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WM, previously known as Waste Management, ranks as the largest integrated provider of traditional solid waste services in the United States, operating 262 active landfill sites and about 339 transfer stations that help with transporting waste efficiently and economically. The company serves residential, commercial, industrial, and medical end markets for waste collection, transfer, and disposal. The company also has an energy business emanating from the beneficial use of landfill gas and is a leading recycler in North America.

Republic Services Group is the second-largest waste management company by revenue and provides integrated waste management services to residential, commercial, and industrial customers. With 208 active landfills, 248 transfer stations, and 75 recycling centers, Republic Services has reached $16 billion in annual revenue, focusing on recycling and environmental solutions. The company reports in three segments based on the Western United States (Group 1), Eastern United States (Group 2), and Environmental Solutions across North America (Group 3). Eighty-nine percent of total revenue comes from recycling and waste, with the remaining 11% from Environmental Solutions.

Waste Connections is a North American waste management company focused on integrated waste collection services. The firm primarily focuses on residential, commercial, municipal, and industrial waste collection, with a secondary market focus on rural areas. With 113 landfills and 222 transfer stations as of 2024, it is the third-largest waste management company by revenue. Revenue is split among six operating segments: Western, Southern, Eastern, Central, Canada, and Midsouth.

Veolia is a French environmental-services group whose corporate origins date to 1853. It provides drinking-water production and distribution, wastewater treatment, waste collection and recycling, energy management and related infrastructure services. Municipal governments, utilities, industrial customers and commercial organizations contract with the group under operating, concession and service arrangements. Revenue comes primarily from long-term service contracts and the operation of essential environmental infrastructure rather than from equipment sales. At the time of Qatari Diar's 2010 investment, Veolia employed more than 310,000 people worldwide and reported 2009 revenue of EUR 34.5 billion across water, waste, energy and transportation. The group later narrowed its portfolio and in 2022 combined with most of the former SUEZ business, expanding its global water and waste operations.

Veralto is a diversified industrial firm organized into two segments. The water quality segment offers water analytics and water treatment solutions, while the product quality and innovation segment offers coding, packaging, and color solutions for consumer packaged goods and pharmaceuticals. Headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts, the company has around 17,000 employees. Veralto generated approximately $5.5 billion in revenue in 2025.

GFL Environmental Inc is an environmental services company. Its offerings include non-hazardous solid waste management, infrastructure, soil remediation, and liquid waste management services. Its solid waste management business line, which generates the majority of the revenue, consists of the collection, transportation, transfer, recycling, and disposal of non-hazardous solid waste. Its Environmental Services business line includes liquid waste and soil remediation. The company's geographical segments are Canada and the United States. The company derives the majority of its revenue from the United States.

Clean Harbors Inc is an environmental and industrial services provider that provides parts cleaning and related environmental services to commercial, industrial, and automotive customers. Its business segments are Environmental Services and Safety-Kleen Sustainability Solutions. Environmental Services includes waste collection, transportation, treatment, recycling, and disposal, along with industrial maintenance services. Safety-Kleen Sustainability Solutions provides used oil collection and manufactures base oil, vacuum gas oil, and lubricants. The company generates the majority of its revenues from the Environmental Services segment and operates in the United States, with maximum revenue, and Canada.

Jiangsu Eastern Shenghong Co Ltd is engaged in the energy and chemical enterprise. The company's main products include refined oil products, other petrochemical and chemical new materials, polyester filament, other chemical fiber products, and others.

Toray Industries Inc is a Japan-based company engaged in the textile business, functional chemicals business, carbon fiber composite materials, and other businesses. The Carbon Fiber Composite Materials segment covers carbon fiber, composites, and molded products. The Environment and Engineering segment includes membranes for water treatment, general engineering, industrial machinery, housing, and construction materials. The Functional Chemicals segment handles resins, foams, films, fine chemicals, and electronic materials. The Life Science segment focuses on pharmaceuticals and medical devices. The Textile segment provides fibers, fabrics, non-woven and apparel products, while Others offers analysis, survey, and research services. It generates majority of revenue from the Textile segment.

