Headquartered in Melbourne, Australia, Incitec Pivot is a global leader in the materials sector with an unrelenting focus on Zero Harm, the expectation that its operations should never expose staff to harm or cause environmental incidents. The company’s origins began in the 1800s with the...
Headquartered in Oslo, Norway, Norsk Hydro is one of the largest aluminum companies in the world. It aims to convert natural resources into sustainable products for people and business. Since its founding in 1905, this Knowledge Leader has worked for over a century to develop...
Linde is the largest industrial gas company worldwide and an innovator in the highly engineered technologies used to deliver gas to customers. With a mission to enable the transition to clean energy, Linde completed its merger with Praxis in 2018, and today supplies oxygen to...
Sensient is a leading global maker of colors, flavors and specialty ingredients for the cosmetic, food, and pharmaceutical industries. Inspired by nature, its products are designed to enhance sensory experience through Sensient’s proprietary technologies. Based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the firm’s R&D teams help many of the...
Minerals Technologies makes specialty minerals for a wide range of consumer and industrial applications ranging from building, steel, glass, paints, ceramics and paper to the food, pharmaceutical and automotive industries. For example, the firm is the leader in clay-based cat litter. Its biggest business is...
Martin Marietta Materials is a leader in high quality cement, ready-mixed concrete, asphalt and aggregates made of crushed stone, sand and gravel, all of which are used in industrial, agricultural and environmental construction. Based in Raleigh, North Carolina, the firm runs operations in 26 states,...
For 150 years, HeidelbergCement’s products have been used to build houses, traffic routes and commercial and industrial facilities. Because of its role as one of the largest manufacturers of building materials in the world, the firm takes a leadership position in the industry’s responsibility to...
Germany-based Evonik is a world leader in specialty chemicals, describing its contribution as “those small amounts of material that make a big difference.” Big indeed: this year the company began delivering the lipid nanoparticle shell for the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, a protective shell that transports...
One of the largest forest owners in Sweden, Holmen makes wood products for sustainable building, cost-effective paper, and renewable paperboard used for packaging, books and magazines. The firm has a long history in Sweden, originating in 1609 on the island of Kvarnholmen, for which the company...
Now branded as LP Building Solutions, the company formerly known as Louisiana-Pacific is a global leader of engineered wood products for building homes. Its biggest and fastest-growing product lines are called SmartSide and Oriented Strand Board, both panels for siding and sheathing in new home...
Headquartered in Melbourne, Australia, BHP is the world’s No. 1 mining company. Formed in the mid-1800s from two small mining companies, BHP is the result of a merger between Broken Hill Properties (BHP), which began as a silver, lead and zinc mine in Broken Hill,...
Australian metals miner South32 is a 2015 BHP Billiton spinoff named to reflect the southern latitude where most of its assets are located. In its new iteration, South32 has a bias toward developing its business in “base” metals, those metals considered common and therefore non-precious,...
AngloAmerican was founded in 1917 by Ernest Oppenheimer, who moved from Germany to Johannesburg, South Africa, and secured financial backing from J.P. Morgan to start a gold mining business. His first major industry partnership was forged in 1926, when AngloAmerican became a majority stakeholder in...
Founded in 1926, the first chemical Shin-Etsu ever manufactured was a limestone nitrogen fertilizer, made possible thanks to raw materials from two plentiful natural resources: water from the Shinano area (Shin) and limestone from the Echigo area (Etsu). The company’s name recognizes these gifts from...
