Arkema is a world-class producer of industrial chemicals, including acrylics, PMMA, thiochemicals, fluorochemicals, and hydrogen peroxide and of performance products like technical polymers, specialty chemical organic peroxides and additives. Arkema is a leading producer in most of its product lines. Arkema's 20 plants in North America account for 25% of the company's sales.

AEP Industries, Inc. manufactures plastic packaging films in North America. The company produces and markets various polyethylene, polyvinyl chloride, and polypropylene flexible packaging products for consumer, industrial, and agricultural applications. It offers custom and proformance films used for drum, box, carton, and pail liners; furniture and mattress bags; films to cover value products; barrier films; cheese films; and freezer grade bundle films. The company also provides stretch wrap; polyvinyl chloride wrap products used in food and freezer wrap; printed and converted films for various applications, including printed shrink films; and printed, laminated, and converted films for flexible packaging to consumer markets. In addition, it manufactures unplasticized polyvinyl chloride film for use in battery labels, twist films, credit card laminates, PVC films. AEP Industries, Inc. serves the packaging, transportation, beverage, food, automotive, pharmaceutical, chemical, electronics, construction, agriculture, and textile industries. The company was founded in 1970 and is based in South Hackensack, New Jersey.

Nippon Chemical Industrial has grown organically. The company has five chemical plants in Japan. Two plants in Fukushima produce barium compounds and lithium chemicals used in electronics and organic and inorganic phosphorus compounds. The other three plants produce silicate compounds, phosphorus compounds, and chromic acid compounds (used to finish metals). Affiliate JCI USA Inc. handles sales of industrial chemicals in the US.

Kemira tackled the water challenge in its strategy in 2008. The company is investing in research and development, strongly and consistently, to offer to water-intensive industries solutions that help save water and energy. Over the years, Kemira has accumulated impressive expertise and knowledge related to water-intensive processes. Combined with water chemistry, this competence enables Kemira to create production processes that require less water, energy and other invaluable resources.

Rust-Oleum has been fighting the spread of iron oxide for more than 80 years. The company makes paints and similar coatings that resist moisture and corrosion. Designed for materials that are exposed to the elements, including light fixtures, patio furniture, wheelbarrows, mailboxes, and window trim, Rust-Oleum products come in multiple colors and textures. It also makes paints for indoor furniture, epoxies for garage floors and truck beds, and oil finishes for wood. Originally founded in 1921 by a Scottish-born sea captain named Robert Fergusson who discovered fish oil prevented rust, Rust-Oleum is now a subsidiary of chemicals and consumer products heavyweight RPM International.

Van Horn, Metz & Co. was founded in 1950 by Harold Van Horn and Donald Metz. The company was designed to offer raw materials for industry use. These are now sold by VHM's salesforce from Maine southward to Florida and Westward to Missouri. VHM has grown to include 12 warehouses and 6 sales offices strategically located throughout the Mid-Atlantic, Northeast, South, and Ohio Valley regions.

Air Water Inc. supplies industrial gases to the iron and steel, electronics, chemical, and medical sectors. Additionally, the company makes fine chemicals (pharmaceutical and agricultural intermediates), aromatics (benzene, toluene, and xylene), and has a foods unit, Snow Brand Foods, that markets ham and deli items. Air Water also makes consumer bathroom products and commercial food-freezing systems. The company is developing compact air separation units that can be installed in industrial areas with limited access to industrial gas plants.

Albemarle Corporation engages in the development, manufacture, and marketing of engineered specialty chemicals. It operates in three segments: Polymer Additives, Catalysts, and Fine Chemicals. The Polymer Additives segment offers brominated, mineral, and phosphorus flame retardants that are used in plastic enclosures for consumer electronics, printed circuit boards, wire and cable, electrical connectors, textiles, foam insulation, and foam seating in furniture and automobiles. This segment also produces plastic and other additives, such as curatives, antioxidants, and stabilizers. The Catalysts segment provides refinery catalysts, including hydroprocessing catalysts, fluidized catalytic cracking catalysts, and additives; and polyolefin catalysts comprising aluminum and magnesium-alkyls, which are used as co-catalysts, as well as metallocene/single-site catalysts that aid in the development and production of new polymers.The Fine Chemicals segment offers performance chemicals, including elemental bromine, alkyl bromides, inorganic bromides, and various bromine fine chemicals, which are used in various industrial applications; and tertiary amines for surfactants, biocides, disinfectants, and sanitizers; potassium and chlorine-based products that are used in industrial applications; alkenyl succinic anhydride for paper-sizing formulations; and aluminum oxides that are used in various refractory, ceramic, and polishing applications. This segment also engages in fine chemistry services business, which offers custom manufacturing, research, and chemical scale-up services for companies. The company provides its products and services to manufacturers of consumer electronics, building and construction materials, automotive parts, packaging, pharmaceuticals and agrichemicals, and petroleum refiners in the United States and internationally. Albemarle Corporation was founded in 1993 and is based in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Treibacher Industries' chemical and metallurgy business is elemental. Its Steel and Foundry Products unit manufactures noble alloys like vanadium and molybdenum, while the Recycling division takes care of industrial metals that result as waste product from the first unit (recycling vanadium, nickel, and molybdenum). Treibacher's High Performance Materials division produces carbide powders used to manufacture tools and electrical parts, and the company's Rare Earths and Chemicals unit's products are used to manufacture batteries, electronics, ceramics, and catalysts. Treibacher has a subsidiary in Slovenia and a sales unit in Canada.

Sun Chemical is the world's largest inks maker; it also makes all manner of coatings. In addition to inks and coatings for paper, packaging, metal, and other products, Sun Chemical manufactures printing plates for corrugated packaging. Its inks and coatings products are sold under the Sun Chemical, Kohl & Madden, US Ink, and Coates brands. The company operates more than 250 manufacturing, sales, and service locations in Europe and the Americas. Sun Chemical has been a subsidiary of Japanese inks and coatings maker DIC (formerly Dainippon Ink and Chemicals) since 1987 when the latter bought the graphic arts division of what is now Sequa.

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