Zoltek Companies, Inc., manufactures and sells carbon fibers, which are used as the primary building material in commercial products; filament winding and pultrusion equipment for the production of composite parts; and technical fibers for aircraft brake and other friction applications. It has operations primarily in the United States and Europe and sells its carbon fibers worldwide.
Altair Nanotechnologies, Inc. owns a proprietary technology for making nanocrystalline materials of unique characteristics, economically and in large quantities. The company produces closely-sized nanoparticles of titanium dioxide and other ceramic oxide materials and compounds. Applications are found in products such as advanced batteries, fuel cells, thermal spray coatings, specialty paints, catalysts, plastics, cosmetics, solar cells and self-cleaning and sanitizing materials.
Agnico-Eagle is an international growth company focused on gold, with operations in Canada and advanced-stage projects and opportunities in Canada, Mexico, Finland and the U.S.A. The company’s operating history includes more than 30 years of continuous gold production primarily from underground operations. Since its amalgamation in 1972, Agnico-Eagle has produced over 3.8 million ounces of gold. It is one of the lowest total cash cost producers in the North American gold mining industry.
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Active Power, Inc. engages in the design, manufacture, and marketing of battery-free power products that provide electric power in the United States, Europe, and Africa. It offers CleanSource UPS, a battery-free uninterruptible power supply (UPS) under the Caterpillar brand name, Cat UPS. The company also provides a battery-free DC system, CleanSource DC that is used as a bridging energy source in power quality installations and compatible with various UPS brands.
Ballard Power Systems is recognized as the world leader in the design, development and manufacture of zero-emission proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cells. Ballard is commercializing fuel cells for the transportation market and electric drives for both fuel cell and battery-powered electric vehicles, power electronics and fuel cells for both portable and stationary power generation markets. It is also a Tier 1 supplier of friction materials to the automotive industry for automatic transmissions as well as a supplier of carbon fiber paper gas diffusion layers (GDL) to the fuel cell industry.
Ispat Industries Limited (IIL) is one of the leading integrated steel makers and the largest private sector producer of hot rolled coils in India. A corporate powerhouse with operations in iron, steel, mining, energy and infrastructure, the Group figures among the top 20 business houses in the country. It employs a total of 2000 people and is the leader in the national speciality steel market. The company’s core competency is the production of high quality steel, for which it employs cutting edge technologies and stringent quality standards.
Indo Gulf Fertilisers Limited is among the largest and most cost-efficient private sector fertiliser companies in India. It manufactures and markets urea, a nitrogenous fertiliser. In operation since 1998, the capacity of this urea plant stands at 864,600 tonnes per annum (tpa). The Company enjoys a leadership position in the nitrogenous fertiliser sector supported by a strong distribution and customer service network.
Engineers India Limited(EIL) provides engineering and related technical services for petroleum refineries and other industrial projects. In addition to petroleum refineries, with which EIL started initially, it has diversified into and excelled in other fields such as pipelines, petrochemicals, oil and gas processing, offshore structures and platforms, fertilizers, metallurgy and power. EIL provides the complete range of services needed to conceptualise, design, engineer and construct projects to meet the specific requirements of its clients.
Ballarpur Industries Limited Thapar Group (BILT) is India’s largest paper company and the only Indian company to rank amongst top 200 paper companies in the world”. BILT is the undisputed leader in the Indian paper industry. It is also India’s largest manufacturer and exporter of paper, with a strong presence in all segments of the usage spectrum that includes Writing & Printing Paper, Industrial Paper and Specialty Paper. Complementing this is a diversified production infrastructure with six manufacturing units spread across the country.
Ador Fontech Limited is a front-runner organisation that operates on the philosophy of ‘partnering’ with its clients in recommending and implementing value-added reclamation, fusion and surfacing solutions. The Company is dedicated to supply of products, services and solutions that help in conservation of mineral reserves as well as in reducing down-time and inventory costs. The company supplies products, services and solutions that meet and exceed the needs of the end-users. The customer-base includes mining industries, steel and other metallurgical complexes, power plants, railways, road transport workshops, shipping industries, sugar mills, cement plants, fertilizer and chemical plants, oil drilling and refining sector, defence workshops, and a whole range of engineering industries.
Ador Welding Limited (AWL) is India’s leader in the field of Welding Products, Technologies & Services. Over the last 50 years it has successfully built a brand that is recognized for Quality & Services in over 40 countries. With six manufacturing plants, a comprehensive distribution & highly acclaimed Centre for Welding Excellence CWE, AWL continues to provide the highest level of Customer Satisfaction.
Alter Trading Corporation is one of the nation’s leading scrap metal recyclers and brokers, with processing centers and offices throughout the central United States.
Mechel is the second largest producer of long products in Russia, and the largest and most comprehensive producer of specialty steels and alloys in Russia, producing 39% of total Russian specialty steel output. It also produces significant amounts of coke, both for internal use and for sales to third parties.
