Smurfit WestrockSmurfit Westrock Plc, together with its subsidiaries, manufactures, distributes, and sells containerboard, corrugated containers, and other paper-based packaging products in North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, and internationally. The company produces containerboard and paperboard; packaging of corrugated containers; consumer packaging; and offers solid board, kraft paper, and graphic board, as well as other packaging products, such as solidboard packaging, paper sacks and bag-in-box. It produces linerboard and corrugated medium and paperboard; and other paper-based packaging, such as folding cartons, inserts, labels and displays. The company primarily serves food and beverage, healthcare, beauty and personal care, garden, consumer goods, industrial, and foodservice markets. It markets its products through its own sales force, independent sales representatives, and independent distributors. Smurfit Westrock Plc was founded in 1934 and is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland.Web21 evaluationBasic materials companies and projects
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Smurfit WestrockSmurfit Westrock Plc, together with its subsidiaries, manufactures, distributes, and sells containerboard, corrugated containers, and other paper-based packaging products in North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, and internationally. The company produces containerboard and paperboard; packaging of corrugated containers; consumer packaging; and offers solid board, kraft paper, and graphic board, as well as other packaging products, such as solidboard packaging, paper sacks and bag-in-box. It produces linerboard and corrugated medium and paperboard; and other paper-based packaging, such as folding cartons, inserts, labels and displays. The company primarily serves food and beverage, healthcare, beauty and personal care, garden, consumer goods, industrial, and foodservice markets. It markets its products through its own sales force, independent sales representatives, and independent distributors. Smurfit Westrock Plc was founded in 1934 and is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland.Web21 evaluation
Korea Zinc IncKorea Zinc Company, Ltd. operates as a general non-ferrous metal smelting company primarily in South Korea. The company offers zinc slab ingots, alloy jumbo blocks, anode ingots, and die cast ingots; and lead and lead alloy ingots; and copper cathodes. The company also provides gold and silver; and rare metals, including indium, bismuth, and antimony; and sulfuric acid, semi sulfuric acid, and oleum. In addition, it engages in non-ferrous metals import and export, and recycling; wholesale and product brokerage; provision of logistics warehousing services; shipping; construction equipment operation; waste lubricant refining; electricity, gas, and steam supply; concentrate export; and logistics businesses. Further, the company offers private equity fund services; media content production services; electrolytic copper foil for secondary batteries; and electronic waste collection, dismantling, shredding, and processing services. The company was incorporated in 1974 and is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea.Web21 evaluation
PoscoPOSCO Holdings Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates as an integrated steel producer in Korea and internationally. It operates through six segments: Steel, Trading, Construction, Logistics and Others, Green Materials and Energy, and Others. The company engages in the production, import, sale, and export of steel products, such as hot and cold rolled steel, stainless steel, plates, wire rods, and silicon steel sheets, as well as pig iron, billets, blooms, and slabs; trading of steel and raw materials, textiles, agricultural commodities, and other goods; natural resources development and power generation activities; and planning, designing, and construction of industrial plants, civil engineering projects, and commercial and residential buildings. It is also involved in the manufacture and sale of various energy-related and other industrial materials, including anode and cathode materials for rechargeable batteries; investment business; and provision of alternative environmentally-friendly energy solutions, as well as information technology and operational technology, and integrated logistics services. POSCO Holdings Inc. was incorporated in 1968 and is based in Seoul, South Korea.Web21 evaluation
LyondellBasell Industries NVLyondellBasell Industries N.V. operates as a chemical company in the United States, Germany, China, Mexico, Italy, Japan, France, Poland, the Netherlands, and internationally. It operates in five segments: Olefins and Polyolefins—Americas; Olefins and Polyolefins—Europe, Asia, International; Intermediates and Derivatives; Advanced Polymer Solutions; and Technology. The company produces and markets olefins and co-products, such as ethylene, aromatics, propylene and butadiene; polyolefins; polyethylene; polypropylene homopolymers and copolymers; propylene oxide and derivatives; oxyfuels and related products; and intermediate chemicals, such as styrene monomer and acetyls. It also produces and markets compounding and solutions, including polypropylene compounds, engineered plastics, masterbatches, and engineered composites and colors. In addition, it develops and licenses chemical and polyolefin process technologies; and manufactures and sells polyolefin catalysts and serves food packaging, home furnishings, automotive components, and paints and coatings applications. LyondellBasell Industries N.V. was incorporated in 2009 and is headquartered in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.Web21 evaluation
