The Clorox Company engages in the production, marketing, and sales of consumer products in the United States and internationally. The company operates through four segments: Cleaning, Lifestyle, Household, and International. The Cleaning segment consists of laundry, home-care, professional products, and auto-care products. This segment offers its products under the Clorox, Clorox 2, Formula 409, Liquid-Plumr, Pine-Sol, S.O.S, Tilex, Green Works, Armor All, and STP brands. The Lifestyle segment offers food products, water-filtration systems, filters, and natural personal care products. This segment offers its products under the Hidden Valley, K C Masterpiece, Brita, and Burt’s Bees brand names. The Household segment provides charcoal, cat litter and plastic bags, wraps, and container products.This segment offers its products under the Glad, Fresh Step, Scoop Away, Ever Clean, Kingsford, and Match Light brand names. The International segment offers home-care, laundry, auto-care, water filtration, charcoal and cat litter products, dressings, plastic bags, wraps and containers, and insecticides under the Clorox, Javex, Glad, PinoLuz, Ayudin, Limpido, Clorinda, Poett, Mistolin, Lestoil, Bon Bril, Nevex, Brita, Armor All, STP, Green Works, Sabra, Pine-Sol and Agua Jane, Ever Clean, Chux, Kingsford, and Hidden Valley brand names. The company markets its products primarily through mass merchandisers, warehouse clubs, grocery stores, direct sales force, distributors, Internet, retail outlets, and a network of brokers. The Clorox Company was founded in 1913 and is based in Oakland, California.

TRInternational (TRI) tries its best to be an exemplary chemical distributorship. The company distributes all manner of chemicals and raw materials from locations worldwide. Industries served include adhesives, concrete, cosmetics, food and beverage, paint and coatings, and pharmaceuticals. TRI has its headquarters in Seattle and branch offices in Chicago, Newark, and Oakland. It also has an office in Shanghai, China. The company maintains warehouses in Asia, Europe, and the US, and ships its products to Australia, Canada, Mexico, South Africa, South America, and Sri Lanka. The bulk of its products are sold in the US. TRInternational is owned by CEO Anthony Riddell.

Asahi Kasei Corporation provides solutions in the areas of chemistry and materials science. It operates in seven segments: Chemicals; Homes; Health Care; Fibers; Electronics; Construction Materials; and Services, Engineering, and Others. The Chemicals segment offers chemicals and derivative products, such as ammonia, nitric acid, caustic soda, acrylonitrile, styrene monomer, methyl methacrylate monomer, PMMA resin, and adipic acid; polymer products, including such as polyethylene, styrene-acrylonitrile, acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene, synthetic rubber, polyacetal, modified polyphenylene ether, and nylon polymer and filament; and specialty products comprising coating materials, latex, microcrystalline cellulose, explosives, explosion-bonded metal clad, photosensitive resin and printing plate making systems, UF and MF membranes and systems, microporous membrane, ion-exchange membranes and electrolysis systems, cling film, storage bags, plastic films, sheets, and foams.

lin Corporation engages in the manufacture and sale of chlor alkali products in the United States and internationally. The company operates in two segments, Chlor Alkali Products and Winchester. The Chlor Alkali Products segment manufactures and sells chlorine and caustic soda, sodium hydrosulfite, hydrochloric acid, hydrogen, bleach products, and potassium hydroxide. The Winchester segment offers sporting ammunition, reloading components, small caliber military ammunition and components, and industrial cartridges. The company serves various industrial customers, wholesalers, and other distributors, as well as the U.S. Government and its prime contractors.

Seltzer Companies packages and distributes specialty chemicals and other ingredients used in nutritional supplements, food, and cosmetics. Through its Seltzer Ingredients division, it sells a full line of amino acids, vitamins, esters, and a variety of natural and artificial colors. Customers include both domestic and overseas manufacturers. The company also offers custom blending through its Seltzer Nutritional Technologies (SNT) division. Seltzer is a subsidiary of UK dairy processor and food group Glanbia.

LANXESS Corporation's synthetic rubber products are used by the tire, auto, and industrial goods industries, while its plastics are marketed toward makers of medical and electronic communications products. LANXESS Corp.'s largest unit is its performance chemicals division, which supplies the textiles, pharmaceutical, and automobile industries, among others. The company's other units are perormance polymers (the synthetic rubber operations) and advanced intermediates (basic and fine chemicals). Subsidiaries include Rhein Chemie (rubber chemicals), Sybron Chemicals (ion exchange resins), and Saltigo (fine, agro-, and pharmaceutical chemicals). Parent company LANXESS AG was spun off from Bayer in 2004.

General Chemical Industrial Products makes soda, but don't be tempted to take a drink. The company produces soda ash, which is a raw ingredient in the manufacture of everything from glass to soap and detergent to textiles. General Chemical's lone production facility and mine are located in Wyoming; the company owns 75% of the facility, with glass container manufacturer Owens-Illinois owning the rest. In 2008 General Chemical acquired the mica production assets of Zemex. Soon after that deal, Tata Chemicals bought the company for about $1 billion, at which point Zemex was spun off to General Chemical's shareholders.

Blaster's products blast away rust, grease, and grime. The company makes solvents, spray lubricants, degreasers, cleaners, polishers, and related products for the automotive, hardware, marine, and RV consumer markets. Its top product is PB, a penetrating catalyst for lubrication and rust-removal applications. Blaster serves professional and do-it-yourself customers; the company's products are sold in retail auto part and hardware stores, as well as through distributors. Blaster was founded in 1957 by William Westley, who sold it in 1980 to Cleveland investor Bernard Porter, whose family still owns the company.

TVK went from painting the town red to covering it in plastic(s). Tiszai Vegyi Kombinat Rt. (TVK) began as a factory commissioned to produce paint for the Soviet Union; today it manufactures petrochemicals, primarily olefins and polyolefins. TVK is Hungary's sole manufacturer of polyolefins and has 20% of Central Europe's petrochemical market share. The company sells its products -- ethylene, propylene, and their derivatives -- to small- and medium-sized plastics makers throughout Europe. TVK is majority owned by Hungary's largest company, oil biggie MOL Group.

Evonik Industries evidently decided it no longer wanted to get its hands dirty. The enterprise was cut out from RAG, leaving the coal business with that company and taking RAG's former subsidiaries Degussa (chemicals and plastics), STEAG (power generation), and Wohnen (real estate). Degussa operates globally and across multiple chemical platforms; it accounts for about three-quarters of Evonik's business. STEAG operates power generation plants, both in Germany and abroad in Colombia, the Philippines, and Turkey. Evonik's real estate operations include 60,000 housing units in Germany. Investment firm CVC Capital Partners owns a 25% stake in the company.

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