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Tessenderlo Group NV, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the agriculture, valorizing bio-residuals, machinery, mechanical engineering, electronics, energy, and industrial solution businesses worldwide. It operates through five segments: Agro, Bio-Valorization, Industrial Solutions, Machines & Technologies, and T-Power. The Agro segment engages in the production, marketing, and trading of crop nutrients, including liquid crop and potassium sulfate fertilizers, and organic soil improvers, and organic and non-organic crop protection products. This segment offers its specialty fertilizers under Thio-Sul, KTS, K-Row 23, CaTs, GranuPotasse, SoluKem, SoluPotasse, and MAJOR 90 brands. The Bio-Valorization segment produces, sells, and trades in gelatins and collagen peptides, and proteins and fats. The Industrial Solutions segment includes preassembled piping kits, project consultancy services, engineering support for ventilation solutions, sewage and rainwater solutions, and siphonic roof drainage systems; coagulants and other chemicals for the treatment of wastewater, and the purification of drinking water; and production and sale of industrial chemicals, such as bleach, sulfuric acid, sodium hydroxide, various grades of hydrochloric acid, and calcium chloride, as well as sulfur chemicals. The Machines & Technologies segment engages in the design, development, production, sale, support, and service of weaving machines, upgrade kits and spare parts, and training course; engineered casting solutions; customized controllers; and precision parts. The T-Power segment produces electricity through a combined cycle gas turbine of 425 MW capacity. It serves agriculture, food, pharma, mining, construction, infrastructure, health and nutrition, chemical, textile, pet food, aqua feed, animal feed, bioenergy, biodiesel, oleo-chemistry, sanitary, machinery, engineering, and consumer goods. The company was founded in 1919 and is headquartered in Brussels, Belgium.