Berli Jucker Public Company (BJC) embraces diversity. The conglomerate's principal activities are manufacturing, packaging, and distributing consumer, construction, and technical and imaging products. Its top consumer offerings include tissue paper, snack foods, and soap marketed under BJC's brand names. The firm is also a leading manufacturer of glass, aluminum, and plastic packaging for beverages, oil, and personal care products. Among the brands that BJC imports and markets are 3M, Ansell, Polaroid, Quaker Oats, Schwan-Stabilo, and UHU. The conglomerate was founded in 1882.

Japan's super packaging company is JSP Corporation, which manufactures foamed plastic products used to create food containers, electronics packaging, and automobile parts. The company's products are made using one of two methods: extrusion foaming and bead foaming. Its global subsidiary, JSP International, is among the leading manufacturers of expanded polypropylene beads, primarily used by the automotive industry. Since the 1990s the company has made international expansion a priority. JSP now gets almost a third of its total sales outside Japan. The company was founded in 1962.

Detrex Corporation and its subsidiaries manufacture and sell products used in the industrial manufacturing and commercial construction industries in the United States and internationally. The company’s principal products include specialty chemicals, including lubricant additives and high purity hydrochloric acid; and PVC and CPVC plastic pipe, duct, and shapes. It manufactures lubricant additives, which are used for enhancing the properties of hydraulic oils, metalworking fluids, gear oils, and greases; high purity hydrochloric acid for semiconductor specifications and pharmaceutical manufacturing applications; and specialty chemicals, including pyrroles.The company also produces corrosion resistant PVC and CPVC thermoplastic extrusions, including industrial piping, duct systems, machining profiles, and other custom extrusions; PVC and CPVC industrial pressure pipe in sizes ranging from 1/8” through 24” diameters; and fire sprinkler pipe, CPVC plumbing piping, ultra pure water piping, low flame and smoke containment piping, and PVC piping products for use in various applications in chemical and industrial processing, high purity, food and beverage, fire protection, micro-electronics, water and waste water, commercial hot and cold water distribution systems, power generation, and aquaculture markets. Its customers include manufacturers of automobiles, lubricants, farm implements, appliances, and ordinance materials; and computers, telecommunications, aerospace, and optical products, as well as commercial and industrial construction industries. Detrex Corporation was founded in 1920 and is headquartered in Southfield, Michigan.

United Salt Corporation (USC) unites consumer-, agricultural-, and industrial-use salt products under one umbrella. The company produces salt for table use, road deicing, and water conditioning. Other customers use the company's salt as a livestock supplement, to make ice cream, to dry seafood or treat hides, or to create brine for use in oil drilling. USC, which was formed in 1928, sells its products under the Ranch House, Flavor House, Melt Away, Gulf, Sea & Land, Tru-Flo, and Tru-Soft names. The company operates production facilities and a salt mine in Texas, New Mexico, and Virginia.

Vista Paint provides a vast array of paints, wallpaper, and window coverings. The company distributes its products through a network of nearly 50 company-owned stores located in California and Nevada. Its paints and coatings are used on residential, commercial, and industrial projects by architecture, decorator, property management, and new-home construction firms, as well as do-it-yourself consumers. The company also offers spray equipment rental, sales, and repair services. Vista Paint was founded by president Eddie Fischer, who still owns the company, and his partner, Walt Jacobson; it was incorporated in 1960 as Grove Paints.

North American Composites (NAC) comes in. A business unit of resins maker Interplastic Corporation, NAC distributes composites and cast polymers that act as reinforcing fibers for a resins mixture. NAC's two dozen distribution locations form a distribution network that stretches throughout the US and Canada.

To call Grupo Celanese synthetic is not to insult the company, a subsidiary of Celanese Corporation. In fact, Grupo Celanese is the largest synthetics maker in Mexico. The company operates two manufacturing plants that produce, primarily, acetate tow (used in cigarette filters), and various other acetyls. Additionally Celanese offers food ingredients for resale. Its operations make up just more than 5% of its parents business.

The Dead Sea has given life to Israel Chemicals Limited (ICL). That body of water is rich in bromine, potash, salt, and magnesium -- minerals that ICL turns into specialty and agrochemicals, among other products. Bromine commonly is used in flame retardants, and potash is a common fertilizer. The company accounts for a third of the world's bromine production and 10% of the world's potash. It is also a major producer of magnesium. Although most of the company's chemicals are produced in Israel (from the Dead Sea), it also mines for fertilizers in Spain and the UK. Investment firm Israel Corporation, controlled by The Ofer Group, owns 53% of ICL.

Akzo Nobel Inc. works hard to create the right chemistry. The US subsidiary of Dutch paints and chemicals giant Akzo Nobel N.V., the company develops and makes chemicals, coatings, and health care products. Its chemicals business includes catalysts, functional chemicals, polymers, pulp and paper chemicals, and surfactants. The coatings sector includes car refinishes, decorative coatings, and industrial coatings and finishes. While the parent company is the world's largest coatings maker, its American subsidiary traditionally has been driven by its chemicals business. In 2007 Akzo Nobel sold its pharmaceuticals operations, which included oral contraceptives, antidepressants, and pharmaceutical raw materials.

Almatis is committed to globally provide high quality specialty alumina products and leading edge services. Almatis is the only global and the world's leading producer of alumina-based materials for Refractory, Ceramics and Polishing applications.Almatis' history dates back to 1910, when its former parent Alcoa first sold calcined alumina. Since its inception in 2004, Almatis has successfully expanded globally, fueled by investments in manufacturing, technology innovation, customer-focus and its premium philosophy.

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