Pervo Paint hopes the elements won't penetrate its coatings. The company makes a variety of paints and industrial coatings ranging from exterior and interior house paint to those used to mark highways and parking lots. Its products include curb coatings, interior and exterior paints, industrial enamels, waterproofing systems, and thermoplastic marking materials. Pervo Paint serves customers in the midwestern and western US, as well as in Canada, Mexico, China, and Korea. The company has been family-owned and -operated since it was founded in 1929 by Herman Van Dulst and his son-in-law Henry DeRuiter. Pervo means impenetrable in Dutch.

From painting to printing, Clariant GmbH makes it brighter. The company makes pigments for paints, lacquers, plastics, and other specialty applications. The company also makes masterbatches, printing inks for ink jet and laser printing, additives to improve heat resistance, and aluminum paints. Other divisions make surfactants, polymers, pharmaceutical and agricultural fine chemicals, and distribute color and additive concentrates. Clariant GmbH sells to the automotive, electronics, consumer goods, medical, packaging, and textiles markets. The company is the German unit of Swiss specialty chemical giant Clariant International and accounts for about 15% of its parent's total sales.

Teknos wants to color your world. The company makes a wide range of high-quality paints and industrial coatings used in the consumer, construction, industrial, and manufacturing sectors. Its products include retail and architectural paints, metal paints and coatings, powder coatings, wood paints and coatings, and coil coatings. Teknos' paints and coatings are used to paint cars, bridges and steel structures, industrial equipment, plywood, and road markings. Its powder coatings, which are durable and environmentally friendly, are used to paint appliances, shelving, garden furniture, and bicycles. Founded in 1948 and still one of Finland's largest family-owned businesses, Teknos operates in Europe and Russia.

Petrochem Carless wants to keep drivers from having to do without their vehicle. The company offers products such as antifreeze, brake fluids, de-icers, and racing fuels. It also supplies chemical solvents such as alcohols, amines, and esters. Petrochem Carless is one of the top European refiners and distributors of specialty hydrocarbons and advanced automotive fluids, as well as a leading supplier of drilling fluids. It was formed in 2000 when Petrochem bought Carless (which traces its history back to 1859) from Spanish giant Repsol and merged the two companies' operations. The company underwent a management buyout (backed by Lloyds Banking Group) in 2005, and Lloyds offered to buy it outright in 2010.

With an annual capacity of over 400 million pounds, Washington Penn Plastic Co., Inc. is the largest compounder of custom polyolefins in North America. We have been providing material solutions to our customers for over 45 years. Today, we offer mineral-filled and glass-reinforced polypropylene compounds that compete with higher cost engineering resins. We supply thermoplastic olefin compounds that offer a complete range of strength, toughness, and flexibility.All of our custom compounds can be manufactured in natural or pre-colored to meet your specifications. We provide our customers with a wide variety of polypropylene and polyethylene neat resins. Finally, we produce color concentrates in hundreds of custom colors as well as post-consumer recycled polypropylene and polyethylene materials. At Washington Penn Plastic Co., Inc., we are driven by the needs of our customers. Our goal is to deliver cost effective material solutions with industry leading speed, quality, and reliability.

Penford Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the development, manufacture, and marketing of specialty natural-based ingredient systems for various industrial and food applications in the United States, Australia, and New Zealand. It develops and manufactures ingredients with starch as a base. The starch products are manufactured primarily from corn, potatoes, and wheat, and are used as binders and coatings in paper and food production. The various forms of starches include ethylated, oxidized, and cationic. The ethylated and oxidized starches are used in coatings and as binders, providing printability to fine white, magazine, and catalog paper. Cationic and other liquid starches are used in the paper forming process in paper production, providing bonding of paper fibers and other ingredients. Penford sells its products through a direct sales force, as well as through distributor agreements. The company was founded in 1894 and is headquartered in Centennial, Colorado.

Robert Walsh, Arthur Schmidt, and George Claytor formed Walsh & Associates, Inc. in 1968. The three St. Louis businessmen had joined Ashland Oil Company briefly following the acquisition of a small chemical distributor where they were employed. Encouraged by customers and suppliers to form an independent regional distribution company of their own, Walsh, Schmidt, and Claytor were fortunate to have several of the original suppliers align with the newly formed Walsh & Associates, Inc. The company has expanded greatly adding regional offices in Kansas City, Missouri, Denver, Colorado, Memphis, Tennessee, Salt Lake City, Utah, Dallas, Texas, and Kalamazoo, MI.

Kyocera Chemical's products are materially important. The company manufactures chemicals and chemical materials like epoxy resins, molding compounds, laminates, and insulating materials for electronics products such as semiconductors and printed circuit boards. Kyocera Chemical also makes insulating varnishes used in household appliances and the custom machines used to apply that varnish. Among its other products are molded casings used for finished electronics like PDAs and laptops. The company was formed as Toshiba Chemicals in 1974 and became a part of the Kyocera family in 2002. Many of the company's goods are used in Kyocera's own electronic devices.

Virotec International develops and manufactures chemicals to minimize the negative impact of industrial activity on the environment. The company offers products based on its Bauxsol technology that treat, neutralize, convert, or recycle sewage (ViroSewage), wastewater (ViroFlow), acidic soil (ViroSoil), and contaminated mine waste (ViroMine). The company operates several subsidiaries in the UK, US, Australia, and Italy. Sales in Australia, Asia-Pacific, and the Middle East accounts for a majority of the company's revenue. In 2008, UK-based environmental services provider Hydrodec acquired Virotec.

Asahi Kasei Corporation provides solutions in the areas of chemistry and materials science. It operates in seven segments: Chemicals; Homes; Health Care; Fibers; Electronics; Construction Materials; and Services, Engineering, and Others. The Chemicals segment offers chemicals and derivative products, such as ammonia, nitric acid, caustic soda, acrylonitrile, styrene monomer, methyl methacrylate monomer, PMMA resin, and adipic acid; polymer products, including such as polyethylene, styrene-acrylonitrile, acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene, synthetic rubber, polyacetal, modified polyphenylene ether, and nylon polymer and filament; and specialty products comprising coating materials, latex, microcrystalline cellulose, explosives, explosion-bonded metal clad, photosensitive resin and printing plate making systems, UF and MF membranes and systems, microporous membrane, ion-exchange membranes and electrolysis systems, cling film, storage bags, plastic films, sheets, and foams.

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