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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.

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: Germany Founded: 1865 Workforce: ~111,047 Company Working: BASF SE (BASF) is a chemical enterprise that engages in the manufacturing, promotion and distribution of various products, such as chemicals, plastics, crop protection and performance products. BASF SE is a German multinational chemical company that operates in six segments: Chemicals, Materials, Industrial Solutions, Surface Technologies, Nutrition & Care, and Agricultural Solutions. The company is committed to sustainability and has set ambitious targets to reduce its environmental impact, including reducing greenhouse gas emissions, increasing energy efficiency, and promoting a circular economy. BASF SE offers a wide range of chemical products, including plastics, performance products, functional solutions, and agricultural solutions, among others. The company has a strong global presence with production sites in over 80 countries and a customer base that spans various industries, including automotive, construction, agriculture, and consumer goods. The company's product line encompasses a wide array of offerings, such as solvents, adhesives, dyes, surfactants, fuel additives, electronic chemicals, pigments, paints, food additives, fungicides, and herbicides. BASF serves an extensive range of industries including construction, furniture and wood, agriculture, electronics and electrical, paints and coatings, automotive, home care, nutrition, chemicals, and other related sectors. Additionally, BASF collaborates with global customers, scientists, and partners to carry out research and development initiatives. The company operates through a network of manufacturing facilities located worldwide, with a presence in Europe, Asia Pacific, South America, Africa, the Middle East, and North America. BASF and DIC had reached an agreement on the acquisition of BASF’s global pigments business with about 2,600 employees on August 29, 2019

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.