Namasco has put the pedal to the metal. Namasco company, a subsidiary of the German distributor Klockner, distributes metals throughout the US. Namasco distributes general steel line products that include bar, grating and flooring, pipe, plate, and structural tube. The flat rolled division distributes aluminum and a variety of steel products, available coated, cold- and hot-rolled, prepainted and preplated. Namasco also provides processing services like drilling, punching, plasma tee splitting, and plate rolling. It operates from about 25 processing and distribution locations primarily in the eastern half of the US.

Fortescue is the New Force in Iron Ore and has joined the world's leading producers of iron ore. Since Fortescue was formed in 2003, its extraordinary growth has been unparalleled. Listed in the S&P/ASX 50 share index, Fortescue has firmly established itself as one of the world's largest producers and sea-borne traders of iron ore.Construction of Fortescue's port, rail and mine project commenced in February 2006 with the turning of the first sod at the Company's port site at Anderson Point in Port Hedland. Just two years later in 2008, the open-access rail infrastructure was complete and operations were underway at the Fortescue Herb Elliott Port and at the Company's first minesite, Cloudbreak.Shipping started on 15 May of 2008 and Project Completion was achieved within months. On the 18th of July, Fortescue's fifth anniversary, Fortescue successfully mined, railed and shipped at a rate of 24Mtpa for a one month period. This accomplishment occurred in line with the detailed business plan for its Pilbara Project.n the first full year of operations, Fortescue mined, railed and shipped more than 27 million tonnes of iron ore to customers in China.Many milestones have been achieved since then including the establishment of Fortescue's second minesite at Christmas Creek to create the Chichester Hub and the development of plans for the Solomon Hub of tenements to the west of the company's original mines.Fortescue's project was founded on the raising of A$3.7 billion capital, including A$1 billion equity, during two finance roadshows in August 2006 and July 2007. The August 2006 raising was the largest single high-yield Asia-Pacific transaction, the largest high-yield bond project financing ever, one of the largest corporate bonds out of Australia and one of the largest global bond issues in the sector. Since then Fortescue has grown to become a S&P/ASX 50 company.Over 49,000 Australians have become shareholders in the proudly Australian founded and managed company.

Brush Engineered Materials Inc. engages in the manufacture and sale of engineered materials for the telecommunications and computer, data storage, aerospace and defense, automotive electronics, industrial components, and appliance and medical markets in the United States and internationally. It operates in four segments: Advanced Material Technologies and Services (AMTS), Specialty Engineered Alloys (SEA), Beryllium and Beryllium Composites, and Engineered Material Systems. The AMTS segment manufactures precious, non-precious, and specialty metal products, including vapor deposition targets, frame lid assemblies, clad and precious metal preforms, high temperature braze materials, ultra-fine wires, specialty inorganic materials, optics, performance coatings, and electronic packages, which are used in wireless, semiconductor, photonic, hybrid, and other micro-electronic applications. This segment also supplies optical filters, optical reflectors, and high-end coated products and devices; and supplies precious metal targets to the architectural glass, solar energy, medical, and microelectronics industries, as well as has refining capabilities for reclaim of precious metals from secondary scrap markets. The SEA segment manufactures and sells strip products, including thin gauge precision strip and thin diameter rod and wire; and non-beryllium-containing alloys, as well as produces beryllium hydroxide from mined bertrandite ore and purchased beryl ore. The Beryllium and Beryllium Composites segment manufactures beryllium-based metals and metal matrix composites in rod, sheet, foil, and a range of customized forms. This segment also offers beryllia ceramics. The Engineered Materials Systems segment manufactures clad inlay and overlay metals, precious and base metal electroplated systems, electron beam welded systems, contour profiled systems, and solder-coated metals systems. The Engineered Materials was founded in 1931 and is based in Mayfield Heights, Ohio.

Acerinox's products dirty, because the company prefers its steel to remain stainless. Acerinox operates melting shops and hot- and cold-rolling steel mills located in Spain, the US, and South Africa, but it distributes its products worldwide. It operates as Acerinox in Spain; through North American Stainless, a subsidiary that produces flat stainless steel products, in the US; and Columbus Stainless in South Africa, making hot- and cold-rolled stainless steel. Acerinox's Inoxfil subsidiary makes stainless steel wire such as automotive, cable, and mesh wire. Another unit, Roldán, manufactures long stainless steel products. The balance of Acerinox's units are devoted to distribution.