Zurn Elkay Water Solutions Corp is a growth-oriented, pure-play water management business that designs, procures, manufactures, and markets the broadest sustainable product portfolio of specification-driven water management solutions to improve health, hydration, human safety and the environment. Its product portfolio includes professional grade water safety and control products, flow systems products, hygienic and environmental products, and filtered drinking water products for public and private spaces that deliver superior value to building owners, positively impact the environment and human hygiene and reduce product installation time.

Tongkun Group Co Ltd is a China-based company engaged in polyester and polyester filament yarn manufacturing. It offers various polyester filament yarns, such as a pre-oriented filament, draw textured yarns, polyester chips, and others under the GOLDENCOCK and Tong Kun brand names.

Diversified chemicals maker with three main segments: fluorochemicals and refrigerant gases, specialty chemicals for agrochemical and pharma customers, and packaging films and technical textiles such as tyre cord fabric. Sells to industrial customers in India and abroad. Headquartered in Gurugram.

Shenzhou is the world's largest vertically integrated knitwear manufacturer. It makes sportswear, casual wear, and lingerie for major international brands like Nike, Adidas, Puma, and Uniqlo. Sportswear is by far its biggest business, at 68% of 2025 revenue, followed by casual wear at 27% and lingerie at 5%.Its largest market is mainland China, which made up 24% of sales in 2025, followed by Europe, the US, and Japan. To serve these customers, Shenzhou runs manufacturing plants in China, Cambodia, and Vietnam.

Casella Waste Systems Inc is a solid waste removal company, providing resource management services to residential, commercial, municipal, and industrial customers. The company's reportable segments on Geographical basis include Eastern, Western and Mid-Atlantic regions through the Resource solution segment. It generates maximum revenue from the Western region segment. The company's services include Recycling, Collection, Organics, Energy, Landfills, Special Waste as well as Professional Services.

Fomento de Construcciones y Contratas SA is in the business of environmental services, end to end water management, construction and cement. The company's activities include services related to urban water treatment, waste recovery, end to end water cycle and also infrastructure construction projects, building construction, manufacturing of cement and concrete and operation of quarries and mineral deposits. The firm derives majority of its revenues from environmental services segment. It carries out international operations in European, the U.S and Latin American markets.

Inner Mongolia ERDOS Resources Co Ltd operates in the textile and garment industry. The company is mainly engaged in the cashmere clothing production. In addition, the company is also engaged in coal mining, power generation, silicon ferroalloy, chlor-alkali chemicals, fertilizers, polysilicon and other products processing and sales. Its product range consists of a cashmere sweater and other cashmere products, ferrosilicon, Si-Mn alloy, coal, calcium carbide, and polyvinyl chloride resin.

Umicore SA operates in the following business groups: Catalysis, Battery Materials, Specialty Materials, Recycling, and Corporate and Unallocated. Key revenue is derived from its Recycling segment, which treats complex waste streams containing precious and other specialty metals. The Battery Materials segment is engaged in developing, manufacturing, and marketing cathode materials (CAM) and its precursors (pCAM) for lithium-ion batteries. The Catalysis segment provides automotive catalysts for gasoline and diesel light and heavy-duty diesel applications, and the Specialty segment develops, manufactures, and distributes metal-based materials and chemicals for applications vital to everyday lives. Geographically, the group derives a majority of its revenue from Europe.

Canmax Technologies Co Ltd is engaged in Research and development, production and sales of new energy lithium battery materials products, anti-static ultra-clean technology products and medical equipment products.

Kurita Water Industries Ltd. is a provider of water treatment solutions in Japan. It operates through two segments: the Electronic market and the General water treatment market. The company provides a wide range of water treatment chemicals, systems, and services, including wastewater and ultrapure water solutions, facility maintenance, and environmental remediation, serving both industrial and household needs.

Far Eastern New Century Corp is a Taiwan-based industrial holding company with operations that span Taiwan, China and overseas. The company is organized into a business that includes manufacturing and selling polyester materials and semi-finished and finished textiles such as cotton, synthetic or blended fabrics, towels and bed sheets, and woven and knitted garments; PET (polyethylene terephthalate) bottles and sheets; and natural, synthetic or blended yarns and polyester textured yarns. It also does yarn, silk and cloth printing and dyeing. Its operating segments include: Investments in production business, which derives key revenue; telecommunication services business; property development business; investment; and other business.

