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Central States, Southeast and Southwest Areas, Health and Welfare and Pension Funds, started in 1950 in Rosemont, Ill., is a multiemployer Taft-Hartley Benefits Fund provider. The funds manage the pension, and health and welfare benefits for participating team members and their families. It has more than 150,000 active participants, and provides benefit payments to over 210,000 retirees and surviving spouses every month. It also offers various publications and information online for members and providers.

UOP offers a variety of technology and equipment to convert second-generation biomass, such as forest and agricultural residuals and pyrolysis oil for power generation. It has generated various patent products in process technology, profitability consultation and equipment design. The company maintains an adsorbents and specialties group that offers a range of molecular sieves and alumina adsorbents and maintains production facilities in the United States, Italy, Japan and China. UOP also operates a specialty products group that provides alumina catalyst base and powder and custom catalysts. It also offers start-up assistance, process monitoring and optimization, equipment inspection, project management, customer personnel training, and catalyst and product testing. The company serves the gas processing industry.