Velocys Plc engages in the design and development of technology for the production of synthetic oil from both conventional fossil fuels and renewable sources, such as bio-waste. It also offers gas-to-liquids solutions that convert unconventional, remote and problem gas into valuable liquid fuels. The company focuses on the emerging market for distributed scale production of synthetic fuels via Fischer-Tropsch synthesis. It designs and develops specialty catalyst technologies for the generation of clean fuels from gas, biomass, coal and waste, through steam methane reforming. The company was founded by Malcolm Leslie Hodder Green and Tiancun Xiao in October 2004 and is headquartered in Oxford, the United Kingdom.

Japan Air Gases Ltd. was established in January 2003, on the purpose to integrate industrial and medical gas business of Air Liquide Japan, Ltd. (operation started in 1907) and Osaka Sanso Kogyo Ltd. (established in 1934). In 2007 it became a 100% Air Liquide Group Company as part of Air Liquide Japan Ltd. As an expert of gases for industry, health and the environment, Japan Air Gases is supporting activities of a wide range of industries, by supplying oxygen, nitrogen, argon and other industrial gases, related equipment and services. JAG is supported by experience and know-how built within Japan and state-of-the-art technologies of parent companies, appreciated all over the world.