Solutia Inc. manufactures and markets various chemical and engineered materials used in the consumer and industrial applications worldwide. The company operates in three segments: Saflex, CPFilms, and Technical Specialties. The Saflex segment produces polyvinyl butyral (PVB) sheet, a plastic interlayer used in the manufacture of laminated glass for automotive and architectural applications; specialty intermediate PVB resin products; and optical grade PVB resin and plasticizer. The CPFilms segment manufactures and sells special custom coated window films under Llumar, Vista, Gila, and Formula One Performance Automotive Films brand names; and produces various films for use in tapes, automotive badging, optical and colored filters, shades, packaging, computer touch screens, electroluminescent displays, and cathode ray tube and flat-panel monitors. The Technical Specialties segment manufactures and sells chemicals for the rubber industry, which include vulcanizing agents, principally insoluble sulfur, and rubber chemicals, such as antidegradants, accelerators, and other rubber chemicals; heat transfer fluids used for indirect heating or cooling of chemical processes in various types of industrial equipment, as well as in solar energy power systems; and aviation hydraulic fluids and aviation solvents used in the aviation industry. Solutia sells its products directly to end users in various industries through a sales force and distributors. The company was founded in 1901 and is headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri.

CPAC can make your face and floor shine. The company's Fuller Brands segment (more than half of sales) boasts some 2,700 consumer and industrial products, including brushes, cleaning chemicals, brooms, and personal care products. The segment also licenses the Stanley Home Products brand and makes Stanley cleaning and personal care products for sale at home parties. CPAC's Imaging segment manufactures and markets a line of branded and private-label chemicals and equipment for photographic, graphic arts, and health care applications. Products include photographic chemical silver-recovery equipment; the shift to digital imaging has hurt this segment. Private equity group Buckingham Capital Partners owns CPAC.

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.

Really Tight Pants? Raisins That Propel? Maybe not, but RTP is a custom compounder of plastic resins. The company manufactures specialty compounds from more than 60 engineering resins that can affect color, level of conductivity, high temperature performance, and wear resistance in engineered plastics. Customers include injection molders, extruders, and OEMs in a wide variety of markets. The company added a new extrusion division in 2004, a new thermoplastic compounding facility the next year, and acquired Wiman Corporation (a maker of plastic films for medical and industrial purposes) in 2006. The family-owned company was founded in 1980 by Ben Miller; his son, Hugh Miller, is CEO.

When plain old mortar won't do, Sika Corporation offers its construction customers specialty mortars. Sika also manufactures adhesives, coatings, epoxies, grouts, and polyurethane. Its products are used to seal, bond, dampen sounds, reinforce, and protect load-bearing structures. The company markets its products to the construction and manufacturing industries, including transportation, marine, and automotive. Sika's Construction Products division is based along with its headquarters in New Jersey while its Industrial and Automotive divisions are based in Michigan. Sika is the US unit of the global chemicals company Sika AG.

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.

Kyocera Chemical's products are materially important. The company manufactures chemicals and chemical materials like epoxy resins, molding compounds, laminates, and insulating materials for electronics products such as semiconductors and printed circuit boards. Kyocera Chemical also makes insulating varnishes used in household appliances and the custom machines used to apply that varnish. Among its other products are molded casings used for finished electronics like PDAs and laptops. The company was formed as Toshiba Chemicals in 1974 and became a part of the Kyocera family in 2002. Many of the company's goods are used in Kyocera's own electronic devices.

Johnson Matthey Plc operates as a specialty chemicals company in the United Kingdom and internationally. The company operates in three divisions: Environmental Technologies, Precious Metal Products, and Fine Chemicals. The Environmental Technologies division supplies catalysts and related technologies for applications, which benefit the environment, such as pollution control, cleaner fuel, efficient use of hydrocarbons, and the hydrogen economy. It offers catalytic systems for emissions control from vehicles and industrial processes; and catalysts and specialist services, as well as designs and licenses chemical processes for chemical, oil, gas, and refining industries.

Rohm and Haas is the one to blame if you can't get that paint out of your hair. The company divides its operations among six units, the largest of which is the paints and coatings materials group, which makes additives and binders used by paint makers. There's also the packaging and building materials group and the primary materials division, which makes acrylates. (Those businesses operate within the Specialty Materials segment.) The electronic materials segment makes photoresists and materials for printed wiring boards. Rohm and Haas exited its salt business in 2009 when it sold Morton Salt to German chemicals company K+S for about $1.7 billion. Dow, the nation's largest chemicals maker, owns the company.

Whether they're building skyscrapers or tunnels, Sika furnishes its customers with construction chemicals and the raw materials to make concrete. Primarily a specialty chemicals company (adhesives, coatings, and sealants) serving the construction industry, Sika also makes concrete and mortar for the manufacturing sector, and flooring and acoustic products for the automotive industry. Its consumer products are marketed under brands including Sikaflex, Sikabond, and Sikafloor. Sika has about 90 units operating in more than 70 countries and is organized into two divisions: construction (by far the larger of the two, accounting for nearly three-quarters of sales) and industry. Sika Corporation is its US presence.

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