Deep Intelligence Across Industries

Company Headquarters: Hørsholm, Denmark Founded: 1874 Workforce: 3,151 Company Working: CHR-Hansen is a multinational company, which offers solutions to improve food and health. The company manufactures different products under five broad segments including food cultures and enzymes, natural colors, plant health, animal health, and probiotic supplements & infant formula. It offers probiotic strains, which are used in different areas such as gastrointestinal balance, immune system support, and women’s microflora. The company has production units located in Denmark, Germany, France, the Czech Republic, Brazil, China, Italy, Peru, and the US. The company caters to customers present globally.

Company Headquarters: US Founded: 1969 Workforce: ~7,400 Company Working: Zebra Technologies Corporation (Zebra Technologies) designs, manufactures, and sells a variety of automatic identification and data capture products including mobile computers, RFID readers, barcode scanners, real-time location systems, specialty printers for personal identification and barcode labeling, related accessories such as self-adhesive labels, software utilities, and applications. It also provides services such as technical support, repair, maintenance, and managed and professional services. It operates through two segments—asset intelligence and tracking (AIT) and enterprise visibility & mobility (EVM). The AIT segment consists of barcode, card printing, location services, supplies, and services. The EVM segment provides mobile computing, RFID, data capture solutions, and services. The company provides its products and services to end users across sectors, which include ecommerce, retail, transportation, manufacturing, government, and education. The company supplies its products and services globally using a direct sales force and an extensive network of channel partners. It provides its products and services in over 180 countries and has 109 facilities globally.

Company Headquarters: South Africa Founded: 1864 Workforce: 3,500 Company Working: Sasol is an integrated chemical and energy company that operates through five business segments, namely, mining, exploration and production international, energy, base chemicals, and performance chemicals. It operates coal mines and develops and manages upstream interests in oil and gas exploration and production in Mozambique, South Africa, Australia, Canada, Gabon, and Australia. Additionally, the company produces and markets explosives, fertilizers, polymers, mining reagents, alcohols, ketones, acrylate monomers, and other oxygenated solvents for use in applications, such as aerosols, cosmetics, fragrances, packaging, paints, adhesives, pharmaceuticals, polishes, printing and plastics, mining, pulp and paper, steel, textiles, water treatment and purification, agricultural fertilizers, and chemicals. Sasol has 8 production facilities and a presence in 34 countries including Germany, France, Italy, Spain, the UK, the US, Canada, Mexico, China, India, Japan, and others. National Petroleum Refiners of SA Ltd., Sasol Chevron Holdings Limited, Sasol Synfuels (Pty) Ltd, Sasol New Energy Holdings (Pty) Ltd, Sasol Canada Exploration and Production Limited, and Sasol Mining Holdings (Pty) Ltd are some of its subsidiaries.

Company Headquarters: South Africa Founded: 1984 Workforce: ~4,800 Company Working: BME South Africa designs, manufacturers, and sells explosives and other related accessories and blasting services to the mining, quarrying, and construction industries. It offers its products through three business segments, namely, agriculture, mining, and chemicals. The mining business segment comprises bulk emulsion, blended bulk explosives, specialized chemicals and chemical-based solutions, and logistics services for the opencast mining industry. The chemical business segment includes specialty, bulk trading, and industrial chemicals and polymers, as well as it includes base oils, additives, and lubricant products. The company has offices located in South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Swaziland, Angola, Malawi, Mozambique, DRC, Sierra Leone, Mali, Burkina Faso, Mauritania, Senegal and Eritrea. Bulk Mining Explosives (Pty) Ltd (BME South Africa) operates as a subsidiary of Omnia Holdings Limited.

Company Headquarters: Massachusetts, US Founded: 2004 Workforce: ~1,107 Company Working: DD IP Holder LLC (DD) is one of the world’s leading franchisors of quick-service restaurants (QSRs) serving hot and cold coffee & baked goods, as well as hard serve ice creams. The company franchise restaurants under its well-known brands, Dunkin’ and Baskin-Robbins. DD has more than 20,900 distribution centers in over 60 countries globally. It has 12,900 Dunkin’ restaurants and over 8,000 Baskin-Robbins restaurants. DD also utilizes a multi-franchise system in the UK, Germany, China, and Mexico. Additionally, it has a joint venture with a publicly-traded company for the Baskin-Robbins brand in Japan and joint ventures with local companies in Australia for the brand and in South Korea for both the Dunkin’ and Baskin-Robbins brands.

