Deep Intelligence Across Industries

Company Headquarters: Germany Founded: 1955 Workforce: ~2,000 Company Working: ACPS Automotive GmbH, previously known as Bosal Automotive Carrier and Protection Systems GmbH, is a pioneering leader in the business of providing tow bars for SUVs, passenger cars, and vans. It also offers a vast range of products for trailer and carrier systems under its ORIS brand. Its products have several applications in the automotive industry. Its product portfolio includes roof racks, frames, tow bars, bicycle racks, and hitches. Moreover, the company has more than 140 patents for its products in the global market. It offers its products for automobile manufacturing companies in the original equipment sector and end users in the aftermarket. Currently, ACPS Automotive GmbH has offices in 10 locations across the Americas and Europe. It has a presence in several countries across the globe, including the US, Hungary, Russia, Spain, and Mexico.

Company Headquarters: Massachusetts, US Founded: 1728 Workforce: ~5000 Company Working: Hollingsworth & Vose Company manufactures advanced materials for batteries, filtration, and industrial applications. The company offers filters for various applications including homes, clean rooms, computers, cars, hospitals, trucks, commercial buildings, and heavy-duty equipment. Moreover, the company also offers batteries for telecom and hybrid vehicle applications. The company offers its products to wide range of industries including aerospace, energy generation, transportation, and manufacturing. Hollingsworth & Vose Company has its presence all over the world, especially in the regions of North America, South America, and Europe.

Company Headquarters: Michigan, US Founded: 1916 Workforce: ~500 Company Working: ACDelco, a subsidiary of General Motors (US) manufactures and supplies various products for the vehicles. The company is engaged in the manufacturing and trading of a range of automotive products. The company offers products such as batteries, bearings, brakes, bumpers, filters, engine components, headlamps & tail lamps, airbags, radiators, spark plugs, wiper parts, transmission components, and oils & fluids. The company offers its products for both Genral motors and non-General Motor vehicles. The company has presence in countries worldwide including the US, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, China, Australia, Japan, Singapore, Thailand, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and South Africa.

Company Headquarters: Denmark Founded: 1963 Workforce: ~200 Company Working: CALDAN Conveyor A/S formed with the merger between the AL-CON Conveyor A/S & CALDAN Conveyor A/S in 2018. It designs, manufactures, and installs internal transport systems for automated painting processes & materials handling worldwide. The company manufactures overhead chain power & free conveyors, floor-based chain power & free conveyors, overhead monorail chain conveyors, floor-based chain conveyors, control systems, worldwide service & support, worldwide installation & commissioning, and conveyor systems. CALDAN Conveyor A/S offers a wide range of overhead conveyor systems ranging from simple manual systems, through powered single line (monorail) to complex power & free systems developed for unit load weights ranging between a few grams to 10.000 kg. It is currently operating through strategic alliance and managed sales and support functions in Brazil, China, India, the US and Canada.

Company Headquarters: Sweden Founded: 1993 Workforce: ~100 Company Working: Since 2018, OCS Overhead Conveyor System Ltd has been a part of Axel Johnson International, a privately owned Swedish industrial group of more than 110 companies in 27 countries, with combined annual sales of USD 1135 million and specializes in material handling, internal transport system, conveyors, warehousing, assembly lines. OCS Overhead Conveyor System Ltd manufactures a complete range of internal transport systems with overhead and floor conveyors for production processes and storage systems for several industries, including automotive and aviation. The company manufactures efficient, clean, and quiet and flexible overhead conveyor systems for order picking, storage, assembly, or manufacturing applications with loading capacities up to 7500kg and driving speeds ranging between 1m/min and 80m/min. Furthermore, the company manufactures overhead conveyors with the friction-based technology that gives a smooth, quiet, and clean motion and offers similar features as in electric monorail systems (EMS) at lower costs.

Company Headquarters: Germany Founded: 1948 Workforce: ~5000 Company Working: Herbert Kannegiesser GmbH (Herbert Kannegiesser) manufacturers products related to industrial washing technology, flatwork, logistics, moldings, and data and information systems. The products related to the industrial washing technology are used in numerous applications ranging from washing, extracting, and drying solutions to flatwork feeding, finishing, and folding as well as full dry folding in garment finishing and sortation systems. Its logistics product category covers overhead conveyor systems, laundry sorting, vacuum transport, and stack management solutions. Its mini loop overhead system offers a practical alternative to the step conveyor, with all the advantages of a modern overhead conveyor, as its storage lane can hold up to 6 sacks of soiled laundry. Its super track system is basically a monorail system, which stores laundry items in a gravity-driven rail system below the building’s roof structure and can alternatively also be used on the clean side of laundry. Herbert Kannegiesser operates through six factories in Germany, one in the UK, and one in the US. It has a distribution network that spans across 54 countries worldwide.

