Church & Dwight Co., Inc., together with its subsidiaries, develops, manufactures, and markets a range of household, personal care, and specialty products under various brand names in the United States and internationally. The company operates in three segments: Consumer Domestic, Consumer International, and Specialty Products. The Consumer Domestic segment offers household products for deodorizing, such as ARM & HAMMER baking soda and cat litter products; laundry and cleaning products, including XTRA and ARM & HAMMER laundry detergents, OXICLEAN pre-wash laundry additive, SCRUB FREE, KABOOM, ORANGE GLO, and BRILLO cleaning products; and personal care products, such as TROJAN condoms, ORAJEL oral analgesics, NAIR depilatories and waxes, FIRST RESPONSE and ANSWER home pregnancy and ovulation test kits, ARRID and ARM & HAMMER antiperspirant, and SPINBRUSH battery-operated toothbrushes. The Consumer International segment primarily sells various personal care products in international markets, including France, the United Kingdom, Canada, Mexico, Australia, Brazil, and China. The Specialty Products segment produces sodium bicarbonate, which it sells together with other specialty inorganic chemicals for a range of industrial, institutional, medical, and food applications. This segment also sells a range of animal nutrition and specialty cleaning products. Church & Dwight sells its products through supermarkets, drug stores, mass merchandisers, industrial customers, and distributors. The company was founded in 1846 and is based in Princeton, New Jersey.

Hoping to cushion its parent companies' rides through a bumpy economy, Americas Styrenics combines the styrene operations of Dow Chemical and Chevron Phillips Chemical (CP Chem). The 50-50 joint venture makes styrene monomer and a number of polystyrene resins. Its products go into the obvious (packaging and foam peanuts) and the unlikely (envelope windows and lighting applications). Americas Styrenics operates eight manufacturing facilities throughout the US and in Brazil and Colombia. It is the #1 producer of polystyrene and the #2 maker of styrene in the Western Hemisphere.

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.

Dynaction isn't the newest Saturday morning cartoon show -- it's a maker of fine and specialty chemicals through its 70% holding in Produits Chimiques Auxiliaires et de Synth賥 (PCAS). Its products are made for the pharmaceutical sector, primarily, as well as for makers of personal care and fragrance products. More than half of the company's sales are generated outside France. It previously had made power transmissions for heavy industrial use (through subsidiary CMD Engrenages et R餵cteurs) and had other non-chemical businesses, but Dynaction sold off the businesses from 2004-06 and now operates almost entirely through PCAS. Company chairman Christian Moretti holds about 15% of Dynaction.

Nippon Chemical Industrial has grown organically. The company has five chemical plants in Japan. Two plants in Fukushima produce barium compounds and lithium chemicals used in electronics and organic and inorganic phosphorus compounds. The other three plants produce silicate compounds, phosphorus compounds, and chromic acid compounds (used to finish metals). Affiliate JCI USA Inc. handles sales of industrial chemicals in the US.

Allvivo Vascular develops biomimetic surface materials -- coatings for biomedical and research instruments. Founded in 1999 to develop research being done at the University of Utah and incubated at the University of Alabama, Allvivo Vascular has graduated and moved to California. The company's primary target market is to provide coatings for stents used in coronary interventions. Its products enable researchers to control cells' reactions to contact with tools whether in lab experimentation or surgical implantation (both ex vivo and in vivo, thus the name allvivo).

TCC operates more than 20 warehouses and provides delivery services to customers throughout the US ; it also has locations in Brazil, Canada, and the Netherlands. The company also offers custom manufacturing services. If you don't know what The Chemical Company (TCC) sells then you probably need to re-take that logic class. (Hint: It starts with a C and rhymes with schmemicals.) The company distributes a wide variety of specialty and commodity chemicals, from phosphates and absorbent polymers to acids and flame retardants. Its chemicals are used in a range of products, including cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, plastics, food, and paper.

TVK went from painting the town red to covering it in plastic(s). Tiszai Vegyi Kombinat Rt. (TVK) began as a factory commissioned to produce paint for the Soviet Union; today it manufactures petrochemicals, primarily olefins and polyolefins. TVK is Hungary's sole manufacturer of polyolefins and has 20% of Central Europe's petrochemical market share. The company sells its products -- ethylene, propylene, and their derivatives -- to small- and medium-sized plastics makers throughout Europe. TVK is majority owned by Hungary's largest company, oil biggie MOL Group.

Merichem Process Technologies licenses its technologies to customers for whom it then designs, procures, and fabricates equipment to remove hydrogen sulfide (H2S), mercaptans, naphthenic acids, carbon dioxide (CO2), carbonyl sulfide (COS), and other impurities from light and middle distillate hydrocarbons in refineries, from gas liquids and condensates processed at natural gas production facilities and from light crude oils. Most equipment sold by Merichem Process Technologies uses FIBER FILM.

Recovering huffers should probably stay away from Chase Products. The company manufactures aerosol products of all kinds, from spray paints to insecticides and automotive sprays to health and beauty aids. Chase makes aerosols under its own labels, which include Champion Sprayon, America's Home Value, ColorSpray, and Kill Zone; it also produces sprays for private-label clients. The company's products can be found in hardware stores, craft centers, and food and drug stores, as well as through mass merchandisers and distributors. Chase Products was formed in 1927 to produce exterminating sprays.

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