Hindalco Industries Limited, a flagship company of the Aditya Birla Group, is structured into two strategic businesses — aluminium and copper — and is an industry leader in both these segments. A non-ferrous metals powerhouse, close to global scale, it ranks among India’s top 10 companies in terms of market capitalisation.
Cleveland-Cliffs is the largest producer of iron ore pellets in North America. Cliffs sells the majority of its pellets to integrated steel companies in the United States and Canada. The company operates six iron ore mines located in Michigan, Minnesota and Eastern Canada that currently have the capacity to produce 37.7 million tons of iron ore pellets annually.
Sonoco Products is a global manufacturer of industrial and consumer products and provider of packaging services. Sonoco has more than 300 operations in 35 countries serving customers in some 85 nations. Sonoco’s packages surround some of the world’s most recognizable brands found in pantries, stores and manufacturing plants virtually everywhere.
Domtar is the third largest producer of uncoated freesheet paper in North America. It is also a leading manufacturer of business papers, commercial printing and publication papers, and technical and specialty papers. Domtar also produces lumber and other wood products and holds a 50% investment interest in Norampac Inc., the largest Canadian producer of containerboard.
Lihir Gold Limited is the owner and developer of one of the world’s premier gold mines, located on Lihir Island in the New Ireland province of Papua New Guinea. Lihir Gold boasts one of the world’s largest gold resources and ranks among the top gold producers in the world.
Norbord Inc., is an international forest products company headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, employs 2,900 people at operations in Canada, the United States and Europe. The company’s research and development activities are carried out through The Technology Centre, located in Ville St. Laurent, Quebec, Canada.
Masteel is one of the largest iron and steel complex in China and the biggest industrial enterprise in Anhui province. With world leading hot rolling and cold rolling thin strip production lines, high speed wire production line, the most advanced hot rolling big H-beam production line and the biggest wheel & tyre production line in Asia, it has formed unique product structure of plate, section, wire and wheel. 80% of its steel products are produced according to international standards and 38 kinds of products got the title of state or provincial quality product.
Gold Fields Limited is one of the world’s largest unhedged producers of gold, providing investors with maximum leverage to the gold price.It has attributable production of 4.2 million ounces per annum, mineral reserves of 64.8 million ounces and mineral resources of 174.5 million ounces.
Consol Energy is a multi-energy producer of coal, gas and electricity. It produces both high-Btu coal and gas, which collectively fuels two-thirds of all U.S. power generation, from reserves located mainly east of the Mississippi River. Consol Energy is a major fuel supplier to the electric power industry in the northeast quadrant of the United States.
Aracruz Celulose is the world’s leading producer of bleached eucalyptus pulp. The company is responsible for 31% of the global supply of the product, used to manufacture high value added goods such as tissue, printing and writing, and specialty papers.
Bemis Company, Inc., is the largest flexible packaging company in the Americas and a major manufacturer of pressure sensitive materials used for labels, decoration and signage.
Yanzhou Coal Mining is a leader in coal production in Eastern China. It produces more than 40 metric tons per year and has about 2 billion metric tons in proven and probable reserves — about 10 tons a year are exported. Yanzhou Coal operates six mines, producing both thermal coal for electric generation and coking coal for metallurgical production.
Pactiv Corporation is a leading producer of specialty packaging products for the consumer and foodservice/food packaging markets. With sales of $2.5 billion, Pactiv has one of the broadest product lines in the specialty packaging industry and derives more than 80 percent of its sales from market sectors in which it holds the No. 1 or No. 2 market-share position.
The Salzgitter Group consists of over 80 national and international subsidiaries and associated companies. It ranks among Europe’s leading steel technology groups with around € 6 billion in external sales and an annual production of more than 8 million tons of crude steel. It is positioned among the top 5 in Europe, and occupies a leading global position in the Tubes segment. As an MDAX listed company, Salzgitter AG ranks as one of the TOP 100 German stock corporations.
Imsa Group is one of Mexico’s leading diversified industrialist companies, operating in three Core businesses: steel processed products; steel and plastic construction products; and aluminum and related products. With manufacturing and distribution facilities in Mexico, the United States, Central Spain, and throughout and South America, Imsa Group exports to all continents.
Nisshin Steel is the industry leader, making progress in all areas of its business. It manufactures coated, cold and hot-rolled, stainless, and specialty steel.
Antofagasta plc is one of the largest international copper producing companies in the industry. It is mainly concentrated in Chile where it owns and operates three copper mines, LosPelambres, El Tesoro and Michilla, with a total production of 498 thousand tonnes in 2004, at an average cash cost of 24.4 c/lb.
Hylsamex encompasses support subsidiaries in the mining, scrap metal processing, transportation, and steel marketing fields. It is a leader in most of the markets that it serves such as: construction, automotive, domestic appliances, steel technology and others.
