Solvay Indupa manufactures and distributes PVC (polyvinyl chloride) resin used in the manufacture of a broad range of industrial and consumers goods; end products include flooring, footwear, packaging materials, pipes, and coatings for wire and cable. The company produces its PVC, sold under the SolVin brand, as well as other chemical products (sodium hydroxide, hydrochloric acid, and hypochlorite) at plants in Argentina and Brazil. Solvay Indupa's annual output of PVC resin totals more than 260,000 tons. The company is a subsidiary of Brussels-based chemical and pharmaceutical maker Solvay Group.

Ferro Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, produces specialty materials and chemicals for a range of manufacturers worldwide. It offers inorganic specialty products, including glazes, frits, enamels, pigments, dinnerware decorations, and other performance materials; organic specialty products, such as polymer specialty materials, engineered plastic compounds, pigments dispersions, and high-potency pharmaceutical active ingredients; and electronic materials comprising high-performance dielectrics, conductive pastes, metal powders, and polishing materials. The company’s products are used in various applications in markets, including appliances, transportation, building and renovation, electronics, household furnishings, industrial products, packaging, and pharmaceuticals. It serves manufacturers of tile, appliances, construction materials, automobile parts, glass, bottles, vinyl flooring and wall coverings, solar cells, multi-layer capacitors, and pharmaceuticals. The company sells its products directly to customers, as well as through indirect sales channels, such as agents and distributors. Ferro Corporation was founded in 1919 and is headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio.

Sinnett-Elpaco Coatings makes industrial paints and powder coatings for products in the ammunition, appliance, automotive, construction, electrical, industrial machinery, consumer goods, marine, and office furniture industries. Its products include high-temperature coatings, clear polyester powders, enamels, solvents, epoxies, urethanes, and wash primers. The company, also known as TriTech Coatings, is owned by its executives.

zuChem's the one they call Dr. Feel Good. Its products are the ones that'll make you feel all right. In addition to making chemicals for pharmaceuticals, the Chicago-based, development stage company is in the process of making an artificial sweetener that can give that sugar high you crave without the calories you don't. zuChem manufactures glycochemicals for the pharmaceutical, food, flavor and fragrance, and specialty chemicals industries. It has a partnership with chemical marketing and distribution company Austin Chemical to sell its rare sugars product zuCarb to the pharmaceuticals market. That zuChem, Inc. company is also based in Chicago.

Durr Marketing Associates' forte is raw materials for the specialty chemical market. The company distributes catalysts, inorganic chemicals, pigments, lubricants, rust/corrosion/stain inhibitors, plasticizers, resins, and thickening agents. Its customers include companies in the adhesives and sealants, paints and coatings, plastics and rubber, and electronics industries. Durr Marketing's suppliers include Interplastic, PPG Industries, and Huntsman.

Rodda Paint, one of the largest paint manufacturers in the Pacific Northwest, makes paints and other coatings that it sells in its 45 stores located throughout Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington. In the summer of 2004 Rodda joined forces with an even larger regional paints maker, Canadian company Cloverdale Paint. The two companies merged operations but planned to keep using separate names in their respective countries and to maintain separate management teams. Art Rodda founded Rodda Paint in 1932.

Talk about carbon-based life forms -- Tokai Carbon lives on the stuff. The company's carbon products include carbon black, a reinforcement and coloring material used in car tires, industrial rubber products, paints, and inks; and artificial-graphite electrodes, which are used in electric-arc steelmaking furnaces. Tokai also makes specialty carbon products (glassy carbon, carbon brushes) and friction materials (used in clutches and brakes). In addition, the company has other operations in areas including real estate rental and cargo-handing. Tokai Carbon operates facilities in Asia, Europe, and North America.

Austin Chemical does just fine, even without the bionic capabilities of Steve or the accessibility to great barbecue of the capital of Texas. The company supplies excipients, intermediates, APIs (active pharmaceutical ingredients), and specialty chemicals to the pharmaceutical, nutritional, and agrochemical industries. It also provides development, packaging, marketing, and logistical services. The company supplies more than 8,000 products from some 115 manufacturers. In addition to its Chicago-area headquarters, Austin Chemical maintains operations in China and India.

Because you're not likely to be creating ion exchange resins out of your garage, LANXESS Sybron Chemicals does the job for you. LANXESS bought Sybron in 2000 and added its own ion exchange resins business to form one company that can serve both the industrial and domestic water treatment sectors. In addition to being used for domestic water softening and in waste water treatment, Sybron's products are used in catalysis and in processing specialty chemicals (removing heavy and precious metals like brine and mercury). They can also be used in sweetener and food processing to remove unwanted properties (minerals, odors, acids, etc.).

R. T. Vanderbilt Company opened its doors for business on 42nd Street in New York City in 1916. It was started by a 31-year-old named Robert Thurlow Vanderbilt who had $1,000 of his own, a $24,000 family loan, and a contract to sell clay for a company in the South.Since the paper industry was a prime market for clay, it was here that Robert Vanderbilt saw his Company begin to grow. His success led him to form R. T. Vanderbilt Company's first subsidiary, Continental Clay Company (now Dixie Clay Company) in South Carolina. However, while soft clay was geared to the needs of the paper industry, Continental Clay and North American Clay Company (of which Robert was a director) were also mining hard clays more suitable to the rubber industry. This introduced Vanderbilt to the rubber industry.

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