Aurubis sure hopes you upgrade kitchenware to include some copper pots. The company operates two main business segments. The company's copper production unit produces 1 million tons of copper cathodes (a 99.9%-pure form of copper) from ore, recycling materials, and scrap. Its second business unit, copper processing, then uses this copper to cast wire rod and shapes, copper alloys, and rolled products. The company produces another 1.2 million tons of copper products each year. Customers include companies in the chemical, electronics, automotive, and construction industries. Aurubis bought Belgian copper company Cumerio for about $1 billion in 2008 and changed its name from Norddeutsche Affinerie the next year.

Lonmin goes platinum without selling a single CD. Lonmin company is the world's #3 platinum producer (after Anglo Platinum and Impala Platinum). Uses of platinum include catalytic converters for vehicles, and jewelry. Its Lonmin Platinum, or Lonplats, unit mines platinum group metals (PGMs, including platinum, palladium, and rhodium) through two South African companies: Western Platinum and Eastern Platinum. Lonmin company produces about 1.4 million ounces of PGM annually, of which about half is platinum. In addition to its Australian PGM investments, Lonmin has exploration activities in North America, South Africa, and Tanzania.

Companhia Brasileira de Aluminio (CBA) has more than enough energy for its aluminum business. In fact, the company distributes excess electricity to homes across Brazil. Its operations span the aluminum production process, from mining bauxite to producing primary aluminum to processing coils, ingots, billet, and bars as well as such fabricated products as cables and roof tiles. Clients include such industries as transportation, packaging, electric utilities, constructions, and consumer products. The intensive electrical requirements for aluminum processing led the company to to invest in hydroelectric power generation. It now operates nearly 20 power plants and supplies more than half of its own electricity.

More than half a century has passed since Fujimi introduced its first man-made lapping abrasives to Japanese industry. Since then, the name Fujimi has become synonymous with premium quality lapping and polishing products. We have taken micro–particle production to the nanometer level, making it a key technology in a wide range of industries, including semiconductor manufacturing, optics, and metal finishing. In the area of silicon wafer lapping powders used for IC and VLSI substrates, Fujimi has earned approximately 80% of the global market. We are committed to advancing fine particle technology to benefit industry worldwide. It is our goal to create ever finer particle materials, both as refinements in current applications and for applications only imagined.Fujimi products first reached the North American market in 1976. A U. S. sales company, Fujimi Corporation, was established in Chicago in 1984 to better market our products to American customers. Growing demands from the American semiconductor industry led to the creation of Fujimi America Inc in 1988. PWA lapping powders are still being produced at our 32,000 square foot facility in Wilsonville , Oregon . It has been continually upgraded, and is now the Fujimi PWA production center for the world. Its products are the standard of the industry, and are primarily marketed to the semiconductor manufacturing, glass processing and metal finishing industries.Our manufacturing complex in Tualatin has been built in phases, beginning in 1993 with a facility for the production of Disklite polishing slurries. A 45,000 square feet building devoted to the production of FO lapping powders was completed in 1996. It is the most advanced facility of its type in the industry. This plant is highly automated and fitted with state-of-the-art environmental controls. Our Technical Center , dedicated to testing of Fujimi products, was constructed at the same time. It was the beginning of the research and development of advanced finishing processes in the U.S. A production facility for CMP products was begun in 1998, and is continually being expanded and upgraded to meet the demands of a growing market. Currently four CMP products are being made on a 24/7 schedule. In July of 2003, Fujimi Corporation was merged with Fujimi America , maintaining the name Fujimi Corporation as the U.S. company, located in Tualatin , Oregon . A building containing administrative offices, expansion space for CMP production, an ultra clean automated CMP process facility, and several state-of-the-art laboratories for R&D was completed on the Tualatin site just before the merger. Further expansion in Tualatin is being planned, as well as upgrades to the PWA plant in Wilsonville.

Sojitz Corporation is trading in all kinds of places. The company's 500 subsidiaries trade in a wide array of businesses, ranging from steel and automobile parts to apparel, making it one of the largest trading houses in Japan. Sojitz's other major businesses include aerospace, foods, oil and gas, chemicals and plastics, retail property development, and construction materials. The rest of Asia and North America (through its Sojitz Corporation of America unit) are major contributors to its overseas trading operations. Sojitz was formed by the 2003 merger of two Japanese trading powerhouses, Nissho Iwai and Nichimen Corporation.

ThyssenKrupp AG company is one of the world's largest steel producers and operates worldwide in two business areas: Materials and Technologies. The first is comprised of the company's steel (carbon and stainless steel) and materials services businesses. ThyssenKrupp's Technologies sector consists of its elevators unit and the marine systems, components technology (for the auto and engineering markets), and plant technology (construction and environmental services) segments. Although its combined interests range from elevators to shipbuilding, the company has historically relied on the cyclical steel market.

Belgonucleaire fuels the nuclear world. Belgonucleaire company produces mixed oxide (MOX), a combination of depleted uranium oxide and plutonium oxide that is used as fuel in nuclear power plants. Belgonucleaire also has a nuclear engineering branch, which researches nuclear fuels, builds equipment for MOX production factories, and develops systems to dispose of nuclear waste safely. The engineering branch also works with other nuclear firms to neutralize plutonium left over from dismantled nuclear weapons. The Belgian national government owns 50% of Belgonucleaire company, which was founded in 1957.

Goldcorp is a leading gold producer engaged in gold mining and related activities including exploration, extraction, processing and reclamation. Goldcorp Inc. operating assets include the Red Lake, Porcupine and Musselwhite gold mines in Canada, Peñasquito, Los Filos, El Sauzal, and San Dimas gold/silver mines in Mexico, the Marlin mine in Guatemala, the Marigold mine (67% interest) and Wharf mine in the United States and the Alumbrera mine (37.5%) in Argentina. Over 72% of Goldcorp’s reserves are in low political risk NAFTA countries. Goldcorp has a solid pipeline of projects including the Eleonore gold project in Quebec, Canada, the Pueblo Viejo project (40% interest) in the Dominican Republic and the El Morro project in Chile. These valuable assets, along with several others, will allow for growth in production for years to come.

Walter Energy, Inc. produces and exports metallurgical coal for the steel industry primarily in the United States. Walter Energy company also produces steam coal, coal bed methane gas, metallurgical coke, and other related products. It principally serves electric utility and industrial customers. Walter Energy company was formerly known as Walter Industries, Inc. and changed its name to Walter Energy, Inc. in April 2009. Walter Energy, Inc. was founded in 1946 and is headquartered in Tampa, Florida.

Yanzhou Coal Mining Company Limited engages in the underground mining, preparation, and sale of coal. It involves in manufacturing, washing, processing, and selling steam coal used in the electricity power sector; and metallurgical coal used with coking coal in the process of pulverized coal injection, as well as operates six coal mines. The company also engages in the provision of railway transportation services; production and sale of coal chemicals, primarily methanol; and generation of electricity and heat. In addition, it involves in the manufacture and sale of mining machinery and engine products; and development of integrated coal technology. Further, the company engages in the transportation via rivers and lakes; sale of construction materials; and trading and processing of mining machinery. It has operations primarily in China, Japan, South Korea, and Australia. The company was founded in 1973 and is based in Zoucheng, the People's Republic of China. Yanzhou Coal Mining Company Limited is a subsidiary of Yankuang Group Corporation Limited.

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