No matter what color your car is, chances are you've got a Red Spot on it somewhere. Red Spot Paint & Varnish supplies coatings for automotive plastics, from lacquers for mirrors and grilles to urethanes for fascia and fenders. Its automotive industry customers include GM, Ford, and Toyota. The company also makes primers and topcoats for sporting goods such as golf club shafts and motorcycle helmets. Red Spot's products also wind up on personal electronics, business machines, cosmetics packaging, and aerospace components. President and CEO Charles Storms is the fourth generation of his family to run the company since it was founded by his great-grandfather H. D. Bourland.

Nippon Synthetic Chemical Industry doesn't run a charity, but it does have a soup kitchen of sorts. The company, known as Nippon Gohsei, makes specialty polymer chemicals like Gohsenol, a polyvinyl alcohol that affects water solubility, and Soarnol, a resin for use with food packaging and fuel tanks. Its products fall into two categories -- acetyl and fine chemicals, and synthetic (functional and adhesive) resins including film -- used in the manufacture of consumer products. Nippon Gohsei creates vinyl resins, polymers, and liquefied acetylene that end up in agricultural, packaging, and electronic products. Mitsubishi Chemical owns more than a third of the company.

C.P. Pokphand Co. (CPP) is the Chinese arm of Thailand-based Charoen Pokphand Group. The company's products include animal feed additives (chlortetracycline and hydrochloride chlortetracycline, which are broad-spectrum antibiotics), made at its Huazhong Chia Tai and Pucheng Chia Tai subsidiaries. Its Northern Ek Chor unit manufactures Dayang brand of cub-style motorcycles, scooters, bicycles, and tricycles). Its Shanjiang Deni Carburetor joint venture manufactures motorcycle and auto carburetors, along with automotive accessories. In addition, through its ECI-Metro operations, the company is a dealer for Caterpillar products, offering sales, leasing, and repair for the heavy-equipment manufacturer's products.

Bayer MaterialScience's parent company, the Bayer Group, may no longer get most of its money from chemicals and plastics but the unit's share isn't exactly immaterial. Though MaterialScience now ranks behind the health care division of the German conglomerate, with 120 sites throughout the world it still accounts for more than a third of Bayer's annual sales. MaterialScience makes raw materials for adhesives and coatings; it also manufactures plastics, films, and resins. Its products are marketed to the automotive, construction, footwear, sports, and textiles industries, among others.

Roam around wherever you want and your food is very likely going to contain flavors made by Frutarom. The flavors and fragrance company maintains production and R&D facilities on three continents and sells to more than 100 countries. Founded in 1933, Frutarom divides its business into two units. The Flavors Division manufactures flavor and seasoning products, and the Fine Ingredients Division makes citrus oils, aroma chemicals, and nutraceutical extracts. US chemical company ICC Industries, headed by Frutarom's chairman, John Farber, owns a majority share of Frutarom.

United Mineral & Chemical Corporation, is a leading importer/exporter and distributor of High Purity Metals, Pigments/Colorants, and Chemicals. We have been providing manufacturers in North America, Europe and Asia with high quality products for over 65 years. We also distribute sophisticated equipment for Molecular Beam Epitaxy to the Compound Semiconductor Industry. Our motto in business is SERVICE FIRST. We strive to supply our customers with the best service and easiest buying experience possible.

Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation (MCC) operates the basic and petrochemicals businesses of Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings Corporation. Among the products the company makes are polyolefins like polyethylene and polypropylene, polycarbonate, and purified terephthalic acid (PTA). Mitsubishi Chemical operates manufacturing and R&D facilities throughout Japan and also maintains a presence in Asia, Europe, and the US. MCC is one of three units that comprise Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings; the other two are Mitsubishi Plastics and pharmaceuticals maker Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma.

During the past century, Nalco Company has grown from a fledgling water treatment business to the leading integrated water treatment and process improvement company in the world. We do this by focusing on our core markets of water treatment and process chemicals and on our corporate strengths - global presence, on-site expertise, and innovative products and services.Nalco's more than 11,000 employees work with more than 70,000 customers in 130 countries in industry, government and institutions to reduce water and energy consumption by solving and preventing problems, protecting the environment, decreasing costs, increasing productivity, improving profitability by reducing customer total costs of operation, and maintaining asset reliability.Our goal is to help ensure optimum and trouble-free operations in the customer's plant, mill, mine or municipality through the prevention of water and process-related problems and proactive process improvements. The Nalco representative is key to achieving these goals - as consultant, problem-solver, on-site expert and business partner.

Shide Group is a leading manufacturer of chemical building materials. Founded in 1992 and headquartered in Dalian, China, Shide produces more than 500,000 tons of plastic door and window profiles annually. Flagship subsidiary Dalian Shide Plastics Industry is one of the largest production centers for PVC sectional materials. Its product line includes PVC profiles, windows and doors, pipes, pipefitting, sheet materials, and accessories. Shide has also diversified into petrochemical production, insurance and healthcare services, and home-appliance manufacturing.

Polypore International, Inc., a technology filtration company, develops, manufactures, and markets microporous membranes used in separation and filtration processes. The company operates through two segments, Energy Storage and Separations Media. The Energy Storage segment offers polypropylene and polyethylene monolayer and multilayer membrane separators for lithium batteries for the use in personal electronic devices, cordless power tools, and hybrid electric and other electric vehicles. This segment also provides polymer-based membrane separators for lead-acid batteries for the use in transportation and industrial applications comprising automobiles and other motor vehicles, forklifts, submarines, and uninterruptible power supply systems. The Separation Media segment offers healthcare application products, which include polyethersulfone membranes for hemodialysis; polypropylene and polymethylpentene membranes for blood oxygenation; and polypropylene and polyethersulfone membranes for plasmapheresis. This segment also produces membranes and membrane-based elements for micro-filtration and ultra-filtration and gasification/degasification of liquids for the filtration industry. Polypore International sells its products to manufacturers and converters in North America, South America, western Europe, and Asia. The company is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina.

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