Osmose has its way. The company makes wood preservatives that repel water and termites, as well as inhibit the growth of mold. Among its consumer products are stains and water repellants; the company also makes preservatives for lumber and plywood. For railroads, Osmose produces preservatives for railroad ties and offers maintenance services. It also provides pole maintenance services and mobile communications software for utilities. Beginning in the mid-1990s the company began to focus on expanding internationally and now has operations in Canada, Latin America, Europe, and throughout the Asia/Pacific region.

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.

Headquartered in France with operations in more than 70 countries, state-owned SNPE has its fingers in a lot of pies: energetic materials (propellants for car airbags and propulsion for rockets); fine chemicals for pharmaceutical, agrochemical, and other uses; and specialty chemicals used in such applications as explosives, inks, fuel additives, and nail polishes. SNPE's subsidiaries and operating units include Bergerac NC (specialty chemicals), Isochem (fine chemicals), and SNPE Mat鲩aux Energ鴩ques (energetic materials). That last unit also owns, with joint-venture partner MBDA , solid rocket motor maker Roxel.

TVK went from painting the town red to covering it in plastic(s). Tiszai Vegyi Kombinat Rt. (TVK) began as a factory commissioned to produce paint for the Soviet Union; today it manufactures petrochemicals, primarily olefins and polyolefins. TVK is Hungary's sole manufacturer of polyolefins and has 20% of Central Europe's petrochemical market share. The company sells its products -- ethylene, propylene, and their derivatives -- to small- and medium-sized plastics makers throughout Europe. TVK is majority owned by Hungary's largest company, oil biggie MOL Group.

They say you reap what you sow, and that's just fine with fertilizer company Hanfeng Evergreen. Through its operations in China, Hanfeng makes nitrogen and phosphate-based fertilizers for soybean, rice, corn, and wheat crops, as well as for lawns, trees, flowers, and other urban greenery. The company specializes in slow-release fertilizers, which unlike more traditional fertilizers, are coated or chemically altered for slow and controlled release into soil. It produces about 725,000 metric tons (or about 800,000 US tons) of fertilizer annually, targeting its products primarily to the growing agricultural market in China.

Pinnacle Polymers operates a polypropylene plant at the peak of performance. The company, from that one plant in Louisiana, sells its products throughout North America. Those products and services include injection molding, sheet and thermoforming, and fiber extrusion products. Pinnacle Polymers was founded in 1991 under the name Epsilon Products Company. Epsilon sold its Pennsylvania plant to Sunoco Chemicals in 2000, and the Lousiana operations became Pinnacle. Pinnacle Polymers became a part of French polypropylene company Polychim the following year.

Innophos Holdings, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, produces and sells specialty phosphates primarily in North America. The company offers specialty salts and specialty acids, such as sodium aluminum phosphate, sodium acid pyrophosphate, sodium hexametaphosphate, monocalcium phosphate, dicalcium phosphate, tricalcium phosphate, pharma calcium phosphate, ammonium phosphate, potassium phosphate, polyacid, and sodium tripolyphosphate. Its specialty salts are used as flavor enhancers in beverages, electrolytes in sports drinks, texture modifiers in cheeses, leavening agents in baked goods, calcium and phosphorus sources for nutritional supplements, and pharmaceutical excipients and abrasives in toothpastes; and specialty acids are used in industrial applications, such as asphalt modification and petrochemical catalysis.

Whether you need cleaner water or cleaner food, Hydrite Chemical has the solution. In addition to water treatment and food sanitation chemicals, Hydrite offers custom organic chemical processes, including esterification, polymerization, and the distillation of monomers. The company also manufactures sulfur chemicals and serves the pulp and paper, waste management, and food processing industries. Hydrite operates nine manufacturing plants and distributes its products throughout the Midwestern US. President John Honkamp and family control the company, which was founded in 1929.

Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd. began with the coming together of Nagano Prefecture's (Shinano-area) water and Niigata Prefecture's (Echigo-area) limestone. Nagano Prefecture's plentiful water give birth to electric power and the limestone that came from Niigata Prefecture was a key raw material, which was called, "Oyashirazu's great earth." Because of the presence of these two gifts of nature, Shin-Etsu Nitrogen Fertilizer Co., Ltd. was founded on September, 1926 to manufacture chemical fertilizer and limestone nitrogen.The history of Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd. began from this point.The company's "Shin" comes from Shinano and "Etsu" is taken from Echigo.

Charkit Chemical Corporation, first and foremost, we want to express gratitude to our long-term customers as well as our newer partners. After 27 years in business, this is the perfect time to thank you for the confidence you have placed in us. Today we are working together in a complex national and global business environment that is having its impact on every industry, affecting the way we conduct business and formulate the strategies to ensure continued success.

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