Syngenta AG, an agribusiness company, engages in the discovery, development, manufacture, and marketing of a range of products designed to improve crop yields and food quality worldwide. It operates in three segments: Crop Protection, Seeds, and Business Development. The Crop Protection segment offers herbicides primarily for corn, cereals, soybean, and rice; fungicides for cereals, fruits, grapes, rice, soybean, and vegetables; insecticides for fruits, vegetables, and field crops; seed care primarily in corn, soybean, cereals, and cotton; and professional products, such as products for public health and products for turf and ornamentals. The company markets these products through independent distributors and dealers, agricultural consultants, and growers. The Seeds segment develops, produces, and markets seeds and plants based on advanced genetics and related technologies. This segment offers approximately 200 product lines and approximately 6,000 varieties, including vegetables, flowers, corn, soybean, sugar beet, and sunflower. The company markets these products worldwide primarily under NK, Golden Harvest, Garst, Hilleshog, S&G, Rogers, Zeraim Gedera, and Fischer brand names. The Business Development segment offers a sugar beet suitable for cultivation in tropical climates, such as India. It also has various products under development, including VipCot cotton for improved resistance to insects; and amylase corn for use in the production of bio ethanol. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Basel, Switzerland. Syngenta AG operates independently of Novartis AG and AstraZeneca plc as of November 13, 2000.

The Clorox Company engages in the production, marketing, and sales of consumer products in the United States and internationally. The company operates through four segments: Cleaning, Lifestyle, Household, and International. The Cleaning segment consists of laundry, home-care, professional products, and auto-care products. This segment offers its products under the Clorox, Clorox 2, Formula 409, Liquid-Plumr, Pine-Sol, S.O.S, Tilex, Green Works, Armor All, and STP brands. The Lifestyle segment offers food products, water-filtration systems, filters, and natural personal care products.This segment offers its products under the Hidden Valley, K C Masterpiece, Brita, and Burt’s Bees brand names. The Household segment provides charcoal, cat litter and plastic bags, wraps, and container products. This segment offers its products under the Glad, Fresh Step, Scoop Away, Ever Clean, Kingsford, and Match Light brand names. The International segment offers home-care, laundry, auto-care, water filtration, charcoal and cat litter products, dressings, plastic bags, wraps and containers, and insecticides under the Clorox, Javex, Glad, PinoLuz, Ayudin, Limpido, Clorinda, Poett, Mistolin, Lestoil, Bon Bril, Nevex, Brita, Armor All, STP, Green Works, Sabra, Pine-Sol and Agua Jane, Ever Clean, Chux, Kingsford, and Hidden Valley brand names. The company markets its products primarily through mass merchandisers, warehouse clubs, grocery stores, direct sales force, distributors, Internet, retail outlets, and a network of brokers. The Clorox Company was founded in 1913 and is based in Oakland, California.

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.

Sumitomo Chemical makes chemicals for almost everything made and grown under the sun. About one-third of the company's sales come from petrochemicals and plastics such as polypropylene, ethylene, and elastomers. Sumitomo's other major units make pharmaceuticals, agricultural chemicals (insecticides, herbicides, and fertilizers), and basic chemicals such as caustic soda and methanol. The company also makes chemicals for electronics and fine chemicals. It is part of Japan's Sumitomo Group. Its pharmaceutical business operates through Dainippon Sumitomo Pharma. Sumitomo ranks among Japan's top three chemical producers, along with Mitsubishi Chemical and Asahi Kasei.

FutureFuel Corp. engages in the manufacture and sale of specialty chemicals and biofuels in the United States and internationally. It operates in two segments, Chemicals and Biofuels. The Chemicals segment offers custom manufacturing chemicals, including a bleach activator for detergent and consumer products manufacturers; a proprietary herbicide for life sciences companies; and chlorinated polyolefin adhesion promoters and antioxidant precursors for chemical companies.

Victims of biological attacks and cow udders alike have reason to be grateful to Avon Rubber. The company custom-engineers polymers for a variety of applications, including respirators and gas masks for defense applications and liners and tubes for milking dairy cows. In addition, Avon Rubber supplies much of the world's milking inflation products. The company also makes skirting for hovercraft and fendering products for marine transportation. Its Bell Avon unit makes products such as temporary fuel or water storage tanks. Avon Rubber was founded in 1885.

The AMINe COmpany, or Taminco for short, is a leading manufacturer of methylamines, a key chemical building block for agricultural, household, industrial, and pharmaceutical products. It also makes amine-based derivatives that are used in animal feed additives, detergents, insecticides, paints, performance solvents, rubber processing, and water and gas treatment. Taminco operates through three business units: Methylamines & Derivatives, Higher Amines & Specialties, and Life Sciences. The company runs eight production sites in the Americas, Asia/Pacific, and Europe, with additional offices in Africa and the Middle East. In 2007 private equity firm CVC Capital Partners agreed to acquire Taminco.

Mace Security International, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, manufactures various security products in the United States. Its Security Segment designs, manufactures, assembles, markets, and sells a range of security products, principally electronic surveillance products and components. It sells its electronic surveillance products and components primarily to installing dealers, distributors, system integrators, and end users. This segment also owns and operates a wholesale central monitoring station, as well as offers less-than-lethal Mace defense sprays and other security devices, such as monitors, high-end digital and machine vision cameras, and professional imaging components, as well as video conferencing equipment. The company’s Digital Media Marketing Segment focuses on selling products on third party Internet promotional sites. In addition, it owns and operates car wash business. The company was founded in 1987 and is headquartered in Horsham, Pennsylvania.

C. L. Hauthaway & Sons manufactures finishing materials and advanced polymers used by textiles and coatings makers. The company makes coatings resins (polyurethanes), leather finishes (adhesion promoters, basecoat polymers), and textile finishes (flame retardant polymers and compounds); it also offers custom polyurethane manufacturing. Hauthaway serves customers in the US and abroad in such industrial coatings markets as flooring, automotive interior plastics, leather finishing, and other industrial maintenance industries, and it's expanding into the industrial film-converting market. The company was formed by Charles L. Hauthaway in 1852 as a manufacturer of protective coatings for shoes.

AptarGroup, Inc. designs, manufactures, and sells product dispensing systems. It operates in three segments: Beauty & Home, Closures, and Pharma. The Beauty & Home segment primarily sells pumps and aerosol valves, and accessories to the personal care, household, and food/beverage markets; pumps and decorative components to the fragrance/cosmetic market; and fragrance/cosmetic and personal care fine mist spray pumps, personal care lotion pumps, and continuous spray aerosol valves. The Closures segment provides dispensing closures and non-dispensing closures primarily to the personal care, food/beverage, and household markets. The Pharma segment offers pumps and metered dose inhaler valves for allergy, cold, or flu treatments to the pharmaceutical market. The company sells and markets its products through sales force, independent representatives, and distributors in the United States, Europe, Argentina, Brazil, Canada, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Mexico, and Thailand. AptarGroup, Inc. was founded in 1992 and is based in Crystal Lake, Illinois.

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