If people turn to Bayer for what ails them, why can't plants? Bayer CropScience, a part of German chemicals and pharmaceuticals giant the Bayer Group, is a leading producer of agricultural chemicals. The company's Crop Protection unit makes fungicides, herbicides, and insecticides. Bayer CropScience also operates units that focus on non-crop chemicals (such as consumer lawn care products) and genetically modified seeds. The company ranks as the #2 crop protection firm worldwide, behind Syngenta, and operates on six continents. It has been building up both its seeds business and bioscience unit in the last years of the decade.

Davis Paint is a dilly of a paint dealer in the midwestern US. The company makes paints and industrial coatings including house paint, barn paint, masonry sealer, primer, shingle oil, and wood stain. It sells its products in retail stores and dealer outlets to customers including architectural and contracting companies, as well as residential consumers. It also provides private label and industrial distribution services. Davis Paint's brands include Ever Bright, Cook, Eli Weatherby, Eventone, Master Painter, and Sahara. The company was founded in 1921 by Berry Davis.

DNT doesn't provide TNT, but it does supply its customers with a variety of other volatile substances. The company, which does business as E.W. Kaufmann, distributes specialty chemicals and equipment throughout the northeastern US from warehouses in Massachusetts, Maryland, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. E.W. Kaufmann began as a sales representative organization in 1956; the employee-owned company now distributes chemicals from some 30 different manufacturers. Its suppliers include BASF, Huntsman, and Reichhold. Subsidiary E.W. Kaufmann Services provides storage and transportation tanks and maintenance and installation services.

Sure-Gro Inc. Company Profile Sure-Gro is engaged in making and distributing packaged consumer lawn and garden products. It makes fertilizer, grass seed, pest-control, and horticultural products for consumer and commercial use. The company's consumer brands include Green Earth, Pickseed, Plant-Prod, So-Green, and Wilson. Set up at the end of 2007 when Spectrum Brands sold its Canadian consumer products business to private investment group RoyCap Merchant Banking and Clarke Inc., the company quickly went about building its business through two acquisitions the following year. Those two businesses produce soil, fertilizers, and packaging products in Canada.

For UOP, it's not necessarily what you make, it's how you make it. The subsidiary of Honeywell's Specialty Materials segment develops and licenses technologies for processing chemicals. The technologies mainly are used in petroleum-derived products and chemicals (such as ethylene and propylene), but also in the manufacture of products further downstream like plastics, detergents, and fibers. Three-quarters of the world's ethylene production is made using UOP technologies. UOP also produces catalysts, alumina adsorbents (used to purify gas and dry air), and molecular sieves. Until 2005 it had been a joint venture of Honeywell and Union Carbide (which is owned by Dow Chemical).

composites are fiber-reinforced plastics used in a variety of products, applications and industries. While the term "composite" can apply to any combination of individual materials, Composites One focuses on fibers, primarily glass, that have been impregnated with a plastic resin matrix. Combining glass fibers with resin matrix results in composites that are strong, lightweight, corrosion-resistant and dimensionally stable.

General Magnaplate is one slick, out-of-this-world company. Magnaplate makes coatings that increase the performance of metals. Every NASA vehicle sent into space has had parts coated by Magnaplate. The company's products include HI-T-LUBE (a Guinness record holder as the most slippery solid in the world), TUFRAM coating (used to machine aluminum), and many different basic metal coatings used by the food processing, packaging, electronics, aerospace, and other industries. These coatings significantly increase the durability and lubricity of ferrous and nonferrous metals. The company is controlled by the family of founder and chairman Charles Covino, including his daughter, CEO Candida Aversenti.

Nan Ya Plastics Corporation USA was established in 1983. In 1984 the company began Rigid PVC Film production in Wharton, Texas. Long-term growth in our facility is realized by the combined efforts of our distributors and customers, continuous improvement of production efficiencies, and our dedication to improve product quality. We continue in our vision to be one of the major suppliers of the rigid film market in North America.Nan Ya Plastics Corporation USA survival depends on our efforts to produce customer satisfaction in the face of worldwide competition. With our experience in Global operation & management, we endeavor to achieve higher levels of growth and stability in our corporate foundation.

Hawkins, Inc. manufactures, blends, and distributes bulk and specialty chemicals. It operates through two segments, Industrial and Water Treatment. The Industrial segment provides industrial chemicals, products, and services to agriculture, energy, electronics, food, chemical processing, pulp and paper, pharmaceutical, medical device, and plating industries. This segment also offers acids, alkalis, and industrial and food-grade salts; and distributes various chemicals in bulk, including liquid caustic soda, sulfuric acid, hydrochloric acid, phosphoric acid, potassium hydroxide, and aqua ammonia. In addition, this segment manufactures sodium hypochlorite and agricultural products, as well as food-grade products, including Cheese-Phos liquid phosphate, lactates, and other blended products; repackages water treatment chemicals; and performs custom blending of chemicals for customers according to customer formulas. The Water Treatment Segment provides equipment, chemicals, and solutions for potable water, municipal and industrial wastewater, industrial process water, and non-residential swimming pool water. Hawkins, Inc. was founded in 1938 and is based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Wattyl you do to make your home more colorful? Wattyl wants to be the Solver of that puzzle. Operating through two main companies, Wattyl in Australia and New Zealand and Solver Paints in Australia, it makes a variety of paints, lacquers, varnishes, and other coating products that are sold worldwide. Brand names include Solagard, Estapol, and Killrust. In addition to selling directly to homeowners through its 60 company-owned stores, Wattyl markets its products to contract painters and industrial customers. About 90% of its business is done in Australia, with sales to New Zealand accounting for the rest.

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