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
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Arq IncPublic market company profile.Web2
artienceartience Co., Ltd. engages in the colorants and functional materials, polymers and coatings, printing and information, and packaging materials businesses in Japan, Europe, Asia, the Americas, and internationally. The company operates through Coloring materials and functional materials related; Polymer/coating related; Package related; and Printing and information related business segments.It offers pigments, pigment dispersions, pastes for color filter, color resists, OCF resists, color/functional masterbatches, functional compounds, paints for data recording materials, CCUS materials, CNT dispersions, inkjet inks, colorants, and plastic colorants. The company also provides pressure sensitive adhesives, laminating adhesives, hot-melt adhesives, adhesive tapes, functional film for electronics, marking films, can coatings, resins, hard coating materials, medical products, natural extracts, and coating agents. In addition, it offers gravure and flexographic inks, gravure printing systems, gravure, and flexographic plate making solutions. Further, the company provides offset inks, newspaper inks, metal decorative inks, UV curing inks, offset printing materials, printing equipment, screen inks, printing inks, and others. It serves electronics, package, optoelectronics, medical/healthcare, mobility, building materials/living space, energy, and printing markets. The company was formerly known as Toyo Ink SC Holdings Co., Ltd. and changed its name to artience Co., Ltd. in January 2024. artience Co., Ltd. was founded in 1896 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.Web2
AshlandAshland Inc. provides additives and specialty ingredients in the North and Latin America, Europe, Asia Pacific, and internationally. It operates through Life Sciences, Personal Care, Specialty Additives, and Intermediates segments. The Life Sciences segment offers pharmaceutical solutions, including controlled release polymers, disintegrants, tablet coatings, thickeners, solubilizers, and tablet binders; and nutrition solutions, such as thickeners, stabilizers, emulsifiers, and additives; agricultural chemicals; diagnostic films; and fine chemicals. Its Personal Care segment provides a range of natural, nature-derived, biodegradable, and performance ingredients; solutions for toothpastes, mouth washes and rinses, denture cleaning, and care for teeth; and household supplies nature-derived rheology ingredients, biodegradable surface wetting agents, performance encapsulates, and specialty polymers. The Specialty Additives segment offers rheology modifiers, foam control agents, surfactants and wetting agents, pH neutralizers, advanced ceramics used in catalytic converters, environmental filters, ingredients for the manufacturing of ceramic capacitors, plasma display panels and solar cells, ingredients for textile printing, thermoplastic metals, and alloys for welding. Its Intermediates segment produces 1,4 butanediol and related derivatives, including n-methylpyrrolidone. It offers its products to customers in a range of consumer and industrial markets, such as architectural coatings, construction, energy, food and beverage, personal care, and pharmaceutical. The company was formerly known as Ashland Global Holdings Inc. and changed its name to Ashland Inc. in August 2022. Ashland Inc. was founded in 1924 and is headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware.Web2Learn how to assess projects in this field with Orbitrum Academy.
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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