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.

Southwall Technologies Inc. develops, manufactures, and markets energy saving films and glass products for automotive and architectural markets worldwide. It offers thin film coatings on flexible substrates for the automotive glass, electronic display, window film, and architectural glass products. The company’s products include transparent solar-control films for automotive glass; anti reflective films for computer screens, including flat panel displays and plasma displays; transparent conductive films for use in touch screen and liquid crystal displays; energy control films for architectural glass; and various other coatings. It develops products to save energy and reduce carbon emissions in homes, buildings, and automobiles. The company also offers various products that control sunlight in automotive glass, reduce light reflection, reduce electromagnetic radiation, and improve image quality in electronic display products, as well as conserve energy in architectural products. Southwall Technologies sells its products to original equipment manufacturers, glass and window fabricators, and distributors through direct sales force and sales representatives. The company was founded in 1979 and is based in Palo Alto, California.

MOX-LINDE group of companies is the leading industrial gas supplier in Malaysia. With more than 60 plants and sites and 17 Gas and Gear nationwide, we specialize in providing total gas solutions to a variety of industries. We manufacture and distribute industrial, special and medical gases, and provide a range of related services including the installation of gas equipment and pipelines and associated engineering services. In addition, we supply packaged chemicals, and welding and consumables products.

Soy -- not just a food substitute anymore. Evidently, it can be a chemical substitute as well. Franmar Chemical manufactures 100% biodegradable and recyclable soybean- and corn-based products for the restoration and remodeling, asbestos removal, screen-printing, industrial cleaning, boating, and consumer markets. Some brand names include Bean-e-doo adhesive remover, Kernel Clean surface and window cleaner, Ickee Stickee Unstuck Graffiti Remover, and Soy Smooth hand lotion. Customers of the environmentally responsible products include government agencies and foreign restoration companies. President Frank Sliney founded the company in 1983.

Mays Chemical distributes chemicals and raw materials to customers in the automotive, cosmetics, electronics, food and beverage, pharmaceutical, paint, and pulp and paper industries. Its product lines include acids, alcohols, chlor-alkali products, chlorinated solvents, flavors and fragrances, food additives, glycol ethers, and inorganic chemicals. The company also offers chemical management services, cleaning and sanitation systems, formulated chemical products, and outsourcing services. Mays has customers in more than a dozen countries in the Americas, Europe, and Asia. The firm is owned by president William Mays.

International Flavors & Fragrances Inc., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the creation and manufacture of fragrance and flavor products in the United States and internationally. It operates in two segments, Flavors and Fragrances. The Flavors segment offers flavor compounds to the food and beverage industries for use in consumer products, such as prepared foods, beverages, dairy, and food and confectionery products. The Fragrances segment provides various functional fragrances, including fragrance compounds for personal care and household products; fine fragrance and beauty care, including perfumes, colognes, and toiletries; and ingredients consisting of synthetic ingredients that could be combined with other materials to create functional and fine fragrance compounds. This segment markets its products primarily to the cosmetics industry, including perfume and toiletries manufacturers; and the household products industry comprising the manufacturers of soaps, detergents, fabric care, household cleaners, and air fresheners. The company markets its products through agents and distributors. International Flavors & Fragrances, Inc. was founded in 1909 and is based in New York, New York.

Potash One Inc. Company Profile Potash One, formerly ISX Resources, isn't interested in your girl's best friend any longer. The company's chief asset is a permit to acquire 100% of a potash exploration property in Saskatchewan. Formerly it had focused on diamond exploration in Canada's Otish Mountains. It acquired the permit in mid-2007 and changed its name toward the end of the year. The potash property is located adjacent to a mine operated by potash giant Mosaic Company. In 2009 it agreed to buy fellow Canadian potash producer Potash North Resource Corporation.

FinishMaster sells tons of paint. The company is a top US distributor of automotive paints, coatings, and accessories, which it sells mainly to customers in the collision repair industry. FinishMaster distributes a wide variety of brand name products from such producers as BASF, DuPont, 3M, and PPG (its top suppliers accounting for 87% of sales in 2009). The firm's distribution network serves its customers from more than 160 sales outlets in 28 states. In 2010 FinishMaster was acquired by auto parts distributor Uni-Select Inc.

Harcros Chemicals Inc is a major distributor and producer of industrial chemicals. Privately held since a management buy-out in 2001, the Company began business in 1917 as Thompson-Hayward Chemicals, and in 1961 was purchased by North American Philips. In 1981, Harrisons and Crosfield plc purchased the bulk of the business from Philips, subsequently changing the name to Harcros Chemicals Inc.

Kronos Worldwide, Inc. produces and markets titanium dioxide pigments primarily in North America and Europe. The titanium dioxide pigments are used to impart whiteness, brightness, and opacity in various products, such as coatings, plastics, paper, fibers, food, ceramics, and cosmetics. The company produces titanium dioxide pigments in two crystalline forms, rutile and anatase in approximately 40 different grades. It also offers ilmenite, a raw material used directly as a feedstock by sulfate-process titanium dioxide pigment plants; iron-based chemicals, which are co-products and processed co-products of the titanium dioxide pigment production process and used as treatment and conditioning agents for industrial effluents and municipal wastewater, as well as in the manufacture of iron pigments, cement, and agricultural products. In addition, the company provides titanium oxychloride and titanyl sulfate, which are side-stream products from the production of titanium dioxide pigments and used in specialty applications in the formulation of pearlescent pigments, a well as production of electroceramic capacitors for cell phones and other electronic devices. It serves paint, plastics, and paper manufacturers. The company was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in Dallas, Texas. Kronos Worldwide, Inc. is a subsidiary of Valhi, Inc.

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