Inabata & Co. is all over the map, literally and figuratively. The company has operations in such varied segments as information technology and electronics, housing materials, chemicals, plastics, and food, offering its products around the world. The company produces IT and electronic goods including flat panel displays, copiers and printers, while its chemical products include dyestuffs, paper chemicals, paint, ink, and adhesives. Offerings in the plastics segments include resins, performance plastics, and packaging materials. Inabata also supplies seafood, agricultural, and meat products to commercial clients worldwide.

Anderol thanks its lucky stars for all those pesky environmentalists that have many chemical companies running scared. The trend away from petroleum-based fluids fits the company's plans perfectly. Anderol's synthetic lubricants are used in gas engines and compressors and as hydraulic fluids and food-grade lubricants. The company is based in New Jersey and has operations worldwide, including Venezuela, Italy, the Netherlands, Japan, China, and Canada. It became a subsidiary of Chemtura in 2007 when the specialty chemicals giant acquired its parent company, Kaufman Holdings, which also controls synthetic lubricants producer Hatco.

From poisoning garden pests to exfoliating dry skin, Lonza puts itself in the middle of things. As the US operations of its parent company, Lonza accounts for about a third of the Lonza Group's $2.5 billion in annual sales. While Lonza doesn't actually make consumer products, the company provides chemical ingredients and intermediates for the personal care, water treatment, pharmaceutical, and plastics industries, from its nine manufacturing and R&D locations throughout the US.

The Dead Sea has given life to Israel Chemicals Limited (ICL). That body of water is rich in bromine, potash, salt, and magnesium -- minerals that ICL turns into specialty and agrochemicals, among other products. Bromine commonly is used in flame retardants, and potash is a common fertilizer. The company accounts for a third of the world's bromine production and 10% of the world's potash. It is also a major producer of magnesium. Although most of the company's chemicals are produced in Israel (from the Dead Sea), it also mines for fertilizers in Spain and the UK. Investment firm Israel Corporation, controlled by The Ofer Group, owns 53% of ICL.

Chemspec International Limited, through its subsidiaries, engages in the manufacture and sale of chemical compounds in the People’s Republic of China. It offers fluorinated specialty chemicals that are used in the manufacture of thin film transistor liquid crystal displays, and other electronics products, such as semiconductors. The company also supplies fluorinated specialty chemicals to pharmaceutical companies for use in various drugs, such as anti-depressants, diabetes medications, antibiotics, and pain killers; and to agrochemical companies. It sells its products directly to end users, as well as to trading companies. The company was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Shanghai, the People’s Republic of China.

Minerals Technologies Inc. develops, produces, and markets a range of specialty mineral, mineral-based, and synthetic mineral products, as well as supporting systems and services worldwide. The company operates in two segments, Specialty Minerals and Refractories. The Specialty Minerals segment engages in the production and sale of synthetic mineral product precipitated calcium carbonate and processed mineral product quicklime, and mines mineral ores, as well as processes and sells natural mineral products, including limestone and talc. This segment’s products are primarily used in the paper, building materials, paint and coatings, glass, ceramic, polymer, food, automotive, and pharmaceutical industries. The Refractories segment manufactures and markets monolithic and shaped refractory materials, and specialty products; services, application, and measurement equipment; and calcium metal and metallurgical wire products. Its products are primarily used in high-temperature applications in the steel, non-ferrous metal, and glass industries. The company markets its products through a direct sales force and distributors. Minerals Technologies Inc. was founded in 1968 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

When the kids (or coworkers) track in a hill of dirt from the yard, Hillyard is around to help clean up. The company manufactures and distributes cleaning solutions and supplies, from carpet and gym-floor cleaners to toilet-bowl detergents and air fresheners. Hillyard not only makes the cleaners but also moves them around North America through a network of distributors that spans the US and much of Canada. Among the company's larger customers are manufacturing and consumer products giants the likes of Georgia-Pacific, 3M, and Rubbermaid. Hillyard was formed by N. S. Hillyard in 1907.

Brenntag North America can hook you up. One of the largest chemical distributors in North America, the company offers hundreds of industrial and specialty chemicals -- from acetic acid to zinc oxide -- and provides custom blending and packaging of chemicals in dry, liquid, or gaseous states. Customers include manufacturers in such industries as chemicals, pharmaceuticals, paints, electronics, pulp and paper, cosmetics, food and beverages, textiles, and water treatment. European private equity group BC Partners owns Brenntag, and thus Brenntag North America.

TIC Gums was established in 1909 and is operated by the third generation of the Andon family, which has owned the company since 1949. While TIC Gums doesn't spend the day blowing bubbles, its gums are found in everything from donut glaze to hand lotion. The company is a leading US provider of hydrocolloids (thickeners) used in cosmetics, food (including chewing gum), and pharmaceuticals. Products -- including agar; carrageenan; guar gum; and pectin in powder, spray, and "pre-hydrated" forms -- are shipped to customers worldwide. The company has agents and stock locations in Asia, Australia, Europe, South America, and North America.

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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