialized in generating and manufacturing high-performance semiconductor materials. The company operates its business through two segments—electronics and others. The company’s electronics segment is engaged in the production and marketing of substrates and components for the microelectronics industry. The others segment comprises of lighting and equipment (Altatech) activities. The company’s product portfolio offers silicon on insulator (SOI), power SOI, radio frequency (RF) SOI, imager SOI, and stacking for RF. Its products are used to manufacture chips for tablets, smartphones, IT servers, computers, data centers, electronic components in connected devices, cars, and industrial and medical equipment. The company operates in Europe, the US, and Asia. Soitec is headquartered in Bernin, France.

Company Headquarter: Japan Founded: 1999 Workforce: ~8,142 Company Working: Sumco Corporation is a leading manufacturer of electronic-grade silicon wafers for the semiconductor industry. The company’s product portfolio has polished wafers, annealed wafers, epitaxial wafers, junction isolated wafers, and silicon-on-insulator wafers. Its products are used by companies worldwide to make integrated circuits and semiconductor devices that power a myriad of electronic products from computers to cell phones, and digital watches to automobile engine systems. These products are also used to produce solar batteries as well as ultra-high purity quartz used to produce vessels for the silicon manufacturing process. The company has its presence across the globe.

Company Headquarter: US Founded: 2012 Workforce: Approx. 100 Company Working: Amplitude provides companies with a behavioral platform that provides them with powerful analytics for deep and actionable insights on their product’s 360-degree customer experience. Along with the platform, Amplitude provides companies with additional customization features which include Taxonomy, Insights, Portfolio Scale, Accounts and Query. Amplitude allows product developers to set product strategy, improve user engagement, optimize conversion and drive retention by providing them with necessary user metrics. Amplitude is a privately-owned company which has its offices located in four cities including San Francisco, New York, Amsterdam, and Austin. Amplitude has a customer base of over 12000 companies and has managed to reach over 180 countries with its platform. Amplitude boosts a less than 0.7 seconds median query response time and has tracked over 7 trillion user actions. Amplitude customers include Microsoft, PayPal, Under Armour, HubSpot, Autodesk, Booking.com, and Twitter.

Company Headquarter: China Founded: 1999 Workforce: ~44,800 Company Working: Tencent Holdings Limited (Tencent) provides a range of integrated Internet platforms offering various services, including communications, social networking, online games, information, and video content. Tencent operates through three business segments: value-added services (VAS), online advertising, and others. Its operations are divided into six business lines: social networks, payment, entertainment, information, utilities, and platform services. The payment business line comprises various payment platforms which include Tenpay, Weixin/WeChat Pay, and QQ Wallet. Tenpay is an online payment platform in China. The platform supports online payment transactions for individuals and corporate users with secure and professional services. Weixin/WeChat Pay is a payment solution which enables its users to have quick payment transactions on their mobile phones.

Company Headquarter: Japan Founded: 1995 Workforce: ~700 Company Working: GMO Payment Gateway, Inc. engages in the provision of payment processing services for online commerce and credit card transactions. It offers various methods of payment for non-face-to-face businesses like online retailers, public institutions, and magazine publishers through payment gateways such as credit cards, convenience stores, electronic money, Pay-easy, PayPal, and cash on delivery.

Company Headquarter: South Africa Founded: 1915 Workforce: ~24,400 Company Working: Naspers Limited is a multinational media company that engages in the provision of platform, print media, Internet services, technology products, and book publishing. The company through its subsidiaries, joint ventures, and associated companies, is engaged in the operation of the Internet and instant messaging subscriber platforms, and e-commerce platforms. It operates through the following business segments: Internet, video entertainment, media, and corporate services. The Internet segment offers a range of services through e-commerce platforms, including consumer-to-consumer (C2C), business-to-consumer (B2C), payments, and Naspers ventures. The company offers payment services for goods and services bought online under the PayU brand. PayU is the FinTech and e-payments division of Naspers, a global Internet and entertainment group and one of the largest technology investors in the world. Its products include a digital consumer wallet, a payment card industry data security standard (PCI DSS) certified payment gateway, anti-fraud systems, and an online Visa/MasterCard acquirer. The company has investments in Tencent, an Internet service platform based in China and Mail.ru Group, a Russia based Internet company. The main brands include Flipkart Pvt Ltd., TATA Housing Development Company Limited, Konga.com, Allegro.pl, Buscape, PriceCheck, Heureka, PayU S.A., ibibogroup, and Movile among others.

