AECOM Technology Corporation provides professional technical and management support services to government and commercial clients worldwide. The company operates in two segments, Professional Technical Services and Management Support Services. The Professional Technical Services segment delivers planning, consulting, architecture and engineering design, and program and construction management services to institutional, commercial, and government clients, as well as to end markets, such as transportation, facilities, environmental, and energy markets. This segment also offers a range of services for various projects, including highways, airports, bridges, mass transit systems, government and commercial buildings, water and wastewater facilities, and power transmission and distribution. The Management Support Services segment provides facilities management and maintenance, training, logistics, consulting, technical assistance, and systems integration services primarily for agencies of the U.S. government. The company was founded in 1980 and is based in Los Angeles, California.
AGCO Corporation manufactures and distributes agricultural equipment, including tractors, combines, self-propelled sprayers, hay tools, forage equipment and implements, and diesel engines, and related replacement parts worldwide. The company provides tractors, including compact tractors used in small farms and in specialty agricultural industries, such as dairies, landscaping, and residential areas; utility tractors comprising two-wheel and all-wheel drive versions used in small and medium-sized farms and in specialty agricultural industries, including dairy, livestock, orchards, and vineyards; and horsepower tractors used in large farms and on cattle ranches for hay production. It also offers combines, and application equipment, including self-propelled, three and four-wheeled vehicles and related equipment for use in the application of liquid and dry fertilizers and crop protection chemicals; chemical sprayer equipment; and related equipment, including vehicles used for waste application that are specifically designed for subsurface liquid injection and surface spreading of biosolids, such as sewage sludge. The company's hay tools and forage equipment include round and rectangular balers, self-propelled windrowers, disc mowers, spreaders, and mower conditioners for harvesting and packaging of vegetative feeds used in the beef cattle, dairy, horse, and alternative fuel industries. Its implements include disc harrows, heavy tillage, field cultivators, tractor-pulled planters, and loaders; and engines include diesel engines, gears, and generating sets. In addition, it offers precision farming technologies that enable farmers to gather information, such as yield data by utilizing satellite global positioning systems, as well as provides wholesale financing and retail financing. AGCO Corporation sells its products under the Challenger, Fendt, Massey Ferguson, and Valtra brand names. The company was founded in 1990 and is headquartered in Duluth, Georgia.
Agrium Inc. produces and markets agricultural nutrients, industrial products, and specialty products worldwide, as well as involves in the retail supply of agricultural products and services in North and South America. It operates through three segments: Retail, Wholesale, and Advanced Technologies. The Retail segment markets crop nutrient products, including nitrogen, phosphate, potash, sulphur, and micronutrients; crop protection products, such as herbicides, fungicides, adjuvants, and insecticides; seeds; and a range of custom application and agronomic consulting services, as well as other services, including crop input product application, soil and leaf tissue testing and analysis, and crop scouting. As of December 31, 2008, this segment operated approximately 800 retail farm centers in the U.S., Argentina, and Chile. The Wholesale segment manufactures, purchases, and markets a range of nutrients, including nitrogen-based, potash, and phosphate-based crop nutrient products. It also owns and operates facilities that upgrade ammonia and urea to other products, such as nitrogen solutions and nitric acid. In addition, this segment operates fertilizer granulation and blending plants in the United States. The Advanced Technologies segment produces and sells controlled-release crop nutrient and professional products to the agriculture, specialty agriculture, professional turf, horticulture, and consumer lawn and garden markets. This segment also offers pest control products to the structural pest control industry, including pest control in residential and commercial structures. It was formerly known as Cominco Fertilizers Ltd. and changed its name to Agrium Inc. in 1995. The company was founded in 1931 and is headquartered in Calgary, Canada.
