Airgas Canada, based in Calgary, Alberta, is a major respiratory home care service provider and a distributor of specialty gases and welding supplies. We have eight locations that focus on Western Canada.Airgas Canada is committed to providing it's Canadian customers with unmatched product and service offerings through the industry's most comprehensive distribution network.

Raymor Industries didn't get a charge out of the battery business and has moved on to the powders and coatings market. In 2004 the company acquired the advanced materials division of PyroGenesis and dumped its mining exploration business. Through subsidiary Advanced Powders and Coatings (AP&C), Raymor partners with PyroGenesis to produce specialized metallic powders and ceramic and metallic coatings. The products are used primarily in the biomedical, industrial, and aerospace and defense industries. Raymor also operates a nanotechnology division to develop products on a nanometric scale. In 2009 the company filed for bankruptcy protection and was taken private by a small group of investors early the next year.

Verenium Corporation engages in the development and production of specialty enzyme products, and production and commercialization of biofuels. It operates in two segments, Biofuels and Specialty Enzymes. The Biofuels segment focuses on the production and commercialization of biofuels, primarily ethanol from cellulosic biomass. The Specialty Enzymes segment develops enzymes for use in alternative fuels, specialty industrial processes, and animal nutrition and health markets. Its products include Fuelzyme—LF, an alpha amylase enzyme, designed to improve the efficiency and economics of ethanol production from corn and other grain, or starch sources; Purifine enzyme for biodiesel applications; Amylase-T Transgenic Corn Amylase; Purifine for edible nutritional oils; Luminase for pulp and paper processing; Phyzyme XP; Quantum phytase; Bayovac SRS that is designed to prevent disease in farmed Atlantic salmon; and Phytase-T, which supplements Quantum phytase.The company has strategic collaborations with Syngenta AG for the discovery and development of a range of novel enzymes; Bunge Oils, Inc. to discover and develop novel enzymes for the production of edible oil products; Cargill Health and Food Technologies to discover and develop novel enzymes for the production of a proprietary Cargill product; BASF AG to develop biocatalytic enzymes; Danisco Animal Nutrition to identify and develop a novel phytase enzyme; Bayer Animal Health to develop and market products to prevent infectious diseases in fish; and BP for the production of cellulosic ethanol from non-food feed stocks. It operates in North America, South America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. The company was formerly known as Diversa Corporation and changed its name to Verenium Corporation in June 2007 as a result of the merger with Celunol Corp. Verenium Corporation was founded in 1992 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

George S. Coyne Chemical. The company distributes industrial chemicals (for pharmaceuticals, food, and cosmetics), consumer products (pool chemicals, de-icing chemicals, solar salt), and metal finishing and plating chemicals, primarily in the northeastern US. Coyne Chemical also provides related valued-added services, such as warehousing, custom blending and packaging, and environmental consulting. It operates four locations in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. The company was formed in 1868 by George Coyne and is operated by the founder's descendants.

Kelly-Moore Paint Company calls them High Society, Feisty, and Center Field. But never mind silly names for paint colors, Kelly-Moore aims to show that the paint business isn't entirely run by multinational big brushes like Sherwin-Williams and DuPont. The regional firm produces approximately 20 million gallons of paint per year from three manufacturing facilities and has more than 160 stores in eight states west of the Mississippi River. Kelly-Moore sells about 400 types of paints, finishes, and sundries to professional contractors and painters and to the do-it-yourself market. The employee-owned company was formed by William Moore and William Kelly in 1946.

Emerald Performance Materials was just a part of Lubrizol's Noveon unit. Since 2006, though, the company has been a stand-alone company owned by private investor Sun Capital Partners. The company makes additives, dyes, fine chemicals, silicones, and specialty polymers. Emerald Performance Materials serves the food and beverage companies, plastics and adhesives makers, and lubricants producers. Based in Ohio, the company operates globally. In 2008 the company made two acquisitions: CVC Specialty Chemicals (which it added to its Specialty Polymers unit) and Wolstenholme's carbon black dispersions for printing ink business (which became part of subsidiary Emerald Hilton Davis).

Tronox Incorporated was founded in 1964 and is based in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Tronox Inc. (NYSE:TRX) operates independently of Kerr-McGee Corp. as of March 30, 2006. Tronox Incorporated produces and markets titanium dioxide pigment in the United States and internationally. The company’s titanium dioxide, a white pigment is used in a range of products for its ability to impart whiteness, brightness, and opacity. Its pigment product is used in coatings, plastics, and paper, as well as various specialty products, such as inks, food, and cosmetics. The company also offers electrolytic manganese dioxide, which is used as active cathode material for alkaline batteries; lithium manganese dioxide that is used as rechargeable battery material; sodium chlorate for the pulp and paper industry; boron trichloride, a specialty chemical gas, which is used in various products, including pharmaceuticals, semiconductors, high-performance fibers, specialty ceramics, and epoxies; and elemental boron that is used in igniter formulations for defense, pyrotechnic, and air bag industries.

Williams Partners L.P. engages in gathering, transporting, processing, and treating natural gas, as well as fractionating and storing natural gas liquids (NGL) in the United States. Its natural gas liquids result from natural gas processing and crude oil refining and are used as petrochemical feedstocks, heating fuels, and gasoline additives. The company’s Gathering and Processing segment provides natural gas gathering, transporting, processing, and treating services to customers under contractual arrangements. As of December 31, 2008, it owned an approximate 3,800-mile natural gas gathering system, including three natural gas processing plants and two natural gas treating plants located in the San Juan Basin in Colorado and New Mexico; an approximate 1,800-mile natural gas gathering system comprising a natural gas processing plant located in the Washakie Basin in Wyoming; an integrated natural gas gathering and transportation pipeline system extending from offshore in the Gulf of Mexico to a natural gas processing plant and a NGL fractionator in Louisiana; and an unregulated sour gas gathering pipeline consisting of approximately 34 miles of pipeline off the coast of Alabama. The company’s NGL Services segment provides natural gas liquids fractionation and storage services. It operated three integrated NGL storage facilities, and had a 50% interest in an NGL fractionator located in Conway, Kansas. Williams Partners GP LLC serves as the general partner of the company. Williams Partners L.P. was founded in 2005 and is based in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Japan's oldest paint company is also its largest. Founded in 1881, Nippon Paint produces paints and coatings for makers of automobiles (one of the company's major markets), industrial products, and ships. It also makes paints for residential and commercial buildings and for the do-it-yourself market. Nippon Paint's fine chemicals unit produces adhesives, as well as surface treatment chemicals. The company's manufacturing operations are located principally in Asia, but also in North America and Europe. In the US, Nippon Paint makes automotive coatings and powder coatings through Nippon Paint (USA). The influx of auto makers into China bodes well for the company's already strong automotive division.

Where would we be without the squeegee? Ettore Products doesn't want to know. The company's founder, Ettore Steccone, designed and patented the modern squeegee in 1936. Ettore also makes a variety of other cleaning items such as window sponges, extendable automobile scrub brushes, dusters, floor squeegees, and scrapers, all of which can be found at hardware and do-it-yourself stores such as Ace, Home Depot, Lowe's, Sears, and Sutherland Lumber. The company manufactures its products at its 35,000 sq. ft. headquarters in Oakland, California, and has international locations in China and the Netherlands.

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