Momentive Performance Materials is the world's second largest producer of silicones and silicone derivatives. We are a global leader in the development and manufacturing of products derived from quartz and specialty ceramics.SILICONES are a multi-functional family of materials used in thousands of products and serve as a critical component in our customers’ formulations. Silicones are generally used as an additive to a wide variety of end-use products in order to provide or enhance certain attributes, such as resistance (heat, ultraviolet light and chemical), lubrication, adhesion or viscosity. Some of the most well-known end-use product applications include caulk, adhesive labels, foam products, cosmetics and tires.

Warwick International has been cleaning up in the chemicals business for more than a quarter century. Based in Wales, the company is a leading manufacturer of a bleach activator called MYKON that allows detergents to become more powerful more quickly and at lower temperatures. Additionally, the Warwick Group maintains a number of chemical distribution companies worldwide. In addition to serving the household and industrial detergents industry, the group targets such industries as water treatment, textile processing, coatings, and personal care. In 2008 Close Brothers' private equity unit acquired Warwick for $235 million from American aerospace and manufacturing company Sequa.

Teknor Apex is no retread. At least not any longer. Founded in 1924 as a tire distributor and retreader, Teknor Apex has sold off those assets to concentrate on chemicals, plastic, and rubber. The company has seven divisions that provide chemicals (plasticizers and toll compounding), garden hoses, rubber (custom mixing and molding of rubber compounds), specialty compounding (custom thermoplastic compound manufacturing and toll compounding of plastics), color concentrates for plastics (Teknor Color Company), thermoplastic elastomers, and vinyl (custom PVC compounds). The founding Fain family owns a controlling interest.

Kyzen -- derived from the Japanese word "kaisan," which means continuous improvement -- is trying to improve the performance of electronics with its specialty cleaning products. The company offers environmentally safer cleaning chemicals (alternatives to ozone depleting chemicals) for semiconductor, optics, and aerospace components, including aluminum tubes, electronic assemblies, medical implants, optical lenses, silicon wafers, and solid rocket motors for the space shuttle. Its Metalnox products are solvents that are specially formulated to remove tough soils used in metal finishing; Optisolv is a line of chemical cleaners for glass and plastics. Kyzen sells via a direct sales force to customers worldwide.

Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd. began with the coming together of Nagano Prefecture's (Shinano-area) water and Niigata Prefecture's (Echigo-area) limestone. Nagano Prefecture's plentiful water give birth to electric power and the limestone that came from Niigata Prefecture was a key raw material, which was called, "Oyashirazu's great earth." Because of the presence of these two gifts of nature, Shin-Etsu Nitrogen Fertilizer Co., Ltd. was founded on September, 1926 to manufacture chemical fertilizer and limestone nitrogen.The history of Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd. began from this point.The company's "Shin" comes from Shinano and "Etsu" is taken from Echigo.

KPChemical supplies the necessary ingredients for synthetic fibers, video and audio film, PET bottles, and more. The company develops and exports a variety of petrochemical products to customers around the globe. Among its products are P-X (Para-Xylene), PTA (Purified Terephthalic Acid), PPR (PET Packaging Resin), and PIA (Purified Isophthalic Acids). KPChemical focuses primarily on providing products to clients in China, Europe, and Russia. About 90% of its products are shipped to other countries. Founded in 2001, the company is an affiliate of the Lotte Group.

Sherwin Alumina, one of the largest alumina refineries in North America, extracts aluminum oxide, or alumina, from bauxite ore. It has an annual production capacity of nearly 1.5 million tons of smelter-grade and 300,000 tons of chemical-grade alumina. After the company refines the alumina it is then used primarily in the making of aluminum, though also as an abrasive and a refractory material. Sherwin Alumina's location on the Texas Gulf Coast allows it access to nearby aluminum smelting facilities and its own deepwater port. It is owned by Swiss metals giant Glencore.

Sigma-Aldrich Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, develops, manufactures, purchases, and distributes various biochemicals and organic chemicals worldwide. Its chemical products and kits are used in scientific research, including genomic and proteomic; biotechnology; pharmaceutical development; and as key components in pharmaceutical, diagnostic, and other high technology manufacturing. The company offers biological buffers, cell culture reagents, biochemicals, chemicals, solvents, and other reagents and kits. It also sells organic chemicals, biochemicals, analytical reagents, chromatography and other laboratory consumables, reference materials, and high-purity products. In addition, Sigma-Aldrich supplies immunochemical, molecular biology, cell signaling, and neuroscience biochemicals and kits used in biotechnology, genomic, proteomic, and other life science research applications; and organic chemicals and biochemicals used in development and production by pharmaceutical, biotechnology, industrial, diagnostic, and electronics companies. The company serves various customers, including universities, pharmaceutical companies, commercial laboratories, industrial companies, non-profit organizations, governmental institutions, biotechnology, diagnostic, chemical and electronics companies, and hospitals. It has a collaboration agreement with Roche Nimblegen Inc. The company was founded in 1951 and is based in St. Louis, Missouri.

Gulf Coast Chemical serves Florida chemical consumers. The company supplies industrial chemical compounding components and equipment. It distributes products from about 25 different manufacturers, including colorants, adhesives, resins, preservatives, filaments, and metal and plastic containers. The firm's suppliers include 3M, Ball Corporation, and Ferro. Gulf Coast Chemical was founded in 1957 and delivers by train and truck.

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.

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