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Company Headquarters: China Founded: 1989 Workforce: ~70,500 Company Working: Gree Electric Appliances, Inc. designs, manufacturers, and sells household appliances across the globe. It operates through three business segments, namely, air conditioner, household appliances, and others. The air conditioner segment includes residential air conditioners (ACs), including wall-mounted, floor-standing, window, portable, dehumidifier, and commercial air conditioners. The household appliances segment includes electric fans and heaters, water dispensers and purifiers, humidifiers, multi-cookers, air purifiers, electric kettles, pressure and induction cookers, side by side, Italian type, multi-door, three door, combi, double door, single door, and chest freezer refrigerators. The company has established nine production bases in Zhuhai, Chongqing, Hefei, Zhengzhou, Wuhan, Shijiazhuang, Wuhu, Brazil, and Pakistan. It has 220 distributors located across the globe. Gree USA, Inc., Zhuhai Landa Compressor Co., Ltd, Brazil United Electric Appliances Industry and Commerce Co., Ltd, Zhuhai Gree Electric Enterprises Ltd, and Gree Electric Appliances (Brazil) Co., Ltd are some of the subsidiaries of the company.

Company Headquarters: China Founded: 1968 Workforce: ~130,000 Company Working: Midea Group is one of the world’s leading technologies groups in consumer appliances, robotics, HVAC systems, industrial automation systems, and smart supply chain (logistics). It operates through three business segments, namely, HVAC, consumer appliances, and robotics and automatic systems. The consumer appliances business segment offers kitchen appliances, laundry appliances, refrigerators, and various small home appliances. The HVAC business segments offers residential air-conditioning, heating & ventilation commercial water purifier, and air-conditioning products. It markets its products under its Midea, Little Swan, MDV, Hualing, Welling, and GMCC brands. The company has established a global network of more than 200 subsidiaries, over 60 overseas branches, and 12 strategic business units, employing about 130,000 employees in total, as of 2017.

Company Headquarters: Austria Founded: 1990 Workforce: ~4,500 Company Working: BWT Aktiengesellschaft is one of the leading manufacturers of water treatment systems. It offers residential water technologies, such as water filters, softeners, limescale protection systems, and water treatment units for swimming pools. The company also caters to the commercial water treatment requirements in the public sector and building technology applications. It designs its commercial projects through water analysis and provides construction, commissioning, and maintenance services to ensure reliable and cost-effective operations. The company offers reverse osmosis systems, electrode ionisation systems, and disinfection, ultraviolet (UV) systems, as well as it offers dosing agents and maintenance services. BWT Aktiengesellschaft serves installers, wholesalers, planners, architects, and municipalities, through branches, and field and service staff. Furthermore, it functions through 82 subsidiaries and associated companies and has five main production locations. The company extensively focuses on research and development and has several research and development departments across France, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, and Russia.

Company Headquarters: South Korea Founded: 1947 Workforce: ~ 14,691 Company Working: LG Chem Ltd is a Korea-based company principally engaged in the manufacture of petrochemical materials. The Company operates its business through five segments. The Petrochemistry Business segment is mainly engaged in the manufacture of basic materials which are mainly used for petrochemical industry, and the products include polyvinyl chloride (PVC) resins, low-density polyethylene (LDPE), poly styrene (PS), and acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS). The Battery Business segment mainly engages in the manufacture of rechargeable batteries for mobile phone, automobile and storage batteries. The Advanced Materials Business segment mainly manufactures optical materials for manufacturing polarizers, and electronic materials including liquid crystal display (LCD) materials and cathode materials. The Life Science Business segment engages in the bio pharmaceutical business. The Common and Other segment manufactures and sells crop protection agents, fertilizers and seeds. LG Chem is a leading global supplier of lithium-ion battery cathode materials. The company has a strong track record of innovation and has developed some of the most advanced cathode materials on the market. LG Chem is committed to providing its customers with the best possible battery performance and safety.

Company Headquarters: Taipei, Taiwan Founded: 1965 Workforce: ~1,699 Company Working: LCY Chemical Corp. engages in the manufacturing of petrochemical products. The company integrates its operation into the business divisions of performance plastic, methanol & solvent, thermoplastic elastomer, bio-based, drum, and energy. Styrene butadiene styrene comes under the thermoplastic elastomer segment. It offers its SBS products for diverse applications that include adhesives, asphalt modifications, composite solutions, plastic modification, and footwear. The company has five manufacturing plants located in China, Qatar, and the USA. All the manufacturing plants are ISO 14001 certified.

Company Headquarters: Seoul, South Korea Founded: 1970 Workforce: ~1,350 Company Working: Kumho Petrochemical Co., Ltd is a manufacturer of synthetic rubbers and resins. The company business field includes synthetic resins, specialty chemicals, nanocarbon, energy, and building materials. It offers styrene butadiene styrene (SBS) under the segment of the synthetic rubber under the brand name KUMHO KTR. The company provides its SBS products for applications such as asphalt modifier, waterproof sheet, adhesives, compounding, and plastic modifier. The company operates sales offices in China, the US, Germany, Malaysia, Korea, and Indonesia and sells products to customers across six continents.

Company Headquarters: Texas, US Founded: 2009 Workforce: ~1,918 Company Working: Kraton Corporation develops, manufactures, and markets bio-based and specialty polymers. The company is the leading global producer of styrenic block copolymers (SBC) and pine chemicals. The company operates in two business lines that are polymer segment and chemical segment under the trade name KRATON, AQUATAC, CENTURY, CENWAX, SYLFAT, SYLVABLEND, SYLVACOTE, SYLVALITE, SYLVAPINE, UNIDYME, and ZONATAC, amongst other. It offers styrene butadiene styrene under the trade name KRATON D SBS/SBS OE. The company has a manufacturing facility in four continents – North America, South America, Europe and Asia, more than 800 customers across a diverse range of markets in over 70 countries globally.

Company Headquarters: Beijing, China Founded: 1999 Workforce: ~4, 76,223 Company Working: PetroChina is the global oil and gas producer and supplier. The company operates in exploration, development, refining of crude oil and petroleum products, production and sales of basic and derivatives chemical products and other chemical products, the marketing and trading of refined products, and transmission of natural gas, crude oil, and refined products. The company offers styrene butadiene styrene under the derivative petrochemicals segment. The company has oil and gas corporation in more than 30 countries and three international oil and gas operation hub.

Company Headquarters: Beijing, China Founded: 2000 Workforce: ~2, 49,142 Company Working: Sinopec, also known as China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation is a petroleum company engaged in upstream, midstream and downstream operations. The company’s petrochemical complex processes crude oil into synthetic fibers, resins and plastics, intermediate petrochemicals, and petroleum products. The company operates through five business segments that include Petroleum Products; Trading of Petrochemical Products; Resins and Plastics; Intermediate Petrochemicals; and Synthetic Fibers. Styrene butadiene styrene product comes under the intermediate petrochemical segments. The company has its presence in China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Europe, and the UAE.