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.

Elementis Specialties is the premier worldwide leader in manufacturing and development of innovative rheological modifiers. We provide a comprehensive specialty additives portfolio including rheology modifiers, defoamers, colorants and tinting systems, waxes, and surface active additives for the coatings, construction, personal care, ink, oil field and lubrication markets. An extensive range of specialty surfactant lines for various types of applications complete our offering to the market place.

American Biltrite Inc. provides flooring products, tape products, jewelry, and rubber products worldwide. The company produces adhesive-coated, pressure-sensitive papers, and films used to protect material during handling or storage, or to serve as a carrier for transferring decals or die-cut lettering; and pressure sensitive tapes and adhesive products used for applications in the heating, ventilating and air conditioning, footwear, automotive, electrical, and electronic industries. It also manufactures vinyl and vinyl composition floor coverings and sells them primarily through floor covering distributors, to retailers and contractors for commercial and residential use. In addition, American Biltrite supplies costume jewelry to mass merchandisers and department stores; and produces flooring and rubber products, including materials used by footwear manufacturers, and other industrial products. The company was founded in 1908 and is based in Wellesley Hills, Massachusetts.

United Salt Corporation (USC) unites consumer-, agricultural-, and industrial-use salt products under one umbrella. The company produces salt for table use, road deicing, and water conditioning. Other customers use the company's salt as a livestock supplement, to make ice cream, to dry seafood or treat hides, or to create brine for use in oil drilling. USC, which was formed in 1928, sells its products under the Ranch House, Flavor House, Melt Away, Gulf, Sea & Land, Tru-Flo, and Tru-Soft names. The company operates production facilities and a salt mine in Texas, New Mexico, and Virginia.

Enerchem International provides oilfield services and energy marketing. The company makes hydrocarbon-based well-servicing fluids for oil and gas drilling and processing equipment. It supplies conventional and heavy oil production plants, natural gas processing plants, pipelines, and compressor stations. Enerchem's Fracsol brand is one of the most widely used fracturing fluids. Its energy marketing activities include the sale of crude oil by-products from its plants. In 2005 the company sold its specialty chemicals operations to M-I Swaco's Canadian drilling fluids unit in order to concentrate on its hydrocarbon fluids business. The next year it bought energy industry transportation company Millard Trucking.

ICC Chemical Corporation Company Profile ICC Chemical Corporation has a quick cure for manufacturers' chemical dependencies. The company acts as the international trading arm of parent ICC Industries, which manufactures chemicals, plastics, and pharmaceuticals. ICC Chemical markets products such as petrochemicals; plastic resins and raw materials; organic, inorganic, and specialty chemicals; performance products; and pharmaceutical and food ingredients. It has bulk storage and warehouse locations throughout the US, as well as a fleet of trucks, railcars, and isocontainers. ICC Chemical has offices in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East.

ITOCHU Chemicals America Inc. (ICAI) has strong vendor and customer partnerships with large corporations and small companies alike. ICAI utilizes the resources of ITOCHU Corporation, a $28+ billion Fortune Global 500 company. Additionally, ICAI works closely with chemical related companies under the ITOCHU umbrella including: ITOCHU Chemical Frontier, ITOCHU Plastics, and ITOCHU Techno-Chemical. These strong relationships provide a solid foundation for ICAI to be competitive in the markets it serves. Effective sales channels, market knowledge, technical expertise, and efficient systems are just some of the benefits of working with ICAI.

At CFC International, beauty by design is only skin deep. The company makes transferable chemical coatings to beautify, protect, and add other kinds of functionality to consumer products. It makes complex functional coatings such as simulated metal used on cosmetic containers and simulated wood grain for ready-to-assemble furniture. CFC also makes holographic authentication seals (popular on tickets and software), heat transfer labels for pharmaceuticals, and magnetic strips for security and credit card uses. The company is a part multi-industry conglomerate Illinois Tool Works (ITW).

Rockwood Holdings, Inc. engages in the development, manufacture, and marketing of specialty chemicals and advanced materials for industrial and commercial purposes worldwide. The company operates through five segments: Specialty Chemicals, Performance Additives, Titanium Dioxide Pigments, Advanced Ceramics, and Specialty Compounds. The Specialty Chemicals segment offers lithium compounds and chemicals; metal surface treatment chemicals, including corrosion protection/prevention oils; synthetic metal sulfides; and maintenance chemicals. This segment serves automotive pre-coating metal treatment and car body pre-treatment, steel and metal working, life sciences, polymerization initiators for elastomers, steel and metal working, batteries, disc brakes, and aircraft industries. The Performance Additives segment provides iron oxide pigments, wood protection products, inorganic chemicals, synthetic and organic thickeners, and flocculants for residential and commercial construction, coatings and plastics, personal care, paper manufacturing, foundries, and water treatment.The Titanium Dioxide Pigments segment offers titanium dioxide pigments, barium compounds, and zinc compounds for synthetic fibers, plastics, paper, pharmaceutical contrast media, and paints and coatings markets. The Advanced Ceramics segment provides ceramic-on-ceramic ball head and liner components used in hip joint prostheses systems; ceramic tapes; cutting tools; wear and corrosion; and armor components. This segment serves medical, industrial, electronics, automotive, and defense markets. The Specialty Compounds segment offers specification compounds, such as polyvinyl chloride and thermoplastic elastomer for voice and data transmission cables, food and beverage, packaging, medical applications, footwear, and automotive markets. The company also provides wafer recycling and repair for semiconductors manufacturing. Rockwood Holdings was incorporated in 2000 and is based in Princeton, New Jersey.

Makhteshim-Agan Industries (MAI) manufactures generic forms of crop protection chemicals. Its products include herbicides, fungicides, and insecticides. Its first proprietray crop protection product was Rimon, which is not toxic for humans. Formed by Koor Industries' 1998 acquisition of two separate public companies, the agrochemicals company has operations worldwide. Through subsidiaries MAI is also involved in food and nutraceuticals, though the agrochemicals account for nearly all of its sales. The company has increased its focus on the North American market; the region now accounts for about a fifth of its total sales. Koor has been selling its shares in the company and has reduced its stake to about 40%.

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