Penford Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the development, manufacture, and marketing of specialty natural-based ingredient systems for various industrial and food applications in the United States, Australia, and New Zealand. It develops and manufactures ingredients with starch as a base. The starch products are manufactured primarily from corn, potatoes, and wheat, and are used as binders and coatings in paper and food production. The various forms of starches include ethylated, oxidized, and cationic. The ethylated and oxidized starches are used in coatings and as binders, providing printability to fine white, magazine, and catalog paper. Cationic and other liquid starches are used in the paper forming process in paper production, providing bonding of paper fibers and other ingredients. Penford sells its products through a direct sales force, as well as through distributor agreements. The company was founded in 1894 and is headquartered in Centennial, Colorado.

Viridas (formerly Caldwell Investments) has decided to give up its textile business in order to help stop global warming. Helping to replace fossil fuels, the company specializes in supplying Crude Jatropha Oil to the biodiesel industry, focusing on the South American, European, and US markets. Its Viridas Brasil Agronegocios subsidiary is developing a trial plantation for producing the oil in Belo Horizonte, before implementing an industrial-scale plantation in Brazil's northeastern region.

Raymor Industries didn't get a charge out of the battery business and has moved on to the powders and coatings market. In 2004 the company acquired the advanced materials division of PyroGenesis and dumped its mining exploration business. Through subsidiary Advanced Powders and Coatings (AP&C), Raymor partners with PyroGenesis to produce specialized metallic powders and ceramic and metallic coatings. The products are used primarily in the biomedical, industrial, and aerospace and defense industries. Raymor also operates a nanotechnology division to develop products on a nanometric scale. In 2009 the company filed for bankruptcy protection and was taken private by a small group of investors early the next year.

What, other than gravity, keeps your floor from floating up into the heavens? It might be the products manufactured by BASF Building Systems (formerly called Degussa Building Systems), a business unit within BASF's Construction Chemicals division. The division makes adhesives and sealants that bond wood and rubberized flooring to various substrates; its products are also used by the automotive industry to bond metal, plastics, and laminates. As well, BASF Building Systems manufactures sealants, water repellents, grouting, and concrete and masonry repair products. In 2006, BASF, the world's largest chemicals maker, bought Degussa's Construction Chemicals unit for about $3 billion.

Deswell Industries, Inc. engages in the manufacture of injection-molded plastic parts and components, electronic products and subassemblies, and metallic molds and accessory parts for original equipment manufacturers and contract manufacturers primarily in China, Hong Kong, Thailand, the United Kingdom, Holland, Norway, Germany, and the United States. The company produces various plastic parts and components, including plastic component of electronic entertainment products; cases for flashlights, telephones, paging machines, projectors, and alarm clocks; toner cartridges and cases for photocopy and printer machines; parts for electrical products, such as air-conditioning and ventilators; parts for audio equipment; cases and key tops for personal organizers and remote controls; double injection caps and baby products; laser key caps; and automobile components. Its electronic products comprise audio equipment, including digital audio workstation, digital or analogue mixing consoles, instrument amplifiers, signal processors, firewire/USB audio interfaces, keyboard controllers, and synthesizers; complex printed circuit board assemblies; and finished products, which include business communication products, such as digital phone systems and voice over IP. The company’s metal products include metallic molds and accessory parts used in audio equipment, telephones, copying machines, pay telephones, multimedia stations, automatic teller machines, and vending machines. Deswell Industries, Inc. was founded in 1987 and is based in Macao, the People's Republic of China.

Mitsubishi Rayon's largest business segment makes chemicals and plastics, principally those based on MMA monomers. Another major business segment produces man-made fibers, including polyester and acrylic fibers and Pylen, a recyclable material used for interior decoration and automobile interiors. Other operations include specialty products such as plastic optical fibers, composite fibers, and water filtration systems. Mitsubishi Rayon is part of the Mitsubishi "keiretsu," a group of firms affiliated through extensive cross-ownership.

