What's Brewer Science brewing up? The company produces chemicals used by makers of electronics and semiconductors. Its chemicals include anti-reflective coatings and specialty polymers and resins. Brewer Science also makes baking and curing equipment used to make wafers and photo masks. Its customers include companies in the aviation, automotive, diagnostic, communications, and computer manufacturing industries. The company operates from locations in nine countries and gets more than half of its sales from international customers. CEO Terry Brewer founded the company with his wife, Paula, in 1981.

Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. provides atmospheric gases, process and specialty gases, performance materials, equipment, and services worldwide. The company’s Merchant Gases segment sells atmospheric gases, such as oxygen, nitrogen, and argon; process gases, including hydrogen and helium; and medical and specialty gases for the metal, glass, chemical processing, food processing, healthcare, steel, general manufacturing, and petroleum and natural gas industries. This segment also offers respiratory therapies, home medical equipment, and infusion services primarily in Europe.

Yule Catto’s Safety, Health and Environmental (SHE) performance improved sharply for the second year in a row, making 2008 easily the Company’s best year ever for SHE performance. The number of Over-3-Day Lost Time Accidents (O3D) accidents in Group companies owned on 1 January 2008 halved, to give an accident rate better than the average for the UK chemical industry (as measured by the UK Chemical Industries Association). This was the target we set for 2008. Equally encouraging, there was a significant drop in the all Lost Time Accident (LTA) rate which reduced to 60% of the latest figure reported by Cefic (the European Chemical Industry’s representative body).Yule Catto & Co plc produces specialty chemicals through three units: polymer chemicals (water-based polymers, synthetic latex), performance chemicals (aerosol filling, colorants, industrial cleaners), and pharma and fine chemicals (pharmaceutical ingredients, organic and inorganic chemicals, flavor and fragrance products for food and detergents). Yule Catto's polymer chemicals division is by far its largest, accounting for more than two-thirds of sales. Malaysian plantation company Kuala Lumpur Kepong owns nearly 22% of Yule Catto.

MetoKote wants its many customers to say "protective coatings -- me too." The manufacturer provides protective coating applications such as electrocoating, powder coating, and liquid painting. Its equipment division manufactures process lines and support equipment like building racks, carriers, shipping pallets, and part containers. MetoKote services customers primarily in the automotive, agricultural and construction equipment, and appliance and furniture manufacturing industries. It operates more than 150 coating systems from more than 40 manufacturing facilities in Brazil, Canada, Mexico, the UK, and the US. Other services include labeling, specialty packaging, and subassembly.

Pacific Ethanol, Inc. produces and sells ethanol and its co-products in the western United States, primarily in California, Nevada, Arizona, Oregon, Colorado, Idaho, and Washington. It also provides transportation, storage, and delivery of ethanol through third-party service providers. The company’s co-products include wet distillers grains. It sells ethanol to gasoline refining and distribution companies, and wet distillers grains to dairy operators and animal feed distributors. The company was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Sacramento, California.

Cytec Industries Inc., a specialty chemicals and materials company, engages in the development, manufacture, and sale of chemical products. It operates in four segments: Cytec Performance Chemicals, Cytec Surface Specialties, Cytec Engineered Materials, and Building Block Chemicals. The Cytec Performance Chemicals segment offers mining chemicals, phosphines, polymer additives, specialty additives, specialty urethanes, and adhesives. The Cytec Surface Specialties segment’s product line includes radiation-cured resins, powder coating resins, and liquid coating resins, including water-borne resins, amino cross-linkers, and solventborne resins. The Cytec Engineered Materials segment offers advanced composites, carbon fiber, and structural film adhesives. The Building Block Chemicals segment provides acrylonitrile, hydrocyanic acid, sulfuric acid, and melamine. The company serves various markets, including aerospace, adhesives, automotive and industrial coatings, construction, chemical intermediates, inks, mining, and plastics. It sells its products through direct sales force and distributors in North America, Latin America, the Asia Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. The company was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in Woodland Park, New Jersey.

Shiloh Industries, Inc. manufactures and sells first operation blanks, engineered welded blanks, complex stampings, and modular assemblies for the automotive, heavy truck, and other industrial markets in the United States. Its steel blanks, which are engineered two dimensional shapes cut from flat-rolled steel, are used for structural and exterior steel components, such as support brackets, frame sides, fenders, hoods and doors. These blanks include first operation exposed and unexposed blanks and advanced engineered welded blanks. The engineered welded blanks generally consist of two or more sheets of steel of the same or various material grade, thickness, or coating that are welded together utilizing mash seam resistance and laser welding. Its stampings are principally used as components in mufflers, seat frames, structural rails, window lifts, heat shields, vehicle brakes, and other structural body components. The company’s complex stampings and modular assemblies include components used in the structural and powertrain systems of a vehicle.Its structural systems include bumper beams, door impact beams, steering column supports, chassis components, and structural underbody modules; and powertrain systems consist of deep draw components, such as oil pans, transmission pans, and valve covers. Shiloh Industries also designs and engineers precision tools and dies, and welding and assembly equipment. In addition, the company provides various intermediate steel processing services, such as oiling, leveling, cutting-to-length, slitting, edge trimming of hot and cold-rolled steel coils, and inventory control services for automotive and steel industry customers. Its customers primarily include original equipment manufacturers; Tier I automotive suppliers; manufacturers in the lawn and garden, and heavy duty truck and trailer industries; and steel producers. Shiloh Industries was founded in 1950 and is headquartered in Valley City, Ohio.

KIC Chemicals distributes food, pharmaceutical, industrial, and personal care products. A short list of distributed offerings includes castor oil and castor seed derivatives, fatty acids, soap and cosmetic ingredients, flavor and fragrance ingredients, glycerin and vegetable oils, industrial chemicals, and plasticizers. KIC also provides custom packaging and labeling services. The company was established in 1985. KIC Chemicals is owned by Edward Kort, the company's president.

Sinnett-Elpaco Coatings makes industrial paints and powder coatings for products in the ammunition, appliance, automotive, construction, electrical, industrial machinery, consumer goods, marine, and office furniture industries. Its products include high-temperature coatings, clear polyester powders, enamels, solvents, epoxies, urethanes, and wash primers. The company, also known as TriTech Coatings, is owned by its executives.

Evonik Industries evidently decided it no longer wanted to get its hands dirty. The enterprise was cut out from RAG, leaving the coal business with that company and taking RAG's former subsidiaries Degussa (chemicals and plastics), STEAG (power generation), and Wohnen (real estate). Degussa operates globally and across multiple chemical platforms; it accounts for about three-quarters of Evonik's business. STEAG operates power generation plants, both in Germany and abroad in Colombia, the Philippines, and Turkey. Evonik's real estate operations include 60,000 housing units in Germany. Investment firm CVC Capital Partners owns a 25% stake in the company.

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