Ennis International earned its stripes in the traffic paint industry and has become the largest pavement marking company in the world. The company operates manufacturing facilities throughout the US and sells its paint and thermoplastic coating products through a nationwide network of distributors. It also sells raised road markers and components, and it serves international customers. The company was founded in 1996 by chairman Bryce Anderson and president and CEO John Anderson.

GreenMan Technologies, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the design, development, and manufacture of environmentally responsible products using recycled materials, primarily recycled rubber in the United States. It offers playground safety tiles, roadside anti-vegetation products, construction molds, and highway guard-rail rubber spacer blocks. The company’s products provide schools and other political subdivisions solutions for safety, compliance, and accessibility. It also involves in playground design, equipment, and installation. The company was founded in 1992 and is based in Savage, Minnesota.

Beardow & Adams is constantly seeking out and creating sticky situations for itself. The company, known as Beardow Adams, is a hot melt adhesives manufacturer, whose products are used in such activities as bookbinding, woodworking, adhering labels to cans, bottles, and refrigerators, and sealing up the tops of cereal boxes. Hot melts are also used in the assembly of products ranging from consumer appliances to automobiles. Its products are distributed worldwide. Beardow Adams was established in 1977 by chairman and managing director Bob Adams and his partner, Len Beardow.

Borregaard has high regard for high timber. It is a top manufacturer of wood-based chemicals, including specialty cellulose, lignin, vanillin, bioethanol, and yeast products. The company's LignoTech unit makes natural thermoplastics (LignoPol) as alternatives to petroleum-based plastics. It also produces natural acids (SoftAcid). Its ChemCell unit is Europe's leading producer of specialty cellulose (a natural polymer) and also produces chloralkali chemicals such as caustic soda. Its Borregaard Synthesis unit produces fine chemicals for the pharmaceuticals industry and diphenols used in agrochemicals.

Once a socialist vision, now a model of capitalism, Koor Industries is Israel's leading holding company. Koor's core businesses include its holdings in agrochemicals (Makhteshim-Agan), defense electronics (Elisra Electronics Group), and telecommunications equipment (ECTel and Telrad Networks). The company's venture capital arm has invested in telecom, semiconductor, and software companies. Koor Industries also has operations in tourism, real estate, and trade. IDB Holding Corp. subsidiary Discount Investment Corporation (DIC) owns 30% of Koor. The company was founded to provide employment for Jewish refugees during WWII.

Anderol thanks its lucky stars for all those pesky environmentalists that have many chemical companies running scared. The trend away from petroleum-based fluids fits the company's plans perfectly. Anderol's synthetic lubricants are used in gas engines and compressors and as hydraulic fluids and food-grade lubricants. The company is based in New Jersey and has operations worldwide, including Venezuela, Italy, the Netherlands, Japan, China, and Canada. It became a subsidiary of Chemtura in 2007 when the specialty chemicals giant acquired its parent company, Kaufman Holdings, which also controls synthetic lubricants producer Hatco.

Sensient Technologies Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the manufacture and marketing of colors, flavors, and fragrances worldwide. Its products include flavors, flavor enhancers, and bionutrients; fragrances and aroma chemicals; dehydrated vegetables and other food ingredients; natural and synthetic food and beverage colors; cosmetic and pharmaceutical colors, and additives; and technical colors, inkjet colors and inks, and specialty dyes and pigments. The company operates in two segments, Flavors & Fragrances Group and Color Group. The Flavors & Fragrances Group segment offers systems products, including flavor-delivery systems; compounded and blended products; and ingredient products, such as essential oils, natural and synthetic flavors, and aroma chemicals. This segment sells its products to food industries, including savory, beverage, dairy, confectionery, and bakery flavors; and non-food industries, such as personal and home care-markets, and pharmaceuticals market. The Color Group segment provides natural and synthetic color systems for foods, beverages, and pharmaceuticals; colors and other ingredients for cosmetics and pharmaceuticals; and technical colors for industrial applications and digital imaging. The company was founded in 1882 and is headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

R. T. Vanderbilt Company opened its doors for business on 42nd Street in New York City in 1916. It was started by a 31-year-old named Robert Thurlow Vanderbilt who had $1,000 of his own, a $24,000 family loan, and a contract to sell clay for a company in the South.Since the paper industry was a prime market for clay, it was here that Robert Vanderbilt saw his Company begin to grow. His success led him to form R. T. Vanderbilt Company's first subsidiary, Continental Clay Company (now Dixie Clay Company) in South Carolina. However, while soft clay was geared to the needs of the paper industry, Continental Clay and North American Clay Company (of which Robert was a director) were also mining hard clays more suitable to the rubber industry. This introduced Vanderbilt to the rubber industry.

Potash One Inc. Company Profile Potash One, formerly ISX Resources, isn't interested in your girl's best friend any longer. The company's chief asset is a permit to acquire 100% of a potash exploration property in Saskatchewan. Formerly it had focused on diamond exploration in Canada's Otish Mountains. It acquired the permit in mid-2007 and changed its name toward the end of the year. The potash property is located adjacent to a mine operated by potash giant Mosaic Company. In 2009 it agreed to buy fellow Canadian potash producer Potash North Resource Corporation.

SNF manufactures water soluble polymers such as synthetic flocculants, coagulants, and dispersants used for municipal and industrial water and wastewater treatment. Other industries served by SNF include paper processing, textile printing, oil production, agriculture, and personal-care products manufacturing. The American arm of French polymer maker SNF Floerger, the company has about a dozen polymer production facilities around the US. Business units include Chemtall, Floquip (polymer preparation equipment), Polychemie, and Polydyne.

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