GLS Corporation is a soft touch. The company makes and distributes thermoplastic elastomer (TPE) compounds and alloys to customers globally. Soft, flexible TPEs are used in products such as tools, pens, food packaging, personal care items (toothbrushes and razors), and sporting goods (bicycle seats and handle grips). They are also found in medical devices and industrial products. Along with its own DYNAFLEX TPE compounds, GLS also distributes KRATON rubber compounds. GLS has a composites distribution joint venture, called Composites One, with TOTAL's Cook Composites and Polymers unit. The Dehmlow family owned and operated GLS until it sold out to PolyOne in early 2008. It now acts as the TPE unit of PolyOne.

Darling International Inc. provides rendering, recycling, and recovery solutions to the food industry worldwide. The company operates in two segments, Rendering and Restaurant Services. The Rendering segment collects and processes animal by-products, including hides from butcher shops, grocery stores, food service industry, and meat and poultry processors; and converts them principally into useable oils and proteins utilized by the agricultural, leather, and oleo-chemical industries. The Restaurant Services segment engages in the collection of used cooking oils from food service establishments and recycling them into similar products, such as animal feed ingredients and industrial oils. This segment also sells grease collection equipment and provides grease trap servicing, as well as schedules services, such as fat and bone and used cooking oil collection, as well as trap cleaning for contracted customers. Darling International sells its products through commodities brokers and company agents, as well as directly to customers. The company was formerly known as Darling-Delaware Company, Inc. and changed its name to Darling International Inc. in December 1993. Darling International Inc. was founded in 1882 and is headquartered in Irving, Texas.

TransChemical, Inc.is an independent distributor of chemicals and solvents throughout the Midwest since 1974. TransChemical sources from a select list of quality suppliers, enabling you to meet your specifications precisely and without compromise. Consistently ranked in the Top 100 Chemical Distributors, member of National Association of Chemical Distribution, and ISO 9001:2000 certified.

Denial ain't just a river in Egypt, and Rhein adds up to more than some flowing water in Germany. Rhein Chemie manufactures chemical additives for rubber, lubricants, plastics, and polyurethane from its home base in Germany and half a dozen other locations in Europe, the Americas, and Asia. Its rubber chemicals go into tires, wire and cable products, and belts and hoses. Rhein Chemie's lubricants are used to make metalworking fluids, greases, and turbine and compressor oils. Finally, its engineering plastics include polycarbonates and polyurethanes. The company is a subsidiary of LANXESS and operates in the US through Rhein Chemie Corporation.

Formed in 1952 and still controlled by the family of founder David Tilley, the company operates a large distribution facility in Baltimore. Tilley distributes chemicals, oils, and lubricants over roads both flat and hilly. The company offers a full range of chemicals, specialty chemicals, and solvents for customers in the food, personal care, and pharmaceutical industries. Its oil and lubricant products -- motor oils, hydraulic oils, transmission fluids, rust preventers, metalworking fluids -- are typically used by the automotive and manufacturing industries. Tilley also provides packaging, transfer, and handling services. Tilley's suppliers include Morton Salt, BASF, Rhodia, and Dow.

Kuraray's synthetics are for real. The diversified company manufactures chemicals and resins (about half of sales, including copolymer EVAL used in food packaging) and synthetic fibers and textiles (man-made leather, nonwoven fabrics, rayon, and polyester). It also offers engineering and consulting services. Kuraray pioneered the commercialization of several synthetic fibers and resins -- such as its KURALON and Poval products -- for industrial uses. The company, which does most of its business in Japan, is made up of about 80 companies operating in Asia, Europe, and North America.

Lydall, Inc. designs and manufactures specialty engineered products for the thermal/acoustical, filtration/separation, and biopharmaceutical markets. It operates in two segments, Thermal/Acoustical and Performance Materials. The Thermal/Acoustical segment offers automotive thermal and acoustical barriers, including organic and inorganic fiber composites, fiber and metal combinations, and metal components that are used in cars, trucks, sport utility vehicles, and vans. The Performance Materials segment provides filtration and separation media solutions for air, fluid power, industrial, and life science applications; and industrial thermal insulation solutions for building products, appliances, cryogenics, energy, and industrial markets. It also develops non-woven veils, papers, mats, and specialty composites for the building products, appliance, energy, and industrial markets. In addition, the company offers specialty products for blood transfusion and cell therapy applications in the life science industry, as well as single-use bioprocessing containers for containment of media, buffers, and bulk intermediates used in biotech, pharmaceutical, and diagnostic reagent manufacturing processes.Further, it offers medical filter materials products utilized in traditional blood filtration devices, such as cardiotomy reservoirs and autotransfusion filters, as well as designs and manufactures high precision, specialty engineered temperature-control equipment for semiconductor, pharmaceutical, life sciences, and industrial applications. Lydall, Inc. sells its products to original equipment manufacturers and tier-one suppliers in the United States, Mexico, Canada, Europe, and Asia. The company was founded in 1913 and is based in Manchester, Connecticut.

Sasol Limited's Olefins and Surfactants unit (which itself is based in Germany). The division produces a number of commodity and specialty chemicals from its manufacturing sites and an R&D center in the US. Among the products made by Sasol North America are alcohols, alumina, paraffins, specialty surfactants, and fatty acid esters. Sasol North America is composed of what was once ConocoPhillips' chemicals unit, which was spun off as private company Vista Chemical in 1984, went public two years later, was purchased by RWE in 1991, and finally sold to Sasol in 2001.

Tredegar Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the manufacture and sale of plastic films, elastics, and laminate materials primarily for personal and household care products, and packaging and surface protection applications. It offers apertured film and nonwoven materials for use in feminine hygiene products, baby diapers, and adult incontinent products; breathable, embossed, and elastic materials that are used as components for baby diapers, adult incontinent products, and feminine hygiene products; and absorbent transfer layers for use in baby diapers and adult incontinent products. The company also provides apertured films, breathable barrier films, and laminates that regulate fluid or vapor transmission for use in industrial, medical, agricultural, and household markets, including disposable mops, facial wipes, and filter layers for personal protective suits, facial masks, and landscaping fabric.The company also produces a range of packaging films for paper products; and laminating films for food packaging applications. In addition, it produces single and multi-layer surface protection films for use in protecting components of flat panel displays and liquid crystal display televisions during the manufacturing process. Tredegar has operations in the United States, Canada, Latin America, Europe, Asia, the Netherlands, Hungary, China, Italy, and Brazil. The company was founded in 1988 and is headquartered in Richmond, Virginia.

There's always room for gelatin. At least that's what GELITA hopes. The company is the world's #1 producer of gelatin, with a 25% share of the market. GELITA's products are used in food and pharmaceuticals, as well as photographic and specialty products (from fertilizers to pet food to cleansing agents). Collagen found in the skin, hair, and bone of slaughtered animals (deemed safe for human consumption, naturally) is the base material for gelatin, valued not only for its high percentage of protein but also for its thickening, adhesive, and emulsifying properties. After producing gelatin under the GELITA name for more than 70 years, Deutsche Gelatine-Fabriken Stoess formally changed its name to GELITA in 2005.

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