Mitsubishi Corporation (MC) is Japan's largest general trading company (sogo shosha) with over 200 bases of operations in approximately 80 countries worldwide. Together with its over 500 group companies, MC employs a multinational workforce of approximately 60,000 people. MC has long been engaged in business with customers around the world in virtually every industry, including energy, metals, machinery, chemicals, food and general merchandise.MC seeks to contribute to the enrichment of society through business firmly rooted in principles of fairness and integrity.Although our activities encompass everything from trading to business investment, the essence of what we do at MC can best be described as focusing on the needs and seeds of customers and society, conceiving business models, and reliably providing functions and services to propel these businesses forward.For example, in trade, a historical mainstay of MC's operations, we are able to steadily provide high value-added services by utilizing our frontline businesses to gather information while linking together functions such as logistics, financing, and marketing.When MC invests in a business, we share risk with our partners and add value to the business by leveraging MC's organizational strength and global networks to procure necessary business resources.In addition, we provide optimal solutions for all stages of business—from development, procurement and production, to logistics and sales. Supporting the realization of these solutions, linking businesses and coordinating customer affiliations are all important MC functions.Furthermore, MC also anticipates trends in the market and society and takes initiative to develop new business.At MC, we constantly work to reinvent ourselves and have sought out cutting-edge functions required by businesses. For this purpose, our strong financial resources and risk management capabilities are of course invaluable, but we believe the foresight, initiative and ingenuity of our human resources represent our greatest assets.Through consistent and dedicated efforts, MC is committed to further strengthening the high level of trust earned from our customers over the years.

Lihir Gold Limited (LGL) is a major global gold producer with operations in Papua New Guinea (PNG), West Africa and Australia. The company’s head office is located in Port Moresby, PNG, and in 2005 LGL established its global corporate base in Brisbane, Australia.Lihir Gold Limited company is incorporated in PNG, where it operates one of the world’s largest gold mines and processing facilities on Lihir Island in New Ireland province. In June 2008, LGL finalised a merger with Perth-based gold producer Equigold NL. Through the merger, LGL now has operations at Mount Rawdon in Queensland and in Côte d’Ivoire in West Africa. Combined from its three producing operations, LGL has more than 30 million ounces in gold reserves.In 2009 LGL produced 1.12 million ounces of gold, joining an elite group of gold miners producing in excess of 1 million ounces annually. This comprised a record 853,000 ounces from Lihir Island, 150,000 ounces from Bonikro in its first full 12 months of production and 108,000 ounces from Mount Rawdon.LGL is publicly listed, with its shares traded on the Australian, Port Moresby and NASDAQ stock exchanges. Lihir Gold Limited company presently has 2.4 billion shares on issue and a market capitalisation exceeding A$8 billion.

Hillsborough Resources is in the rocky business of mining lumps of coal. The company mines coal through its principal property, the Quinsam mine on Vancouver Island, British Columbia. The underground mine produces thermal coal (used mainly to produce steam for generating electricity) which is then transported from its Middle Point facility to industrial customers (primarily in the cement industry) located in Canada and the US. It has another thermal coal mine in Tennessee under development. Hillsborough Resources is also acquiring holdings in coking coal development projects in other areas of British Columbia. In 2009 a unit of Swiss trading entity Vitol Group acquired Hillsborough.

Nippon Coke & Engineering knows that things go better with coke, and so Nippon Coke & Engineering company is going back to its original formula of business. Once vastly diversified, most of its revenue now comes from its fuel products, primarily from coal and coke. The group consists of more than 20 subsidiaries with businesses ranging from engineering, industrial equipment, ceramics, chemical machinery, to waste recycling. Nippon Coke & Engineering was formed in 2004 when Mitsui Mining Distribution merged with Mitsui Mining and Mitsui Mining Cokes. It changed its name from Mitsui Mining Company in 2009.

Goldstake Explorations Inc. A Canadian mining exploration, development and production company with a diversified portfolio of precious metals properties in Canada, United States and Australia. The Company's strategy is to discover and develop economic deposits on its existing properties, while generating internal cash flow from current mining operations to help finance exploration and development. Worldwide, Goldstake Explorations Inc. has a number of actionable mining properties. The most famous of these properties is Hill End, Australia where the largest gold nugget in history, weighing 639 lbs, was mined in 1872.

Gem Diamonds is a global diamond company that has been pursuing a long term growth strategy through targeted acquisitions and the development of existing assets. Under current market conditions, the Group is focused on the development of its cash generative assets and has curtailed all non-essential capital and development expenditure.The Group’s portfolio comprises producing kimberlite and lamproite mines, development projects and exploration assets, as well as diamond beneficiation capabilities. Operations and projects are situated in Angola, Australia, Botswana, the Central African Republic, Dubai, Lesotho, Mauritius and Indonesia.With Letšeng’s production of the world’s most remarkable white diamonds and Ellendale’s production of rare fancy yellow diamonds, Gem Diamonds is focused towards higher value diamonds. This segment of the market is expected to deliver attractive long term returns.Gem Diamonds’ strategic intent remains to be one of the world’s leading diamond companies with a specific focus towards higher value gem quality diamonds. Principally through Letšeng and Ellendale, the Group has moved a long way to implementing that strategy in the rough diamond market.Over the medium to long term, this strategy will be pursued in the polished diamond market with the development of the Group’s cutting and polishing business to beneficiate only high end quality diamonds.Due to the market conditions at the end of 2008, the Group decided in early 2009 to delay the roll out of these cutting and polishing facilities. However, the Group may further develop these facilities in the future as and when market conditions allow.

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