For those interested in the environmentally responsible pursuit of leisure, SeaLife Corporation helps get you there. Its two subsidiaries, SeaLife Marine and ProTerra Technologies, coat your boat and keep your golf course--or your lagoon--green and healthy. SeaLife Marine's antifoul paints are hydroreactive, becoming increasingly smooth when submerged, which gives shell, weed, and algae no place to latch onto. ProTerra's soil conditioner, Soil ResQ, maintains soil with a balance of nutrients, micronutrients, and humus; its Nulagoon product breaks down waste in lagoons. CEO Robert McCaslin owns 15% of the company, while secretary J.P. Heyes owns 14%.

alchimer is a practitioner of high-tech alchemy. The company specializes in chemical coatings used in both microelectronics and biomedical implants. alchimer's electro-grafting technology allows coating solutions (organic, polymer-based films) to be used on conducting and semi-conducting surfaces. alchimer's coatings can be used in such biomedical applications as drug-eluting stents; technological applications include integrated circuit manufacturing. A 2001 spin-off of the Commissariat ࠬ'Energie Atomique, the French government's atomic energy agency, Alchimer is owned by a consortium of private investors that includes AGF Private Equity and Rothschild.

Agrium U.S. operates south of the border for Canadian fertilizers manufacturer and distributor Agrium. The parent company produces and distributes four major crop nutrients: nitrogen, phosphate, potash, and sulfate fertilizers for the wholesale market. Agrium U.S. operates a network of about 500 retail farm centers in the US and Latin America, and is one of the largest independent retailers of fertilizers, seeds, and chemicals in North America. The US provides Agrium with about two-thirds of its sales. Agrium began originally as Cominco during the 1930s.

Left to its own devices, Tessenderlo Chemie tends to make a lot of chemicals for niche markets. The diversified producer operates through three units. It's Chemicals division offers a variety of inorganic chemicals including phosphates for animal feed and potassium sulphate; organic chlorine derivatives and caustic soda; and PVC. The company's Specialities unit supplies gelatin and organic intermediates for pharmaceuticals. Tessenderlo's Plastics Converting division takes PVC and converts it into finished goods such as plastic pipes and fittings. It operates in the US through Tessenderlo Kerley. The French chemicals group SNPE owns more than a quarter of the Belgian company.

Victrex Polymer Solutions, a division of Victrex plc, specializes in the development and manufacture of high performance polyaryletherketones such as VICTREX® PEEK™ polymer, VICOTE® coatings, and APTIV™ film. We are committed to providing our customers specialized services and the most comprehensive product portfolio of its kind.With more than 30 years of experience, Victrex has a production, technology, customer service, and distribution team that spans more than 30 countries worldwide. We work directly with material processors and design engineers in a multitude of industries to help create new applications using Victrex polyketone materials. We help improve processing techniques and find ways to reduce overall costs with the goal to introduce competitive, innovative applications to the marketplace. The Victrex biomaterials business, Invibio® Biomaterial Solutions, provides access to highly specialized biocompatible PEEK-based materials and services for medical device manufacturers.

The world's #2 ink maker (behind Sun Chemical), Flint Group produces inks and coatings for a variety of applications, including packaging, publication, commercial uses, and digital printing. It operates four business units: printing inks, flexographic products (printing plates), pigments (colorants and additives), and printing blankets, sleeves, and chemicals. Flint owns plants throughout the world, and its customers produce magazines, newspapers, catalogs, and packaging materials. The company's products include sheetfed and web offset, ultraviolet and electronic beam (UV/EB) curable, and flexographic inks as well as environmently friendly vegetable oil-based inks. Flint Group is owned by CVC Capital Partners.

Gantrade gallivants about the globe trading chemical commodities. The company is a petrochemicals firm and producer of vinyl acetate monomer (VAM), as well as carbon black and ethylene and propylene derivatives. The company has marketing and storage operations in the US and throughout Europe. The Parekh family owns Gantrade and has interests in various other chemical companies through a venture with Court Square Capital Partners.

In 1908, Morris Brown, an immigrant from Russia, began his daily trip via horse-drawn cart from Bremen, Indiana, to South Bend, Indiana. Morris, and his family, would bring eggs and other farm produce from Bremen to South Bend to trade for other goods not available in his small farming town. One day, while on the road to South Bend, a man asked Morris if he cared to trade produce for peppermint oil. Morris wasn't aware of its value, but was always looking for an opportunity, so he decided to gamble. Morris, and his sons, took the peppermint oil into South Bend and soon realized they could earn more money trading peppermint than eggs and other farm produce, Morris, and his sons, knew this was a business he would develop, and he founded a company named M. Brown & Sons dedicated to selling the finest essential oils available. The Browns worked long hours and very hard so they could support their families and provide integrity and service to their customers.In 1974, Morris Brown's grandson, Irvin Brown, expanded the business by selling herbs, spices, and decorative botanicals. M. Brown & Sons and Lebermuth Company eventually merged into one firm. Four generations later, we have not forgotten what Morris created and the service he provided. In his footsteps we continue to provide you, our clients, the best quality products and service available!

Samsung, but instead of making all that stuff you see at the electronics store, it buys and sells all manner of consumer and industrial goods. Samsung C&T America (SCTA, the C&T stands for construction and trading) is the US arm of the Korean commodities trading, marketing and distribution, and investment company Samsung C&T (a part of the Samsung chaebol, or industrial group). As a commodities trader, SCTA deals in chemicals, steel, metals, textiles, and natural resources. The company's marketing and distribution efforts include consumer products ranging from health care products to FUBU clothing and US Polo Association footwear.

Cigarettes are certainly hazardous to your health, but the making of cigarette filter materials has been good for Daicel Chemical. The company was founded in 1919 to make celluloid (the first plastic) and still makes cellulose-based products such as cellulose acetate, used in filters and photographic film. Daicel primarily makes films for packaging and plastics. The company also produces an array of organic chemicals (acetic acid, acetic anhydride) used in fibers, paints, pharmaceuticals, and cosmetics. Daicel's aerospace and defense systems/safety systems unit produces inflators for automobile air bags and rocket propellants.

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