Company Headquarters: Germany Founded: 1977 Workforce: ~80 Company Working: Schönenberger Systeme GmbH (Schönenberger Systeme), a subsidiary of Helm Hellas S.A., designs, develops, manufactures, and supplies lifting equipment, overhead conveyors, and sliding door track systems for both trade customers and end users. It is a leading manufacturer of lifting equipment, power feed systems, overhead conveyor systems, fall arrest safety track, and sliding door track systems. It primarily manufacturers the Omniflo transport system, ILS2100 intra-logistics-system, and Schönenberger pouch sorter. The company manufactures overhead conveyors, which offer numerous advantages, such as modular range of components, simple design, easy installation, economical, wide range of brackets and trolleys, minimal maintenance, and flexibility. The company offers semi-automatic alternatives to fully powered overhead conveyors for use in areas where manual operation is not practical. The parent company Helm Hellas S.A. also offers overhead conveyor system under company name Niko Ltd. Schönenberger Systeme operates through a comprehensive distributor network that spans across most European countries, North Africa, Australia, North America, and Asia.

Company Headquarters: Germany Founded: 1949 Workforce: ~480 Company Working: PSB Intralogistics GmbH (PSB Intralogistics) is a well-recognized conveyor system manufacturer in the intralogistics sector. It primarily offers intralogistics for distribution, intralogistics for production, intralogistics for cold storage, storage systems, dynamic fashion warehouse, multi-access warehouses, order picking systems, floor-conveyor technologies, automated guided vehicles, overhead conveyor systems, and intralogistics software. Additionally, the company provides various services, namely, consulting, system design, simulation, project management, lifecycle service, and retrofit. Its products have automotive, consumer goods, electronics, fashion, retail & e-commerce, health care, third-party distributors, and metal goods & engineering applications. The company offers customized and specific end-use product solutions for end users across the intralogistics sector. PSB Intralogistics has a strong presence in Europe and operates in more than 30 countries around the world.

Company Headquarters: Germany Founded: 1867 Workforce: ~350 Company Working: Dürkopp Fördertechnik GmbH (Dürkopp Fördertechnik) is one of the leading companies offering automated hanging goods distribution centers, worldwide. It is engaged in manufacturing conveyor systems primarily for the fashion and automotive industries. Its product portfolio includes roll adapters, sorter bags, trolleyless systems, split trays, and trolley systems. It offers roll adapters for the automotive industry, under the overhead conveyor system category. The company provides IT services, spare parts logistics, and retrofit services to the end users. Dürkopp Fördertechnik is a wholly owned subsidiary of KNAPP AG, an intralogistics solution and automated warehouse systems provider. It has a strong presence in Europe and North America.

Company Headquarters: Switzerland Founded: 1957 Workforce: ~800 Company working: Ferag AG (Ferag) specializes in developing and manufacturing conveying and processing systems for graphical and direct mailing applications. It caters to the processing, fashion, automotive, food logistics, and e-commerce industries. The company offers conveyors, sortation, hanging, storage/buffering, and related technologies for conveyors and sortation. Furthermore, it provides intralogistics solutions to the end-use industries with related software technologies for control and visualization of processes. Additionally, it provides consulting, system engineering, installation, training, condition assessment, and maintenance services to the clients. Ferag is a subsidiary of WRH Walter Reist Holding AG and sister company to the WRH Global AG, which is legally authorized for the distribution of products and services of Ferag, worldwide.

Company Headquarters: Germany Founded: 1937 Workforce: ~10,500 Company Working: SSI SCHÄFER GMBH (SSI SCHÄFER) is one of the leading companies offering products and systems across material flows and waste engineering applications. Its product portfolio covers products for storage, conveying & transport, picking, and handling. The company provides a wide range of conveyor technologies and solutions for small part carriers and large load carriers. It offers products under the storage, conveying & transport, picking, handling, and interlinked workstations categories. Overhead conveyor systems are included under the conveying & transport product category. The company’s products have applications in the fashion, food & beverage, and retail industries. SSI SCHÄFER operates and manages its business through more than 70 operative companies and nearly 10 production facilities globally. It mainly operates in the Americas, Europe, and Asia-Pacific.

