WACKER is an independent, globally active company that manufactures and sells chemical products and engages in intensive scientific research. A leader in its core businesses – semiconductors, polysilicon, polymers/specialty chemicals and silicones – WACKER forges ahead with innovative chemistry and new technologies, supplying solutions that are market-oriented, energy-saving and environmentally compatible.The company, a subsidiary of German silicon and silicone maker Wacker Chemie, is a custom compounder of a number of silicone products, most extensively silicone rubber. Products include orthopedic putty, industrial silicones, fluorosilicones, platinum cure silicone, spin casting materials, electrically and thermally conductive silicones, closed cell foam and sponge rubber, and silicone color master batches. Wacker SILMIX's products go to serve the aerospace, automotive, jewelry, pharmaceutical, and electrical industries. It has locations in California and Ohio.

PURE Bioscience engages in the development and commercialization of silver ion bioscience technologies principally in the United States. The company offers silver dihydrogen citrate-based antimicrobials. The silver dihydrogen citrate technology is an electrolytically generated source of stabilized ionic silver that would serve as the basis for various products in diverse markets. It also provides Axen and Axen30 hard surface disinfectant products for commercial, industrial, and consumer applications, including restaurants, homes, and medical facilities. PURE Bioscience sells its products to retail, commercial, and institutional customers through distributors. The company was founded in 1992 and is headquartered in El Cajon, California.

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.

Dyno Nobel has exploded and landed down under. Formerly based in Norway, Dyno Nobel was founded in 1865 by an associate of Swedish dynamite inventor and prize giver Alfred Nobel. The company makes explosives at more than 65 manufacturing and distribution facilities in Australia and North America. It sells to mining, construction, and industrial quarry companies, among other industries. Once split into four geographic segments (Asia Pacific, Europe and Africa, Latin America, and North America), Dyno Nobel was restructured in 2005. Three years later, Australian agrochem maker Incitec Pivot bought Dyno Nobel for about $3 billion.

GreenMan Technologies, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the design, development, and manufacture of environmentally responsible products using recycled materials, primarily recycled rubber in the United States. It offers playground safety tiles, roadside anti-vegetation products, construction molds, and highway guard-rail rubber spacer blocks. The company’s products provide schools and other political subdivisions solutions for safety, compliance, and accessibility. It also involves in playground design, equipment, and installation. The company was founded in 1992 and is based in Savage, Minnesota.

Adhesive tape has been holding Nitto Denko together for more than 50 years. The company makes industrial adhesive tapes for the electronics, automotive, health care, packaging, and construction industries. Nitto Denko separates its business into three segments: Industrial Products (double-coated adhesive tape, barcode labels, etc.), Electronic Products (semiconductor encapsulating resins and flexible printed circuits), and Functional Products (tissue-cultured ginseng, pest control products, and transdermal patches). The Industrial and Electronics segments provide nearly all of the Nitto Denko's sales.

Mace Security International, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, manufactures various security products in the United States. Its Security Segment designs, manufactures, assembles, markets, and sells a range of security products, principally electronic surveillance products and components. It sells its electronic surveillance products and components primarily to installing dealers, distributors, system integrators, and end users. This segment also owns and operates a wholesale central monitoring station, as well as offers less-than-lethal Mace defense sprays and other security devices, such as monitors, high-end digital and machine vision cameras, and professional imaging components, as well as video conferencing equipment. The company’s Digital Media Marketing Segment focuses on selling products on third party Internet promotional sites. In addition, it owns and operates car wash business. The company was founded in 1987 and is headquartered in Horsham, Pennsylvania.

Though Incitec Pivot is Australia's largest producer of fertilizers, it plans to get even bigger by blowing things up. The company's main products are phosphate fertilizers (ammonium phosphates and superphosphates, primarily); it also produces urea and anhydrous ammonia. Incitec Pivot also manufactures industrial chemicals -- for water treatment and process manufacturing -- using by-products from the manufacturing process. The company was formed in 2003 through the merger of fertilizer makers Incitec and Pivot; Orica had owned 70% of Incitec Pivot until it sold that majority stake in 2006. Two years later Incitec Pivot bought explosives maker (and direct rival to Orica) Dyno Nobel for $3 billion.

Core Molding Technologies, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates as a compounder of sheet molding composites (SMC) and molder of fiberglass reinforced plastics. The company produces fiberglass reinforced molded products and SMC materials for various markets, including light, medium, and heavy-duty trucks, as well as automobiles and automotive after markets, personal watercraft, and other commercial products. It also offers reinforced plastic products to the automotive-aftermarket industry. The company sells its products in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. It was formerly known as Core Materials Corporation and changed its name to Core Molding Technologies, Inc. in 2002. The company was founded in 1988 and is headquartered in Columbus, Ohio.

Rogers Corporation develops, manufactures, and distributes specialty material-based products and components for fabricators and contract manufacturers that produce components and products for original equipment manufacturers OEMs worldwide. Its Printed Circuit Materials segment offers rigid circuit board laminates for high frequency printed circuits and flexible circuit board laminates for flexible interconnections. This segment offers these products primarily to printed circuit board manufacturers and equipment manufacturers for applications in the computer, portable communication device, communications infrastructure, aerospace and defense, and consumer markets.The company’s High Performance Foams segment offers urethane foams and silicone materials to fabricators, distributors, and OEMs for applications in consumer electronics, mass transit, aerospace, and defense and other markets. This segment’s foams are used for making high performance gaskets and seals in vehicles, portable communications devices, computers, and peripherals; cushion insole materials for footwear and related products; healthcare and medical materials for body cushioning and orthotic appliances; and R/bak compressible printing plate backing and mounting products for cushioning flexographic plates for printing on packaging materials; and silicone foams for making flame retardant gaskets and seals in communications, aircraft, trains, cars and trucks markets, as well as for shielding extreme temperature or flame. Its Custom Electrical Components segment provides power distribution components, and electroluminescent lamps and inverters for the ground transportation and portable communication device markets. The company’s Other Polymer Products segment offers elastomer components, nonwoven composite materials, and thermal management products, as well as engages in the resale of flexible circuit material products. Rogers Corporation was founded in 1832 and is based in Rogers, Connecticut.

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