Apparel makers reach for Teijin when they need more fiber. About a third of the company's sales come from fibers that are used primarily in apparel but that are also found in items as varied as circuit boards and bulletproof jackets. In a joint venture with DuPont, Teijin produces polyethylene terephthalate (PET) films used in packaging and magnetic media. The company also makes polyethylene naphthalate (PEN) film used in videocassettes, and it makes pharmaceuticals and medical products, as well as textile and industrial machinery such as spinning machines. Teijin serves customers in Asia, Europe, and the Americas through about 200 subsidiaries and affiliates.

Eka Chemicals is able to eke out a fine living by providing chemicals to, primarily, the paper and pulp industry. A division of Dutch chemicals colossus Akzo Nobel, it operates through two divisions: Pulp and Paper -- which itself is divided along geographic lines -- and Specialty Products. Eka's bleaching chemicals provide more than half of the company's total sales. The remaining portions of the Pulp and Paper unit provide everything from monitoring units for chem labs to coating additives.

The Lubrizol Corporation, a specialty chemical company, produces and supplies technologies that improve the performance of its customer’s products in the transportation, industrial, and consumer markets worldwide. The company operates in two segments, Lubrizol Additives and Lubrizol Advanced Materials. The Lubrizol Additives segment supplies additives for transportation and industrial lubricants. It offers a range of engine additives for lubricating engine oils, such as gasoline, diesel, marine, and stationary gas engines, as well as produces additives for fuel and refinery, and oilfield chemicals. This segment also sells additive components and viscosity modifiers; and supplies specialty driveline and industrial oil additive products. It primarily serves global and regional oil companies, refineries, and lubricant producers and marketers via retail, commercial, or vehicle original equipment manufacturer channels.The Lubrizol Advanced Materials segment offers a portfolio of performance chemicals used in consumer and industrial applications, such as ingredients for personal care and pharmaceutical products; emulsions and additives for coatings and inks; and specialty plastics and materials. This segment offers three primary product lines, which includes Noveon consumer specialties, performance coatings, and engineered polymers. Noveon consumer specialties products include Carbopol acrylic thickeners, film formers, fixatives, emollients, silicones, specialty surfactants, methyl glucoside, lanolin derivatives, and cassia hydrocolloids. Performance coatings product line includes specialty resins, polymers, and additives for the coatings and related industries, as well as a range of products for formulating paints and coatings, inks and graphic arts, specialty paper and textiles. Engineered polymers products include engineered polymers resins and compounds sold under TempRite. The Lubrizol Corporation was founded in 1928 and is headquartered in Wickliffe, Ohio.

To Seventh Generation, green is good. The term means environmentally friendly and nontoxic. For the conscientious company, it's also money in the bank. It makes cleaning and laundry supplies, paper products, personal care items, and diapers and wipes under the Seventh Generation name, which is derived from the Iroquois practice of considering how decisions may affect the next seven generations. Suppliers make its products from recycled or renewable materials using nontoxic ingredients. Seventh Generation's products are sold in the US and Canada through natural goods stores, supermarkets, catalogs, and online. Owned by Jeffrey Hollender and a group of investors, the company hired a new CEO in mid-2009.

From poisoning garden pests to exfoliating dry skin, Lonza puts itself in the middle of things. As the US operations of its parent company, Lonza accounts for about a third of the Lonza Group's $2.5 billion in annual sales. While Lonza doesn't actually make consumer products, the company provides chemical ingredients and intermediates for the personal care, water treatment, pharmaceutical, and plastics industries, from its nine manufacturing and R&D locations throughout the US.

Ribelin Sales distributes additives, containers, extenders, fillers, inks, and pigments to markets that include the adhesives and sealants, construction and building materials, paints, cosmetics, plastics, printing, and textiles industries. It distributes products made by various divisions of chemical giants like 3M, Ashland, BASF, and Rockwood Specialties. The company, which serves much of the Southeast and Southwest, has distribution centers in Texas, Florida, Alabama, and Arizona. Investment group KODA Enterprises owns Ribelin, having acquired it in 2006.

China National Chemical Corporation (ChemChina) is a large-scale state-owned company approved by the State Council on the basis of China National Bluestar (Group) Corporation (Bluestar), China National Haohua Chemical (Group) Corporation (Haohua or CHC) and other companies affiliated with the former Ministry of Chemical Industry. Headquartered in Beijing, ChemChina was formally inaugurated on May 9th, 2004, and administrated by the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council of China.The development positioning of ChemChina is "Traditional Chemicals, Advanced Materials", meaning that she will succeed the assets of previous generations, develop advanced chemical materials, basic chemical materials and agrochemicals in the process of restructuring SOEs, and extend properly upstream and downstream.

Fuwei Films (Holdings) Co., Ltd., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the development, manufacture, and distribution of plastic film using the biaxial oriented stretch technique, otherwise known as BOPET film (biaxially oriented polyethylene terephthalate). The company offers printing base film used in printing and lamination; stamping foil base film used for packaging of luxury items; metallization film or aluminum plating base film used for vacuum aluminum plating for paper or flexible plastic lamination; and transfer base film used for environmental friendly cigarettes and alcohol packaging. It also provides high-gloss film used for aesthetically enhanced packaging purposes; heat-sealable film used for processed food packaging and other applications; laser holographic base film used as anti-counterfeit film for food, medicine, cosmetics, cigarettes, and alcohol packaging; and matte film used for printing, metallization, stamping, and transfer metallization.The company’s products are used in consumer based packaging, including the food, pharmaceutical, cosmetics, tobacco, and alcohol industries; imaging, such as masking film, printing plates, and microfilms; electronics and electrical industries consisting of wire and cable wrap, capacitors, and motor insulation; and magnetic products, such as audio and video tapes. Fuwei Films (Holdings) Co. markets its products under the Fuwei Films brand name primarily in the People’s Republic of China, Korea, the United States, Europe, and internationally. The company was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Weifang, the People’s Republic of China.

Vertellus Specialties manufactures chemicals for the agricultural, nutritional, pharmaceutical, personal care, and performance material markets. The company's Agriculture and Nutrition Specialties division's products include pyridine, picolines, and vitamin B-3. Vertellus' Specialty Materials operations include the manufacture of DEET (a primary ingredient in mosquito repellent), pharmaceutical intermediates, as well as castor and citrate polymer additives for use in plastics, adhesives, coatings, and sealants. It operates manufacturing facilities in Asia, Europe, and North America. Investment firm Wind Point Partners owns Vertellus.

Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan Inc. engages in the production and sale of fertilizers, and related industrial and feed products in North America. The company manufactures and sells solid and liquid phosphate fertilizers; animal feed supplements; and industrial acid, which is used in food products and industrial processes. It also produces nitrogen fertilizers, as well as nitrogen feed and industrial products, including ammonia, urea, nitrogen solutions, ammonium nitrate, and nitric acid. Potash Corporation’s primary customers for fertilizer products include retailers, dealers, cooperatives, distributors, and other fertilizer producers. In addition, the company produces potash from six mines in Saskatchewan and one mine in New Brunswick. It sells purified phosphoric acid directly to consumers of the product. The company was founded in 1953 and is based in Saskatoon, Canada.

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