Company Headquarters: Chile Founded: 1920 Workforce: ~3,500 Company Working: Enaex designs, develops, and sells explosives and blasting services. It operates through five business segments, namely, raw materials, blasting agents, high explosives, initiation systems, and blasting accessories. The blasting agent’s business segment includes its pirex, daveytronic, Energex, prillex, panfex, and vertex brands. The initiation systems business segment offers non-electric detonators, electric detonators, electronic detonators, and detonating cords. The company manufactures high explosives including various types of dynamite, boosters, cartridge emulsions, and detonators— at its Río Loa plant in Calama. It offers a wide variety of services such as shot blasting, loading blasting agents, shallow mooring, plugging blast holes, checking blasting holes, and magazine management. The company provides rock fragmentation and blasting services in Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Colombia and Peru, where it also has a broad network of on-site service plants. It has eight production plants across Chile, Argentina, Brazil, and France. Davey Bickford SAS, Xion I Participações S.A., Sigdo Koppers, and Industrias Cachimayo S.A. are some of the subsidiaries of the company.

Company Headquarters: China Founded: 1997 Workforce: ~4,762 Company Working: Neway Valve is one of leading valve manufacturers in the advanced valve manufacturing industry. It manufactures various valves such as gate, globe, check, ball, butterfly, nuclear, subsea, control, and safety valve & wellhead equipment, which are used in end-use verticals including oil & gas, offshore, chemical, power, nuclear, mining, and air separation industry. It operates in three business segments, namely, valve manufacturing business, and brass manufacturing business. Under its valve manufacturing business, The company offers a range of products and integrated solutions related to industrial valves. Furthermore, it sells materials and processed components used in consumer electronics, precision devices, automobiles, building construction, and other applications. The company has 5 subsidiaries namely, Neway Valve International, Inc. (US), Neway Valve B.V. (the Netherlands), Neway Valve s.r.l. (Italy), Neway Valve Pte. Ltd. (Singapore), and Neway Flow Control DMCC. (Dubai). It has 14 service units, across the globe.

Company Headquarters: Chiba Prefecture, Japan Founded: 1944 Workforce: ~4,762 Company Working: KITZ Corporation is one of the leading manufacturers and seller of valves, other flow control devices, and related products in Japan and worldwide. The company offers valves, fittings, water purifiers, and industrial filters that are used for the control of fluids and brass rods are offered for machined and forged products. The company operates in three business segments, namely, valve manufacturing business, brass manufacturing business, and others. Under its valve manufacturing business, it offers a wide range of products and integrated solutions related to industrial valves. Furthermore, it sells material and processed components used in consumer electronics, precision devices, automobiles, building construction, and other applications. The company has 12 brands such as Kitz, Perrin, Toyo Valve, and ISO. It offers industrial valves to building facilities, water and sewer systems, natural gas distribution networks, production processes, oil refining, petrochemicals, and other industries through its Perrin, and Toyo Valve brands. The company has production and sales bases in 12 countries, across the globe.

Company Headquarters: Denmark Founded: 1941 Workforce: ~38,000 Company Working: AVK Holding A/S is a leading manufacturer with more than 100 companies in the group manufacturing valves, hydrants, and accessories for water and gas distribution, sewage treatment, and fire protection system. The company caters to the requirements of the various industrial sectors within advanced manufacturing. The company operates in four segments, namely, fluid handling, payment & merchandising technologies, aerospace & electronics, and engineered materials. Industrial valves are offered under under its fluid handling segment that also provides industrial fluid control products, including valves, pumps, lined pipe, and instrumentation products. The major brands the industrial valves are sold under, are AVID, Brownall, Center Line, Compac-Noz, Crane, Crane Fluid Systems, Crane Supply, Crane Valve Services (Nuclear), Duo-Chek, EPIC, and Flowseal.