The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company engages in the development, manufacture, distribution, and sale of tires and related products and services worldwide. It manufactures rubber tires for automobiles, trucks, buses, aviation, motorcycles, farm implements, earthmoving and mining equipment, industrial equipment, and various other applications. The company offers tires under ‘Goodyear’, ‘Dunlop’, ‘Kelly’, ‘Fulda’, ‘Debica’, ‘Sava’, and various other Goodyear owned house brands, as well as under private-label brands. It also retreads truck, aviation, and off-the-road tires; manufactures and sells tread rubber and other tire retreading materials; provides automotive repair services and miscellaneous other products and services; and manufactures and sells flaps for truck tires and other types of tires. As of December 31, 2008, the company operated approximately 1,600 tire and auto service center outlets, where it offers its products for retail sale and provides automotive repair and other services. The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company was founded in 1898 and is based in Akron, Ohio.

Showa Denko is one of Japan's leading producers of chemicals and industrial materials. The company's sectors include petrochemicals (olefins, organic chemicals, plastic products), aluminum (aluminum cans, sheets, ingots, foils), electronics (semiconductors, ceramic materials, hard disks), chemicals (industrial gases, ammonia, agrochemicals), and inorganic materials (ceramics, graphite electrodes). The petrochemicals segment is its largest division, accounting for more than a third of sales. Showa Denko has more than 180 subsidiaries and affiliates. It was formed in 1939 when Nihon Electrical Industries and Showa Fertilizers combined.

The Pigments for Paper business group produces kaolin, ground calcium carbonate (GCC) and precipitated calcium carbonate (PCC), mineral components that are essential for the paper industry. These products -- white pigments -- are essential mineral components, as they improve the physical characteristics of finished products and help to reduce their production cost. White pigments offer a wide variety of qualities in terms of gloss, brightness, opacity or viscosity.The great diversity of its products allows the business group to provide multi-pigment solutions in response to its customers’ specific needs. It offers the world’s broadest range of pigments targeted for paper industry application.

PTT Chemical is a leading producer of petrochemicals in Asia. The company's primary products are olefins such as ethylene and propylene used in the manufacture of plastics. These products make up nearly all of the company's sales. PTT Chemical also produces chemicals used to make adhesives, paint, rubber, and solvents. It is Thailand's largest producer of olefins. PTT Chemical was formed in 2005 when oil and gas company PTT acquired National Petrochemical Public Co. Ltd. and combined it with its Thai Olefins unit. PTT owns just under 50% of the company.

Monsanto Company provides agricultural products for farmers in the United States and internationally. It has two segments, Seeds and Genomics, and Agricultural Productivity. The Seeds and Genomics segment produces corn, soybeans, canola, wheat, and cotton seeds, as well as vegetable and fruit seeds, including tomato, pepper, eggplant, melon, cucumber, pumpkin, squash, beans, broccoli, onions, and lettuce. This segment also develops biotechnology traits that assist farmers in controlling insects and weeds, as well as provide genetic material and biotechnology traits to other seed companies for their seed brands. The Agricultural Productivity segment offers glyphosate-based herbicides for agricultural, industrial, ornamental, and turf applications; lawn-and-garden herbicides for residential lawn-and-garden applications; and other selective herbicides for control of preemergent annual grass and small seeded broadleaf weeds in corn and other crops. The company offers its products under various brands, including the Roundup Ready, Bollgard, Bollgard II, YieldGard, YieldGard VT, Roundup Ready 2 Yield, and SmartStax for traits; DEKALB, Asgrow, Deltapine, and Vistive for row crop seeds; Seminis, De Ruiter, Royal Sluis, Asgrow, and Petoseed for vegetable seeds; Roundup for herbicides; and Harness for corn. It also licenses germplasm and trait technologies to seed companies. The company sells its products through distributors, retailers, dealers, agricultural co-operatives, plant raisers, and agents, as well as directly to farmers. Monsanto Company has a joint venture with Cargill, Inc. to commercialize a proprietary grain processing technology under the name Extrax. It has collaborations with BASF in plant biotechnology that focuses on high-yielding crops and crops that are tolerant to adverse conditions; and Biotechnology, Inc. to source genetic elements that enable crops to express desirable traits. The company was founded in 2000 and is based in St. Louis, Missouri.

