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Credit Suisse Group AG is a holding company, which engages in the provision of financial services. It operates through the following four divisions: Wealth Management, Investment Bank, Swiss Bank and Asset Management and four geographic regions: Switzerland, Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), Asia Pacific, and Americas. The Wealth Management division offers comprehensive wealth management and investment solutions, tailored financing, and advisory services to ultra-high-net-worth (UHNW) and high net-worth (HNW) individuals and external asset managers. The Investment Bank division offers a broad range of financial products and services focused on client-driven businesses and also supports Credit Suisse’s Wealth Management division and its clients. The Swiss Bank division offers comprehensive advice and a wide range of financial solutions to private, corporate, and institutional clients in Switzerland. The Asset Management division offers investment solutions and services globally to a broad range of clients, including pension funds, governments, foundations and endowments, corporations, and individuals. The company was founded by Alfred Escher on July 5, 1856 and is headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland.

Holcim (Deutschland) GmbH engages in the production and distribution of cement and concrete. It offers cement, special bonding agents, mineral components such as granulated slag and fly ash, aggregates such as sand and gravel, as well as ready-mix and pre-cast concrete. The company was founded in 1912 and is headquartered in Hamburg, Germany.

Sulzer India Ltd. provides petroleum refining and distillation equipment for the refinery, petrochemical, chemical, fertilizer and defense sectors. The firm's products include mass transfer equipment, such as internals, trays, random packings, static mixers, melt crysallisers process systems and membrane systems. The company was founded in 1988 and is headquartered in Pune, India.

Sulzer Chemtech AG provides products and services for separation, reaction and mixing technology. It offers mass transfer technology, including column internals, separators, trays, and design tool products; random and structured packing, and shell alliance products; and fractional and suspension crystallization, freeze concentration, and pervaporation services. The firm also provides process technology, which include distillation and absorption, liquid-liquid extraction, crystallization, membrane processes, evaporation, process plants, reaction, polymer production, pilot testing, and installation of a distillation unit services; and process services/equipment and spare parts. The company was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in Winterthur, Switzerland.

Part of Sulzer AG, Sulzer Chemtech USA, Inc. is an American company that enables customers to operate world-class plants and produce high value products by providing superior chemical processing and separation technologies.