Monsanto Company provides agricultural products for farmers in the United States and internationally. It has two segments, Seeds and Genomics, and Agricultural Productivity. The Seeds and Genomics segment produces corn, soybeans, canola, wheat, and cotton seeds, as well as vegetable and fruit seeds, including tomato, pepper, eggplant, melon, cucumber, pumpkin, squash, beans, broccoli, onions, and lettuce. This segment also develops biotechnology traits that assist farmers in controlling insects and weeds, as well as provide genetic material and biotechnology traits to other seed companies for their seed brands. The Agricultural Productivity segment offers glyphosate-based herbicides for agricultural, industrial, ornamental, and turf applications; lawn-and-garden herbicides for residential lawn-and-garden applications; and other selective herbicides for control of preemergent annual grass and small seeded broadleaf weeds in corn and other crops. The company offers its products under various brands, including the Roundup Ready, Bollgard, Bollgard II, YieldGard, YieldGard VT, Roundup Ready 2 Yield, and SmartStax for traits; DEKALB, Asgrow, Deltapine, and Vistive for row crop seeds; Seminis, De Ruiter, Royal Sluis, Asgrow, and Petoseed for vegetable seeds; Roundup for herbicides; and Harness for corn. It also licenses germplasm and trait technologies to seed companies. The company sells its products through distributors, retailers, dealers, agricultural co-operatives, plant raisers, and agents, as well as directly to farmers. Monsanto Company has a joint venture with Cargill, Inc. to commercialize a proprietary grain processing technology under the name Extrax. It has collaborations with BASF in plant biotechnology that focuses on high-yielding crops and crops that are tolerant to adverse conditions; and Biotechnology, Inc. to source genetic elements that enable crops to express desirable traits. The company was founded in 2000 and is based in St. Louis, Missouri.

ADM Tronics Unlimited, Inc., a technology-based company, develops, manufactures, and sells chemical products and electronic products. The company offers a range of products in three areas: chemical products for industrial use; non-invasive electronic medical devices; and cosmetic and topical products. Its chemical product line primarily comprises water-based chemical products, such as primers and adhesives, coatings and resins, and chemical additives, which are used in food packaging and printing industries. ADM Tronics also develops medical devices, based on the Sonotron Technology, to treat subjects suffering from the pain of inflammatory joint conditions and tinnitus. It develops the NCCD device to non-invasively treat neural-cerebral conditions. In addition, the company manufactures and sells electronic controllers for spas and hot tubs. ADM Tronics sells its products directly and through distributors primarily in the United States, Australia, Asia, and Europe. The company was founded in 1969 and is headquartered in Northvale, New Jersey.

Renewable Energy Group, or REG, wants alternative fuel to become a regular thing for its customers. The company sells SoyPOWER brand biodiesel throughout the US, controlling about 40% of US sales. Biodiesel is a clean burning fuel made from biowaste including vegetable oil, corn, grain, and soybeans. REG owns four and manages five plants that make more than 300 million gallons of biofuel per year; that fuel is sold to fleet operators, the military, and mining, agriculture, and home-heating companies. In addition to its production and distribution activities, REG also builds biodiesel production plants for other firms. The company was formed in 2003 by West Central Cooperative.

TCR Industries, founded by Tony Rumfola in 1975, will recognize its thirty-sixth year operating as a manufacturers' representative organization June 1st. Our beginning was dealing in distressed inventory brought on by the infamous "oil embargo" which occurred in the early 1970s. A very large percentage of manufacturers requiring chemical raw materials overbought because uncertanties of availability requirements to make their finished products. Thus, when the curtain lifted ending the "oil embargo" caused shortages, there were staggering inventories interfering with cash flows. Opportunities were there to buy these inventories at discounted prices and sell at discounted, but profitable prices. The process was helpful to all parties concerned, and it helped in the start up of TCR.

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