Company Headquarters: Germany Founded: 1882 Workforce: N/A Company Working: AWEBA Werkzeugbau GmbH designs and manufactures presses, dies, and fixtures. It primarily offers forming dies, forming dies for the powertrain, hydroforming dies, die-casting dies, die-casting dies for mechatronic parts, cutting dies, fine blanking dies, and die-related automation equipment. The company also provides maintenance & repair and engineering services to the clients. It has a global presence and primarily supplies its product across Germany, the UK, France, Italy, Spain, Austria, Switzerland, the US, Canada, China, Japan, Russia, Mexico, and Brazil. ABB, AE Group, BMW Group, Daimler AG, Feintool International Holding AG, Fischer & Kaufmann GmbH & Co. KG, KSM Group, Schaeffler AG, Volkswagen Group, ZF Friedrichshafen AG, and Siemens are some of the company’s clients. Since 2016, the company has been operating as a subsidiary of Schuler AG, which is engaged in manufacturing metal forming technology.

Company Headquarters: US Founded: 1959 Workforce: ~200 Company Working: Tipco Punch Inc. is engaged in manufacturing and distributing various types of industrial tools for applications in automotive, appliances, armament, HVAC, office furniture, pharmaceutical, logistics and warehouses, and infrastructure. It primarily offers punches, dies buttons, retainers, die springs, nitrogen gas spring, in-die tapping units, hydroformed tooling components, precision components, diamond tooling, polycrystalline diamond tooling, and PCD router cutters among others. The company offers product repair services to its clients. It mainly serves stamping die and metal stampers manufacturers as well as it serves pierce tooling solutions providers of stainless steel, advanced high strength steel and aluminum work material. The company has a global presence due to its wide network of sales offices and authorized distributors across the globe. It has sales offices in the US, Canada, Italy, and the UK.

Company Headquarters: Germany Founded: 1973 Workforce: ~75 Company Working: ALLMATIC-Jakob Spannsysteme GmbH specializes in manufacturing industrial equipment and related parts. It primarily offers tool making and machine construction services for small series manufacturers, training centers, and series manufacturers. The company’s product portfolio primarily includes automatic hydraulic clamping, manual clamping with torque spanner, and manual clamping with hand crank. Additionally, it also offers spare parts and repair services for OEMs and aftermarket players. The company has research and development, production and assembly, marketing and sales, and service and administration operations in Germany. It manages and operates in the global market through its authorized distribution and retailers’ network. The company collaborates with machine manufacturers, research institutes, suppliers, and market consultants to maintain a stable demand for its products. ALLMATIC-Jakob Spannsysteme GmbH operates as a subsidiary of Saurer Group.

Company Headquarters: US Founded: 1957 Workforce: ~1,100 Company Working: RotoMetrics is engaged in the development and manufacturing of rotary tools for industrial applications. Additionally, it is also involved in providing product development expertise and customer service to clients. The company’s product portfolio includes flexible dies, solid dies, anvils, magnetic cylinders, print cylinders, and print sleeves. It offers products for various end-use industries such as consumer goods, industrial, automotive and electrical, medical & pharmaceutical, and personal care. The company also provides repair, retooling, and re-sharpening services in the global market. It has an extensive global presence and has branches across all five continents. The company has more than ten sales offices and nearly 5,000 customers in almost 140 countries around the world. It has more than eight manufacturing facilities in the US, the UK, Australia, China, Brazil, Germany, and Thailand.

Company Headquarters: Czech Republic Founded: 1936 Workforce: ~1,100 Company Working: Austin Detonator designs, manufactures, and sells electric, non-electric, and electronic detonators for mining, quarries, construction, tunneling, and oil & gas industries. Its wide range of detonators has applications in surface, underground, construction, and the oil & gas industry. The company has 11 manufacturing facilities across Ohio, Texas, and Mexico. Austin Europe, Austin Powder GmbH, Austin Power Service, Austin International, Inc., Austin Powder Argentina S.A., and the US Nitrogen LLC are some of its subsidiaries. The company offers explosives products under Austin Powder GmbH. AUSTIN POWDER GmbH engages in the development, tests, and production of industrial explosives. The company has a capacity of producing about 14,000 tons of emulsion explosives annually with an hourly output of nearly 100kg.

