Houghton has been serving the metalworking, automotive, and steel industries, and a variety of other markets with the development and production of specialty chemicals, oils, and lubricants.A privately held company, Houghton is headquartered in Valley Forge, PA and maintains manufacturing and research facilities throughout the world.Houghton offers a scope and depth of technical services unequaled in the industry. Through our unique FLUIDCARE Chemical Management program, Houghton customers are finding new ways to save on overall process chemical and disposal costs.

Occidental Chemical (OxyChem) manufactures basic chemicals, vinyls, and performance chemicals. The company is the top US maker of chlorine and caustic soda (used in bleach, plastics, and pulp and paper) and the top producer of potassium hydroxide, or caustic potash (used in fertilizers). Through subsidiary OxyVinyls it's the leading North American maker of vinyl chloride monomer (VCM), which is used to make PVC resins. The company operates some 22 plants throughout the US as well as another three in Brazil, Canada, and Chile. (OxyChem owns 50% of the Brazilian plant.)

Chem-Pak packs a chemical punch into its private-label products. The company provides contract chemical manufacturing services for specialty coatings, cleaners, paints, music accessories (instrument cleaners), lubricants, and degreasers. Chem-Pak also provides packaging services for steel aerosol cans and specialty filling of aluminum tubes, pails, and drums. It operates from a facility in West Virginia.

Inolex Chemical Company is a family-owned supplier of specialty chemicals for the lubricant, personal care and cosmetics industries. Inolex′s headquarters is located in Philadelphia, PA.At this Philadelphia site, fatty acids have been produced since the 1800′s, when D.B. Martin Oil and Fats began operations there. Wilson and Company, a major meat packer acquired the business for the first half of the century. In the 1970′s American Can acquired the company as part of a diversification strategy providing an entry for American Can into the chemical business. American Can changed the name to Inolex (Innovation Technology Excellence) in 1974. The present ownership dates back to 1981 when the Plimpton family acquired the business and incorporated under the name Inolex Chemical Company.

From modest beginnings in 1948 in Ashtabula, Ohio, MFG has grown to an international presence in the field of composites manufacturing. Today the company is a thriving enterprise that includes 16 entities throughout the United States and Mexico. MFG is involved in a gamut of exciting and growing industries, contributing to products that make life more affordable, safer, and healthier for human beings and the environment.True to the original vision of advancing both the art and science of composite plastic manufacturing, MFG has established itself as both an innovator of proprietary products and a respected partner to leading manufacturers around the world. The depth and breadth of the company as a specialist in FRP (fiber reinforced plastic) provides an unmatched asset to the world of manufacturing - a resource that customers large and small can turn to for composite materials expertise, dependable delivered goods and business integrity.

No matter what color your car is, chances are you've got a Red Spot on it somewhere. Red Spot Paint & Varnish supplies coatings for automotive plastics, from lacquers for mirrors and grilles to urethanes for fascia and fenders. Its automotive industry customers include GM, Ford, and Toyota. The company also makes primers and topcoats for sporting goods such as golf club shafts and motorcycle helmets. Red Spot's products also wind up on personal electronics, business machines, cosmetics packaging, and aerospace components. President and CEO Charles Storms is the fourth generation of his family to run the company since it was founded by his great-grandfather H. D. Bourland.

India's Meghmani Organics is a leading producer of pesticide chemicals used by pesticide manufacturers and pigments used by manufacturers of printing ink, plastics, paint, textiles and leather, paper, and rubber. The company's customers are primarily multinational corporations and include Ciba Holding, Flint Ink, and FMC Agricultural Products. More than 50% of its pesticide products and over 80% of its pigment products are exported. The company was founded in 1986 and has offices in Belgium, China, and the US.

SABIC Innovative Plastics is among the world's largest producers of high-performance polymers used bymanufacturers of electronics, office equipment, computer, and automotive. The company's units include Specialty Film & Sheet, which makes the polycarbonate sheet and film under the Lexan brand name; Polymershapes, a plastic film, sheet, and tube distributor; and Resins, a producer of all manner of plastic resins (the starting point in making most plastic materials). SABIC IP also owns LNP Engineering Plastics, a plastics compounding firm. The company was formed in 2007 when General Electric sold GE Plastics to Saudi Arabia's largest public company, SABIC, for $11 billion.

Warwick International has been cleaning up in the chemicals business for more than a quarter century. Based in Wales, the company is a leading manufacturer of a bleach activator called MYKON that allows detergents to become more powerful more quickly and at lower temperatures. Additionally, the Warwick Group maintains a number of chemical distribution companies worldwide. In addition to serving the household and industrial detergents industry, the group targets such industries as water treatment, textile processing, coatings, and personal care. In 2008 Close Brothers' private equity unit acquired Warwick for $235 million from American aerospace and manufacturing company Sequa.

CECO Environmental Corp. provides air pollution control products and services primarily in the United States. It engineers, designs, builds, and installs systems that capture, clean, and destroy contaminants from industrial facilities; and equipment that controls emissions from industrial facilities. The company operates in four divisions: Contracting, Equipment, Components/Parts, and Engineering/Design. The Contracting division offers dust collectors, oil mist collectors, chip conveyance systems, air houses, and conveyors, as well as engages in custom sheet metal fabrication.The Equipment division provides regenerative thermal oxidation, catalytic and thermal oxidation, and selective and regenerative catalytic reduction solutions; and dampers, expansion joints, fiber-bed filter mist collectors, catenary grid and narrow gap, replacement filters, repack services, heavy duty air handling and conditioning solutions, fume exhaust systems, air-curtain hoods, strip/coil coolers and dryers, pulsejet bag houses, reverse air bag houses, pulsejet cartridge and fabric filters, flue gas coolers, exhaust treatment systems, and foundry sand reclamation equipment. It also offers industrial and FCC cyclones, air classifiers, scrubbers, electrostatic precipitators, medial filtration, and pneumatic conveying and industrial ventilation solutions.The Components/Parts division offers component parts for industrial air systems and clamp-together componentized ducting systems. The company serves aerospace, brick, cement, ceramics, metalworking, ethanol, printing, paper, food, foundries, power plants, metal plating, woodworking, chemicals, glass, tobacco, automotive, ethanol, and pharmaceutical industries. CECO Environmental Corp. was founded in 1966 and is headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio.

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