Renewable Thermal Collaborative Competitors

Veolia, a global leader in environmental services, works every day to build environmental security for the benefit of public health and the competitiveness of industries and regions. With 215,000 employees across five continents, working closely with local communities, and thanks to its cutting-edge technologies, the group cleans up pollution, reduces carbon emissions, and regenerates resources through concrete solutions that combine its expertise in water and water technologies, waste - including hazardous waste management, and local energy. In 2025, the Veolia group served 110 million people with drinking water and 97 million with sanitation, produced 45 million megawatt hours of energy, and treated 64 million tons of waste. Veolia Environnement (Paris Euronext: VIE, Fortune 500, SBF 120) generated consolidated revenue of €44.4 billion in 2025. www.veolia.com.

Linde is a leading global industrial gases and engineering company with 2025 sales of $34 billion. We live our mission of making our world more productive every day by providing high-quality solutions, technologies and services which are making our customers more successful and helping to sustain, decarbonize and protect our planet. Linde serves a variety of end markets such as chemicals & energy, food & beverage, electronics, healthcare, manufacturing, metals and mining. Linde’s industrial gases and technologies are used in countless applications, enabling space exploration and launch technologies, delivering ultra-high-purity and specialty gases for semiconductor manufacturing, providing life-saving medical oxygen and enabling clean hydrogen production and carbon capture to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Linde also delivers state-of-the-art gas processing solutions to support customer growth, efficiency improvements and emissions reductions. For more information about the company and its products and services, please visit www.linde.com. Visit our careers website www.lindecareers.com to take the next steps in your career with us. Legal Notice: https://www.linde.com/en/imprint Data Protection: https://dataprotection.linde.com/en/index.html

Aspen is a technology leader in sustainability. Our Aerogel Technology Platform™ enables customers and partners to achieve their own objectives around the global megatrends of resource efficiency, electrification, and sustainability. Our strategy is to partner with world-class industry leaders to leverage our patented aerogel technology into additional high-value markets. We are headquartered in Northborough, MA, and manufacture our products at our East Providence, R.I. facilities. Products: • Cryogel® and Pyrogel® are trusted by the world’s leading energy infrastructure companies. These advanced insulation solutions support both legacy refineries and emerging sustainability initiatives—such as hydrogen, sustainable fuels, and carbon capture—by providing unmatched protection against corrosion under insulation (CUI), improving profitability, and helping reduce emissions to meet critical sustainability goals. • PyroThin® thermal barrier products offer automakers a proven solution to thermal runaway challenges in electric vehicles and energy storage systems—enhancing battery performance while prioritizing customer safety. For over two decades, we’ve been at the forefront of innovation—harnessing the unique properties of aerogel and pioneering advanced manufacturing techniques to deliver world-class insulation and thermal barrier solutions. Today, we’re expanding our reach by developing a new generation of cutting-edge, aerogel-based products for a growing range of industries.