CEA is a French government-funded technological research organisation. A prominent player in the European Research Area, it is involved in setting up collaborative projects with many partners around the world. The CEA is the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives). It is a public body established in October 1945 by General de Gaulle. A leader in research, development and innovation, the CEA mission statement has two main objectives: To become the leading technological research organization in Europe and to ensure that the nuclear deterrent remains effective in the future. The CEA is active in four main areas: low-carbon energies, defense and security, information technologies and health technologies. In each of these fields, the CEA maintains a cross-disciplinary culture of engineers and researchers, building on the synergies between fundamental and technological research. The total CEA workforce consisted of 15 838 employees. Across the whole of the CEA (including both civilian and military research), there were 1556 PhD students and 293 post-docs. The CEA is based in ten research centers in France, each specializing in specific fields. The laboratories are located in the Paris region, the Rhône-Alpes, the Rhône valley, the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region, Aquitaine, Central France and Burgundy. The CEA benefits from the strong regional identities of these laboratories and the partnerships forged with other research centers, local authorities and universities.

Société des Produits Nestlé SA engages in the manufacture and distribution of food, pharmaceutical, medical, and cosmetic products. The company was founded on December 15, 1936 and is headquartered in Vevey, France.

DuPont offers sustainable solutions for agriculture, electronics, communications, construction, transportation, and apparel markets. Their products and services include construction materials, fabrics, packaging materials, medical devices, electronic solutions, and adhesives for markets. They provide specialized construction materials to create and maintain roads, bridges, telecommunications, power, and water plants.

Headquartered in Luxembourg since its creation in 1870, Paul Wurth has developed in the course of its history into an international engineering company. Combining wide experience with the capacity to continuously innovate, the Paul Wurth Group is today a leading player in the design and supply of the full-range of technological solutions for the primary stage of integrated steelmaking.

KHS GmbH manufactures filling and packaging equipment for the beverage, food, and non-food sectors. Its products include blocked machines, processing systems, ECO pet line, aseptic filling, keg systems, labeling, thermal container treatment, pouching and palletizers. The company was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in Dortmund, Germany.

Lam Research Corporation (Lam Research) is a supplier of wafer fabrication equipment and services to the worldwide semiconductor industry. Lam Research designs, manufactures, markets, refurbish, and services semiconductor processing equipment used in the fabrication of integrated circuits. The Company’s etch and clean technologies enable customers to build integrated circuits. Its etch systems shape the microscopic conductive and dielectric layers into circuits that define a chip’s final use and function. Its Customer Support Business Group (CSBG) provides products and services to maximize installed equipment performance and operational efficiency. Its customer base includes semiconductor memory, foundry, and integrated device manufacturers (IDMs) that make DRAM, NAND, and logic devices for these products.

Weeding Technologies Ltd. designs and manufactures herbicide-free weed control systems. Its products Foamstream, is a weed control technology that kills weeds using water, steam, and natural foam, and AW-Series, is a multi-functional agricultural weeding machine for growing season uses, the AW-Series is capable of pre-emergent, inter-row, inter-plant and spot weed control. The company was founded by Benjamin James Goldsmith in 2011 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

Nestec SA, a subsidiary of Nestlé SA, is a Swiss company located in Vevey. The firm manufactures nutrition food products.

SPX Cooling Technologies, Inc., part of SPX Technologies, Inc., is an American company located in Overland Park, KS, specializing in air-cond./warm air htg. equip. and comm./ind. refrig. equip..

Sidel Participations SAS engages in manufacturing and marketing of packaging machines and equipment. The company was founded on November 2, 1965 and is headquartered in Octeville-sur-Mer, France.

Industrial Frigo SRL manufactures and sells water cooling systems & air cooled refrigeration systems. It offers batteries-drycoolers, thermoregulators, dehumidifiers, humidifiers and quenching tanks. The company was founded by Penocchio Camillo in 1969 and is headquartered in Calcinato, Italy.

Rockwell International was a major American manufacturing conglomerate in the latter half of the 20th century, involved in aircraft, the space industry, both defense-oriented and commercial electronics, automotive and truck components, printing presses, power tools, valves and meters, and industrial automation. Rockwell ultimately became a group of companies founded by Colonel Willard Rockwell. At its peak in the 1990s, Rockwell International was No. 27 on the Fortune 500 list, with assets of over $8 billion, sales of $27 billion and 115,000 employees.

Koninklijke Douwe Egberts BV produces and distributes coffee products. It offers retail products and professional solutions, coffee machines, ingredients, and professional services for customers ranging from restaurants, theatres, hospitals and universities. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.