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Akzo Nobel Inc. works hard to create the right chemistry. The US subsidiary of Dutch paints and chemicals giant Akzo Nobel N.V., the company develops and makes chemicals, coatings, and health care products. Its chemicals business includes catalysts, functional chemicals, polymers, pulp and paper chemicals, and surfactants. The coatings sector includes car refinishes, decorative coatings, and industrial coatings and finishes. While the parent company is the world's largest coatings maker, its American subsidiary traditionally has been driven by its chemicals business. In 2007 Akzo Nobel sold its pharmaceuticals operations, which included oral contraceptives, antidepressants, and pharmaceutical raw materials.

Akzo Nobel is the world's largest paint maker, but it can do more than paint a pretty picture. The company is also among the world's largest chemical manufacturers and a major salt producer. Akzo Nobel divides its business into three lines. The paints group produces decorative paints and primarily serves Europe and North America. Akzo Nobel's coatings group manufactures marine and protective coatings, packaging coatings, automotive finishes, and industrial coatings. The specialty chemicals unit makes pulp and paper chemicals, functional chemicals (flame retardants, crop nutrients), industrial chemicals (salt and chlor alkalies), surfactants, and specialty starches.

alchimer is a practitioner of high-tech alchemy. The company specializes in chemical coatings used in both microelectronics and biomedical implants. alchimer's electro-grafting technology allows coating solutions (organic, polymer-based films) to be used on conducting and semi-conducting surfaces. alchimer's coatings can be used in such biomedical applications as drug-eluting stents; technological applications include integrated circuit manufacturing. A 2001 spin-off of the Commissariat ࠬ'Energie Atomique, the French government's atomic energy agency, Alchimer is owned by a consortium of private investors that includes AGF Private Equity and Rothschild.

Allegro Biodiesel Corporation does not have significant operations. It intends to merge or acquire with an operating entity. Previously, the company owned a biodiesel production facility that used renewable agricultural-based feedstock/soybean oil to produce biodiesel fuel in Louisiana. Allegro Biodiesel Corporation was formerly known as Diametrics Medical, Inc. and changed its name to Allegro Biodiesel Corporation in January 2005. The company was founded in 1990 and is based in Los Angeles, California.

Allvivo Vascular develops biomimetic surface materials -- coatings for biomedical and research instruments. Founded in 1999 to develop research being done at the University of Utah and incubated at the University of Alabama, Allvivo Vascular has graduated and moved to California. The company's primary target market is to provide coatings for stents used in coronary interventions. Its products enable researchers to control cells' reactions to contact with tools whether in lab experimentation or surgical implantation (both ex vivo and in vivo, thus the name allvivo).

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