Breen wants to inject some color into things. Breen Color Concentrates formulates and manufactures custom plastic colorants, primarily for blow molders of consumer packaging, extrusion and injection molders, and wire and cable manufacturers. It also provides application assistance, custom packaging and labeling, and analysis certification. Breen Color Concentrates serves customers throughout North America. The company was founded in 1976 and acquired by investment firm Spell Capital Partners (through another plastics company it owns, PVC Compounders) in 2007. It joins a stable of six plastics companies Spell has recently acquired.

CECO Environmental Corp. provides air pollution control products and services primarily in the United States. It engineers, designs, builds, and installs systems that capture, clean, and destroy contaminants from industrial facilities; and equipment that controls emissions from industrial facilities. The company operates in four divisions: Contracting, Equipment, Components/Parts, and Engineering/Design. The Contracting division offers dust collectors, oil mist collectors, chip conveyance systems, air houses, and conveyors, as well as engages in custom sheet metal fabrication.The Equipment division provides regenerative thermal oxidation, catalytic and thermal oxidation, and selective and regenerative catalytic reduction solutions; and dampers, expansion joints, fiber-bed filter mist collectors, catenary grid and narrow gap, replacement filters, repack services, heavy duty air handling and conditioning solutions, fume exhaust systems, air-curtain hoods, strip/coil coolers and dryers, pulsejet bag houses, reverse air bag houses, pulsejet cartridge and fabric filters, flue gas coolers, exhaust treatment systems, and foundry sand reclamation equipment. It also offers industrial and FCC cyclones, air classifiers, scrubbers, electrostatic precipitators, medial filtration, and pneumatic conveying and industrial ventilation solutions.The Components/Parts division offers component parts for industrial air systems and clamp-together componentized ducting systems. The company serves aerospace, brick, cement, ceramics, metalworking, ethanol, printing, paper, food, foundries, power plants, metal plating, woodworking, chemicals, glass, tobacco, automotive, ethanol, and pharmaceutical industries. CECO Environmental Corp. was founded in 1966 and is headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio.

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).

Euro Tech Holdings Company Limited, through its subsidiaries and associated companies, engages in marketing and trading air, water, and waste water related process control, analytical, and testing instruments, as well as disinfection equipment and related automation systems. The company distributes a range of advanced air and water pollution control equipment, chlorination equipment, laboratory instruments, analyzers, test kits, and related supplies; and power generation related equipment, including recorders and power quality analyzers.It also manufactures air and water analytical instruments and testing equipment, as well as undertakes air, water, and waste-water treatment engineering projects. Euro Tech primarily sells its products through its retail shops and representative offices, as well as through independent sub-distributors to commercial customers, governmental agencies, or instrumentalities in Hong Kong, the People’s Republic of China, and Macau. The company was founded in 1971 and is headquartered in Hong Kong, Hong Kong.

EMCO Chemical Distributors has developed a special chemistry with its Midwest manufacturing customers. The company distributes chemicals that include acids, alcohols, surfactants, solvents, and other industrial and specialty chemicals. Its custom packaging facility provides contract blending and packaging services and concentrates on filling orders for hazardous chemicals. Long situated solely in Chicago, EMCO has in recent years opened new facilities in Minneapolis/St. Paul; Kenosha, Wisconsin; and suburban St. Louis. Its waste services division supplies processed non-hazardous waste to Covanta's New York waste-to-energy facility. President, CEO, and owner Edward Polen founded EMCO in 1971.

According to Firmenich International, Prunella is "fruity" while Dorinia is "floral" -- all part of the business of creating chemical flavors and fragrances. With operations worldwide, Firmenich produces flavors and fragrances for perfumes, cosmetics, foods and beverages, and household products. It ranks among the world leaders in flavors and fragrances along with International Flavors & Fragrances and Givaudan and has about 15% of market share. Firmenich operates about 20 manufacturing sites and maintains three R&D facilities located in China, Switzerland, and the US. The company has been owned and operated by the Firmenich family since the late 19th century.

AptarGroup, Inc. designs, manufactures, and sells product dispensing systems. It operates in three segments: Beauty & Home, Closures, and Pharma. The Beauty & Home segment primarily sells pumps and aerosol valves, and accessories to the personal care, household, and food/beverage markets; pumps and decorative components to the fragrance/cosmetic market; and fragrance/cosmetic and personal care fine mist spray pumps, personal care lotion pumps, and continuous spray aerosol valves. The Closures segment provides dispensing closures and non-dispensing closures primarily to the personal care, food/beverage, and household markets. The Pharma segment offers pumps and metered dose inhaler valves for allergy, cold, or flu treatments to the pharmaceutical market. The company sells and markets its products through sales force, independent representatives, and distributors in the United States, Europe, Argentina, Brazil, Canada, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Mexico, and Thailand. AptarGroup, Inc. was founded in 1992 and is based in Crystal Lake, Illinois.

Van Diest Supply Company has tied itself up with a corn belt. The agricultural chemical distributor and maker sells its wares under the Corn Belt Products brand name. Those wares include herbicides, pesticides, adjuvants (which enhance the properties of herbicides and pesticides), and spray drift management products (which keep the herbicides and pesticides where they're intended to be and not drifting off to harm the surrounding environment). With a fleet of about 200 trucks and pickups, Van Diest ships its products from about a dozen distribution centers spread throughout an 18-state area of the Midwest. The family-operated company was founded by president Bob Van Diest in 1956.

Mary, Mary, quite contrary, how does your garden grow? Silver (recycled) from X-rays and photowaste turns plants green all in a row. Itronics operates its two business segments through subsidiaries. Itronics Metallurgical recycles photochemicals and turns the results into its GOLD'n GRO animal repellent and liquid fertilizer. GOLD'n GRO products are sold primarily in the western US. Another subsidiary, Whitney & Whitney, provides mineral planning and technical services (mineral economics, geologic studies, and project management services) to the mining industry.

The Unitika Group got its start in 1889, with the founding of Amagasaki Spinners, a historic first step in the start of Japan's textile industry. When the company changed its name to Dainippon Spinners in 1918, it was already helping to support the Japanese fiber industry as one of Japan's three largest textile makers. In 1969, the company merged with Nippon Rayon and the new company became known as Unitika. Today, Unitika's fiber and textile business and the dynamic array of its other business activities are made possible by the interactions among all the Group members. As Unitika continues to evolve into the future, its wealth of experience is an asset shared throughout the Group.At the Unitika Group, we are reinforcing our corporate constitution and enhancing our corporate value in accordance with our management principle of "contributing to the good of society by connecting people's lives and technologies." As an advanced material manufacturer, we engage in an extensive range of businesses: manufacture of films, resins, nonwoven fabrics and other polymer or synthetic fiber materials, glass fiber and other highly functional materials, all based on our original polymer technologies developed over many years; and in environment- and biotechnology-related businesses. Through these activities, we seek to become a company with a strong social presence that contributes to people's lives and to the natural environment. This is in fact our management vision.

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