Allied Healthcare International Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides flexible or temporary healthcare staffing services to the healthcare and social care industries in the United Kingdom. Its healthcare staff primarily includes homecare aides, nurses, and nurses' aides. The company provides healthcare staffing services to local governmental social service departments; government-funded National Health Service (NHS), which operates hospitals through NHS Acute Trusts and Foundation Trusts; private individuals; independent hospitals; and nursing and care homes. As of September 30, 2009, Allied Healthcare International operated an integrated network of approximately 100 branches. The company, formerly known as Transworld Healthcare, Inc., was founded in 1981 and is headquartered in New York, New York.
Allot Communications Ltd. provides Internet protocol service optimization solutions for DSL, wireless and mobile broadband carriers, cable operator service providers, and enterprises in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Oceania. The company, utilizing its deep packet inspection (DPI) technology, transforms broadband pipes into smart networks that create the visibility, security, application control, and subscriber management to manage Internet service delivery and guarantee quality of experience (QoE). Its solutions are used to create policies to monitor network applications; enforce quality of service policies, which guarantee mission-critical application performance; mitigate security risks; and leverage network infrastructure investments. The company offers traffic management systems, including Service Gateway platform for broadband service control and optimization based on DPI; and NetEnforcer traffic management system that inspects, monitors, and controls network traffic by application and by user. Its network management application suites comprise NetXplorer that provides service providers and enterprise customers a view of traffic on the network; and Subscriber Management Platform, a system that helps service providers build an intelligent service network designed to deliver the QoE, which each subscriber expects. The company also offers ServiceProtector, which ensures service continuity and guards network integrity against known and unknown threats, as well as enables surgical mitigation through immediate identification of denial of service attacks, zero day attacks, worms, zombie, and spambot behavior. The company was formerly known as Ariadne Ltd. and changed its name to Allot Communications Ltd. in September 1997. Allot Communications Ltd. was founded in 1996 and is based in Hod-Hasharon, Israel.
Alpha Natural Resources, Inc. operates as a coal producer primarily in the central Appalachian and northern Appalachian regions. It engages in underground room and pillar mining, and surface mining operations, with a focus on high bituminous, low sulfur steam coal and metallurgical coal reserves. The company produces, processes, and sells steam and metallurgical coal from 8 regional business units supported by 33 active underground mines, 24 active surface mines, and 11 preparation plants located throughout Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, and Pennsylvania. Alpha Natural Resources also involves in the purchase and resale of coal. It serves electric utilities, steel manufacturers, industrial customers, and energy traders and brokers. The company was founded in 2002 and is based in Abingdon, Virginia.
American Commercial Lines Inc. operates as a diversified inland marine transportation and service company in the United States. The company operates in two segments, Transportation and Manufacturing. The Transportation segment provides dry cargo barge transportation and liquid cargo barge transportation on the United States Inland Waterways consisting of the Mississippi River System, its connecting waterways, and the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway. This segment transports a range of bulk and non-bulk commodities, such as grain, steel, coal, salt, alumina, fertilizers, cement, ferro alloys, ore, gypsum, chemicals, petroleum, ethanol, edible oils, and other liquid commodities. As of December 31, 2008, its transportation fleet comprised 2,645 barges, including 1,873 covered dry cargo barges, 381 open dry cargo barges, and 391 liquid tank barges, as well as 132 company-owned towboats and 20 towboats operated by third parties. The Manufacturing segment designs and manufactures barges and other vessels for third-party customers; and manufactures equipment for coastal and offshore markets. This segment also provides dry-docking capabilities and full machine shop facilities for the repair and storage of towboat propellers, rudders, and shafts; and marine design and manufacturing capabilities for inland and ocean service vessels. In addition, the company provides architecture, engineering, and production support services to customers in the commercial marine industry, as well as offers fleeting, shifting, cleaning, and repair services for barges and towboats of third-party customers. American Commercial Lines provides its services to industrial and agricultural companies. The company was founded in 1915 and is headquartered in Jeffersonville, Indiana.
