Ideal Chemical & Supply distributes industrial and specialty chemicals to wholesale, retail, and manufacturing companies. The company's products include acids, alcohols, chlorinated solvents, esters, fatty chemicals, glycol ethers, and hydrogen peroxide. It serves customers across the southeast US through its fleet of tankers, trailers, and trucks. Ideal Chemical & Supply also offers custom blending and packaging services. The company has expanded its Memphis headquarters facility with an additional 40,000 sq. ft. devoted to quality control labs, storage, liquid, and dry product blending operations, and packaging facilities.

Praxair is content to use Praxair Distribution. The company distributes industrial, medical, and other gases to more than 600 Praxair locations in the US and Canada. Praxair Distribution delivers industrial gases and hardware to welders; respiratory gases and healthcare equipment to hospitals and homecare patients; and specialty gases and equipment to electronics, pharmaceutical, food and beverage, and chemical companies. It uses a line of stores and depots, specialty gases labs, cylinder-filling plants, homecare service locations, and distribution centers to serve its customers' needs.

Apparel makers reach for Teijin when they need more fiber. About a third of the company's sales come from fibers that are used primarily in apparel but that are also found in items as varied as circuit boards and bulletproof jackets. In a joint venture with DuPont, Teijin produces polyethylene terephthalate (PET) films used in packaging and magnetic media. The company also makes polyethylene naphthalate (PEN) film used in videocassettes, and it makes pharmaceuticals and medical products, as well as textile and industrial machinery such as spinning machines. Teijin serves customers in Asia, Europe, and the Americas through about 200 subsidiaries and affiliates.

Nufarm UK, a subsidiary of Australian crop protection manufacturer Nufarm Limited, specializes in producing herbicides. In addition to a broad array of phenoxyacetic and phenoxy propionic herbicides, Nufarm UK makes other crop protection and related agricultural chemicals, including fungicides, pesticides, adjuvant oils, and growth regulators. Products include herbicides Lentipur and Nu-shot and fungicides Difcor and Solace. It serves the UK and Irish markets. In 2009 Nufarm acquired A H Marks, greatly adding to its operations in the UK.

Really Tight Pants? Raisins That Propel? Maybe not, but RTP is a custom compounder of plastic resins. The company manufactures specialty compounds from more than 60 engineering resins that can affect color, level of conductivity, high temperature performance, and wear resistance in engineered plastics. Customers include injection molders, extruders, and OEMs in a wide variety of markets. The company added a new extrusion division in 2004, a new thermoplastic compounding facility the next year, and acquired Wiman Corporation (a maker of plastic films for medical and industrial purposes) in 2006. The family-owned company was founded in 1980 by Ben Miller; his son, Hugh Miller, is CEO.

Sinopec Shanghai Petrochemical Company Limited (SPC), located in Jinshan District of Shanghai, is one of the largest refining-chemical integrated petrochemical companies in China. It is one of the subsidiaries of China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation (Sinopec Corp.). It is also currently one of the most important domestic producers of refined oil products, intermediate petrochemicals, synthetic resins and synthetic fibers.SPC grew out of Shanghai Petrochemical Complex which was founded in 1972. In 1993, as an experimental unit, by standardized SOE restructuring, SPC became the first Chinese listed company with its shares listed on the Stock Exchange of Shanghai, the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong and the Stock Exchange of New York with a total share number of 7.2 billion, including 4.0 billion non-floating A shares held by Sinopec Corp., accounting for 55.56£¥ of the total shares; 150 million non-floating legal person A shares, accounting for 2.08£¥ of the total shares; 720 million domestic ordinary A shares, accounting for 10£¥ of the total shares; 2.33 billion oversea H shares, accounting for 32.36£¥ of the total shares.

For UOP, it's not necessarily what you make, it's how you make it. The subsidiary of Honeywell's Specialty Materials segment develops and licenses technologies for processing chemicals. The technologies mainly are used in petroleum-derived products and chemicals (such as ethylene and propylene), but also in the manufacture of products further downstream like plastics, detergents, and fibers. Three-quarters of the world's ethylene production is made using UOP technologies. UOP also produces catalysts, alumina adsorbents (used to purify gas and dry air), and molecular sieves. Until 2005 it had been a joint venture of Honeywell and Union Carbide (which is owned by Dow Chemical).

Lightly touching the envelope to his brow, the omniscient Karnak the Magnificent might've quipped, " An IRA, an umbrella, and Karnak's Energy Star-rated products," divining the answer to "Name three things that cover your assets." Karnak the Corporation, with more than 70 years of experience, manufactures roofing and waterproofing protective coatings, as well as cements and sealants that are rated for fire resistance and wind uplift. The company sells its Underwriters Laboratories-certified products worldwide through such business partners as Allied Building Products Corp. Karnak maintains manufacturing and warehouse locations throughout the US and markets its products globally.

No matter what color your car is, chances are you've got a Red Spot on it somewhere. Red Spot Paint & Varnish supplies coatings for automotive plastics, from lacquers for mirrors and grilles to urethanes for fascia and fenders. Its automotive industry customers include GM, Ford, and Toyota. The company also makes primers and topcoats for sporting goods such as golf club shafts and motorcycle helmets. Red Spot's products also wind up on personal electronics, business machines, cosmetics packaging, and aerospace components. President and CEO Charles Storms is the fourth generation of his family to run the company since it was founded by his great-grandfather H. D. Bourland.

Brenntag North America can hook you up. One of the largest chemical distributors in North America, the company offers hundreds of industrial and specialty chemicals -- from acetic acid to zinc oxide -- and provides custom blending and packaging of chemicals in dry, liquid, or gaseous states. Customers include manufacturers in such industries as chemicals, pharmaceuticals, paints, electronics, pulp and paper, cosmetics, food and beverages, textiles, and water treatment. European private equity group BC Partners owns Brenntag, and thus Brenntag North America.

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