Solvay Indupa manufactures and distributes PVC (polyvinyl chloride) resin used in the manufacture of a broad range of industrial and consumers goods; end products include flooring, footwear, packaging materials, pipes, and coatings for wire and cable. The company produces its PVC, sold under the SolVin brand, as well as other chemical products (sodium hydroxide, hydrochloric acid, and hypochlorite) at plants in Argentina and Brazil. Solvay Indupa's annual output of PVC resin totals more than 260,000 tons. The company is a subsidiary of Brussels-based chemical and pharmaceutical maker Solvay Group.

NuCO2 puts tiny bubbles in the soda. Through a network of about 140 service centers throughout the nation, the company supplies liquid carbon dioxide (bulk CO2) for carbonating and dispensing fountain drinks, which differs from the traditional method of carbonation that uses high-pressure CO2. Its more than 130,000 customers include restaurants (Pizza Hut), retailers (Costco), convenience stores (7-Eleven), movie theaters (Loews Cineplex), and stadiums and arenas (Madison Square Garden). NuCO2's services include system installation and maintenance, product delivery, and technical support. Private equity firm Aurora Capital spent $485 million to acquire NuCO2 in 2008. The firm filed to go public in April 2010.

Enerchem International provides oilfield services and energy marketing. The company makes hydrocarbon-based well-servicing fluids for oil and gas drilling and processing equipment. It supplies conventional and heavy oil production plants, natural gas processing plants, pipelines, and compressor stations. Enerchem's Fracsol brand is one of the most widely used fracturing fluids. Its energy marketing activities include the sale of crude oil by-products from its plants. In 2005 the company sold its specialty chemicals operations to M-I Swaco's Canadian drilling fluids unit in order to concentrate on its hydrocarbon fluids business. The next year it bought energy industry transportation company Millard Trucking.

ShengdaTech, Inc. engages in manufacturing, marketing, and selling nano precipitated calcium carbonate (NPCC) products. The company converts limestone into NPCC using its proprietary technology co-developed with Tsinghua University. ShengdaTech operates in China. The company also exports its products to Singapore, Thailand, South Korea, Malaysia, Vietnam, India, and Israel. ShengdaTech, Inc. was founded in 2005 and is based in Tai’an City, China.

Sterling Chemicals, Inc. is a North American producer of selected petrochemicals used to manufacture a wide array of consumer goods and industrial products. Acetic acid is currently our primary product and we benefit from a long-term requirements contract with BP Amoco Chemical Company for this product. Our petrochemicals facility located in Texas City, TX, is strategically located on Galveston Bay and offers approximately 160 acres for future expansion by us, or by other companies that can benefit from our existing infrastructure, facilities, management and operations expertise.

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.

Montefibre helps keep the world in polyester. The company is among the world's leading acrylic fiber manufacturers; its other big product is polyester. The company also produces polymer and staple fibers and filament yarns, and it has developed an antibacterial acrylic fiber. Applications for the company's fibers include products like imitation fur, automobile carpeting, outdoor awnings, and sport socks. Montefibre produces its fibers at plants in China (a joint venture with Jilin Qifeng), Italy, and Spain. Orlandi Group owns a majority stake in Montefibre. The company was established in 1918 as La Soie de Chatillon and changed its name to Montefibre in 1972.

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.

CR Brands keeps cleaning brands fresh by acquiring and reviving them. Banking on the idea that one company's trash is another's treasure, CR Brands bought Oxydol and BIZ detergents from Procter & Gamble (P&G) in 2000. Co-founded by former P&G managers and chemical engineers, CR Brands believes that with fresh marketing it can jump-start sales of the 70-year-old Oxydol detergent that put the "soap" in soap opera with its sponsorship of radio programs in the 1930s. BIZ was introduced nationally in 1968. CR Brands makes and markets branded and private label heavy-duty cleaning products through grocery, discount, and dollar stores. Business development firm Allied Capital owns the company.

FUCHS PETROLUB keeps things running smoothly. The company is one of the world's leading independent manufacturers of automotive and industrial lubricants. Its products include engine and gear oils, metalworking fluids, metal forming lubricants, corrosion preventatives, quenching oils, biodegradable lubricants, and greases. The company also provides polishing pastes and tools as well as anti-freeze, mining products, and vaselines. FUCHS PETROLUB operates through about 40 production facilities and about 60 subsidiaries worldwide.

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