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Basic materials companies and projects

Explore materials companies across metals and mining, chemicals, construction materials, packaging and forest products. Browse their public profiles and read the project-specific evaluations available on Orbitrum.

Projects in Basic Materials

322 projects

West Fraser TimberWest Fraser Timber Co. Ltd., a diversified wood products company, engages in manufacturing, selling, marketing, and distributing lumber, engineered wood products, northern bleached softwood kraft pulp, newsprint, paper, wood chips and other residuals. It operates through four segments: Lumber, North America Engineered Wood Products, Pulp & Paper, and Europe Engineered Wood Products. The Lumber segment produces spruce, pine, fir and southern yellow pine lumber, douglas fir, hemlock, wood chips, and other residuals. The North America Engineered Wood Products segment manufactures oriented strand board, laminated veneer lumber, medium-density fibreboard, plywood, and particleboard, with OSB products marketed under brands such as Durastrand pointSIX, Pinnacle Stabledge, TruFlor pointSIX and TruFlor, Rimboard, SteadiTred, QuakeZone, Windstorm, TallWall and Trubord, and SolarBord, Trubord, TruDeck, StableDeck and StableWall, DuraSmart, Stable RVand NorCore; and MDF products under Ranger, WestPine, and EcoGold. The Pulp & Paper segment produces northern bleached softwood kraft pulp (NBSK), newsprint, and bleached chemithermomechanical pulp used to produce various paper products, including printing and writing papers, paper products, and tissue. The Europe Engineered Wood Products segment produces OSB, particleboard, and MDF applications including cabinet doors, mouldings and interior wall paneling under the SterlingOSB Zero, CaberFloor, and CaberMDF brands. It also provides bioenergy and green raw materials. Its products are used in home construction, repair and remodeling, paper, tissue, and box materials, and industrial applications. It sells its products to major retail chains, dealers, contractor supply yards, and wholesalers, as well as industrial customers for further processing or as components for other products in Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe, and internationally. The company was founded in 1955 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.Web2
Xiamen Anne Corp LtdXiamen Annie Co., Ltd. engages in the anti-counterfeiting and traceability system comprehensive solution business in China. It offers professional online service on the application of digital copyright; digital content, integrated social media operation, marketing, and value-added services on intellectual property of content; e-commerce promotion, internet marketing, internet operation, brand marketing, PR scheme based on its professional analysis of market, creative scheme and customer service systems. The company also provides marketing services of business information paper, including thermal paper, carbonless paper, color printing paper, and offset paper; involved in supplying and servicing for national lottery manufactures; and paperless lottery sale solutions. Xiamen Annie Co., Ltd. was founded in 1998 and is based in Xiamen, China.Web2
XianheXianhe Co.,Ltd. engages in the research, development, production, and sale of high-performance paper-based functional materials, pulp raw materials, and chemical raw materials in China and internationally. The company offers specialty paper products, such as paper for the tobacco industry, home decoration paper, business communication and anti-counterfeiting paper, food and medical packaging paper, label release paper, heat transfer base paper, paper for low-quantitative publishing and printing, electrical and industrial paper, as well as specialty pulp and decorative base paper products. It also engages in distributed photovoltaic power generation; transportation services; environmental technology research and development; environmental facility operation and management; development of coal-fired power generation technology; forestry and power development; logistics and warehousing; electricity and heat production and supply; agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, and fishery specialties and related activities; environmental protection monitoring and water pollution control; wastewater treatment and reuse; bamboo and timber harvesting and transportation; and forest seed production and sales. The company exports its products. The company was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Quzhou, China. Xianhe Co.,Ltd. operates as a subsidiary of Zhejiang Xianhe Holdings Co., Ltd.Web2

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About this sector

Basic Materials follows the application's industry groups rather than treating every supplier of physical materials as one business. A mining company, a chemical producer and a packaging supplier have different products and operations. The sub-sectors help you locate those distinctions before opening a profile.

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Industry definitions

Construction Materials (550)

Companies supplying materials used in construction.

Metals & Mining (3,704)

Companies and projects associated with metals and mining.

Chemicals (1,993)

Companies producing or supplying chemicals.

Containers & Packaging (510)

Companies producing containers or packaging.

Paper & Forest Products (322)

Companies producing paper or forest-related products.

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Which industries are included in Basic Materials?

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