Abengoa Bioenergy is the only truly global ethanol producer, with about a dozen plants in the US, Europe, and South America. Its plants have a production capacity of 840 million gallons a year, including 380 million gallons in the US. The company's primary product is fuel-grade ethanol, which, when blended with gasoline, raises oxygen levels and cuts exhaust emissions pollutants such as carbon monoxide. Its research and development unit works in partnership with universities and other companies to develop improved processing technology for ethanol. Abengoa Bioenergy has been a part of Spanish engineering firm Abengoa, which owns about 80% of the company, since 2002.

KPChemical supplies the necessary ingredients for synthetic fibers, video and audio film, PET bottles, and more. The company develops and exports a variety of petrochemical products to customers around the globe. Among its products are P-X (Para-Xylene), PTA (Purified Terephthalic Acid), PPR (PET Packaging Resin), and PIA (Purified Isophthalic Acids). KPChemical focuses primarily on providing products to clients in China, Europe, and Russia. About 90% of its products are shipped to other countries. Founded in 2001, the company is an affiliate of the Lotte Group.

Cray Valley beats Kellogg's any day -- the French company can boast of four scoops of resins. Cray Valley, along with affiliates Cook Composites and Polymers (CCP) and Sartomer, forms the worldwide resins business for TOTAL's chemicals division. It manufactures structural, coatings, hydrocarbon, and powder resins. Among the end products Cray Valley's resins find themselves in are inks, varnishes, paints, adhesives, and gel coats. The company has manufacturing plants in Africa, Asia, and throughout Europe. Since TOTAL joined together Cray Valley, CCP, and Sartomer in 1990 the company has grown its business through successive international acquisitions.

CEPS, formerly known as Dinkie Heel, invests in a handful of specialty businesses. Its Davies Odell business makes body armor, protective underwear, matting for equestrian and dairy use, and a range of footwear repair products. CEPS' Friedman's is a specialist textile importer. The company acquired Friedman's, an importer and distributor of Lycra materials used in dancewear and swimwear, in 2005. The company's Sunline Direct Mail unit is engaged in the the polythene wrapping of mail packs. CEPS has been operating since 1930.

CECO Environmental Corp. provides air pollution control products and services primarily in the United States. It engineers, designs, builds, and installs systems that capture, clean, and destroy contaminants from industrial facilities; and equipment that controls emissions from industrial facilities. The company operates in four divisions: Contracting, Equipment, Components/Parts, and Engineering/Design. The Contracting division offers dust collectors, oil mist collectors, chip conveyance systems, air houses, and conveyors, as well as engages in custom sheet metal fabrication.The Equipment division provides regenerative thermal oxidation, catalytic and thermal oxidation, and selective and regenerative catalytic reduction solutions; and dampers, expansion joints, fiber-bed filter mist collectors, catenary grid and narrow gap, replacement filters, repack services, heavy duty air handling and conditioning solutions, fume exhaust systems, air-curtain hoods, strip/coil coolers and dryers, pulsejet bag houses, reverse air bag houses, pulsejet cartridge and fabric filters, flue gas coolers, exhaust treatment systems, and foundry sand reclamation equipment. It also offers industrial and FCC cyclones, air classifiers, scrubbers, electrostatic precipitators, medial filtration, and pneumatic conveying and industrial ventilation solutions.The Components/Parts division offers component parts for industrial air systems and clamp-together componentized ducting systems. The company serves aerospace, brick, cement, ceramics, metalworking, ethanol, printing, paper, food, foundries, power plants, metal plating, woodworking, chemicals, glass, tobacco, automotive, ethanol, and pharmaceutical industries. CECO Environmental Corp. was founded in 1966 and is headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Fuchs Lubricants Co. is the U.S. operating unit of the Fuchs Worldwide Group, the largest independent manufacturer of specialty lubricants in the world.Fuchs provides high quality lubricants and services to a wide range of American industry - from underground mines to pharmaceutical manufacturers to makers of complex metal components such as automotive, appliance and aerospace manufacturers. Fuchs is constantly developing new products to meet the ever-changing demands of modern industry.

Hexion Specialty Chemicals is the world's largest thermosetting resins (or thermosets) maker, ahead of Georgia-Pacific. Thermosets add a desired quality (heat resistance, gloss, adhesion, etc.) to a number of different paints and adhesives. Hexion also is among the largest makers of formaldehyde and other forest product resins, epoxy resins, and raw materials for coatings and inks. In 2007, the company agreed to buy Huntsman for $10.5 billion. However, amid the general economic turmoil of 2008, Hexion pulled out of the transaction toward the end of that year. Apollo Management controls more than 90% of Hexion.

Astro Chemicals Inc., with one purpose; commitment to the customer. Every order had their personal promise of 100% customer satisfaction. Today, our promise remains the same. Though the world's greater demands for environmental responsibility and business efficiencies create a broader sense of commitment, this challenge has only strengthened our resolve. Responsible and dependable service performed by a committed team of distribution professionals help us earn your business.

Ashland Distribution is the one to call. The largest division of specialty chemicals company Ashland distributes chemicals, plastics, and composites (thermoset resins and associated products) in North America and plastics in Europe and China. Ashland Distribution serves coatings, adhesives, and inks makers; plastics compounders; the aerospace and electronics industries; and metalworking lubricant and chemical manufacturers. Parent company Ashland agreed in 2010 to sell the distribution business to private equity firm TPG Capital for $930 million.

BASF Coatings is the paints and coatings division of the world's largest chemicals company, BASF, and is, fittingly, one of the top coatings companies worldwide. The company produces a range of automaker coatings, automotive refinishes, and industrial coatings. It also produces decorative paints for the European and South American markets. BASF Coatings is one of the world's leading manufacturers of automotive and industrial lacquer. It also ranks among the top three global leaders for automotive OEM coatings. Brand names include Glasurit, R-M, and Salcomix. For its industrial coatings, the company focuses on coil, foil, and powder coatings.

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