Recovering huffers should probably stay away from Chase Products. The company manufactures aerosol products of all kinds, from spray paints to insecticides and automotive sprays to health and beauty aids. Chase makes aerosols under its own labels, which include Champion Sprayon, America's Home Value, ColorSpray, and Kill Zone; it also produces sprays for private-label clients. The company's products can be found in hardware stores, craft centers, and food and drug stores, as well as through mass merchandisers and distributors. Chase Products was formed in 1927 to produce exterminating sprays.

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.

Spectra is all about the colors. Spectra Colors Corporation manufactures colorants and dyes for everything from Polaroid's imaging products to Samsung ink jets to Kiwi shoe polishes. The company, which was founded in 1987, maintains a laboratory, production area, and warehouse at its New Jersey headquarters and also has a distribution network that spans the globe.

Cryopak Industries wants to cover the temperature-control industry like a blanket. It manufactures products that control temperatures for industrial, pharmaceutical, and consumer applications. It makes reusable ice substitutes, flexible hot and cold compresses, reusable gel ice, and instant hot and cold packs. Shipping products include Flexible Ice Blanket, Ice-Pak, and Hot-Pak. Other brand names include SimplyCozy (neck warmer) and Flex Pak. Cryopak's pharmaceutical products allow for the temperature-controlled transport of medicines. Cryopak was founded in 1993 and grew rapidly with the acquisitions of Northland Ice-Gel and Ice-Pak Group.

Stripping is OK at Spraylat. Founded in 1936, Spraylat makes more than 100 strippable coatings used to protect a variety of surfaces from dust, heat, and even environmental hazards. The company makes liquid and powder coatings, as well as coatings for signs, wheels, and electronics. Its Hilemn business segment makes coatings for mirrors. Customers include the aerospace, automotive, electronics, and general manufacturing industries -- primarily in the US, but also in Asia and Europe. Chairman James Borner and his family control the company. Spraylat expanded its global reach in 2008 when it formed Automotive Coatings World Alliance with two paint companies, Japan's Ohashi Chemical and France's Mader Group.

Nufarm UK, a subsidiary of Australian crop protection manufacturer Nufarm Limited, specializes in producing herbicides. In addition to a broad array of phenoxyacetic and phenoxy propionic herbicides, Nufarm UK makes other crop protection and related agricultural chemicals, including fungicides, pesticides, adjuvant oils, and growth regulators. Products include herbicides Lentipur and Nu-shot and fungicides Difcor and Solace. It serves the UK and Irish markets. In 2009 Nufarm acquired A H Marks, greatly adding to its operations in the UK.

Brenntag Mid-South doesn't make many chemicals of its own, but it hooks up people who do with people who need them. The company distributes industrial and specialty chemicals from 25 locations in states from Missouri in the Midwest to Florida in the South. Brenntag Mid-South has about 200 delivery vehicles, from local trucks to long-distance tractor trailers. Additionally Brenntag provides services like blending, repackaging, and technical and safety assistance. It serves the aluminum, automotive, food, mining, pharmaceutical, and water treatment industries, among others.

It's not in Minnesota and it doesn't do any mining either, but at least 3M United Kingdom does accomplish some manufacturing. 3M UK is the British and Irish arm of diversified chemical and consumer products firm 3M Company. Among 3M's product lines are Scotch-brand tape and Post-it Notes. 3M Health Care Ltd., whose business makes up a large component of 3M UK, makes medical equipment and supplies like respirators and drug delivery systems. The company also manufactures abrasives and adhesives. 3M UK is among its parent company's largest international iterations with about 15 locations, including 11 manufacturing facilities.

Bion Environmental Technologies, Inc., through its subsidiaries, focuses on the development of its waste management technology, which provides environmental solutions to agriculture industry in the United States. The company provides solutions for environmentally sound clean-up of the waste streams of large-scale confined animal feeding operations, and for integration of renewable energy production, ethanol production, sustainable animal husbandry, and organic soil/fertilizer and feed production. It intends to design, construct, and operate a Bion system to treat the waste of the dairy cows, including milkers, dry cows, and heifers at the Kreider Dairy, located in Mannheim, Pennsylvania. The company was founded in 1987 and is based in New York, New York.

Cantol Limited is out to make a clean sweep. The company manufactures and distributes cleaning, maintenance, and specialty chemicals. Brand names include Aquapower (parts washing compound), Hi-Brite (metal finish cleaner), Ora-Clean (degreaser and deodorizer), and Rug Briter (carpet and upholstery cleaner). The company operates throughout Canada and throughout the Eastern Seaboard of the US. About half of its sales are in the US. The company has also been selling in China and in Mexico. President Elmer Snethen, through his company Snethen, Inc., has acquired nearly 91% of Cantol.

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