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.

With products ranging from citrus and baby soft to green apple, lemon lime, and raspberry, at least the company's factories shouldn't smell too bad. Bell Flavors & Fragrances manufactures flavors, botanical extracts, and aroma chemicals for the food, beverage, household products, personal care, and pharmaceutical industries. The company has manufacturing operations in Canada, China, Germany, Mexico, and the US. It's owned by the family of Edward Heinz, who bought Bell Flavors & Fragrances from its founder, William Bell, in 1967.

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.

The printed circuit board (PCB) is king at Kingboard Chemical Holdings, though chemicals and laminates also make up the royal family. The company, controlled and run by the Cheung family, focuses on PCBs and the materials that make them. It operates through three roughly equal segments: PCBs, glass and paper laminates, and chemicals (including hydrogen peroxide used to bleach paper and clean semiconductors). Vertically integrated, Kingboard Chemical produces the glass fiber, copper foil, and formalin used in its laminates, which it uses to make PCBs. The group operates more than 60 manufacturing facilities in China and Thailand.

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.

Custom Building Products (CBP) likes to hold things together. The producer of tile-setting grout and adhesives makes such products as epoxies, cement, household and industrial glues, sealants, acrylic resins, clay mortars, putties, and latex, as well as gypsum products and concrete repair products. The company also offers installation tools, cleaning and maintenance equipment, and a library of how-to-do-it and other resource materials. The company manufactures and distributes its wares from about a dozen locations in North America. Its customers include architects, contractors, dealers, distributors, and do-it-yourselfers. CBP was founded in 1964 by Thomas Peck and Mike Bilek.

Nufarm UK, a subsidiary of Australian crop protection manufacturer Nufarm Limited, specializes in producing herbicides. In addition to a broad array of phenoxyacetic and phenoxy propionic herbicides, Nufarm UK makes other crop protection and related agricultural chemicals, including fungicides, pesticides, adjuvant oils, and growth regulators. Products include herbicides Lentipur and Nu-shot and fungicides Difcor and Solace. It serves the UK and Irish markets. In 2009 Nufarm acquired A H Marks, greatly adding to its operations in the UK.

Gaylord Chemical Company manufactures just three products: dimethyl sulfide, dimethyl sulfoxide, and dimethyl sulfone. But those three chemicals go into a number of end products, including pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals, petrochemicals, inks, and solvents, as well as in semiconductor manufacturing. The company operates a manufacturing facility and research and technology center in Louisiana and sells globally. It had been a subsidiary of Temple-Inland as a result of that company's 2002 purchase of the former Gaylord Container Company. Temple-Inland then sold Gaylord Container's chemicals business to members of that unit's management team.

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 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).

Tata Chemicals Limited Company Profile At one time salt drove the world's commerce; it still makes up a good bit of the business at Tata Chemicals Limited (TCL). Tata Salt owns a more than 40% share in India's branded salt market, and the company's soda ash business is also tops in the country, controlling nearly a third of India's market. Tata Chemicals divides its business in two segments: Inorganic Chemicals (soda ash, salt, and caustic soda) and Fertilizers (primarily urea and phsophatic fertilizers). A member of the Tata Group, the company operates India's largest inorganic chemical complex in Mithapur. TCL's products end up in such diverse products as salt licks for cattle, fertilizers, cement, glass, processed steel, and detergents.

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