Page Industries

Page Industries is a huge multinational corporation involved in several industries. These include robotics, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, cytometry, and construction. It is also involved in the manufacturing of cappuccino machines, as well as computer hardware and software development.

Background
Page Industries was founded by Bob Page and led by him until his death in 2052. It was a major contributor to the advancements in nanotechnology that took place in the early to mid 21st century. The company helped develop nano-augmentations and researched other applications of nanites through its subsidiary VersaLife and the secret organisation Majestic 12. Page Industries also participated in the enhancement project that JC Denton and Paul Denton went through.

Page Industries was given permission by the NSA and the Hague Commission on Secure Communications to develop a new revolutionizing internet protocol. This would lead to the development of Aquinas which, according to Bob Page, would make bandwidth "for all intents and purposes, free". By 2052 all of the worlds internet traffic was carried by Aquinas. Unbeknown to the public, Majestic 12 was using Aquinas to monitor all internet traffic that passed through it.

At the height of its power, Page Industries dominated a large portion of the robotics manufacturing market; with its only real competitor being Chiang. Two of its most popular bots are the Page Bravo-3 Peacebringer and the Page Delta-2 Peacebringer. These bots are used by various organisations and corporations as security measures, including UNATCO, VersaLife, and Majestic 12. The company also manufactures a type of medical bot which is similar, but seemingly inferior, to the Matsu-Gravas GV-4 Nightingale medical bot. The global influence of the corporation is made apparent by its numerous ATMs, or the so called PageNet Banking Terminals. These terminals can be found all over the world, with an impressive 231,000 of them existing in the year 2052. The ATMs are connected to the PageNet Global Banking System, with PageNet likely being a branch of Page Industries.

In 2052, Page Industries lost a furious bidding war with the company McMoran Global Steel to transport ore from a new Chinese mining operation on the moon. Page Industries then attempted a hostile takeover of McMoran when it was apparent it would lose the bidding war. Sometime later, the first shipment of ore failed to arrive due to the transport ship malfunctioning and crashing into Earth for strangely unknown reasons. It is implied that Page Industries was responsible for the crash of the transport ship, potentially as a form of revenge for losing the contract. In the same year, subsidiaries of the company constructed a new submarine pen at the Brooklyn Naval Shipyards. This sub pen was subsequently used by Majestic 12 to house a superfreighter that was transporting the Gray Death virus to New York.

After 2052 with the death of Bob Page, Page Industries presumably ceased to exist.

Trivia

 * Its name is PAGI. 
 * A Page Industries logo was created for Deus Ex: Human Revolution by Eidos artist Timothe Lapetite. Strangely, the word "Industries" is laterally inverted.
 * The Page Industries logo can be seen on blueprints for the central computer of the Hyron Project. This suggests that the corporation was involved in the design or construction of the computer.