Sun Chemical Europe wants you to put a coat on -- preferably one its own. The company manufactures inks and coatings for everything from silk screening to food packaging to the printing industry. The European division of Dainippon Ink's Sun Chemical, the company maintains manufacturing facilities throughout the continent, operates in nearly 30 countries, and is headquartered in the UK. Among the brand names Sun Chemical Europe's products are marketed under are Coates Lorilleux, Hartmann, Gibbon, Swale, Kohl & Madden, and US Ink. The company's business is divided among the following units: packaging, publication, commercial, and industrial.

Dixie Chemical's products will make you feel better, eventually. The company produces specialty chemicals and intermediates that end up in food products and pharmaceuticals. It makes more than 60 products at its manufacturing facility in Texas, using processes such as synthesis, distillation, and hydrogenation. Dixie Chemical's products include epoxy agents for weapons and vehicles, trimethyl benzene for coatings and dyes, and ingredients for lubricants, industrial products, and paper products; they're sold in 40 countries worldwide. It also provides contract manufacturing, laboratory support, and project engineering services. Private equity group Glencoe Capital owns a majority interest in Dixie Chemical.

Though Incitec Pivot is Australia's largest producer of fertilizers, it plans to get even bigger by blowing things up. The company's main products are phosphate fertilizers (ammonium phosphates and superphosphates, primarily); it also produces urea and anhydrous ammonia. Incitec Pivot also manufactures industrial chemicals -- for water treatment and process manufacturing -- using by-products from the manufacturing process. The company was formed in 2003 through the merger of fertilizer makers Incitec and Pivot; Orica had owned 70% of Incitec Pivot until it sold that majority stake in 2006. Two years later Incitec Pivot bought explosives maker (and direct rival to Orica) Dyno Nobel for $3 billion.

Metabolix, Inc., a bioscience company, develops and commercializes alternatives to petrochemical-based plastics, chemicals, and energy. It applies metabolic engineering and molecular biology tools to produce biobased plastic in microbial systems and directly in non-food plant crops. The company offers its proprietary microbial fermentation system to produce a family of polymers known as polyhydroxyalkanoates under the Mirel name. Mirel is used for injection molding, cast sheet, cast and blown film applications, and thermoforming. It sells these bioplastic alternatives to petroleum-based plastics for use in a range of commercial applications, including products used in agriculture and horticulture, compost and organic waste diversion bags, marine and aquatic applications, consumer products, business equipment and durable goods, and general packaging materials. In addition, the company is also developing a proprietary platform technology for co-producing plastics, chemicals, and energy from crops, such as switchgrass, oilseeds, and sugarcane. It has a strategic alliance with ADM Polymer Corporation. The company was founded in 1992 and is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

OMNOVA Solutions, Inc. provides emulsion polymers, specialty chemicals, and decorative and functional surfaces for various commercial, industrial, and residential end uses primarily in the United States, Asia, and Europe. It operates in two segments, Performance Chemicals and Decorative Products. The Performance Chemicals segment produces a range of emulsion polymers and specialty chemicals based on styrene butadiene, styrene butadiene acrylonitrile, styrene butadiene vinyl pyridine, polyvinyl acetate, acrylic, styrene acrylic, vinyl acrylic, glyoxal, and fluorochemical chemistries. Its custom-formulated products are tailored for coatings, binders, and adhesives, which are used in paper, carpet, nonwovens, construction, adhesives, tape, tire cord, floor polish, textiles, graphic arts, plastic parts, and various other specialty applications.The Decorative Products segment develops, designs, produces, and markets a line of decorative and functional surfacing products, including commercial wallcoverings, coated and performance fabrics, vinyl, paper and specialty laminates, and performance films. Its products are used in various applications, including commercial building refurbishment, remodeling, and new construction; residential cabinets, flooring, and furnishings; transportation markets comprising school busses, marine, and automotive; and recreational vehicles, manufactured housing, and various industrial film applications. The company sells its products through internal marketing, sales, and technical service teams to manufacturers; through independent distributors to building owners, contractors, architects, interior designers, and other specifiers; and through agents to manufacturers of cabinets, furniture, seating, and other products. OMNOVA Solutions was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Fairlawn, Ohio.

Keeping things clean is all in a days work for Quadralene. The company distributes industrial cleaning chemicals, automotive cleaning products, and janitorial supplies throughout the UK. Brands include Quadramotive (cleaning materials for the automotive industry), Quadratech (cleaning products for laboratories and technical workspaces), and Quadrasafe (cleaning products for the food production and transportation industry). Its high-pressure cleaning products for vehicle preparation are made under the brand Quadramax. Quadralene also manufactures products tailored to individual customers' needs.

Soy -- not just a food substitute anymore. Evidently, it can be a chemical substitute as well. Franmar Chemical manufactures 100% biodegradable and recyclable soybean- and corn-based products for the restoration and remodeling, asbestos removal, screen-printing, industrial cleaning, boating, and consumer markets. Some brand names include Bean-e-doo adhesive remover, Kernel Clean surface and window cleaner, Ickee Stickee Unstuck Graffiti Remover, and Soy Smooth hand lotion. Customers of the environmentally responsible products include government agencies and foreign restoration companies. President Frank Sliney founded the company in 1983.

Fuel Tech, Inc. provides engineering solutions for the optimization of combustion systems in utility and industrial applications worldwide. It offers boiler optimization, and air pollution reduction and control solutions. The company operates in two segments, Air Pollution Control Technologies and FUEL CHEM Technologies. The Air Pollution Control Technologies segment includes the NOxOUT, NOxOUT CASCADE, GSG, NOxOUT ULTRA and NOxOUT-SCR processes, which reduce NOx emissions in flue gas from boilers, incinerators, furnaces, and other stationary combustion sources. The FUEL CHEM Technologies segment uses chemical processes to control slagging, fouling, corrosion, opacity, acid plume, as well as the formation of sulfur trioxide, ammonium bisulfate, particulate matter, carbon dioxide, and NOx in furnaces and boilers through the addition of specialty chemicals into the fuel or via TIFI Targeted In-Furnace Injection programs. It distributes its products through its direct sales force, licensees, and agents. The company was formerly known as Fuel Tech N.V. Fuel Tech, Inc. was founded in 1987 and is headquartered in Warrenville, Illinois.

In 2005 UWGP completed the construction of and began operating an ethanol facility that manufactures 40 million gallons of ethanol a year. It has since expanded the plant to a capacity of more than 50 million gallons. It's not going against the grain to turn farm crops into motor fuels. Certainly not for United Wisconsin Grain Producers (UWGP), which like many other agribusinesses in the Midwest and Great Plains, is pushing grain-based ethanol as a viable and renewable fuel additive. Ethanol is an alcohol fuel produced by fermenting converted starch from corn with yeast. Most ethanol is blended with unleaded gasoline and other fuel products.

One can get wrapped up in the chemical products produced by Asahi Kasei Spandex Europe and not have to worry about rehab. The company, a subsidiary of Asahi Kasei's fibers unit, produces manmade fibers under the brand name Dorlastan that are used in apparel, paper machine clothing, fishing line, and zippers. It had been a part of LANXESS, and before that of Bayer MaterialScience, until Asahi Kasei acquired the company in 2006. It was called Dorlastan Fibers until its new parent changed its name in 2007; prior to that name change, it was called Bayer Faser until the summer of 2004, when it took the name of its best-known product brand.

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