Jacob Stern & Sons, which primarily operates through subsidiary Acme-Hardesty, is a global oleochemicals and agricultural products distributor. Acme-Hardesty distributes an array of oil- and fat-based chemicals, as well as flavor and fragrance ingredients and industrial chemical products. Its customers include manufacturers of adhesives, coatings, lubricants, soaps, food, pharmaceuticals, and personal care products. In addition to the chemicals it gets domestically, Acme-Hardesty's oleochemicals are imported from Asia, the Middle East, and South America.

Tokuyama Corporation company was established in 1918 when it began producing soda ash. Tokuyama has your chemical and cement needs covered. The company boasts a diverse set of operations as a manufacturer of organic and inorganic chemicals, cement and building materials, and specialty materials used in the electronics and medical fields. Its revenues are split fairly evenly among these three segments. Products include caustic soda, polyvinyl chloride (PVC), and microporous film; cement, ready-mix concrete, and plastic window sashes; and dental impression material, medical diagnostic analyzers, and optical lens solvents. Tokuyama is composed of about 90 subsidiaries that operate throughout Asia, Europe, and the US.

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.

Braskem S.A., together with its subsidiaries, operates as an integrated petrochemical cracker and thermoplastics producer primarily in Brazil. It offers olefins, such as ethylene, polymer and chemical grade propylene, butadiene, isoprene, and butene-1; aromatics comprising benzene, toluene, para-xylene, ortho-xylene, and mixed xylene; caprolactam, cyclohexane, cyclohexanone, and ammonium sulfate; automotive gasoline and liquefied petroleum gas; and methyl tertiary butyl ether, solvent C9, and pyrolysis C9 primarily for manufacturing intermediate second generation petrochemical products. The company also produces electric power, steam, compressed air, and purified drinking and demineralized water. In addition, it offers polyethylene and polypropylene for use in consumer and industrial applications, such as plastic films for food and industrial packaging, bottles, shopping bags and other consumer goods containers, automotive parts, and household appliances.Further, the company engages in producing suspension polyvinylchloride (PVC) for the manufacture of pipes, fittings, laminated products, shoes, sheeting, flooring, cable insulation, electrical conduit, packaging, and medical applications; paste PVC for producing toys, synthetic leather, flooring materials, bottle caps and seals, automobile corrosion prevention treatments, and wallpaper coatings; ethylene dichloride for the manufacture of PVC; and caustic soda for aluminum, pulp and paper, petrochemicals and other chemicals, soaps and detergents, and waste treatment plants applications. Additionally, it distributes chemical and petrochemical products comprising solvents, such as aliphatic, aromatic, synthetic, and ecological solvents; polymers; and general purpose chemicals, which include process oils, chemical intermediates, blends, specialty chemicals, pharmaceuticals, and santoprene. The company, formerly known as Copene Petroquimica do Nordeste S.A., was founded in 1972 and is headquartered in Camacari, Brazil.

TCR Industries, founded by Tony Rumfola in 1975, will recognize its thirty-sixth year operating as a manufacturers' representative organization June 1st. Our beginning was dealing in distressed inventory brought on by the infamous "oil embargo" which occurred in the early 1970s. A very large percentage of manufacturers requiring chemical raw materials overbought because uncertanties of availability requirements to make their finished products. Thus, when the curtain lifted ending the "oil embargo" caused shortages, there were staggering inventories interfering with cash flows. Opportunities were there to buy these inventories at discounted prices and sell at discounted, but profitable prices. The process was helpful to all parties concerned, and it helped in the start up of TCR.

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