Champion Chemical Company of California, Inc. Company Profile Champion Chemical Company of California champions the cause of the janitor by making his or her work a little easier. The company makes safe but powerful building maintenance and janitorial products, including items for carpet care and for cleaning floors and restrooms. Products include cleaning compounds and degreasers, disinfectants, floor sealers, glass cleaners, and graffiti removers. Customers include the NASA, the US Department of Defense, schools, hospitals, local governments, and both large and small businesses. Champion Chemical also provides products for use in the transportation and foodservice industries.

I say, "potato chip." You say, "crisp." But we can all agree Pringles are sought after worldwide. Procter & Gamble Holdings UK, like its US parent The Procter & Gamble Company, manufactures and sells household care items (this includes its Pringles brand); beauty products (includes fragrances like Hugo Boss and Lacoste, cosmetic brand Max Factor, and skin care line Olay); and family health items (like Crest toothpaste and "disposable nappies" Pampers). Procter & Gamble operates more than a dozen locations in the UK, including administrative offices, technical centers, and manufacturing facilities. President Laurent Philippe succeeded Paul Polman, who retired in June 2005.

Teknor Apex is no retread. At least not any longer. Founded in 1924 as a tire distributor and retreader, Teknor Apex has sold off those assets to concentrate on chemicals, plastic, and rubber. The company has seven divisions that provide chemicals (plasticizers and toll compounding), garden hoses, rubber (custom mixing and molding of rubber compounds), specialty compounding (custom thermoplastic compound manufacturing and toll compounding of plastics), color concentrates for plastics (Teknor Color Company), thermoplastic elastomers, and vinyl (custom PVC compounds). The founding Fain family owns a controlling interest.

Ethyl hears you knocking and it hopes you let its products in. A subsidiary of NewMarket, Ethyl markets its gasoline performance additives and diesel cetane improver (which increases ignition quality in diesel fuel) throughout North America. It also makes anti-knock additive tetraethyl lead (TEL), which once was a primary product line for Ethyl but has seen diminishing returns since the U.S. Clean Air Act and others like it were put in place. NewMarket was formed in 2004 as a holding company for Ethyl and sister company Afton Chemical.

Aceto Corporation, incorporated in 1947, is a global leader in the sourcing, regulatory support, marketing and distribution of pharmaceuticals, nutraceuticals, specialty chemicals and crop protection products. With business operations in ten countries, we distribute over 1,000 chemical compounds used either as principal raw materials or as finished products in the pharmaceutical, agricultural, color, surface coating/ink and general chemical consuming industries. Our global operations, including a sourcing staff of 26 in Shanghai and 12 in India, are distinctive in our industry and enable our worldwide sourcing and regulatory capabilities.

MOX-LINDE group of companies is the leading industrial gas supplier in Malaysia. With more than 60 plants and sites and 17 Gas and Gear nationwide, we specialize in providing total gas solutions to a variety of industries. We manufacture and distribute industrial, special and medical gases, and provide a range of related services including the installation of gas equipment and pipelines and associated engineering services. In addition, we supply packaged chemicals, and welding and consumables products.

AgraQuest sweats the small stuff. The company's proprietary database of more than 23,000 microorganisms is the base for its line of pest control and plant disease-fighting products. AgraQuest's products fight plant pests and diseases with naturally occurring microorganisms that offer environmental advantages over synthetic chemical pesticides and genetically modified crops. The company's product offerings include Serenade, a biofungicide that is approved for use on crops such as grapes, apples, pears, and tomatoes; Rhapsody, a fungicide used in the professional ornamental plant market; and Baritone, a pesticide. AgraQuest has about 20 other natural pest management products in the pipeline.

The prognosis for Procter & Gamble Nordic: lots of consumer goods for Scandinavian customers. P&G Nordic carries out the Scandinavian operations of global consumer products giant Procter & Gamble, which opened its first office in the region (in Sweden) in 1969. P&G Nordic brings many of the parent company's top brands to consumers in Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden. Well-known offerings include Olay cosmetics, Pampers diapers, Pringles potato chips, Vicks throat products, Tampax tampons, Pantene and Wella shampoos, and laundry and kitchen cleaning products such as Ajax, Dynamo, and Febreze.

Witton Chemical Company is an international fine chemical contract manufacturer based in the UK, with a 50 year history of manufacturing chemicals for a wide range of international customers from all sectors of industry. We develop ongoing partnerships for chemical manufacture and toll manufacture with some of the largest adhesive, electronic, paint, sealant, petrochemical, and pharmaceutical companies worldwide.

Whether it flies, bulldozes, or hauls golfers, Arrow-Magnolia International has something that cleans it. The company makes about 400 chemical cleaners that it sells under its own brands; it also distributes nonchemical janitorial supplies. Its products include chemicals used in construction (concrete and rust removers), government engineering (street and equipment cleaners), aviation (carbon and dirt removers), and golf course maintenance. Arrow-Magnolia makes more than half of its products in-house and sells them through independent representatives and a dozen distributors. An investment group led by Tanya Tippeconnic-Shaw has owned Arrow-Magnolia since 2005.

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