Cleanaway Waste Management is Australia’s largest waste management business with a national footprint in the collection and disposal of waste. It is active in municipal and commercial and industrial waste stream segments and in nonhazardous and hazardous liquid and medical waste. While Cleanaway is allocating greater capital to waste processing and treatment, earnings remain skewed toward waste collection. The company is particularly strong in commercial, industrial, and municipal waste collection with strong market share in all large Australian metro waste collection markets.

GEM Co Ltd is engaged in Waste battery recycling and power battery material manufacturing business, cobalt, nickel, and tungsten recycling and cemented carbide manufacturing business, renewable resources business, and environmental management business.

Xinfengming Group Co Ltd is engaged in chemical fiber manufacturing.

Zhejiang Weiming Environment Protection Co Ltd is a China-based company engaged in the solid waste disposal business. It is focused on solid waste-related technological development, equipment manufacturing and sales, project investment, project construction, and operational management. The company is also engaged in waste incineration power generation projects. The company's products include waste incineration grates, boilers, and flue gas treatment systems.

China Everbright Environment Group (formerly China Everbright International) is a Hong Kong-listed environmental infrastructure company (HKG: 0257) headquartered in Hong Kong and part of the state-owned China Everbright Group. The listed company was incorporated in 1961, employs about 15,400 people and is led by chief executive Luan Zusheng. Its environmental energy segment builds and operates waste-to-energy and methane-to-energy plants and facilities for food and kitchen waste, leachate, sludge, fly ash, medical waste and other solid waste, and provides waste-sorting, sanitation and engineering design services. Its Greentech segment runs integrated biomass, hazardous and solid waste treatment, solar and wind power projects and environmental remediation, while its environmental water segment builds and operates wastewater, water supply and reuse plants, sponge-city and river-basin restoration projects. It also carries out environmental technology research and sells and installs related equipment. Its customers are mainly local governments, and it earns revenue from project construction, long-term operating fees and electricity sales. In June 2016 it acquired Novago, established in 1992 and Poland's largest independent solid-waste treatment company, which ran six integrated waste treatment plants in four provinces that handled 890,000 tonnes of waste in 2015.

K.P.R. Mill Ltd is an apparel manufacturer, securing revenues predominantly from India. It is mainly engaged in the business of manufacturing textiles, consisting of yarn, fabrics, readymade garments, and wind power. Its core products are readymade knitted apparel, fabrics, melange, carded, and combed yarn. The Company is engaged in only one business, i.e. manufacturing and sale of textiles.

Organo Corp is a Japan-based company mainly engaged in the water treatment engineering business. The company operates in two business divisions namely water treatment engineering and functional product. Its water treatment engineering business includes manufacturing, delivery and maintenance of pure water systems, ultra-pure water systems and wastewater treatment systems for industries, condensate de mineralizers for power stations, waterworks and sewage treatment systems for the public sector. The functional product business encompasses the sale of standardized water treatment equipment, water treatment chemicals, and food processing materials.

Nitto Boseki Co Ltd is engaged in the textile business. It operates in six segments: Textiles Business engages in the manufacture and sales of textiles products (core-spun yarn, stretch products, interlining and other finished products, etc.); Glass Fiber Yam Business engages in the manufacture and sales of glass raw fiber products (yarn, roving, chopped strands, etc.); Glass Fiber Cloth Business engages in the manufacture and sales of glass fiber functional products (glass cloth, etc.); Glass Fiber for Industrial Materials Business engages in the manufacture and sales of glass fiber products for use in industrial materials and the manufacture and sales of glass wool products (for use in thermal insulation materials); Life Science Business; and Other segment.

Zijin Longking Co Ltd is engaged in the manufacturing, sales and installation of environmental pollution control equipment, dust removal, desulfurization and supporting high and low voltage electrical control equipment.

CECO Environmental Corp is an industrial company, serving industrial air, industrial water, and energy transition markets. It offers various engineered and configured products and solutions, including dampers and diverters, selective catalytic reduction systems, severe-service and industrial cyclones, dust collectors, thermal oxidizers, filtration systems, wet and dry scrubbers, water treatment packages, industrial silencers, etc. These products are offered through brands like Western Airducts, WK, Wakefield Acoustics, Transcend, Verantis, and others. The company's reportable segments are: Engineered Systems, which derive maximum revenue, and Industrial Process Solutions. Geographically, it derives key revenue from the U.S., followed by the Netherlands, the UK, China, and other markets.

