FLSmidth & Co. A/S

FLSmidth & Co. A/S is a Danish multinational technology company headquartered in Copenhagen that provides equipment and services to the mining and cement industries worldwide, including machinery and systems for copper, gold, nickel, zinc and lithium extraction as well as cement production, with about 11,000 employees across more than 60 countries. It was founded on January 2, 1882 by Frederik Laessoe Smidth as a consultancy procuring machinery for local artisans, soon specializing in equipment for brick and tile manufacturing; two engineers joined as partners in 1887 and the firm opened its first overseas office in London in 1890, followed by Paris, New York, Tokyo and Beijing. By 1957 its machinery accounted for 40 percent of the world's cement production capacity.