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.

The old and the new work together for Aditya Birla Nuvo. It is the second largest producer of rayon yarn in India, and also holds the title of the largest branded apparel company in the country, the second largest producer of carbon black, and is among the biggest fertilizer makers. Aditya Birla Nuvo also is engaged in growth businesseses, including life insurance, telecom, business process outsourcing (BPO) and other IT services. Madura Garments is the company's garments division -- it manages such Indian clothing lines as Van Heusen, Allen Solly, Peter England, and San Frisco. Idea Cellular spearheads it wireless communications unit. The company is a subsidiary of venerable Indian conglomerate Aditya Birla.

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.

Rex Chemical tackles cleaning up messes of Jurassic proportions. The company makes liquid and powdered janitorial chemicals for the food service, housekeeping, laundry, and industrial markets. Among its products are carpet shampoo, degreasers, disinfectants, floor finish and polishes, soaps, stain and mildew removers, and toilet bowl cleaners. It also sells related cleaning equipment, such as aerosols, dishwashers, dispensers, and vacuums. Rex Chemical's main customers include hospitals and schools. The company is owned and operated by the Granja family, which founded Rex Chemical in 1965.

Mexican conglomerate Alfa is a big player in four different industry segments. Alpek, a global petrochemical concern with an emphasis on synthetic fibers (Akra Polyester, DAK Americas, Nyltek, Indelpro, PTAL, Temex) accounts for about 40% of sales. Alfa's other operations consist primarily of refrigerated-foods manufacturer and distributor Sigma Alimentos (Yoplait yogurt, Oscar Mayer), aluminum auto part maker Nemak (engine heads and blocks), and telecom company Alestra. Alfa has alliances with more than 20 companies (such as AT&T, Ford, and Kraft) around the world. It operates more than 75 production facilities throughout the Americas, Asia, and Europe, though Mexico provides almost half of its sales.

Mitsui Chemicals, Inc. (Mitsui Chemicals), one of the leading manufacturers in the chemical industry, has increasingly expanded its business in the United States by offering state-of-the-art technology and products through Mitsui Chemicals America, Inc. Mitsui Chemicals America, Inc. is headquartered in Rye Brook, NY and, with its affiliates, produces and supplies high value added chemical products and plastic materials to the North and South American markets.Mitsui Chemicals America, Inc. focuses on market development of specialty products such as Chemicals & Intermediates, Chemical Solvents, Specialty Polymers and Engineering Plastics, Functional Materials, Electronic Materials and Adhesive Resins. The products are used in a variety of applications for the automotive, packaging, healthcare, semiconductor and electronics industries. Under the global strategy of its parent company Mitsui Chemicals, Inc., Mitsui Chemicals America, strives to offer innovative and competitive technologies and products, while preserving harmony with the environment.

IRPC Public Company Limited ranks among the leading integrated petrochemical companies in Thailand, producing naphtha, liquefied petroleum gas, and lubricant oils. The company's operations include petroleum, mostly refined products (gasoline, diesel, and fuel oils), though also lubricating oils and asphalt. IRPC 's other major business is the manufacture of olefins (ethylene and propylene) and aromatics (benzene, toluene, and xylene) that are used to make pretty much every kind of plastic used in all manner of industries. The company had been operating under bankruptcy protection for much of the decade.

Apparel makers reach for Teijin when they need more fiber. About a third of the company's sales come from fibers that are used primarily in apparel but that are also found in items as varied as circuit boards and bulletproof jackets. In a joint venture with DuPont, Teijin produces polyethylene terephthalate (PET) films used in packaging and magnetic media. The company also makes polyethylene naphthalate (PEN) film used in videocassettes, and it makes pharmaceuticals and medical products, as well as textile and industrial machinery such as spinning machines. Teijin serves customers in Asia, Europe, and the Americas through about 200 subsidiaries and affiliates.

Imperium has issued a green edict: We will be the best of the biofuel producers. The company, which intends to be the largest producer of biodiesel in the US, operates a plant in Washington State that converts plant oil into fuel. Biodiesel is a cleaner burning alternative to petroleum. Imperium's customers include oil companies as well as fleet and marine operators, industrial users, and government agencies. Production capacity at the company's facility is 100 million gallons per year. President John Plaza founded Imperium as Seattle Biodiesel in 2004; he owns about 25% of the firm.

Tokuyama Corporation company was established in 1918 when it began producing soda ash. Tokuyama has your chemical and cement needs covered. The company boasts a diverse set of operations as a manufacturer of organic and inorganic chemicals, cement and building materials, and specialty materials used in the electronics and medical fields. Its revenues are split fairly evenly among these three segments. Products include caustic soda, polyvinyl chloride (PVC), and microporous film; cement, ready-mix concrete, and plastic window sashes; and dental impression material, medical diagnostic analyzers, and optical lens solvents. Tokuyama is composed of about 90 subsidiaries that operate throughout Asia, Europe, and the US.

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