ADCO Products adheres to its sticky operating mantra. The company, a subsidiary of ADCO Global, manufactures polyurethanes, acrylics, and butyls used in adhesives and sealants for the construction and transportation industries. ADCO's products make adhesives, sealants, tapes, primers, and caulk for the automotive replacement glass, vehicle manufacturing, industrial assembling, and roofing industries. Brand names include TITAN and ADCOTHERM, among others. The company handles ADCO Global's domestic operations.

It's more than soft soap that sells at Standard Soap Company. The specialty chemicals company produces conventional milled soap (made from opaque or translucent soap bases of animal and vegetable origin), and transparent glycerine soap. The venerable contract manufacturer has been in business for well over a century. Standard Soap also makes a wide range of liquid toiletries in hot and cold mixes, waxes, and sticks. Its target markets include UK retail, UK and overseas brand owners, and global haute couture fragranced-led brand owners. Malaysian multinational Kuala Lumpur Kepong acquired the company in 1995.

The Comex Group keeps adding colors to its palette. The company manufactures and distributes architectural paints and coatings through five regional operations/brands (Color Wheel, Frazee, General Paint, Parker Paint, and Kwal), and Duckback, a specialty coatings division. It sells its products mainly in the western US -- though it added Florida to its territory with the 2006 acquisition of Color Wheel -- and western Canada. Each brand formulates its products especially for the climate in its home region. The company comprises the US and Canadian operations of Mexico's largest paints maker, Comex.

Formosa Plastics Corp., U.S.A., is the prince of PVC. Affiliated with Taiwan's Formosa Plastics Corporation (one of the world's largest PVC suppliers), the company produces all manner of petrochemicals and plastic resins. Its product roster includes polyethylene, polypropylene, vinyl, and chlor alkali products like caustic soda. The company also produces suspension and specialty PVC resins, the former for pipe and fencing, the latter for flooring and insect screening. Other Formosa products are used for packaging and chemical processing. The fully vertically integrated company operates three manufacturing locations that are fed raw materials by oil and gas-producing and transportation subsidiaries.

Borealis is another shining light in the northern sky of plastics. The company is among the leading European makers of polyethylene and polypropylene, the most common plastic resins (and together known as polyolefins). Borealis also produces olefins, ethylene and propylene, and compounds plastic resins to meet desired characteristics, mainly for wire and cable makers. Its Borstar technology is used to support its polyethylene and polypropylene products. The International Petroleum Investment Company of Abu Dhabi (IPIC) owns 65% of Borealis and Austrian oil firm OMV controls the remaining 35%.

FUCHS PETROLUB keeps things running smoothly. The company is one of the world's leading independent manufacturers of automotive and industrial lubricants. Its products include engine and gear oils, metalworking fluids, metal forming lubricants, corrosion preventatives, quenching oils, biodegradable lubricants, and greases. The company also provides polishing pastes and tools as well as anti-freeze, mining products, and vaselines. FUCHS PETROLUB operates through about 40 production facilities and about 60 subsidiaries worldwide.

Stepan Company engages in the production and sale of specialty and intermediate chemicals. The company operates through three segments: Surfactants, Polymers, and Specialty Products. The Surfactants segment offers products that are principal ingredients in consumer and industrial cleaning products, such as detergents for washing clothes, dishes, carpets, floors, and walls, as well as shampoos, body washes, fabric softeners, and toothpastes. Its other applications include biodiesel, germicidal quaternary compounds, lubricating ingredients, emulsifiers for spreading agricultural products, and plastics and composites. The Polymers segment provides phthalic anhydride, which is used in polyester alkyd resins; plasticizers for applications in construction materials and components of automotive, boating, and other consumer products; and polyols that are used in the manufacture of laminate insulation board for the construction industry, as well as sold to the appliance, coatings, adhesives, sealants, and elastomers markets. The Specialty Products segment offers flavors, emulsifiers, and solubilizers used in the food and pharmaceutical industries. It principally operates in the United States, France, and the United Kingdom. The company was founded in 1932 and is headquartered in Northfield, Illinois.

Converted Organics Inc. engages in the manufacture, sale, and distribution of liquid and solid fertilizers, and natural soil amendment/enhancement products combining disease suppression and nutrition characteristics. It uses liquid and solid food waste as raw material to manufacture soil amendment products. The company sells and distributes its products in agribusiness, turf management, and retail markets. Converted Organics Inc. was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

When you need some crimson -- or any other color, for that matter -- Cloverdale Paint hopes you come straight to them. The paint and coatings manufacturer maintains more than 100 retail stores and a network of dealer outlets across Western Canada and the Pacific Northwest. Cloverdale Paint also manufactures architectural and industrial maintenance products. In recent years, Cloverdale has expanded by acquiring US-based rival Rodda Paint and the Canadian Guertin Coatings; both companies continue to operate as independent subsidiaries. The company has four manufacturing facilities. Cloverdale Paint was founded in 1933.

TCC operates more than 20 warehouses and provides delivery services to customers throughout the US ; it also has locations in Brazil, Canada, and the Netherlands. The company also offers custom manufacturing services. If you don't know what The Chemical Company (TCC) sells then you probably need to re-take that logic class. (Hint: It starts with a C and rhymes with schmemicals.) The company distributes a wide variety of specialty and commodity chemicals, from phosphates and absorbent polymers to acids and flame retardants. Its chemicals are used in a range of products, including cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, plastics, food, and paper.

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