Company Headquarters: China Founded: 1952 Workforce: ~3,000 Company Working: Sichuan Yahua Industrial Group CO., LTD designs, manufacturers, and sells professional civil blasting materials and blasting services, across the world. It offers various detonating equipment including electronic detonator, coal mine permissible millisecond electric, coal mine allowable instantaneous electric, detonating tube, and average delay electric detonators, as well as it offers plastic nonels and ordinary detonating cords and industrial explosives, such as rock expanded ammonium nitrate, rock emulsion, permissible emulsion, level 3 coal mine permissible emulsion, and powder emulsion explosives. The company offers its products for applications in mining, water resources and hydropower, traffic construction, urban renewal, geological prospecting, explosion working, national defense, and construction, among others. Sichuan Yahua Industrial Group CO., LTD has 14 manufacturing facilities in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region, Guizhou province, Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, and Tibet autonomous region in China, South Island and North Island in New Zealand, and Northern Territory of Australia. Kaida Chemical Industry Company Ltd, RedBull Mining Services Limited, Sichuan Zhongding Blast Engineering Co., Ltd, Kaida Chemical Industry Company Ltd, and Sichuan Yahua Lithium Technology Co., Ltd are some of its subsidiaries.

Company Headquarters: Australia Founded: 1872 Workforce: ~6,500 Company Working: MAXAM is a leading technology company that specializes in designing, developing, and manufacturing energy materials. Its product portfolio includes several advanced products ranging from seismic, electronic, and non-electric detonators to traditional goods, such as detonating cord and electric detonators. Additionally, the company manufactures a full line of initiation systems, which includes safety fuses, RIOCORD detonating cords, RIODET electric detonators, RIOTRONIC electronic detonators, and RIONEL non-electric detonators. It operates through four business segments– blasting solutions, cartridges and gunpowder, products and services for the defence industry, and raw materials for the nitro chemical industry. The blasting solutions business segment offers products for applications in mining, quarries, and infrastructure. The company has several distribution and storage centres across Australia, with over 50 subsidiaries and 80 industrial units and commercial operations in more than 100 countries.

Company Headquarters: South Africa Founded: 1896 Workforce: ~5,000 Company Working: AEL Intelligent Blasting is one of the leading suppliers of explosives and initiating systems, across the globe. It offers the mining industry a full range of explosives for both underground and surface mining applications, including bulk explosives, packaged explosives, initiating systems, blasting accessories and delivery systems, to achieve optimal blasting processes and outcomes. The company has a strong strategically placed network of depots and manufacturing facilities, through which it provides a full series of explosives and services to the most remote customers in the African and International markets. Additionally, AEL Intelligent Blasting has a strong domestic presence in Africa and a distribution channel in South America and Asia-Pacific.

Company Headquarters: US Founded: 1831 Workforce: ~3,800 Company Working: Dyno Nobel is among the leading manufacturers and providers of blasting solutions and quality explosives to the commercial explosives industry. It offers its products across mining, quarry, construction, pipeline, and geophysical exploration industries, worldwide. The company offers electronic initiation systems, sensitized bulk emulsions, and bulk explosives delivery equipment for underground mining applications. Its product line includes electric and non-electric initiation systems, cast boosters, and detonating cords that support a range of surface and underground construction applications from tunnels to utility contracts, pipeline spreads to mining development, and construction to road building and heavy civil contracts. Furthermore, Dyno Nobel has a strong distribution network with 36 manufacturing plants across the US, Australia and Mexico.

Company Headquarters: China Founded: 1936 Workforce: ~33,000 Company Working: Yanfeng Automotive Interiors designs, manufactures, and sells automotive interior components, across the globe. It offers door panels, instrument panels & cockpits, floor consoles, overhead consoles, decorative trims & lighting. Yanfeng Automotive Interiors is a joint venture between Yanfeng, one of the largest automotive suppliers in China and Adient, a global leader in automotive seating. The company has 110 manufacturing plants and 10 R&D centres located in 20 countries. Yanfeng Adient Seating Co., Ltd., Yanfeng Automotive Trim Systems Co Ltd, Dongfeng Visteon Automotive Trim Systems Co., Ltd., and Yanfeng Plastic Omnium Automotive Exterior Systems Co., Ltd. are some of its subsidiaries.

Company Headquarters: US Founded: 1998 Workforce: ~15,000 Company Working: JR Manufacturing, Inc. manufactures and supplies automotive seating components. It offers products under the segments such as headrests, wire frames, seat levers, armrest, formed wires and tubes, battery box, trust weldment and slider weldment. It is a division of Nippon Steel and Sumikin Bussan Corporation (NSSB). The company has manufacturing plants located in Manchester and Mexico. It distributes its products in South Korea, Vietnam, Japan, and China. Its subsidiaries include Arai Industrial Co., Ltd., Woobo Tech Co. Ltd., and Prodomex S.A. DE C.V.

