Rockwood Holdings, Inc. engages in the development, manufacture, and marketing of specialty chemicals and advanced materials for industrial and commercial purposes worldwide. The company operates through five segments: Specialty Chemicals, Performance Additives, Titanium Dioxide Pigments, Advanced Ceramics, and Specialty Compounds. The Specialty Chemicals segment offers lithium compounds and chemicals; metal surface treatment chemicals, including corrosion protection/prevention oils; synthetic metal sulfides; and maintenance chemicals. This segment serves automotive pre-coating metal treatment and car body pre-treatment, steel and metal working, life sciences, polymerization initiators for elastomers, steel and metal working, batteries, disc brakes, and aircraft industries. The Performance Additives segment provides iron oxide pigments, wood protection products, inorganic chemicals, synthetic and organic thickeners, and flocculants for residential and commercial construction, coatings and plastics, personal care, paper manufacturing, foundries, and water treatment.The Titanium Dioxide Pigments segment offers titanium dioxide pigments, barium compounds, and zinc compounds for synthetic fibers, plastics, paper, pharmaceutical contrast media, and paints and coatings markets. The Advanced Ceramics segment provides ceramic-on-ceramic ball head and liner components used in hip joint prostheses systems; ceramic tapes; cutting tools; wear and corrosion; and armor components. This segment serves medical, industrial, electronics, automotive, and defense markets. The Specialty Compounds segment offers specification compounds, such as polyvinyl chloride and thermoplastic elastomer for voice and data transmission cables, food and beverage, packaging, medical applications, footwear, and automotive markets. The company also provides wafer recycling and repair for semiconductors manufacturing. Rockwood Holdings was incorporated in 2000 and is based in Princeton, New Jersey.

Americhem leads the industry in solving highly complex technical problems that our competitors can’t touch.Solving color and performance challenges may be our forte, but we didn’t acquire that skill overnight. Americhem was founded in 1941 as a manufacturer’s representative that sold fillers and additives to the rubber industry. In 1959, we offered our first batch of color concentrates, and we’ve been at the industry forefront ever since.Today, Americhem is one of the largest custom color concentrates manufacturers in the world. Privately owned through generations of expansion, we’ve retained our service focus with groundbreaking technology, a single-minded pursuit of quality and total responsiveness to customer needs

FMC Corporation, a chemical company, provides solutions, applications, and products for agricultural, consumer, and industrial markets worldwide. It operates in three segments: Agricultural Products, Specialty Chemicals, and Industrial Chemicals. The Agricultural Products segment develops, markets, and sells a portfolio of crop protection, pest control, and lawn and garden products. It produces insecticides and herbicides to protect various crops, including cotton, sugarcane, rice, corn, soybeans, cereals, fruits, and vegetables from insects and weed growth. The company’s insecticides are also used in non-agricultural applications, including pest control for home, garden, and other specialty markets; and herbicides in turf and roadsides applications.

Independent Chemical Corporation was founded in 1948, by Benjamin Spielman. His wife, Rose, was the firm's first secretary and performed all of the office administrative duties during its early years. The company was founded to provide service to process industries in the New York, New Jersey, Metropolitan Area. Supply service was directed to the textile, leather, fur, and food processing industries; industries that required specialty products and a broad range of industrial chemicals to meet their growing needs. Distribution of specialty products makes Independent Chemical a vital resource today for environmental service companies, manufacturers of institutional laundry and cleaner products, and the Photo Chemical Industry.

Penford Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the development, manufacture, and marketing of specialty natural-based ingredient systems for various industrial and food applications in the United States, Australia, and New Zealand. It develops and manufactures ingredients with starch as a base. The starch products are manufactured primarily from corn, potatoes, and wheat, and are used as binders and coatings in paper and food production. The various forms of starches include ethylated, oxidized, and cationic. The ethylated and oxidized starches are used in coatings and as binders, providing printability to fine white, magazine, and catalog paper. Cationic and other liquid starches are used in the paper forming process in paper production, providing bonding of paper fibers and other ingredients. Penford sells its products through a direct sales force, as well as through distributor agreements. The company was founded in 1894 and is headquartered in Centennial, Colorado.

Clariant Corporation is clearly into the chemicals business. The company is divided into four segments: Textile, Leather, and Paper Chemicals; Functional Chemicals; Pigments and Additives; and Masterbatches (which are color and additive concentrates). As the North American subsidiary of Swiss specialty chemicals maker Clariant AG, Clariant Corp. oversees operations in Canada and the US and has about 25 manufacturing facilities and service centers throughout North America.

Advanced Composites Group (ACG) makes composite materials (plastics and carbon fiber) used as coating materials on telecommunication products (satellite receivers), automobiles, and boats. Additionally, ACG's products are used in pattern, tooling, and component manufacturing by the aerospace and defense, automotive, communications, and sports industries. Its manufacturing facilities are located in the UK and South Africa. ACG is part of the Composite Structural Materials subsidiary of UK industrial distribution company UMECO, which acquired Advanced Composites Group in 2004.

Dover Chemical wants product manufacturers to dive into its pool of chemical ingredients. The company makes flame retardants, surfactants, and lubricants for a diverse range of industries, from rubber to personal care products to paints. A subsidiary of ICC Industries, Dover Chemical has manufacturing facilities in its home base of Dover, Ohio, and in Hammond, Indiana; it sells its products throughout the US. It is among the top US manufacturers of chlorinated paraffins, which are used to make flame retardants, and it is major producer of liquid phosphites in North America.

Rasa Industries can help your company dig itself a hole. Rasa has three major business segments: machinery, chemicals, and electronic materials. Its machinery segment makes pipe-jacking machines used for tunneling in the installation of sewer, gas, and water lines and electricity and communication networks; it also makes screens and pumps for dealing with the slurry that its pipe-jacking machines produce. Rasa's chemical products include phosphorus, ferric oxide, and phosphoric acid. In 2011 Rasa's electronics division sold its silicon wafer recycling operations to RS Technologies. The unit continues to make high-purity materials such as gallium and phosphorus for electronics.

Wattyl you do to make your home more colorful? Wattyl wants to be the Solver of that puzzle. Operating through two main companies, Wattyl in Australia and New Zealand and Solver Paints in Australia, it makes a variety of paints, lacquers, varnishes, and other coating products that are sold worldwide. Brand names include Solagard, Estapol, and Killrust. In addition to selling directly to homeowners through its 60 company-owned stores, Wattyl markets its products to contract painters and industrial customers. About 90% of its business is done in Australia, with sales to New Zealand accounting for the rest.

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