TRInternational (TRI) tries its best to be an exemplary chemical distributorship. The company distributes all manner of chemicals and raw materials from locations worldwide. Industries served include adhesives, concrete, cosmetics, food and beverage, paint and coatings, and pharmaceuticals. TRI has its headquarters in Seattle and branch offices in Chicago, Newark, and Oakland. It also has an office in Shanghai, China. The company maintains warehouses in Asia, Europe, and the US, and ships its products to Australia, Canada, Mexico, South Africa, South America, and Sri Lanka. The bulk of its products are sold in the US. TRInternational is owned by CEO Anthony Riddell.

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.

With an annual capacity of over 400 million pounds, Washington Penn Plastic Co., Inc. is the largest compounder of custom polyolefins in North America. We have been providing material solutions to our customers for over 45 years. Today, we offer mineral-filled and glass-reinforced polypropylene compounds that compete with higher cost engineering resins. We supply thermoplastic olefin compounds that offer a complete range of strength, toughness, and flexibility.All of our custom compounds can be manufactured in natural or pre-colored to meet your specifications. We provide our customers with a wide variety of polypropylene and polyethylene neat resins. Finally, we produce color concentrates in hundreds of custom colors as well as post-consumer recycled polypropylene and polyethylene materials. At Washington Penn Plastic Co., Inc., we are driven by the needs of our customers. Our goal is to deliver cost effective material solutions with industry leading speed, quality, and reliability.

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.

Denki Kagaku Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha's name is as complicated as some of the chemicals it manufactures. The company, which is the Denka Group primary subsidiary, operates four business segments: organic materials, inorganic materials, electronic products, and functional materials and processed products. It makes products such as fertilizers, synthetic rubber, cement additives for construction and cement production, polyvinyl chloride (PVC) and vinyl acetate resins used to produce synthetic rubber and plastics, and semiconductor-related electronic materials (including styrene resins used in semiconductor chips).

New Japan Chemical is an old hand in the laboratory. The company researches and manufactures a variety of oleochemicals such as fatty acids, glycerin, and fatty alcohols as well as other chemical products like epoxy resins, plasticizers, and solvents. Its chemicals are used by other manufacturers in the preparation of personal care and other household products. New Japan Chemical operates from four manufacturing facilities throughout Japan and has subsidiaries elsewhere in Asia and the UK. The company, established in 1919, began by selling hydrogen and oxygen it made through electrolysis of water.

Canada's good for more than just sketch comedy and hockey; it also makes quite a lot of specialty chemicals. Celanese Canada is the Canadian subsidiary of specialty chemicals maker Celanese. The company makes basic chemicals, polymers, polypropylene films, and food ingredients. The company operates two emulsion facilities in Quebec and Ontario. Celanese shuttered a formaldehyde production plant in 2004 and then did the same with its line of acetate products by 2007.

Compass Minerals International, Inc., through its subsidiaries, engages in the production and marketing of inorganic mineral products in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. The company operates in two segments, Salt and Specialty Fertilizer. The Salt segment produces salt and magnesium chloride for use in road deicing and dust control, food processing, water softeners, pool salt, and agricultural and industrial applications. This segment also purchases potassium chloride and sells as a finished product. The Specialty Fertilizer segment produces and markets potash crop nutrients and industrial grade sulfate of potash, which are used in the production of specialty fertilizers for vegetables, fruits, tea, potatoes, nuts, tobacco, and turf grass. The company operates a rock salt mine located in Goderich, Ontario; and the salt mine located in Winsford, the United Kingdom. It primarily serves producers of intermediate chemical products used in the production of vinyls and other chemicals, and pulp and paper, as well as water treatment and other industrial uses. The company markets its products through a direct sales force, and a network of brokers. It was formerly known as Salt Holdings Corporation and changed its name to Compass Minerals International, Inc. in November 2003. Compass Minerals International was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in Overland Park, Kansas.

Wynn's company was founded in 1939 and is a unit of Illinois Tool Works (ITW). The products made by Wynn's have been to the moon and featured in Steve Martin's The Jerk. Wynn's develops, manufactures, and markets specialty chemical products and automotive service equipment. The company's lubricating oils reduce friction in car engines and NASA rockets alike. Wynn's products include engine oil, coolants, transmission and brake fluids, and HVAC chemicals. In addition to US business, Wynn's reach extends to Asia, Australia, Europe, and Latin America.

Bri-Chem Corp. is Western Canada's leading wholesale distributor of drilling fluids and steel products to the energy industry. Bri-Chem Corp. sells over 150 different products in a wide variety of weights and clays, as well as various diameter steel pipe, tubing and casing particular to the oil and gas fields in Western Canada and parts of the United States. In addition, the Company also distributes these products to non-oilfield related industries such as mining, industrial and construction industries.

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