CORPORATE SPONSOR

Gebr. Pfeiffer SE, headquartered in Kaiserslautern roughly an hour's drive south-west from Frankfurt/M., specializes in the planning, design and manufacture of equipment for the grinding of cement raw material, clinker, granulated blast furnace slag and coal for the cement industry. Besides the vertical roller mills, Gebr. Pfeiffer SE manufactures special machines for the classification and drying of mineral bulk materials and the preparation of lime and gypsum. Established in 1864, the company presently employs approximately 500 staff worldwide and operates subsidiaries in Pembroke Pines/USA, Noida/India and Beijing/China.

Major clients are to be found in the building materials industry as well as in the chemical, refractory and ceramics industry. The majority of Gebr. Pfeiffer's sales are exports. For more information visit our web site at www.gebr-pfeiffer.com

ASSOCIATE SPONSOR(S)

The BEUMER Group is an international leader in the manufacture of intralogistics systems for conveying, loading, palletising, packaging, sortation and distribution. Together with Crisplant a/s and Enexco Teknologies India Limited, the BEUMER Group employed some 3,700 people in 2013, taking orders with a value of some 770 million EUR. The group generated an annual turnover of approximately 627 million EUR. With its subsidiaries and sales agencies, BEUMER Group is present in many industries worldwide.

WACKER is a globally active chemical company with some 16,300 employees and annual sales of around €4.63 billion (2012). WACKER has a global network of 24 production sites, 21 technical competence centers and 53 sales offices.

WACKER SILICONES
Silicone fluids, emulsions, rubber and resins; silanes; pyrogenic silicas; thermoplastic silicone elastomers.

WACKER POLYMERS
Polyvinyl acetate and vinyl acetate copolymers in the form of dispersible polymer powders, dispersions, solid resins and solutions used as binders for construction chemicals, paints and coatings, adhesives, plasters, textiles and nonwovens, as well as for polymeric materials based on renewable resources.

WACKER BIOSOLUTIONS
Biotech products such as cyclodextrins, cysteine and biologics, as well as fine chemicals and PVAc solid resins.

WACKER POLYSILICON
Polysilicon for the semiconductor and photovoltaics industries.

Siltronic
Hyperpure silicon wafers and monocrystals for semiconductor components.