Abitibi-Consolidated is a global leader in newsprint and uncoated groundwood. The Company owns or is a partner in 26 paper mills, 22 sawmills, 5 remanufacturing facilities and 1 engineered wood facility in Canada, the U.S., the U.K., South Korea, China and Thailand. Abitibi-Consolidated is also the world’s largest recycler of newspapers and magazines, serving 16 metropolitan areas in Canada and the United States and 130 local authorities in the United Kingdom, with 14 recycling centers in North America.
Since 1915, Commercial Metals Company (CMC) has manufactured, recycled and marketed steel and metal products and related materials around the world. CMC is an efficient, high quality, low-cost producer and is one of the few steel companies with investment grade public debt ratings.
Travis Perkins is a leading company in the Builders’ Merchanting and Home Improvement markets.It is a leading supplier to one of the largest UK industries.The company supplies more than 120,000 product lines to trade professionals and self-builders including general building materials, timber, plumbing & heating, kitchens, bathrooms, landscaping materials and tool hire.
Dofasco Inc. is one of North America’s most progressive and profitable steelmakers, and a market leader in an industry that continues to be a cornerstone of the Canadian economy.It produces high quality flat rolled and tubular steels and laser-welded blanks, and is Canada’s only producer of tinplate.
Norske Skog is a global supplier of publication paper with mills and sales offices on five continents. Its core business is newsprint and magazine paper for some of the world’s major publishing houses.
Canfor is a leading integrated forest products company based in Vancouver, British Columbia. The company is the largest producer of softwood lumber and one of the largest producers of northern softwood kraft pulp in Canada.
IPSCO Inc. is a publicly traded corporation with operations spanning the U.S. and Canada.The company operates facilities that have the capacity to make 3,500,000 tons of steel annually. Utilizing electric arc furnaces, the steelworks melt steel scrap, and with the addition of appropriate alloys, create numerous grades and strengths of hot rolled discrete plate and coil.
Sappi is the world’s largest producer of coated fine paper, which is high-quality printing paper that has a multitude of end-uses ranging from glossy magazines and catalogues to books, direct mail and general commercial print and also chemical cellulose (dissolving pulp), used primarily in the manufacture of viscose fibre.
Established in 1920, Empresas CMPC has been a pioneer in pulp and paper manufacturing in Chile. More than 80 years of experience in the industry guarantee CMPC’s operation in the forestry, pulp, paper, folding boxboard, tissue products, newsprint, multiwalled paper sacks, corrugated cardboard boxes, school notebooks and office stationery businesses, participating in more than 50 countries throughout the five Continents.
GMexico ranks among the most important companies in Mexico, Perú and United States and it is a significant mining player in the world. It is a holding company of mining and transportation operations which are performed through two subsidiaries organized as follows: Americas Mining Corporation (AMC) is a sub-holding company which groups mining operations in Mexico, the United States and Peru.
The Gerdau Group is the largest producer of long steel in the Americas, with mills in Brazil, Argentina, Canada, the United States, Uruguay and Colombia. Gerdau has an installed capacity of 16.4 million metric tons of steel per year.
Founded in 1973 and headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee, Louisiana-Pacific (LP) is a leading manufacturer of building materials in North America, with facilities throughout the United States, Canada, and in Chile. LP has more than 40 manufacturing facilities in North America.
Cameco is the world’s largest, low-cost uranium producer accounting for almost 20% of the world’s uranium production. Its mining and conversion facilities in North America provide fuel to the western world’s nuclear power plants.
M-real is one of Europe’s leading suppliers of solutions for printing, office and magazine paper and consumer packaging. Its main market is Europe, but the products are sold worldwide.It focuses on five core businesses: Consumer Packaging, Publishing, Commercial Printing, Office Papers and the Map Merchant Group. It has 26 production units across nine European countries and a worldwide sales network covering over 70 countries.
Engelhard is a surface and materials science company that develops technologies to improve customers’ products and processes. Engelhard is a world-leading provider of technologies for environmental, process, appearance and performance applications. It has leading market positions – number one or two in all our major market segments.
Crown Holdings is the world’s packaging leader. With net sales of $7.2 billion in 2004, it serves its customers from operations in 43 countries and employs 27,600 people. It offers world-class products with a global vision.
Ruukki supplies metal based components, systems and turnkey deliveries to the construction and mechanical engineering industries. The company has a wide selection of metal products and services. Ruukki has operations in 21 countries and employs 11,000 people. Net sales in 2004 totalled EUR 3.6 billion.
Imerys is the world’s #1 producer of kaolin, a white clay used in the production of paints, plastics, adhesives, porcelain, paper, rubber, and textiles. Imerys structures its operations in four divisions: Specialty Minerals (kaolin, calcium carbonate); Pigments for Paper (production and commercialization of kaolin and precipitated calcium carbonate); Refractories and Abrasives (raw materials for ceramics); and Building Materials (clay roof tiles and bricks).
AK Steel produces flat-rolled carbon, stainless and electrical steel products, as well as carbon and stainless tubular steel products, for automotive, appliance, construction and manufacturing markets.
