Ink-stained wretches everywhere have INX International Ink to thank (or blame) for their plight. The company, a subsidiary of Japanese ink maker Sakata, manufactures printing ink and other coatings. INX makes inks for metal decorating; for flexible, rigid, and paper packaging; and for commercial printing. It maintains about 30 manufacturing facilities in North America and another 20 worldwide.

Jamestown Paint had been around when the original Jamestown was settled, residents could have painted their wagons any color they wished. The company, a family-run business founded in 1885, makes more than 2,000 varieties of coatings used by automotive OEMs and other manufacturing companies, including producers of heavy machinery, pipes and containers, general industrial products, and office furniture. It also provides custom formulation, process optimization, training, and waste reduction services. The company serves domestic and international customers, with a focus on clients in the northeastern US.

JFC Technologies makes the chemicals that make up modern medicine. The company develops and manufactures a variety of pharmaceutical ingredients and applied materials, supplying customers with anywhere from milligrams to multiple tons of ingredients used in making their own products. JFC's chemicals are used in pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, and nutritional supplements. The company began operations in 1970 as Jame Fine Chemicals. Besides its manufacturing plant and headquarters in New Jersey, JFC also opened a 50,000 square foot pharmaceutical plant in Ningbo, China.

Jones-Blair makes coatings with a Southern accent. That is, y'all, it makes industrial and construction coatings and epoxies from its US locations in Louisiana, Texas, and Tennessee and its one Canadian service center in Alberta.The company's high-performance industrial coatings division makes acrylic-urethane, alkyd, and acrylic coatings for decorative and protective applications, including automotive manufacturing, oil-field service, imaging, signs, and woodworking. Jones-Blair's Neogard division produces elastomeric coatings (waterproofing and roof, floor, and wall coating systems) used in construction.

Kalcor Coatings makes industrial paints and coatings for the construction, fabricated metal, tire manufacturing, transportation, and graphic arts industries. The company's products include air-dry and baked paints, plastic and rubber coatings, metal and wood lacquers, UV base coats, and rust conversion coatings. Kalcor Coatings distributes throughout the US, Australia, Brazil, Canada, and Mexico.

Lightly touching the envelope to his brow, the omniscient Karnak the Magnificent might've quipped, " An IRA, an umbrella, and Karnak's Energy Star-rated products," divining the answer to "Name three things that cover your assets." Karnak the Corporation, with more than 70 years of experience, manufactures roofing and waterproofing protective coatings, as well as cements and sealants that are rated for fire resistance and wind uplift. The company sells its Underwriters Laboratories-certified products worldwide through such business partners as Allied Building Products Corp. Karnak maintains manufacturing and warehouse locations throughout the US and markets its products globally.

Kelly-Moore Paint Company calls them High Society, Feisty, and Center Field. But never mind silly names for paint colors, Kelly-Moore aims to show that the paint business isn't entirely run by multinational big brushes like Sherwin-Williams and DuPont. The regional firm produces approximately 20 million gallons of paint per year from three manufacturing facilities and has more than 160 stores in eight states west of the Mississippi River. Kelly-Moore sells about 400 types of paints, finishes, and sundries to professional contractors and painters and to the do-it-yourself market. The employee-owned company was formed by William Moore and William Kelly in 1946.

The printed circuit board (PCB) is king at Kingboard Chemical Holdings, though chemicals and laminates also make up the royal family. The company, controlled and run by the Cheung family, focuses on PCBs and the materials that make them. It operates through three roughly equal segments: PCBs, glass and paper laminates, and chemicals (including hydrogen peroxide used to bleach paper and clean semiconductors). Vertically integrated, Kingboard Chemical produces the glass fiber, copper foil, and formalin used in its laminates, which it uses to make PCBs. The group operates more than 60 manufacturing facilities in China and Thailand.

KMG Chemicals, Inc., through its subsidiaries, engages in the manufacture and sale of specialty chemicals principally in the United States and internationally. It offers high purity wet process chemicals that are used to clean and etch silicon wafers in the production of semiconductors. The company also provides penta blocks, flakes, and solutions, as well as a byproduct of penta production that are used primarily to treat electric and telephone utility poles, protecting them from mold, mildew, fungus, and insects. In addition, KMG Chemicals sells creosote products as wood preservatives for railroad crossties and utility poles. Further, it offers animal health pesticides, including oral larvicides, ear tags, sprays, and dust products to protect cattle, swine, and poultry from flies and other pests. The company markets its pesticide products under the trade names of Avenger, Rabon, Ravap, Patriot, and Annihilator. It has a strategic partnership with AGRI Laboratories Ltd. to provide sales, marketing, and technical support for the company’s animal insecticide product line. The company was founded in 1992 and is based in Houston, Texas.

Kronos Worldwide, Inc. produces and markets titanium dioxide pigments primarily in North America and Europe. The titanium dioxide pigments are used to impart whiteness, brightness, and opacity in various products, such as coatings, plastics, paper, fibers, food, ceramics, and cosmetics. The company produces titanium dioxide pigments in two crystalline forms, rutile and anatase in approximately 40 different grades. It also offers ilmenite, a raw material used directly as a feedstock by sulfate-process titanium dioxide pigment plants; iron-based chemicals, which are co-products and processed co-products of the titanium dioxide pigment production process and used as treatment and conditioning agents for industrial effluents and municipal wastewater, as well as in the manufacture of iron pigments, cement, and agricultural products. In addition, the company provides titanium oxychloride and titanyl sulfate, which are side-stream products from the production of titanium dioxide pigments and used in specialty applications in the formulation of pearlescent pigments, a well as production of electroceramic capacitors for cell phones and other electronic devices. It serves paint, plastics, and paper manufacturers. The company was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in Dallas, Texas. Kronos Worldwide, Inc. is a subsidiary of Valhi, Inc.

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