Industry Partners

AkzoNobel is a global fortune 500 company and is listed on both the Euronext Amsterdam and NASDAQ stock exchanges. It is also listed on the Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes and the FTSE4Good Index. Based in the Netherlands, we are a multicultural organization serving customers throughout the world with human and animal healthcare products, coatings, and chemicals. We employ around 61,880 people and conduct our activities in four segments − human and animal health, coatings and chemicals −subdivided into 13 business units, with operating subsidiaries in more than 80 countries. Consolidated revenues for 2006 totaled EUR 13.7 billion.

Purac is a leading company in food preservation, green chemicals and lactic acid based bioplastics and the worldwide market leader in lactic acid, lactic acid derivatives and lactides. Purac has over 75 years of experience in the development, manufacturing and marketing of these products in a broad range of industries. Purac operates production plants in the USA, the Netherlands, Spain, Brazil and Thailand and markets its products through a worldwide network of sales offices and distributors. Purac is headquartered in The Netherlands and is a part of CSM.

Evodos offers a mechanical solid-liquid separation technology which is directly derived from the theoretical laws of fluid dynamica, versus incremental improvements of existing technologies. Therefore it has major advantages over traditional separation technologies such as stacked disk separators or decanter centrifuges.

Cultivating and Marketing Algae-derived Products Algae to Omega Holdings, Inc. and its subsidiaries cultivate and market algae and algae-derived products. The Company also intends to use environmentally clean technologies such as rain capture, anaerobic digestion, wind turbines and solar panels, to produce and sell high-value algae feedstock used to manufacture nutraceuticals such as Astaxanthin for human and animal nutrition, pure contaminant-free Omega 3 oil and superior-quality food for the livestock and aquaculture industries.

Dow (NYSE: Dow) combines the power of science and technology with the “Human Element” to passionately innovate what is essential to human progress. The Company connects chemistry and innovation with the principles of sustainability to help address many of the world’s most challenging problems such as the need for clean water, renewable energy generation and conservation, and increasing agricultural productivity. Dow’s diversified industry-leading portfolio of specialty chemical, advanced materials, agrosciences and plastics businesses delivers a broad range of technology-based products and solutions to customers in approximately 160 countries and in high growth sectors such as electronics, water, energy, coatings and agriculture. In 2010, Dow had annual sales of $53.7 billion and employed approximately 50,000 people worldwide. The Company’s more than 5,000 products are manufactured at 188 sites in 35 countries across the globe.

A global, leading authority in energy consulting and testing & certification, active throughout the entire energy value-chain – in a world of increasing demand for energy, KEMA has a major role to play in ensuring the availability, reliability, sustainability and profitability of energy and related products and processes. KEMA combines unique expertise and facilities, in order to add value to our customers in the field of risk, performance and quality management. With more than 1,800 people and offices and representatives in more than 20 countries around the globe, we are committed to offering reliable, sustainable and practical solutions. We understand and recognize the technical consequences of a business decision, as well as the business consequences of a technical decision. Innovative technology has been our starting point for more than 80 years. That is our experience you can trust.