Globe Specialty Metals Inc

Globe Specialty Metals Inc. is among the world's largest producers of silicon metal and silicon-based specialty alloys – critical ingredients in a host of industrial and consumer products with growing markets. Customers include major silicone chemical, aluminum and steel manufacturers, producers of photovoltaic solar cells and computer chips, the auto industry, ductile iron foundries and concrete producers. Globe has major manufacturing facilities in the U.S. states of Ohio, West Virginia, Alabama and New York, as well as in Mendoza province Argentina and Ningxia province China. Headquarters are in New York City. Principal operating subsidiaries are Globe Metallurgical, Inc., Core Metals Group and Solsil, Inc. in the U.S.; Globe Metales S.A. in Argentina; and Ningxia Yonvey Coal Industry Co., Ltd., in China.