Blaster's products blast away rust, grease, and grime. The company makes solvents, spray lubricants, degreasers, cleaners, polishers, and related products for the automotive, hardware, marine, and RV consumer markets. Its top product is PB, a penetrating catalyst for lubrication and rust-removal applications. Blaster serves professional and do-it-yourself customers; the company's products are sold in retail auto part and hardware stores, as well as through distributors. Blaster was founded in 1957 by William Westley, who sold it in 1980 to Cleveland investor Bernard Porter, whose family still owns the company.

Gulf Coast Chemical serves Florida chemical consumers. The company supplies industrial chemical compounding components and equipment. It distributes products from about 25 different manufacturers, including colorants, adhesives, resins, preservatives, filaments, and metal and plastic containers. The firm's suppliers include 3M, Ball Corporation, and Ferro. Gulf Coast Chemical was founded in 1957 and delivers by train and truck.

Berli Jucker Public Company (BJC) embraces diversity. The conglomerate's principal activities are manufacturing, packaging, and distributing consumer, construction, and technical and imaging products. Its top consumer offerings include tissue paper, snack foods, and soap marketed under BJC's brand names. The firm is also a leading manufacturer of glass, aluminum, and plastic packaging for beverages, oil, and personal care products. Among the brands that BJC imports and markets are 3M, Ansell, Polaroid, Quaker Oats, Schwan-Stabilo, and UHU. The conglomerate was founded in 1882.

Evonik Industries evidently decided it no longer wanted to get its hands dirty. The enterprise was cut out from RAG, leaving the coal business with that company and taking RAG's former subsidiaries Degussa (chemicals and plastics), STEAG (power generation), and Wohnen (real estate). Degussa operates globally and across multiple chemical platforms; it accounts for about three-quarters of Evonik's business. STEAG operates power generation plants, both in Germany and abroad in Colombia, the Philippines, and Turkey. Evonik's real estate operations include 60,000 housing units in Germany. Investment firm CVC Capital Partners owns a 25% stake in the company.

Davis Paint is a dilly of a paint dealer in the midwestern US. The company makes paints and industrial coatings including house paint, barn paint, masonry sealer, primer, shingle oil, and wood stain. It sells its products in retail stores and dealer outlets to customers including architectural and contracting companies, as well as residential consumers. It also provides private label and industrial distribution services. Davis Paint's brands include Ever Bright, Cook, Eli Weatherby, Eventone, Master Painter, and Sahara. The company was founded in 1921 by Berry Davis.

Interstate Chemical Company delivers the goods. Founded in 1968, the company has developed from a small regional chemical distributor to a firm with operations in the northeastern, midwestern, and western US. It operates warehouse and terminal facilities with a total storage capacity of more than 15 million gallons, as well as a fleet of company-owned tractor-trailers (more than 200 trucks, trailers, and tankers). Services include barge terminaling, custom chemical blending, food and pharmaceutical packaging, and liquid packaging. Interstate Chemical also provides intermediate bulk containers to its customers.

Ube is a diversified manufacturer with a core focus on the chemicals sector. Its chemicals are utilized in diverse applications ranging from articles for daily use to advanced applications for the aerospace industry. For example, Ube's chemicals can be found in everything from digital consumer electronics and household goods to automotive parts and pharmaceuticals.Ube also produces a wide range of products beyond the chemicals sector, supplying useful materials and goods such as cement, building materials and aluminum wheels. In over a century of business operations, Ube has embraced a ceaseless commitment to innovation in manufacturing. It is also committed to the principles of coexistence and mutual prosperity with all stakeholders-from customers and business partners to shareholders and local communities.

A strong reaction to business? That's nothing new for Produits Chimiques Auxiliaires et de Synth賥 (PCAS), which makes fine and specialty chemicals for a variety of industries. Synthetic and active ingredients for the pharmaceutical industry account for about half of PCAS' sales. Other significant segments make aroma chemicals for perfumes and synthetic and photosensitive chemicals for applications in photography, graphic arts, and electronics manufacturing. The company also develops additives for industrial lubricants and technical fluids, and it prepares pharmaceuticals in final dosage form. French manufacturer Dynaction owns about 70% of the company.

South African diversified chemical giant Sasol Limited's Olefins and Surfactants unit (which itself is based in Germany). The division produces a number of commodity and specialty chemicals from its manufacturing sites and an R&D center in the US. Among the products made by Sasol North America are alcohols, alumina, paraffins, specialty surfactants, and fatty acid esters. Sasol North America is composed of what was once ConocoPhillips' chemicals unit, which was spun off as private company Vista Chemical in 1984, went public two years later, was purchased by RWE in 1991, and finally sold to Sasol in 2001.

Airgas, Inc.(NYSE: ARG), through its subsidiaries, is the largest U.S. distributor of industrial, medical, and specialty gases and related hardgoods, such as welding supplies. Airgas is also a leading U.S. distributor of safety products, the largest U.S. producer of nitrous oxide and dry ice, the largest liquid carbon dioxide producer in the Southeast, and a leading distributor of process chemicals, refrigerants and ammonia products.

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