Chengdu Xingrong Environment is a Chinese listed water and environmental-services group based in Chengdu, Sichuan. Its activities include water supply, wastewater treatment and the development and operation of environmental-protection infrastructure. The company provides integrated project and operating services, combining investment, construction and operation of water-related assets. Its revenue comes from water services and related environmental and infrastructure activities delivered through its operating businesses. The group is listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange under code 000598 and traces its listed corporate establishment to 1996. In 2014, it agreed to establish a joint venture with United Envirotech to develop water-treatment projects in western China using membrane technologies. At that time the issuer described Xingrong as a state-owned enterprise with approximately five million cubic metres per day of water-treatment concessions. The listed company is distinct from the smaller 49:51 joint venture incorporated under a similar English name in 2015.

Shijiazhuang Changshan Beiming Technology Co Ltd is a China-based company, engages in the textile business as well as software and information technology services. In the textile business, its products cover yarns, functional fabrics and brand garment, home textiles and industrial textiles. Its Software business deals with the development of software and provision of software services; provision of intelligent installation services as well as import and export of intelligent installation technologies.

Tomra Systems ASA provides sorting and recycling solutions to equip customers for handling waste. The company creates and delivers sensor-based solutions that contribute to optimal resource productivity, in packaging, collection, compaction, recycling, ore sorting, and food production. It provides reverse vending machines, sensor-based sorting machines integrated post-harvest solutions, sensors for waste sorting applications, and other related products and solutions. The company's operating segments are; TOMRA Collection which generates key revenue, TOMRA Recycling, TOMRA Horizon, and TOMRA Food. Geographically, the company generates maximum revenue from Europe (excluding Northern Europe), followed by Northern Europe, America, Asia, and Oceania.

Shenzhen Expressway Corp Ltd is a Company engaged in the construction, operation, management, and investment of toll highways and environmental protection in China. Environmental protection mainly includes recycling and treating solid waste and clean energy power generation. The group has identified two reporting segments, namely the toll road segment and the environmental protection segment. The toll road segment takes charge of the operation and management of toll roads in Mainland China. The environmental protection segment operates and manages environmentally related infrastructure, mainly including solid waste treatment, clean energy, and other related fields. The majority of its revenue is derived from the Toll segment.

Zeon Corp manufactures and sells a variety of rubber-based and plastic-based products. The company organizes itself into two primary segments based on product type. The elastomer segment, which generates the majority of revenue, sells rubbers, lattices, and chemicals. These products include tires, hoses, seals, construction and housing materials, agricultural chemicals, fragrances, food ingredients, and pharmaceutical products. The High-performance materials business segment manufactures and sells high-performance resins, high-performance components, electronic materials, battery materials, toners, chemicals, and medical equipment.

Eclat Textile Co Ltd is mainly been involved in the manufacturing and marketing of knitwear. It is a textile company that operates in two segments: the Fabrics division, which produces and sells flexible textiles, and the Garments division, which produces, processes, and sells clothing. The majority of its revenue is generated from the Garments division. Its geographical segments include the Americas, which derive key revenue, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, ANZ, Africa, and other countries.

CIA Saneamento Do Parana-SANEPAR provides treated water supply sewage collection & treatment, and Solid waste management services. The company provides sanitation services to cities, smaller areas, and municipalities. The firm operates in two business segments: Water treatment & distribution and Sewage collection & treatment. It has a network for the withdrawal & distribution of drinking water, sewage collection, and the discharge of treated sewage. The firm operates landfills in Apucarana, Cornello, Procopio, and Cianorte for solid waste management. The majority of revenue get derived from the Water distribution and treatment segment.

Daiei Kankyo Co Ltd is a engaged in the waste-related business. It focuses on collection and transportation, intermediate treatment and recycling, and final disposal of both general and industrial waste and valuable resource recycing business.