Astronics Corporation, through its subsidiaries, designs and manufactures lighting components and subsystems, as well as electrical power generation, and in-flight control and power distribution systems for the aircraft market. It also provides military test, training, and simulation equipment, as well as commercial aviation safety equipment and airfield lighting systems. The company sells its products worldwide to airframe manufacturers in the commercial transport, business jet, and military markets, as well as to OEM suppliers and aircraft operators. Astronics Corporation was founded in 1968 and is based in East Aurora, New York.
Biogen Idec Inc., a biotechnology company, develops, manufactures, and commercializes novel therapeutics in the areas of oncology, neurology, immunology, and cardiology in the United States and internationally. The company's marketed products include AVONEX for the treatment of relapsing multiple sclerosis (MS); RITUXAN for treating relapsed or refractory, low-grade or follicular, CD20-positive, and B-cell Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma (NHL); TYSABRI to treat relapsing MS; and FUMADERM for the treatment of severe psoriasis. Its products under development consist of BG-12, a Phase III clinical trial product for the treatment of MS; Anti-CD80 MAb, a Phase III clinical trial product for the treatment of relapsed NHL; Anti-CD23 MAb, a Phase II/III clinical trial product for the treatment of relapsed or refractory chronic lymphocytic leukemia; Humanized Anti-CD20 MAb, a Phase III clinical trial product for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis and lupus nephritis; Lixivaptan, a Phase III clinical drug for the treatment of Acute Hyponatremia; and ADENTRI, a Phase III clinical trial product for acute decompensated heart failure patients with renal insufficiency. The company's products under preclinical stage comprise BIIB014, Daclizumab, CDP323, Humanized Anti-CD20 MAb, PEG-IFN beta 1a, Neublastin, and LINGO for neurology; Volociximab, Hsp90 Inhibitor, GA101, Anti-IGF-1R, Anti-CRIPTO, RAF Inhibitor, and Anti-Fn14 for oncology; BG-12, Anti-TWEAK, Anti-CD40L Fab, and Anti-FcRn for autoimmune and inflammatory diseases; and ADENTRI and Aviptadil for cardiovascular diseases. It has collaboration agreements with Neurimmune SubOne AG; Cardiokine Biopharma LLC; mondoBIOTECH, AG; Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; UCB, S.A.; Facet Biotech Corporation; Sunesis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; Vernalis plc; Vetter Pharma-Fertigung GmbH & Co. KG; and Schering AG, as well as a definitive agreement with AVEO Pharmaceuticals Inc. The company was founded in 1985 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Cameron International Corporation provides flow equipment products, systems, and services to oil and gas, and process industries worldwide. The company operates through three segments: Drilling & Production Systems (DPS), Valves & Measurement (V&M), and Compression Systems (CS). The DPS segment provides systems and equipments, which control pressures, direct flows of oil and gas wells, and separate oil and gas from impurities. This segment offers surface and sub sea production systems, blowout preventers, drilling and production control systems, oil and gas separation equipment, gate valves, actuators, chokes, wellheads, drilling riser, and aftermarket parts and services. It also manufactures elastomers for petroleum, petrochemical, rubber molding, and plastics industries. The V&M segment provides valves and measurement systems, which control, direct, and measure the flow of oil and gas. This segment supplies gate valves, ball valves, butterfly valves, orbit valves, double block and bleed valves, plug valves, globe valves, check valves, actuators, chokes, and aftermarket parts and services. It also offers totalizers, turbine meters, flow computers, chart recorders, ultrasonic flow meters, and sampling systems. The CS segment provides reciprocating and integrally geared centrifugal compression equipments, including integral engine-compressors, separable compressors, turbochargers, integrally geared centrifugal compressors, and compressor systems and controls. It also offers aftermarket parts and services, including spare parts, technical services, repairs, overhauls, and upgrades. Cameron International markets its equipments through a worldwide network of sales and marketing employees, and through wholesalers, agents, and distributors in selected international locations. The company was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas.