Akzo Nobel ADRAkzo Nobel N.V. produces and sells paints and coatings worldwide. It operates through Decorative Paints and Performance Coatings segments. The company offers decorative paints, including paints, enamels, varnishes, and surface preparation products; and a range of mixing machines, color concepts and advice, and training for applicators. It also provides performance coatings that produces engineered coatings designed to deliver functional properties, such as corrosion and fouling control, anti-scratch performance, and fire protection to protect and enhance ships, cars, aircraft, yachts, and architectural components, consumer goods, and oil and gas facilities. The company offers its products under the AkzoNobel, Alabastine, Alba, Andercol, Apla, Armstead Trade, Astral, Astral Batiment, AwlGrip, Brikol, Bruguer, Cetabever, Cetol, Chemcraft, Colourland Paints, CONSOLAN, Coral, Cromadex, Cuprinol, Dulux, Dynacoat, Flexa, Glitsa, Grip-Gard, Hammerite, Herbol, Inca, Innenweis, Interlux, International, Interpon, Lesonal, Levis, Luxol, Mactra, Marshall, Mauvilac, Maxilite, Modern Classikk, Molto, Nordsjo, Oxirite, Pintuco, Pinotex, Polycell, Polyfilla, Procolor, Protecto, Relest, Resicoat, Sadolin, Salcomix, Savana, Sea Hawk, Sikkens, Sparlack, Taubmans, Titanlux, Trimetal, U-Tech, Vivechrom, VPowdertech, Wanda, Xyladecor, and Xylazel brands. The company serves energy, packaging, infrastructure, and shipbuilding and maintenance industries, as well as general industries, such as agricultural and construction equipment, construction-related steel, metal fabrication, pipes, appliances, and transportation. The company was formerly known as Akzo NV and changed its name to Akzo Nobel N.V. in 1994. Akzo Nobel N.V. was founded in 1646 and is headquartered in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.Web21 evaluation
ManagemManagem S.A. engages in the exploration, extraction, processing, and marketing of minerals substances in Morocco, Asia, Europe, and internationally. The company operates in two segments, Mining and Hydrometallurgy. It explores for gold, cobalt, silver, zinc, copper and lead, and natural gas deposits. The company also engages in transformation and processing of ores to obtain metallic derivatives and specialty chemicals, such as cobalt cathodes, nickel derivatives, nickel hydroxide, lithium carbonate, copper sulfate, cobalt sulfate, sulfuric acid, and arsenic trioxide. The company was founded in 1928 and is headquartered in Casablanca, Morocco. Managem S.A. operates as a subsidiary of Al Mada.Web21 evaluation
UPM-KymmeneUPM-Kymmene Oyj, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the forest-based bioindustry worldwide. It operates through UPM Fibres, UPM Energy, UPM Adhesive Materials, UPM Specialty Papers, UPM Communication Papers, UPM Plywood, and Other Operations segments. The company offers softwood, birch, and eucalyptus pulp for tissue, specialty papers, packaging papers, graphic papers, and board; sawn timber for joinery, packaging, furniture, planning, and construction industries; and wood-based renewable diesel and renewable naphtha for transport and petrochemical industry. It also generates electricity through hydro, thermal, and nuclear power plants; provides financial portfolio management services, as well as engages in forestry water protection. Further, it provides plywood and veneer products for construction, vehicle flooring, liquefied natural gas shipbuilding, parquet manufacturing, and other industrial applications; wood and wood-based biomass, and forestry services for forest investors and owners; biomedical products, such as nano-fibrillar cellulose for clinical and life science applications; wood-based lignin products for industrial use; and wood-based biochemicals for replacing fossil-based raw materials. It serves distributors, industrial users, publishers, cataloguers, retailers, printing houses, merchants, converters, and label stock manufacturers; label printers; brand owners; and producers of tissue, board, specialty, and graphic paper. The company was founded in 1871 and is headquartered in Helsinki, Finland.Web21 evaluation
AmrizeAmrize AG engages in the provision of various building solutions for infrastructure, commercial, and residential construction markets in North America and Canada. It operates through two segments, Building Materials and Building Envelope. The Building Materials segment offers cement and aggregates, as well as ready-mix concrete, asphalt, and other construction materials. The Building Envelope segment provides advanced roofing and wall systems, including single-ply membranes, insulation, shingles, sheathing, waterproofing, and protective coatings; and adhesives, tapes, and sealants. The company was formerly known as Holcim North America Finance Ltd and changed its name to Amrize AG in December 2013. Amrize AG was incorporated in 2023 and is based in Zug, Switzerland.Web21 evaluation
ArcelorMittal ADRArcelorMittal S.A., together with its subsidiaries, operates as integrated steel and mining companies in the Americas, Europe, Asia, and Africa. It offers semi-finished flat products, including slabs; finished flat products comprising plates, hot- and cold-rolled coils and sheets, hot-dipped and electro-galvanized coils and sheets, tinplate, and color coated coils and sheets; semi-finished long products, such as blooms and billets; finished long products consisting of bars, wire-rods, structural sections, rails, sheet piles, and wire-products; and seamless and welded pipes and tubes. The company also provides mining products, such as iron ore lumps, fines, concentrate, pellets, and sinter feeds; and coking coal. It sells its products to various customers in the automotive, appliance, engineering, construction, energy, and machinery industries through a centralized marketing organization, and distributors. The company operates iron ore mining activities in Brazil, Bosnia, Liberia, Mexico, South Africa, and Ukraine, as well as in India and in Canada. ArcelorMittal S.A. was founded in 1976 and is headquartered in Luxembourg, Luxembourg.Web21 evaluationAbout this sector
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Construction Materials (550)
Companies supplying materials used in construction.
Metals & Mining (3,704)
Companies and projects associated with metals and mining.
Chemicals (1,993)
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Containers & Packaging (510)
Companies producing containers or packaging.
Paper & Forest Products (322)
Companies producing paper or forest-related products.
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