Westlake Chemical Corporation engages in the manufacture and marketing of basic chemicals, vinyls, polymers, and fabricated products. It operates in two segments, Olefins and Vinyls. The Olefins segment manufactures and markets ethylene, polyethylene, styrene monomer, and various ethylene co-products, such as propylene, crude butadiene, and hydrogen. The Vinyls segment manufactures and markets polyvinyl chloride, vinyl chloride monomer, chlorine, caustic soda, and ethylene. This segment also manufactures and sells products fabricated from polyvinyl chloride, which comprise pipes, window and door profiles, and fences. The company’s products are used in consumer and industrial markets, including flexible and rigid packaging, automotive products, coatings, and residential and commercial construction, as well as in other durable and non-durable goods. It serves chemical processors, plastics fabricators, construction contractors, municipalities, and supply warehouses primarily in the United States, Canada, and Singapore. The company was founded in 1985 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas.

Call Masterchem Industries Double-Oh Seven because it's got a license to KILZ. The coatings company -- a subsidiary of home supply giant Masco's BEHR paints business -- manufactures primers, one-coat paints, and rust preventatives under the brands Hammerite and KILZ. The company's two manufacturing facilities are located in and around St. Louis. Masterchem, which was founded in 1954, sells its products through 30,000 retailers nationwide; the vast majority of its products are sold to retail outlets with the remainder sold to distributors. It became a Masco subsidiary in 2000.

Solvay works to render its customers' problems solved. Solvay Chemicals International SA is part of the chemical sector of industrial giant Solvay SA, and accounts for about one-third of the parent company's business. The sector produces hydrogen peroxide, soda ash, sodium bicarbonate, and sodium percarbonate under two product groupings. The largest group is Solvay Chemicals, which has an electrochemistry and fluorinated products cluster and oxygen and organics clusters. Primary markets include adhesives and sealants, aerospace, automotive, environment, food and drink, glass, paints and coatings, medical devices, semiconductors and electronics, and soap and detergent.

To Seventh Generation, green is good. The term means environmentally friendly and nontoxic. For the conscientious company, it's also money in the bank. It makes cleaning and laundry supplies, paper products, personal care items, and diapers and wipes under the Seventh Generation name, which is derived from the Iroquois practice of considering how decisions may affect the next seven generations. Suppliers make its products from recycled or renewable materials using nontoxic ingredients. Seventh Generation's products are sold in the US and Canada through natural goods stores, supermarkets, catalogs, and online. Owned by Jeffrey Hollender and a group of investors, the company hired a new CEO in mid-2009.

IMAFLEX Inc., operating since 1994, specializes in the manufacturing and sale of polyethylene films. These custom made packaging films are either used directly by our customers to protect and market their own products, or purchased by printers know as converters, who will then transform the film to satisfy their own customer needs, or by distributors for re-sale.

Kohl Marketing moves products for companies like Degussa, BASF, and Akzo Nobel; the chemical distributor's wingspan stretches from eastern Pennsylvania down to Florida and west to Tennessee and Mississippi. It distributes raw chemical materials to makers of paints, plastics, textiles, adhesives, graphic arts, and building materials. Kohl Marketing has distribution centers in North Carolina, Florida, and at its home base in Roswell, Georgia.

Barton Solvents packages, stores, and delivers solvents and other chemical products for customers in 13 Midwestern states. Products include cleaning solvents, paint thinners, hydraulic systems oil, corrosion inhibitors, and surfactants. Barton has distribution locations in Iowa, Kansas, and Wisconsin. Suppliers include ADM, BASF, Ineos, and Shell Chemicals.

INEOS Oxide help with all of that. A member of the INEOS Group of companies, INEOS Oxide primarily makes ethylene oxide (EO) and ethylene glycol (EG). The first can be used to manufacture sterilants and pesticides, while the latter is a chief component of antifreeze and de-icing fluids in addition to being used to produce polyester, PET resin, and coatings. INEOS Oxide is among the world's leading manufacturers of EO, EG, and their derivatives, along with chemical manufacturers BASF and Dow. It works through third-party agreements with companies like Borealis, GE Bayer Silicones, Praxair, and Kuraray.

Zinkan Enterprises helps to make sure what's ore is mined, and also to mine what is ore. A manufacturer of specialty chemicals for the mining industry, Zinkan's line of organics (marketed mostly under its O'Brien Products brand) helps to lower moisture in mined ores. The company also makes aggregate and water treatment chemicals and acts as a distributor for specialty chemical company SNF Floerger. Zinkan has about 10 manufacturing and distribution locations in the US, mostly in the Midwest.

Sinopec Shanghai Petrochemical Company Limited (SPC), located in Jinshan District of Shanghai, is one of the largest refining-chemical integrated petrochemical companies in China. It is one of the subsidiaries of China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation (Sinopec Corp.). It is also currently one of the most important domestic producers of refined oil products, intermediate petrochemicals, synthetic resins and synthetic fibers.SPC grew out of Shanghai Petrochemical Complex which was founded in 1972. In 1993, as an experimental unit, by standardized SOE restructuring, SPC became the first Chinese listed company with its shares listed on the Stock Exchange of Shanghai, the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong and the Stock Exchange of New York with a total share number of 7.2 billion, including 4.0 billion non-floating A shares held by Sinopec Corp., accounting for 55.56£¥ of the total shares; 150 million non-floating legal person A shares, accounting for 2.08£¥ of the total shares; 720 million domestic ordinary A shares, accounting for 10£¥ of the total shares; 2.33 billion oversea H shares, accounting for 32.36£¥ of the total shares.

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