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Depending on plastic for a living can be a bad thing if you're talking about credit cards. For Arkema UK, though, plastic brings it a nice living. The British operations of diversified chemicals maler Arkema, it manufactures all manner of raw materials for plastics (polypropylene, polystyrene, and so on), fertilizers (additives under the brand name Fluidiram), water treatment chemicals (bleach, bactericides, chlorinated chemicals), among others. In addition to marketing and distributing its parent's products, Arkema UK maintains its own manufacturing facility, which produces perlite; Arkema subsidiary Altuglas -- maker of acrylic glass products -- also operates in the UK.

One can get wrapped up in the chemical products produced by Asahi Kasei Spandex Europe and not have to worry about rehab. The company, a subsidiary of Asahi Kasei's fibers unit, produces manmade fibers under the brand name Dorlastan that are used in apparel, paper machine clothing, fishing line, and zippers. It had been a part of LANXESS, and before that of Bayer MaterialScience, until Asahi Kasei acquired the company in 2006. It was called Dorlastan Fibers until its new parent changed its name in 2007; prior to that name change, it was called Bayer Faser until the summer of 2004, when it took the name of its best-known product brand.

Victims of biological attacks and cow udders alike have reason to be grateful to Avon Rubber. The company custom-engineers polymers for a variety of applications, including respirators and gas masks for defense applications and liners and tubes for milking dairy cows. In addition, Avon Rubber supplies much of the world's milking inflation products. The company also makes skirting for hovercraft and fendering products for marine transportation. Its Bell Avon unit makes products such as temporary fuel or water storage tanks. Avon Rubber was founded in 1885.

Axion International Holdings, Inc. develops structural building products from recycled consumer and industrial plastics in the United States. Its structural building products include railroad crossties, bridge infrastructure, marine pilings, and bulk heading. The company also offers fire retardants used for wood, metal, and plastic surfaces. In addition, Axion International Holdings develops structural composite I-beams, and tongue and groove planking products. It markets its products to railroad industry and military, as well as industrial engineering and contracting firms. The company was founded in 2006 and is based in Basking Ridge, New Jersey.

Bayer MaterialScience's parent company, the Bayer Group, may no longer get most of its money from chemicals and plastics but the unit's share isn't exactly immaterial. Though MaterialScience now ranks behind the health care division of the German conglomerate, with 120 sites throughout the world it still accounts for more than a third of Bayer's annual sales. MaterialScience makes raw materials for adhesives and coatings; it also manufactures plastics, films, and resins. Its products are marketed to the automotive, construction, footwear, sports, and textiles industries, among others.

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