Yara International tries to make the world green -- and, in the process, make a little green of its own. The manufacturer of fertilizers and industrial gases is among the world's largest makers of plant nutrients and ammonia, selling about 20 million metric tons of fertilizer per year. It is also a top supplier of CO2 and nitrogen chemicals to industrial markets and of nitrates to the explosives industry. Yara has a quarter stake in Chilean fertilizers maker SQM, as does Canadian fertilizers maker PotashCorp. Formerly known as Hydro Agri, the company was spun off in 2004 by Norwegian aluminum giant Norsk Hydro. Yara markets its products worldwide.

Gallade Chemical has been providing just-in-time delivery of chemicals to thousands of customers. Our distribution reach covers California and entire continental United States. We offer thousands of chemicals from hundreds of top manufacturers. Gallade Chemical is an authorized distributor for 3M, JT Baker, Mallinckrodt, EMD Chemicals, Sigma-Aldrich, MacDermid, Tolber and Spectrum Chemical.

ADCO Global would prefer that you seal your windows, doors, and roofs with its line of adhesives and sealants rather than with kisses. Through its worldwide group of subsidiaries -- ADCO Products (US), K?rling (Germany), and Stag (UK) -- ADCO Global provides products for construction, automotive, and specialty industrial markets, serving huge corporations and individual customers. The company operates from eight global locations and sells its products in more than 65 countries. ADCO is controlled by investment firm Aurora Capital.

The Wacker family controls more than half of the publicly traded company. Wacker-Chemie puts the silicon in the silicon chip industry -- literally. The German chemicals company supplies silicon, silicone, and silanes to the personal computer, telecom, and electronics industries. Divided into five units -- Silicones, Siltronic, Polymers, Polysilicon, and Fine Chemicals -- Wacker manufactures surface coating resins, industrial salt, acetyls, and insulation materials. Subsidiary Siltronic AG manufactures silicon wafers for the semiconductor industry.

SNF manufactures water soluble polymers such as synthetic flocculants, coagulants, and dispersants used for municipal and industrial water and wastewater treatment. Other industries served by SNF include paper processing, textile printing, oil production, agriculture, and personal-care products manufacturing. The American arm of French polymer maker SNF Floerger, the company has about a dozen polymer production facilities around the US. Business units include Chemtall, Floquip (polymer preparation equipment), Polychemie, and Polydyne.

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.

Breen wants to inject some color into things. Breen Color Concentrates formulates and manufactures custom plastic colorants, primarily for blow molders of consumer packaging, extrusion and injection molders, and wire and cable manufacturers. It also provides application assistance, custom packaging and labeling, and analysis certification. Breen Color Concentrates serves customers throughout North America. The company was founded in 1976 and acquired by investment firm Spell Capital Partners (through another plastics company it owns, PVC Compounders) in 2007. It joins a stable of six plastics companies Spell has recently acquired.

Fuwei Films (Holdings) Co., Ltd., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the development, manufacture, and distribution of plastic film using the biaxial oriented stretch technique, otherwise known as BOPET film (biaxially oriented polyethylene terephthalate). The company offers printing base film used in printing and lamination; stamping foil base film used for packaging of luxury items; metallization film or aluminum plating base film used for vacuum aluminum plating for paper or flexible plastic lamination; and transfer base film used for environmental friendly cigarettes and alcohol packaging. It also provides high-gloss film used for aesthetically enhanced packaging purposes; heat-sealable film used for processed food packaging and other applications; laser holographic base film used as anti-counterfeit film for food, medicine, cosmetics, cigarettes, and alcohol packaging; and matte film used for printing, metallization, stamping, and transfer metallization.The company’s products are used in consumer based packaging, including the food, pharmaceutical, cosmetics, tobacco, and alcohol industries; imaging, such as masking film, printing plates, and microfilms; electronics and electrical industries consisting of wire and cable wrap, capacitors, and motor insulation; and magnetic products, such as audio and video tapes. Fuwei Films (Holdings) Co. markets its products under the Fuwei Films brand name primarily in the People’s Republic of China, Korea, the United States, Europe, and internationally. The company was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Weifang, the People’s Republic of China.

Church & Dwight Co., Inc., together with its subsidiaries, develops, manufactures, and markets a range of household, personal care, and specialty products under various brand names in the United States and internationally. The company operates in three segments: Consumer Domestic, Consumer International, and Specialty Products. The Consumer Domestic segment offers household products for deodorizing, such as ARM & HAMMER baking soda and cat litter products; laundry and cleaning products, including XTRA and ARM & HAMMER laundry detergents, OXICLEAN pre-wash laundry additive, SCRUB FREE, KABOOM, ORANGE GLO, and BRILLO cleaning products; and personal care products, such as TROJAN condoms, ORAJEL oral analgesics, NAIR depilatories and waxes, FIRST RESPONSE and ANSWER home pregnancy and ovulation test kits, ARRID and ARM & HAMMER antiperspirant, and SPINBRUSH battery-operated toothbrushes. The Consumer International segment primarily sells various personal care products in international markets, including France, the United Kingdom, Canada, Mexico, Australia, Brazil, and China. The Specialty Products segment produces sodium bicarbonate, which it sells together with other specialty inorganic chemicals for a range of industrial, institutional, medical, and food applications. This segment also sells a range of animal nutrition and specialty cleaning products. Church & Dwight sells its products through supermarkets, drug stores, mass merchandisers, industrial customers, and distributors. The company was founded in 1846 and is based in Princeton, New Jersey.

Prince Agri Products is concerned with the health of cattle and swine. The company, a subsidiary of Phibro Animal Health (formerly called Philipp Brothers Chemicals), refines trace minerals such as cobalt, copper, iodine, iron, manganese, molybdenum, and zinc, as well as additives to be used as premixes for animal feed. Its CHROMAX (chromium tripicolinate) is a nutritional supplement fed to over 3 million sows every day. Prince Agri also makes feed flavoring additives such as the raspberry-flavored PIGORTEK for piglets. The company was founded in 1980.

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