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.

Napier Environmental Technologies, named for a grass, works to green up the chemical industry. The company manufactures wood treatments, water-based strippers, and paint removal products designed to do less damage to the environment than their traditional counterparts. Products such as Bio-Wash, Concrete Safe Etch, Citri-Safe Cleaner, and the RemovALL line are made for consumer (about 55% of sales) and industrial markets. Napier's compounds also clean airplanes, remove graffiti, and harden waste paint. Paint manufacturer Sico had agreed to buy Napier's assets in 2005 but subsequently withdrew the offer. Napier filed for bankruptcy protection in 2005 but emerged later that year.

Formosa Plastics Corp., U.S.A., is the prince of PVC. Affiliated with Taiwan's Formosa Plastics Corporation (one of the world's largest PVC suppliers), the company produces all manner of petrochemicals and plastic resins. Its product roster includes polyethylene, polypropylene, vinyl, and chlor alkali products like caustic soda. The company also produces suspension and specialty PVC resins, the former for pipe and fencing, the latter for flooring and insect screening. Other Formosa products are used for packaging and chemical processing. The fully vertically integrated company operates three manufacturing locations that are fed raw materials by oil and gas-producing and transportation subsidiaries.

S.C. Johnson Ltd. helps its customers clean up in the UK. The wholly-owned subsidiary of S.C. Johnson & Son is a Surrey-based manufacturer of household and industrial cleaning and hygiene products that is also known as British Johnson. The company operates a marketing and manufacturing unit in Frimley Green, Surrey; a regional headquarters (for Europe, Africa, and the Near East) in Egham, Surrey; and a European Shared Service Centre in Edinburgh House at Slough in Berkshire. Established in 1915 as its parent's first subsidiary, the firm markets cleaning products for nearly every room in the house. The company's brand names include Autan, Baygon, Brise, Echo, Kabikiller, Klear, and Mr Muscle, among others.

Stripping is OK at Spraylat. Founded in 1936, Spraylat makes more than 100 strippable coatings used to protect a variety of surfaces from dust, heat, and even environmental hazards. The company makes liquid and powder coatings, as well as coatings for signs, wheels, and electronics. Its Hilemn business segment makes coatings for mirrors. Customers include the aerospace, automotive, electronics, and general manufacturing industries -- primarily in the US, but also in Asia and Europe. Chairman James Borner and his family control the company. Spraylat expanded its global reach in 2008 when it formed Automotive Coatings World Alliance with two paint companies, Japan's Ohashi Chemical and France's Mader Group.

Total's strategy is to tightly integrate its subsidiaries with the parent company's operations, and Total Petrochemicals USA operates directly in coordination with Total's US plants. For the most part Texans don't cotton to foreigners, especially those from France. But Total Petrochemicals USA, the North American arm of French energy giant Total's basic chems unit, is doing just fine in Houston. The company manufactures base and petrochemicals from facilities in Texas and Louisiana and also operates a refinery in Texas. Total Petrochemicals produces olefins (ethylene and propylene), polyolefins (polypropylene and polyethylene), aromatics (benzene, toluene, and xylene), and transportation fuels.

Cambridge Isotope Laboratories, Inc. (CIL) is the world's premier producer of stable isotope labeled compounds and the world leader in the field of isotope separations with an annual production capacity of 120 kilograms of Carbon-13 and annual production capacity of 250 kilograms of Oxygen-18. For more than 20 years, CIL has specialized in the development, production, and marketing of stable (non-radioactive) isotopes and chemical compounds labeled with stable isotopes. With an inventory of over 8000 products, CIL has the most complete product offering of stable isotope labeled compounds available.

Showa Denko is one of Japan's leading producers of chemicals and industrial materials. The company's sectors include petrochemicals (olefins, organic chemicals, plastic products), aluminum (aluminum cans, sheets, ingots, foils), electronics (semiconductors, ceramic materials, hard disks), chemicals (industrial gases, ammonia, agrochemicals), and inorganic materials (ceramics, graphite electrodes). The petrochemicals segment is its largest division, accounting for more than a third of sales. Showa Denko has more than 180 subsidiaries and affiliates. It was formed in 1939 when Nihon Electrical Industries and Showa Fertilizers combined.

The world's #2 ink maker (behind Sun Chemical), Flint Group produces inks and coatings for a variety of applications, including packaging, publication, commercial uses, and digital printing. It operates four business units: printing inks, flexographic products (printing plates), pigments (colorants and additives), and printing blankets, sleeves, and chemicals. Flint owns plants throughout the world, and its customers produce magazines, newspapers, catalogs, and packaging materials. The company's products include sheetfed and web offset, ultraviolet and electronic beam (UV/EB) curable, and flexographic inks as well as environmently friendly vegetable oil-based inks. Flint Group is owned by CVC Capital Partners.

Nan Ya Plastics Corporation USA was established in 1983. In 1984 the company began Rigid PVC Film production in Wharton, Texas. Long-term growth in our facility is realized by the combined efforts of our distributors and customers, continuous improvement of production efficiencies, and our dedication to improve product quality. We continue in our vision to be one of the major suppliers of the rigid film market in North America.Nan Ya Plastics Corporation USA survival depends on our efforts to produce customer satisfaction in the face of worldwide competition. With our experience in Global operation & management, we endeavor to achieve higher levels of growth and stability in our corporate foundation.

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