If you want to paint the town red, it's a "Dunn" deal. From two manufacturing facilities in California and Arizona, Dunn-Edwards makes numerous paints and coatings, as well as paint-related products ranging from ladders to spray equipment. The company operates 100 retail outlets and caters to architects, designers, home builders, and property managers in the Southwest; it also serves do-it-yourselfers, though professionals account for 90% of sales. Founded in 1925 by Frank Dunn, Dunn-Edwards is owned lock, stock, and bucket by the employees and the Edwards family. Among the places coated with Dunn-Edwards paint are the Staples Center and Mann's Chinese Theater in Los Angeles and Caesars Palace in Las Vegas.

Rasa Industries can help your company dig itself a hole. Rasa has three major business segments: machinery, chemicals, and electronic materials. Its machinery segment makes pipe-jacking machines used for tunneling in the installation of sewer, gas, and water lines and electricity and communication networks; it also makes screens and pumps for dealing with the slurry that its pipe-jacking machines produce. Rasa's chemical products include phosphorus, ferric oxide, and phosphoric acid. In 2011 Rasa's electronics division sold its silicon wafer recycling operations to RS Technologies. The unit continues to make high-purity materials such as gallium and phosphorus for electronics.

Eka Chemicals is able to eke out a fine living by providing chemicals to, primarily, the paper and pulp industry. A division of Dutch chemicals colossus Akzo Nobel, it operates through two divisions: Pulp and Paper -- which itself is divided along geographic lines -- and Specialty Products. Eka's bleaching chemicals provide more than half of the company's total sales. The remaining portions of the Pulp and Paper unit provide everything from monitoring units for chem labs to coating additives.

Pride Solvents & Chemical distributes chemicals such as alcohols, amines, chlorinated solvents, esters, surfactants, glycol ethers, and ketones. Industries and applications include metal cleaning, pharmaceuticals, paints and coatings, personal care products, flavors and fragrances, and compounding products. The company also provides custom blending and packaging services. Pride Solvents & Chemical's product suppliers include Celanese, Dow Chemical, and Rhodia. Formed in 1970, the family-owned company maintains five distribution locations and has a fleet of nearly 40 vehicles.

Cray Valley beats Kellogg's any day -- the French company can boast of four scoops of resins. Cray Valley, along with affiliates Cook Composites and Polymers (CCP) and Sartomer, forms the worldwide resins business for TOTAL's chemicals division. It manufactures structural, coatings, hydrocarbon, and powder resins. Among the end products Cray Valley's resins find themselves in are inks, varnishes, paints, adhesives, and gel coats. The company has manufacturing plants in Africa, Asia, and throughout Europe. Since TOTAL joined together Cray Valley, CCP, and Sartomer in 1990 the company has grown its business through successive international acquisitions.

Left to its own devices, Tessenderlo Chemie tends to make a lot of chemicals for niche markets. The diversified producer operates through three units. It's Chemicals division offers a variety of inorganic chemicals including phosphates for animal feed and potassium sulphate; organic chlorine derivatives and caustic soda; and PVC. The company's Specialities unit supplies gelatin and organic intermediates for pharmaceuticals. Tessenderlo's Plastics Converting division takes PVC and converts it into finished goods such as plastic pipes and fittings. It operates in the US through Tessenderlo Kerley. The French chemicals group SNPE owns more than a quarter of the Belgian company.

Sigma-Aldrich Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, develops, manufactures, purchases, and distributes various biochemicals and organic chemicals worldwide. Its chemical products and kits are used in scientific research, including genomic and proteomic; biotechnology; pharmaceutical development; and as key components in pharmaceutical, diagnostic, and other high technology manufacturing. The company offers biological buffers, cell culture reagents, biochemicals, chemicals, solvents, and other reagents and kits. It also sells organic chemicals, biochemicals, analytical reagents, chromatography and other laboratory consumables, reference materials, and high-purity products. In addition, Sigma-Aldrich supplies immunochemical, molecular biology, cell signaling, and neuroscience biochemicals and kits used in biotechnology, genomic, proteomic, and other life science research applications; and organic chemicals and biochemicals used in development and production by pharmaceutical, biotechnology, industrial, diagnostic, and electronics companies. The company serves various customers, including universities, pharmaceutical companies, commercial laboratories, industrial companies, non-profit organizations, governmental institutions, biotechnology, diagnostic, chemical and electronics companies, and hospitals. It has a collaboration agreement with Roche Nimblegen Inc. The company was founded in 1951 and is based in St. Louis, Missouri.

PURE Bioscience engages in the development and commercialization of silver ion bioscience technologies principally in the United States. The company offers silver dihydrogen citrate-based antimicrobials. The silver dihydrogen citrate technology is an electrolytically generated source of stabilized ionic silver that would serve as the basis for various products in diverse markets. It also provides Axen and Axen30 hard surface disinfectant products for commercial, industrial, and consumer applications, including restaurants, homes, and medical facilities. PURE Bioscience sells its products to retail, commercial, and institutional customers through distributors. The company was founded in 1992 and is headquartered in El Cajon, California.

Altair Nanotechnologies, Inc. engages in developing and commercializing nanomaterial and titanium dioxide pigment technologies in the United States and Canada. The company operates in three divisions: Power and Energy Group, Performance Materials, and Life Sciences. The Power and Energy Group engages in the design, development, and production of nano lithium titanate battery cells, batteries, and battery packs. It also offers related design and test services. In addition, this division involves in the development, production, and sale of products that test electrode materials for use in nano lithium titanate batteries. The Performance Materials division engages in the development and production of titanium dioxide pigment for use in paint and coatings; and nano titanium dioxide materials for use in various applications, including those related to removing contaminants from air and water.This division also involves in the testing, development, marketing, and/or licensing of nano-structured ceramic powders for use in various applications, such as advanced performance coatings, air and water purification systems, and nano-sensor applications. The Life Sciences division engages in the development of a manufacturing process related to a test-stage active pharmaceutical ingredient, designed to be useful in the treatment of companion animals. Altair Nanotechnologies, Inc. also provides contract research services to develop intellectual property and/or new products and technology. The company was formerly known as Altair International Inc. and changed its name to Altair Nanotechnologies, Inc. in July 2002. Altair Nanotechnologies, Inc. was founded in 1973 and is headquartered in Reno, Nevada.

Whether you need cleaner water or cleaner food, Hydrite Chemical has the solution. In addition to water treatment and food sanitation chemicals, Hydrite offers custom organic chemical processes, including esterification, polymerization, and the distillation of monomers. The company also manufactures sulfur chemicals and serves the pulp and paper, waste management, and food processing industries. Hydrite operates nine manufacturing plants and distributes its products throughout the Midwestern US. President John Honkamp and family control the company, which was founded in 1929.

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