Veridis Environment is an Israeli environmental infrastructure and services group, controlled by Delek Automotive Systems and listed on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TLV: VRDS) since June 2021. It works in three areas: waste, water and energy. In waste it operates what it calls Israel's broadest logistical infrastructure for collecting and treating all types of waste for local authorities, organisations and industry, including sorting plants such as RDF Hiriya and Afula, hazardous-waste treatment, landfills and soil remediation. Through its subsidiary Infinya it recycles paper and cardboard and manufactures cardboard rolls and packaging. In water it built and operates the Ashkelon desalination plant, which can desalinate about 120 million cubic metres of seawater a year, around 20% of Israel's household water consumption, together with an adjacent 83 MW gas-fired power station. In energy it develops and runs biomass, cogeneration and biogas plants, leads energy-efficiency projects and installs and maintains large HVAC systems, and it was a partner in OPC Mishor Rotem, Israel's first privately owned power station. The group was founded in 1993 as part of Veolia's international business, and Ilan Ben-Simon is chief executive.

Munters Group AB is a provider of energy-efficient air treatment and climate control solutions predominantly within the food, pharmaceutical and data center and other sectors. The company operates in segments, which are: AirTech, Data Center Technologies, and FoodTech. The majority of the revenue is generated from its AirTech segment, which manufactures and markets products and solutions for controlling humidity and improving the indoor climate. Geographically, a majority of its revenue is generated from the United States and the rest from China, Germany, the United Kingdom, Canada, Sweden, Australia, France, Denmark, Poland, Mexico, and other markets.

Orizon Valorizacao De Residuos SA is a waste treatment and recovery company. The company offers solid waste treatment services, treatment of gases, processing and industrialization of waste, monitoring groundwater, and environmental remediation services.

Coats Group PLC is a firm manufacturing thread for industrial and consumer use. Its product portfolio includes industrial thread and knitting yarns used in the apparel and footwear industries, zips, trims, composites, and fabrics. The company's customers are grouped into three segments; Apparel which is also the key revenue generating customer segment, Footwear and Performance Materials. Geographically, the company generates a majority of its revenue from China and Hong Kong and the rest from Vietnam, India, United Kingdom and other regions.

Welspun Living Ltd Formerly Welspun India Ltd is an India-based company that makes and sells home textiles. The company's products consist of towels, bath robes, bath rugs and mats, area rugs, carpets, bed sheets, utility bedding, and fashion bedding. The company owns several brands, including Christy, Spaces, Welhome, and Others. The company has a world-wide distribution network, with the United States, the United Kingdom, and Europe.

Aguas Andinas SA delivers water-treatment solutions and other sanitation services under concession arrangements from the Chilean government. The company collects, cleans, and distributes water to residential, commercial, and industrial clients. Also, the company treats and disposes sewage and remnants from the process. Wastewater is decontaminated and used for irrigation systems. Aguas Andinas has two operating segments: water (a majority of total revenue) and nonwater. The company gathers water flowing from the Andes and has plants to transform it into a usable form. It uses tanks and an extensive underground network to distribute water to customers.

Realord Technology Co Ltd is an investment holding company. The Group is principally engaged in Latin American and the Caribbean (LAC) business, financial services, property investment, distribution and sales of auto parts, and environmental protection business.

Ruentex Industries Ltd is engaged in the textile business, including manufacturing, processing, dyeing and finishing, printing, and marketing of woven fabrics, garments, knitted fabrics, and woven fabric items, and the construction business, including commissioning of construction companies to build public housing projects and office buildings as well as leasing and sales of property. Its reportable segments include Textile segment, Retail segment, and Hypermarket segment.

Albany International Corp is principally engaged in processing textiles and materials. The company consists of two business segments, the machine clothing segment, which produces and provides custom-designed fabrics and belts for the production in the paper, nonwovens, and other process industries; and the Albany engineered composites segment, which offers engineered composite parts for the aerospace and defensive industries. The machine clothing segment contributes to the majority of the company's total revenue. The company has an operation and generates revenue from the United States, Switzerland, Brazil, China, Mexico, France, and other areas.

Sasa Polyester Sanayi AS is a company engaged in the production and marketing of polyester fiber, yarns and related products, and polyester chips. The company's product portfolio includes specialty polymers and chemicals which consist of thermoplastic polyester elastomers, dimethyl terephthalate, plasticizers, advanced polymers, polybutylene terephthalate solutions, and polyethylene terephthalate solutions. It also provides fiberfill, nonwoven, and textile fibers; and DO, flat, texturing and POY filament yarns. The group generates revenue through the sale of products.