To Seventh Generation, green is good. The term means environmentally friendly and nontoxic. For the conscientious company, it's also money in the bank. It makes cleaning and laundry supplies, paper products, personal care items, and diapers and wipes under the Seventh Generation name, which is derived from the Iroquois practice of considering how decisions may affect the next seven generations. Suppliers make its products from recycled or renewable materials using nontoxic ingredients. Seventh Generation's products are sold in the US and Canada through natural goods stores, supermarkets, catalogs, and online. Owned by Jeffrey Hollender and a group of investors, the company hired a new CEO in mid-2009.

Business is booming in good times and in bad at Orica. Its acquisition of the European and North American explosives operations from Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI) put Orica among the world's largest suppliers of commercial explosives. The company primarily serves the mining, quarrying, and construction industries. Additionally, Orica's Chemicals division produces chlor-alkali, mining, water-treatment, and industrial chemicals through its Minova, Chemnet, and other subsidiaries. Orica is also a leader in consumer products in Australia and New Zealand; subsidiaries of that unit include Selleys (home and car care products), Dulux (decorative paints), and Cabot's (woodcare products).

Occidental Chemical (OxyChem) manufactures basic chemicals, vinyls, and performance chemicals. The company is the top US maker of chlorine and caustic soda (used in bleach, plastics, and pulp and paper) and the top producer of potassium hydroxide, or caustic potash (used in fertilizers). Through subsidiary OxyVinyls it's the leading North American maker of vinyl chloride monomer (VCM), which is used to make PVC resins. The company operates some 22 plants throughout the US as well as another three in Brazil, Canada, and Chile. (OxyChem owns 50% of the Brazilian plant.)

Cigarettes are certainly hazardous to your health, but the making of cigarette filter materials has been good for Daicel Chemical. The company was founded in 1919 to make celluloid (the first plastic) and still makes cellulose-based products such as cellulose acetate, used in filters and photographic film. Daicel primarily makes films for packaging and plastics. The company also produces an array of organic chemicals (acetic acid, acetic anhydride) used in fibers, paints, pharmaceuticals, and cosmetics. Daicel's aerospace and defense systems/safety systems unit produces inflators for automobile air bags and rocket propellants.

Astro Chemicals Inc., with one purpose; commitment to the customer. Every order had their personal promise of 100% customer satisfaction. Today, our promise remains the same. Though the world's greater demands for environmental responsibility and business efficiencies create a broader sense of commitment, this challenge has only strengthened our resolve. Responsible and dependable service performed by a committed team of distribution professionals help us earn your business.

Environmental Recycling Technologies develops plastic molding processes for the automotive and other industries. The holding company operates through subsidiaries worldwide. A leader in plastics recycling technology, the group has focused on developing building material products using powder impression moulding (PIM) technology. PIM is used to produce a strengthened plastic composite comparable to metal, which is used for products in the construction, automotive, marine, aviation, and other markets. Chairman Ken Brooks and director Bill Widger started the company as CAMCO Corporation in 1997. It soon became 3DM Worldwide and changed its name again in 2007.

Treatt, founded in 1886, operates as R C Treatt in the UK and Treatt USA in the US. Treatt tricks your nose and taste buds into liking a thing. Although the company points out that it is not a flavor and fragance company, Treatt does make raw materials used in the flavor and fragrance and food and beverages industries. It blends and distills essential oils. Products include flavor-enhancing citrus oils and Treattarome, a line of flavors named after the food from which they are distilled. The company's ingredients are used in air fresheners, cosmetics, soaps, soft drinks, confectionery, and pharmaceuticals. The Bovill family, including managing director Hugo Bovill, control 29% of the company.

Epolin, Inc., a specialized chemical company, engages in the research, development, manufacture, and marketing of dyes and dye formulations. It offers near infrared dyes, which are used for various applications, including laser protection, welding, sunglasses, optical filters, glazing and imaging, and security inks and tagants; and dye blends, inks and coatings, and laminate pellets. The company also manufactures and sells other dyes and specialty chemical products that serve as intermediates and additives for the adhesive, plastic, aerospace, credit card security, and protective documents industries. It sells its products to the manufacturers of plastics/resins, credit cards, electronics, glass, and other basic materials primarily in the United States, Asia, and Europe. Epolin was founded in 1983 and is based in Newark, New Jersey.

Emerald Performance Materials was just a part of Lubrizol's Noveon unit. Since 2006, though, the company has been a stand-alone company owned by private investor Sun Capital Partners. The company makes additives, dyes, fine chemicals, silicones, and specialty polymers. Emerald Performance Materials serves the food and beverage companies, plastics and adhesives makers, and lubricants producers. Based in Ohio, the company operates globally. In 2008 the company made two acquisitions: CVC Specialty Chemicals (which it added to its Specialty Polymers unit) and Wolstenholme's carbon black dispersions for printing ink business (which became part of subsidiary Emerald Hilton Davis).

Ferro Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, produces specialty materials and chemicals for a range of manufacturers worldwide. It offers inorganic specialty products, including glazes, frits, enamels, pigments, dinnerware decorations, and other performance materials; organic specialty products, such as polymer specialty materials, engineered plastic compounds, pigments dispersions, and high-potency pharmaceutical active ingredients; and electronic materials comprising high-performance dielectrics, conductive pastes, metal powders, and polishing materials. The company’s products are used in various applications in markets, including appliances, transportation, building and renovation, electronics, household furnishings, industrial products, packaging, and pharmaceuticals. It serves manufacturers of tile, appliances, construction materials, automobile parts, glass, bottles, vinyl flooring and wall coverings, solar cells, multi-layer capacitors, and pharmaceuticals. The company sells its products directly to customers, as well as through indirect sales channels, such as agents and distributors. Ferro Corporation was founded in 1919 and is headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio.

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