Company Headquarters: Japan Founded: 1939 Workforce- N/A Company Working: RIKEN KEIKI Co., Ltd (RIKEN KEIKI) operates through two factories located at Hokkaido and Nara in Japan. It specializes in manufacturing more than a hundred different models of gas detection and environmental measurement products and operates through three product segments, namely, stationary gas detectors/alarms, transportable gas detectors/alarms, and other measuring equipment. The company designs, develops, and manufacturers gas detection and monitoring equipment and various gas sensors that help monitor workspace and facility safety in end use applications in semiconductor and LCD factories, petrochemical plants, ironworks, tankers and other vessels, oil storage bases, underground gas facilities, and volcanic mountains, among others. The company’s product portfolio includes gas ​​detection and indicator alarm systems, portable/personal gas monitor, portable gas leak checker, entrusted experiment for measuring leaked gas diffusion, toxic gas monitor/indicator alarm unit, oxygen monitor alarm system management, portable combination gas monitors, optical gas indicator gas detection tubes, auto-emission analyzers, surface analyzers (photoelectron spectrometers), gas ​​indicators for medical applications, and portable salinity analyzers.

Company Headquarters: China Founded: 1999 Workforce: ~5,000 Company Working: Jiangsu Xinri E-Vehicle Co., Ltd is one of the leading developers of electric scooters. The company is engaged in the research & development, manufacturing, and distribution of electric vehicles and key spare parts and components. Its portfolio is comprised of e-bikes, electric scooters, electric motorcycles, electric cargo and passenger tricycles, electric cars, and all-terrain vehicles. The company has six important production facilities for electric vehicles in China, which are located in Wuxi, Tianjin, Dongguan, Xiangyang, Henan, and Xuzhou, with an annual production capacity of 4 million. Moreover, it exports its products primarily to over 70 countries including the US, India, Japan, and Taiwan.

Company Headquarters: Ukraine Founded: 2002 Workforce: ~5,000 Company Working: Intellias Ltd.is a custom software engineering company with a specific focus on automotive, location-based services, and financial technology industries. The company has its expertise in SaaS development platform development data science & big data IoT & embedded UX/UI design mobile app development DevOps & cloud.

Company Headquarters: US Founded: 1985 Workforce: ~10,000 Company Working: HERE Technologies designs and develops software solutions. The company offers location- and map-based applications, tracking and positioning, mobility, and traffic services for automotive, transportation, insurance, and telecom industries.

1.1.1 Company Overview Company Headquarters: US Founded: 1997 Workforce: ~200 Company Working: Airbiquity Inc. is a global leader in connected vehicle services and a pioneer in the development and engineering of automotive telematics technology. The company operates the industry’s most advanced cloud-based connected car service delivery platform—Choreo. Airbiquity supports over eight million vehicles every day and multiple vehicle transactions a month in more than 60 countries around the world.

Company Headquarters: US Founded: 1983 Workforce: ~600 Company Working: Husco International designs, manufactures, and sells high-performance hydraulic and electro-mechanical components. Its engine management products help improve fuel efficiency, reduce emissions, and enhance the performance of engines and transmissions. The company’s products include integrated systems, hydraulic control valves, electronic controllers, and cartridge valves. It produces solenoids and components that are included in cam phasing for engines. It offers components for mobile and automotive equipment. It also provides project management services for manufacturing companies. The company’s products have applications in several industries, including the construction and material handling, agriculture, and automotive industries. Husco International has nine manufacturing facilities across the US, the UK, China, India, Brazil, and Germany. In 2018, it recorded USD 450 million in revenue.

Company Headquarters: US Founded: 1999 Workforce: ~1,700 Company Working: Hilite International designs, manufactures, and sells engine components and transmission components. It mainly focuses on developing and producing systems and components that improve fuel consumption and reduce emissions. The company offers its extensive know-how and experience on progressive engine and transmission applications to OEMs and other customers in the automotive industry. It has nine manufacturing facilities in Europe, North America, and Asia and recorded a revenue of USD 300 million in 2018.

Company Headquarters: Germany Founded: 1933 Workforce: ~1,000 Company Working: L'Orange GmbH (L'Orange) designs, manufactures, and sells complete injection systems for intermediate-speed large diesel engines and polyurethane foaming machines and hydraulic equipment. It offers customers fuel pumps, fuel injection valves, turbocharger, and test stands. The company’s products have applications in marine, rail, energy and power, and off-highway applications and are procured by OEMs, aftermarket players, and independent retailers and wholesale distributors. It has offices in the US, Germany, and China.