AEP Industries, Inc. manufactures plastic packaging films in North America. The company produces and markets various polyethylene, polyvinyl chloride, and polypropylene flexible packaging products for consumer, industrial, and agricultural applications. It offers custom and proformance films used for drum, box, carton, and pail liners; furniture and mattress bags; films to cover value products; barrier films; cheese films; and freezer grade bundle films. The company also provides stretch wrap; polyvinyl chloride wrap products used in food and freezer wrap; printed and converted films for various applications, including printed shrink films; and printed, laminated, and converted films for flexible packaging to consumer markets. In addition, it manufactures unplasticized polyvinyl chloride film for use in battery labels, twist films, credit card laminates, PVC films. AEP Industries, Inc. serves the packaging, transportation, beverage, food, automotive, pharmaceutical, chemical, electronics, construction, agriculture, and textile industries. The company was founded in 1970 and is based in South Hackensack, New Jersey.

Samsung Total Petrochemicals sticks to the basics. The company manufactures building block chemicals that go into the making of a host of other chemicals needed to make the stuff we can use. It starts with a naphtha cracker, yielding propylene and ethylene, which are the raw materials in the production of all manner of polymers. Samsung Total divides its operations in three: polymer production (polyethylene, polypropylene, high- and low-density polyethylene), base chemicals (selling the ethylene and propylene the company doesn't use itself, as well as aromatics used to make the materials that go into synthetic fibers), and petrochemicals like solvents and liquefied petroleum gases (propane, butane, etc.).

Faultless Starch/Bon Ami aims to keep you crisp, clean, and nicely scented. The company's product lines include the market-leading Faultless and Magic Sizing brand laundry starches, Bon Ami cleaners, Kleen King metal cleaners, the Garden Weasel and WeedPopper garden tools, and Trapp room sprays and candles. It also produces a line of starches and chemicals for the commercial laundry market. Although once in decline, the Bon Ami product line has enjoyed a rise in popularity as an environmentally friendly cleaner, while starch is on the rebound with the return of cotton in garments. Faultless Starch/Bon Ami has been owned and operated by the founding Beaham family since 1887.

Valhi, Inc is a Delaware corporation that has operations through majority-owned subsidiaries or less than majority-owned affiliates. Valhi’s common stock is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “VHI.” See the disclosure in Valhi’s latest Annual Report on Form 10-K, Quarterly Report on Form 10Q and Proxy Statement (see the SEC Filings section of this website) for a recent description of Valhi’s operations and ownership structure.Valhi Inc. is considered a controlled company under the listing standards of the New York Stock Exchange. Pursuant to the listing standards, a controlled company may choose not to have a majority of independent directors, independent compensation, nominating or corporate governance committees or charters for these committees. Valhi has chosen not to have a majority of independent directors or an independent nominating or corporate governance committee.

Evonik Degussa GmbH Company Profile Evonik Degussa's likes a chemical reaction, or a least a good reaction to its chemical products. The German giant operates as the chemical unit of Evonik Industries and groups those operations in a half dozen units. The largest division makes Industrial Chemicals like chlorides, peroxides, and propylene derivatives. Evonik Degussa's Inorganic Materials segment makes silicon products for solar energy applications and carbon black.

GreenShift Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, develops and commercializes clean technologies that facilitate the use of natural resources in the United States. It owns four corn oil extraction facilities in Oshkosh, Wisconsin; Medina, New York; Marion, Indiana; and Riga, Michigan. The company also owns a bio-diesel refinery located in Adrian, Michigan; and an oilseed crushing facility in Culbertson, Montana. GreenShift Corporation sells its corn oil as a feedstock for biofuel production or for direct use as biofuel. The company was formerly known as GS CleanTech Corporation and changed its name to GreenShift Corporation. GreenShift Corporation was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

I say, "potato chip." You say, "crisp." But we can all agree Pringles are sought after worldwide. Procter & Gamble Holdings UK, like its US parent The Procter & Gamble Company, manufactures and sells household care items (this includes its Pringles brand); beauty products (includes fragrances like Hugo Boss and Lacoste, cosmetic brand Max Factor, and skin care line Olay); and family health items (like Crest toothpaste and "disposable nappies" Pampers). Procter & Gamble operates more than a dozen locations in the UK, including administrative offices, technical centers, and manufacturing facilities. President Laurent Philippe succeeded Paul Polman, who retired in June 2005.

Treibacher Industries' chemical and metallurgy business is elemental. Its Steel and Foundry Products unit manufactures noble alloys like vanadium and molybdenum, while the Recycling division takes care of industrial metals that result as waste product from the first unit (recycling vanadium, nickel, and molybdenum). Treibacher's High Performance Materials division produces carbide powders used to manufacture tools and electrical parts, and the company's Rare Earths and Chemicals unit's products are used to manufacture batteries, electronics, ceramics, and catalysts. Treibacher has a subsidiary in Slovenia and a sales unit in Canada.

Good Home Company Company Profile The Good Home Company develops and markets natural fragrances and cleaning products for the body and home. It's products are sold nationally through major chain stores, specialty stores, and online. The Good Home Company's products are made using essential oils and natural ingredients. Chains stores selling Good Home Company products have included Nordstrom, Anthropologie, and Restoration Hardware. CEO Christine Dimmick founded the company in her New York City home kitchen in 1995.

Fuwei Films (Holdings) Co., Ltd., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the development, manufacture, and distribution of plastic film using the biaxial oriented stretch technique, otherwise known as BOPET film (biaxially oriented polyethylene terephthalate). The company offers printing base film used in printing and lamination; stamping foil base film used for packaging of luxury items; metallization film or aluminum plating base film used for vacuum aluminum plating for paper or flexible plastic lamination; and transfer base film used for environmental friendly cigarettes and alcohol packaging. It also provides high-gloss film used for aesthetically enhanced packaging purposes; heat-sealable film used for processed food packaging and other applications; laser holographic base film used as anti-counterfeit film for food, medicine, cosmetics, cigarettes, and alcohol packaging; and matte film used for printing, metallization, stamping, and transfer metallization.The company’s products are used in consumer based packaging, including the food, pharmaceutical, cosmetics, tobacco, and alcohol industries; imaging, such as masking film, printing plates, and microfilms; electronics and electrical industries consisting of wire and cable wrap, capacitors, and motor insulation; and magnetic products, such as audio and video tapes. Fuwei Films (Holdings) Co. markets its products under the Fuwei Films brand name primarily in the People’s Republic of China, Korea, the United States, Europe, and internationally. The company was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Weifang, the People’s Republic of China.

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