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Air Liquide SA is a multinational company that supplies gases for large industries and health businesses. The company functions through the following segments: gas & services, engineering & construction, and global markets & technologies. The gas & services segment is engaged in supplying gases across the Americas, Asia-Pacific, Europe, and the Middle-East & Africa. The engineering & construction segment is engaged in developing, designing, and building industrial gas production plants for various industries and third parties. The company also manufactures and designs plants for the traditional, renewable, and alternative energy sectors. The global markets & technologies segment focuses on new markets, which require a global approach, drawing on science, technologies, and development models related to digital transformation.

SAMSON is a market leader in control valves for industrial processes. It operates wherever there is a controlled flow of oils, gases, vapors or chemical substances. The company manufactures control valves, butterfly valves, and modular automation units for use in all areas of process engineering. Additionally, it also offers products such as sophisticated transmitters, controllers, regulators, actuators, signal converters, sensors & thermostats, and automated systems. The company’s products are used in industries such as chemicals & petrochemicals, power & energy, food & beverages, metallurgy & mining, and oil & gas. It provides solutions for cryogenic applications. The company also provides digital applications (apps) such as SAM GUARD, SAM TANK MANAGEMENT, SAM DISTRICT ENERGY, and SAM-LAN for monitoring and diagnostics. SAMSON has sales offices all over the world, including in countries such as the US, China, Russia, the UK, Argentina, Australia, Brazil, and Canada. Samson International Holding SA, Samson Controls (China) Co., Ltd., Starline Spa, Welland and Tuxhorn AG, Samson Nv, and Samson Controls, Inc. are some of the subsidiaries of the company.

Company Headquarters: Pennsylvania, US Founded: 1940 Workforce: ~ 21,900 Company Working: Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. focuses on serving the energy, environmental, and developing markets, offers vital industrial gases, associated equipment, and applications knowledge to clients across a variety of sectors, including chemical, metals, electronics, manufacturing, food and beverage, and refining. The business also leads the world in the equipment and process technologies for liquefied natural gas delivery. Some of the biggest industrial gas projects in the world are developed, engineered, constructed, owned, and run by it. These projects use gasification, which sustainably transforms plentiful natural resources into syngas to provide high-value electricity, fuels, and chemicals. The regional industrial gases divisions manufacture and distribute Speciality gases, atmospheric gases like syngas (a blend of hydrogen and carbon monoxide), process gases like hydrogen, helium, carbon dioxide, and nitrogen, and atmospheric gases like oxygen, nitrogen, and argon. The Company's equipment sales operations are included in the Corporate and other divisions. This business unit supplies membrane systems and cryogenic containers as well as cryogenic and gas processing equipment for air separation, liquefied natural gas process technology and equipment, turbo machinery equipment and services. Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. maintains the widest hydrogen distribution network in the world and owns and runs more than 100 hydrogen plants that produce more than seven million kilograms (three billion standard cubic feet) of hydrogen daily. The company has more than 60 years of expertise with hydrogen and a sizable hydrogen dispensing technology patent portfolio. The business has worked on more than 250 hydrogen fueling installations in more than 20 different nations. Hydrogen produced by Air Products has been used to fuel a variety of vehicles, including cars, trucks, vans, and buses. The company has its geographical presence in Asia, Europe, and the Middle East.

Company Headquarters: Sugar Land, Texas, US Founded: 1926 Workforce: ~100,000 Company Working: Schlumberger Limited is one of the largest oilfield service providers. Schlumberger operates in four segments, namely reservoir characterization group, drilling group, production group, and Cameron. The drilling segment of the company deals with technologies involved in the drilling and positioning of oil and gas wells. Mi SWACO, a subsidiary of Schlumberger, provides engineered MPD solutions to the company. Schlumberger offers a wide range of drilling services including directional drilling, drilling optimization, rhino integrated borewell enlargement system, MPD, coiled tubing directional drilling, casing-drilling, liner-drilling and seismic-guided drilling. The bits and drilling tools segment of the company designs, manufactures and markets, fixed cutter and roller cone drill bits for the company. The drilling tools manufactured by the company include equipment for bottom hole assembly, impact tools, and borehole enlargement technologies. Drilling and Measurements provides logging services for drilling and geological surveillance, logging-while-driving and directional drilling, for wells of all types. Land rigs provide rigs for onshore drilling and related support services. Integrated Drilling Services (IDS) supplies all the services necessary to make changes to the well. All aspects of drilling rig management, procurement, logistics, engineering, well drilling, well planning and contracting of third parties are covered by IDS. Cameron International, Smith International (North Sea), Schlumberger oilfield Holdings Limited, and Schlumberger B.V., Netherlands are some of its subsidiaries. It operates in over 140 nations, such as the US, France, India, and the UK. Some of its major competitors are Halliburton (US), General Electric (US), Newpark Resources Inc. (US), and National Oilwell Varco Inc. (US).

