Agfa-Gevaert develops, produces and distributes various analog and digital imaging systems and IT solutions, mainly for the printing industry and the healthcare sector, as well as for specific industrial applications. Co.'s operations can be divided into three business segments: Agfa Graphics, which provides integrated prepress products and services to the printing industry; Agfa HealthCare, which provides diagnostic imaging and healthcare IT products for hospitals and care centers around the world; and Agfa Specialty Products, which supplies a variety of film-based products to business- to-business customers outside the graphic and healthcare markets.

CFE is engaged in civil engineering, buildings and industrial construction, dredging works and electrical installations. Co. is also engaged in property development, environmental protection and building management. Co.'s works carried on by Co.'s civil engineering group includes the following: hydraulic engineering, harbor works, bridges, and other engineering works, tunnels, road construction, dams, storage tanks, piping and drainage and caissons sunken soft soil. Co.'s buildings and industrial construction sector is active in the following fields: administrative buildings, industrial construction, public utility buildings, redevelopment, and residential buildings.

Econocom Group specializes in the management of IT and telecom infrastructures for businesses throughout Europe, U.S. and China. Co. designs and implements products and services for SMEs, corporations or public authorities. It operates through four complementary businesses: IT products and solutions, distributed infrastructures (outsourcing, maintenance and consulting), telecom services and administrative and financial management of ICT assets. Co.'s business segments are as follows: IT Financial Services; Managed Services; Products and Solutions; and Telecom Services.

Royal DSM is engaged in the creation of products and services in Life Sciences and Materials Sciences. Co.'s products and services are used globally in range of markets and applications in healthcare, pharmaceutical automotive and chemicals sectors. End markets include human and animal nutrition and health, personal care, pharmaceuticals, automotive, coatings and paint, electrics and electronics, life protection and housing. The activities of Co. are grouped into four clusters: Nutrition, Pharma, Performance Materials and Polymer Intermediates.

Umicore is global player in the materials technology and recycling industries. Co. focuses on application areas such as chemistry, materials science, metallurgy and recycling. Co.'s business model comprises four segments: Catalysis, Performance Materials, Energy Materials and Recycling. Catalysis focuses on the abatement of global automotive emissions; Performance Materials focuses on materials that help develop more sophisticated and safer products; Energy Materials produces materials used in the production and storage of clean energy including rechargeable batteries and photovoltaics; and Recycling treats complex waste streams containing precious and other non-ferrous metals.