Callahan Chemical carries chemicals to creators of coatings, cleaners, and cosmetics. The distribution company's chemicals are also used in inks, adhesives, personal care products, pharmaceuticals, and vitamin products. Product categories include antimicrobials, silicones, solvents, urethanes, surfactants, humectants, preservatives, and specialty resins. The company's suppliers include Dow Chemical, Eastman Chemical, Rhodia, and Stepan. Callahan transports products from four warehouses in the northeastern US and Puerto Rico; it also offers packaging and blending services.

Lucite International has its roots firmly planted in plastics. The top producer of acrylic monomers (ahead of Rohm and Haas, Degussa, and Asahi Kasei) with quarter-share of the world market, Lucite International has a history that dates back to the discovery of methyl methacrylate (MMA) by an ICI chemist in 1934 and DuPont's opening of the first US plant three years later. MMA is the main building block of acrylic materials. The company's brand names include Lucite, Perspex, and Lucite Tufcoat. Charterhouse Capital, which had owned 78% of Lucite, first put it up for sale in 2006, meeting with no success. It finally managed to bring off a sale to Mitsubishi Rayon two years later.

Univar operates a network of logistics centers throughout the UK and Ireland to ensure a regional supply and to provide service support in any market. A business unit of global chemical distributor Univar N.V., Univar Ltd caters to the distribution and logistical needs of UK customers. Through its three major business operations -- Chemical Distribution, Supply Chain Services, and Industrial Consumables (RW Greeff) -- the company serves customers in industries that include construction and engineering, personal care and pharmaceuticals, transportation, and water treatment.

Helena Chemical's mission is to protect and serve. The product line of the company, the agricultural products division of Japanese business group Marubeni's US subsidiary Marubeni America, is split into two units: Crop Protection and Crop Production. It produces agricultural chemicals, seeds, and fertilizers. Helena Chemical has four toll manufacturing sites -- in Arkansas, California, Georgia, and Iowa -- and sales, marketing, and distribution locations throughout the US. Ancillary product lines and services include forestry, aquatic, and vegetation management. Helena sells to Asia, Australia, Latin America, the Middle East, and Western Europe.

United Energy Corp. engages in the development, manufacture, and sale of specialty chemical products in the United States and internationally. Its product line primarily consists of KH-30, a mixture of modified oils, dispersants, and oil-based surfactants designed to control paraffin and asphaltene deposits in oil wells; KX-100, a formula for the removal of a plug of paraffin or asphaltene; SR-3 scale and rust remover, a corrosion inhibited product for the removal of calcium carbonate and calcium sulfate salt deposits; HPD-1 PLUS for remediation of tough clogging problems with upper medium to high molecular weight paraffin; and GSA Gun & Bore Cleaner, a bore and chamber cleaner for guns.The company also offers green globe chemical products comprising leak detection compound type I and II, a gas leak detection compound for use in detecting leaks in high and low-pressure oxygen systems in aircraft and other related oxygen systems; corrosion inhibitor, an additive intended for use with anti-freeze in water; and corrosion removing compound type I, II, and III, which are corrosion removing and metal conditioning compounds for the removal of rust from ferrous metal surfaces. In addition, United Energy Corp. offers ethylene glycol/water coolant, a mixture of ethylene glycol and distilled water for use in radar domes; and NPX powder coating, a reusable paint stripper. The company was formerly known as Aztec Silver Mining Co. United Energy Corp. was founded in 1971 and is based in Secaucus, New Jersey.

Anderol thanks its lucky stars for all those pesky environmentalists that have many chemical companies running scared. The trend away from petroleum-based fluids fits the company's plans perfectly. Anderol's synthetic lubricants are used in gas engines and compressors and as hydraulic fluids and food-grade lubricants. The company is based in New Jersey and has operations worldwide, including Venezuela, Italy, the Netherlands, Japan, China, and Canada. It became a subsidiary of Chemtura in 2007 when the specialty chemicals giant acquired its parent company, Kaufman Holdings, which also controls synthetic lubricants producer Hatco.

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.

BorsodChem manufactures and distributes petrochemical products and plastics raw materials. The company operates primarily in five product groups: chlor-alkalis (raw materials for plastics and other products made by the company), PVC (the company's largest unit, accounting for about 30% of its sales), compounds (for sheets and films), MDI (insulating foams for the construction industry), and TDI (or toluylene-diisocyanate, used by furniture makers). The majority of BorsodChem's sales stay in continental Europe. The company was founded as Borsodi Vegyi Kombinᴠin 1949. Affiliates of Permira and Vienna Capital Partners own 89% of the company.

French imports are more than just Camembert and the "nouvelle vague"; Rhodia's North American operations bring the specialty chemicals business of its French parent Rhodia over to the US. The company manufactures an array of chemicals, from surfactants and raw materials for cosmetics to pharmaceutical ingredients and rare earth materials. Rhodia's North American operations also include the manufacture of agricultural chemicals, silicas, silicones, and engineering plastics. Rhodia has operations throughout the US, as well as in Canada. It provides more than 15% of its parent's total sales.

EMCO Chemical Distributors has developed a special chemistry with its Midwest manufacturing customers. The company distributes chemicals that include acids, alcohols, surfactants, solvents, and other industrial and specialty chemicals. Its custom packaging facility provides contract blending and packaging services and concentrates on filling orders for hazardous chemicals. Long situated solely in Chicago, EMCO has in recent years opened new facilities in Minneapolis/St. Paul; Kenosha, Wisconsin; and suburban St. Louis. Its waste services division supplies processed non-hazardous waste to Covanta's New York waste-to-energy facility. President, CEO, and owner Edward Polen founded EMCO in 1971.

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