Velan Inc. is one of the leading manufacturers of industrial steel valves. It provides various products under its gate, globe, and check valves category, which includes cast and forged steel gate, globe, check, ball, triple-offset, and knife gate valves. The company provides its products to various end-use industries, such as refining & petrochemicals, power generation, oil & gas, pulp and paper, mining, LNG & cryogenic, and water & wastewater. Velan Inc. has 13 production facilities, of which four plants are located in North America, four plants are in Europe, and five plants are in Asia-Pacific. It has two stocking distribution centers in the US and Germany, 60 service shops, and several distributors. The company has a presence in several countries across the world, including China, France, Germany, India, Italy, South Korea, Portugal, Taiwan, and the US.

Company Headquarters: Connecticut, US Founded: 1983 Workforce: ~200 Company Working: First Reserve offers industrial valve products through The Weir Group PLC company, which is one of the global leaders in engineering businesses, such as mill circuit technology and services, pressure pumping equipment and services, designs and manufactures valves, pumps and services among end-use industries, such as power generation, mining, infrastructure, and oil & gas. It caters to the requirements of various end-use industries, such as nuclear, conventional and renewable power generation, water and waste water, mid and downstream oil and gas, and general industrial processes. The major end-use industries focusing on industrial valve market are utility companies, general industrial companies, and Engineering Procurement construction Management (EPCM) companies. The company operates in three main divisions namely, minerals, ESCO, and oil & gas. Industrial valves are offered under the ESCO division, which is a global leader in Ground Engaging Tools (GET) used in highly abrasive surface for mining and infrastructure applications. The major brands under which the industrial valves are sold are Hopkinsons, Atwood & Morrill, Blakeborough, Sarasin-RBSD, and WSP. The major operating locations for valve market are the US, Canada, the UK, France, South Korea, South Africa, India, and China. The company is operational in more than 70 countries, worldwide.

Company Headquarters: Minnesota, US Founded: 1966 Workforce: ~9,750 Company Working: Pentair Plc is primarily engaged in offering smart water solutions worldwide. It operates through four business segments, namely, filtration solutions, aquatic systems, flow technologies, and other. It focuses on designing, manufacturing, and providing services to meet the separation, filtration, flow, and water management challenges. Its product and services include pumps, filters, valves, UV sanitization, and automation controls. Pentair Plc also offers design and consulting services for residential, commercial, industrial, municipal, infrastructure, and agriculture applications. The company’s water filter products are principally marketed under the brand names of Code line, Everpure, Fairbanks-Nijhuis, Kreepy Krauly, Haffmans, and Aurora. The company operates in more than 130 locations in 34 countries across six continents. Some of the company’s subsidiaries are Schroff GmbH, Pentair Water India Private ltd, Hoffman Enclosures Inc, Pentair Filtration, and JUNG PUMPEN GmbH.

Company Headquarter: Dublin, Ireland Founded:1879 Workforce:80000 Company Working: Linde is the largest industrial gas company worldwide and is a major technological innovator in the industrial gases industry. Its primary products in its industrial gases business are atmospheric gases (oxygen, nitrogen, argon, and rare gases) and process gases (carbon dioxide, helium, hydrogen, electronic gases, specialty gases, and acetylene). The company also designs and builds equipment that produces industrial gases and offers customers a wide range of gas production and processing services such as olefin plants, natural gas plants, air separation plants, hydrogen and synthesis gas plants and other types of plants. Linde's industrial gases are used in countless applications, from life-saving oxygen for hospitals to high-purity & specialty gases for electronics manufacturing, and hydrogen for clean fuels among others. The company operates in more than 100 countries worldwide with its principal offices in the United Kingdom and United States. In 2018, Praxair, one of the largest industrial gases company in North and South America, and the third-largest worldwide by revenue merged with Linde AG to form Linde plc.

Company Headquarters: Charlotte, North Carolina, US Founded: 1929 Workforce: ~9,000 Company Working: Curtiss-Wright Corporation (Curtiss-Wright) designs, manufactures, and overhauls precision components and engineered products. Moreover, it provides services to the aerospace, defense, and power generation industries globally. The company operates through three business segments—commercial/industrial, defense, and power. Through its commercial/industrial segment, it offers industrial vehicle products, such as electronic throttle control devices, transmission shifters, and joysticks; sensors, controls, and electro-mechanical actuation components and utility systems that are used in commercial aircraft; valves for naval vessels; and industrial applications and surface technology services such as laser peening, shot peening, coatings, and advanced testing. Through the defense segment, it provides commercial off-the-shelf embedded computing board level modules, data acquisition and flight test instrumentation equipment, instrumentation and control systems, turret aiming and stabilization products, integrated subsystems, and weapons handling systems, avionics and electronics, and aircraft data management solutions. The power segment offers hardware, pumps, fastening systems, spent fuel management products, and fluid sealing technologies for nuclear power plants and nuclear equipment manufacturers and naval propulsion and auxiliary equipment, including coolant pumps, generators, power-dense compact motors, steam turbines, and secondary propulsion systems.