A shot of Vitamin K helps farmers grow bigger and better crops. Uralkali is one of the world's top producers of potash, a form of potassium carbonate commonly used as a fertilizer. The company produces 5 million tons of potash per year, or 10% of the world's supply. (Canada's PotashCorp leads the way with 10 million tons, or 20%.) Uralkali operates two mines in Russia and five production plants. The company makes about two-thirds of its total sales to just Brazil and China. Uralkali was founded in 1930 by the Russian government and privatized in 1992. In 2007 it became the country's first public chemical company.

Champion Technologies produces specialty chemicals that help companies in the oil and gas industry withstand surface equipment problems such as internal pipe corrosion and flow assurance. The company's chemicals also are used in water-oil separation. Its manufacturing facilities are located in North America and Europe, with blending facilities located throughout the world. Special Products, a division of Champion Technologies, is a supplier of base chemicals for use in oilfield cementing, drilling, refining, and stimulation. Its Champion Environmental Technologies focuses on products that combat environmental damage from underwater drilling. The company is a subsidiary of Permian Mud Service.

Callahan Chemical carries chemicals to creators of coatings, cleaners, and cosmetics. The distribution company's chemicals are also used in inks, adhesives, personal care products, pharmaceuticals, and vitamin products. Product categories include antimicrobials, silicones, solvents, urethanes, surfactants, humectants, preservatives, and specialty resins. The company's suppliers include Dow Chemical, Eastman Chemical, Rhodia, and Stepan. Callahan transports products from four warehouses in the northeastern US and Puerto Rico; it also offers packaging and blending services.

Ashland Hercules Water Technologies will get your water clean even if it means tossing some chemicals into it. The company offers both chemical and non-chemical products that help keep industrial and commercial processing facilities and equipment flowing freely and working efficiently. It produces water treatment additives, polymers, and surfactants; treatments for boiler and water cooling systems; and cleaning chemicals for the marine industry. It also serves customers worldwide in the food processing, mining, pulp and paper, and wastewater industries. Ashland Hercules Water Technologies is a business unit of Ashland, which expanded it greatly with the 2008 acquisition of Hercules.

Meghmani Organics is a leading producer of pesticide chemicals used by pesticide manufacturers and pigments used by manufacturers of printing ink, plastics, paint, textiles and leather, paper, and rubber. The company's customers are primarily multinational corporations and include Ciba Holding, Flint Ink, and FMC Agricultural Products. More than 50% of its pesticide products and over 80% of its pigment products are exported. The company was founded in 1986 and has offices in Belgium, China, and the US.

ITOCHU Chemicals America Inc. (ICAI) has strong vendor and customer partnerships with large corporations and small companies alike. ICAI utilizes the resources of ITOCHU Corporation, a $28+ billion Fortune Global 500 company. Additionally, ICAI works closely with chemical related companies under the ITOCHU umbrella including: ITOCHU Chemical Frontier, ITOCHU Plastics, and ITOCHU Techno-Chemical. These strong relationships provide a solid foundation for ICAI to be competitive in the markets it serves. Effective sales channels, market knowledge, technical expertise, and efficient systems are just some of the benefits of working with ICAI.

When you need some crimson -- or any other color, for that matter -- Cloverdale Paint hopes you come straight to them. The paint and coatings manufacturer maintains more than 100 retail stores and a network of dealer outlets across Western Canada and the Pacific Northwest. Cloverdale Paint also manufactures architectural and industrial maintenance products. In recent years, Cloverdale has expanded by acquiring US-based rival Rodda Paint and the Canadian Guertin Coatings; both companies continue to operate as independent subsidiaries. The company has four manufacturing facilities. Cloverdale Paint was founded in 1933.

A blow-by-blow account of EPC United Kingdom's affairs are explosive -- literally. The company has three primary units: explosives (ammonium nitrate, detonators and blasting accessories, nitroglycerin, slurry explosives), additives (fuel additives), and blasting services (environmental impact analysis, consulting, drilling, and supervision). The company, formerly called Exchem, is part of the EPC Groupe (Soci鴩 Anonyme d'Explosifs et de Produits Chimique, or EPC) and is a top commercial blasting company in the UK. Its explosives are used in shotholes in quarries, civil engineering tunnels, and deep mines.

ASHTA Chemicals Inc. opened its corporate offices in Ashtabula, Ohio in 1992, although, under previous owners, this site has been operating since the early 1960's. Since then, ASHTA management has taken a number of steps which positioned the company for profitable growth. These steps include the purchase of Olin's potassium products business in 1993, designing and implementing a closed loop, zero discharge water treatment system for this Lake Erie site in 1994-5, and construction of a new potassium carbonate plant in 1995. In sales and marketing, our focus is on markets and products which provide sustained, profitable growth for our core potassium hydroxide chemistry. Additionally, our product distribution system was significantly expanded in 1998 to provide ample product in key chemical markets. From Ashtabula, we service our customers from six production sites, 19 liquid terminals, and 5 warehouses, strategically located in the United States and Canada.

Honeywell Specialty Materials, based in Morristown, N.J., is a global leader in providing customers with high-performance specialty materials, including fluorine products; specialty films and additives; advanced fibers and composites; intermediates; specialty chemicals; electronic materials and chemicals; and technologies and materials for petroleum refining. With research and development facilities around the world, including labs in Germany, New York, California and Shanghai, Honeywell Specialty Materials is on the cutting edge in several sectors of the chemical and high-performance materials industry.At Honeywell Specialty Materials, we view Responsible Care® as the foundation of environmental, health and safety excellence in our business. We incorporate health, safety and environment (HSE) management systems into all phases of the chemical life cycle. Our commitment to continuous HSE performance improvement is evident at our facilities around the world – it is the way we do business. Honeywell Specialty Materials employs approximately 10,000 people at more than 80 manufacturing and sales facilities worldwide.

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