Company Headquarter: US Founded: 1971 Workforce: ~22,000 Company Working: First Data Corp. provides commerce-enabling secure and innovative payment technology and solutions. The company operates through three business segments: global business solutions, global financial solutions, and network & security solutions. The global business solutions segment provides retail point-of-sale merchant acquiring and e-commerce services. This segment also provides next-generation offerings, such as mobile payment services, web store-in-a-box solutions, and cloud-based clover point-of-sale operating system. The network & security solutions segment provides EFT network solutions, such as STAR network and debit card processing solutions. It also offers stored value network solutions, including money network, ValueLink, Gyft, and transaction wireless; and security and fraud solutions, such as TransArmor and TeleCheck. Other services offered by the company include mobile payments, e-commerce and prepaid solutions, as well as payment processing, fraud protection and authentication solutions, online banking, check guarantee and verification services and point-of-sale services.

Company Headquarter: The Netherlands Founded: 2006 Workforce: ~700 Company Working: Adyen NV (Adyen) engages in the provision of payments platform business. The company offers counter-top terminals, mobile point-of-sale (mPOS) solutions, in-app payments, omnichannel payments, in-store kiosks, and unattended terminals. It delivers frictionless payments across online, mobile, and in-store channels. The company’s payment platform, utilized by customers for payment globally, accepts different payment methods comprising Android Pay, Alipay in China, Boletos in Brazil, SEPA Direct Debit in Europe, Qiwi in Russia, Apple Pay, and Konbini in Japan. Through its products and services, Adyen caters to retail, digital, airlines, hospitality, and ticketing industries. The company also offers global acquiring solutions, which connect merchants to acquirers across the world. Its clientele includes easyJet, River Island, KLM, Booking.com, Vueling, Citizen, Netflix, Groupon, LinkedIn, Crocs, Spotify, Etsy, Evernote, Superdry, O’Neill, TransferWise, UBER, and Mango among others. The company has its presence in various countries of Europe, South America, North America, and Asia.

Company Headquarter: US Founded: 1970 Workforce: ~15,000 Company Working: Visa, Inc. deals in the provision of payment services. It also facilitates global commerce through facilitating the transfer of value and information in the global network of consumers, merchants, financial institutions, businesses, strategic partners, and government entities. It offers debit cards, credit cards, prepaid products, commercial payment solutions, and global ATM services. Visa classifies its offerings into five categories: core products, processing infrastructure, transaction processing services, digital products, and merchant products. Core products include debit card, credit card, prepaid cards, commercial payment, and global ATMs. Commercial payment solutions (CPS) comprise purchasing cards, corporate cards, virtual account, and disbursement accounts. CPS is designed to bring control, efficiency, and automation to government and commercial payment processing. It also provides integration capabilities, consulting and analytics support, and data management. In 2010, Visa acquired CyberSource and its wholly owned subsidiary Authorize.net, which provides e-commerce payments and security solutions for businesses. Authorize.Net is a payment gateway that allows e-commerce providers to accept payments through credit cards and electronic checks directly on their site.

Company Headquarter: US Founded: 1998 Workforce: ~18,700 Company Working: PayPal Holdings, Inc. (PayPal) engages in the development of a technology platform for digital payments. PayPal is committed to democratizing financial services and empowering people and businesses to join and thrive in the global economy. Combination of technological innovation and strategic partnerships enables PayPal to create a better way to manage and move money and also offer choice and flexibility to the users to send and receive payments. Its solutions include PayPal, PayPal Credit, Braintree, Venmo, Xoom, and Paydiant. It manages a two-sided proprietary global technology platform that links customers, which consist of both merchants and consumers, to facilitate the processing of payment transactions. PayPal operates in two segments: transaction revenues and other value-added services. PayPal also enables consumers and merchants to receive money in more than 100 currencies, withdraw funds in 56 currencies and hold balances in their PayPal accounts in 25 currencies.

Company Headquarter: U.S. Founded: 2008 Workforce: ~200 Company Working: Digimarc Corporation is engaged in the provision of media identification and management solutions and is best known for its digital watermarking technologies. It develops solutions, licenses intellectual property, and provides development services. It also connects print, audio, and packaging to brand-defined online content which protects, identifies, and tracks digital files and confirms that the content and objects are genuine, unaltered, and from an authorized source. Its products include Digimarc Discover and Digimarc Barcode. The Digimarc Barcode is a proprietary method for imperceptibly enhancing packaging, images, and audio with data that is detected by enabled devices, such as phones, computers, barcode scanners, and machine-vision equipment. The Digimarc Barcode is increasingly being used in consumer goods, labels, commercial print, audio, digital images, and secure documents. The company also offers various software for mobile, desktop and embedded circuits as well. The services offered by the company include piracy intelligence, enhancement, quality control, integration, and program management. The company caters to various end users such as retail & brand, grocery, book publishing, application development, and media & entertainment. The company specializes in invisible barcodes, audio recognition, content identification, data-rich art, and mobile barcode scanner SDK.

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: 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 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.