Formosa Plastics Corp., U.S.A., is the prince of PVC. Affiliated with Taiwan's Formosa Plastics Corporation (one of the world's largest PVC suppliers), the company produces all manner of petrochemicals and plastic resins. Its product roster includes polyethylene, polypropylene, vinyl, and chlor alkali products like caustic soda. The company also produces suspension and specialty PVC resins, the former for pipe and fencing, the latter for flooring and insect screening. Other Formosa products are used for packaging and chemical processing. The fully vertically integrated company operates three manufacturing locations that are fed raw materials by oil and gas-producing and transportation subsidiaries.

Since the establishment of ZEON Corporation in 1950, ZEON have consistently taken advantage of our original technologies and created numerous unique products that cannot be imitated by any other company. ZEON intend to continue contributing to society through our world-class technologies and products, with particular emphasis on responding rapidly and valuing open communication. ZEON produces a number of other related chemicals, including C5 petroleum resins and thermoplastic elastomers. Its Specialty Materials business unit manufactures chemicals for fragrances, flavors, and pharmaceuticals; specialty plastics; and information materials. ZEON also makes include PVC products.

Advanced Composites Group (ACG) makes composite materials (plastics and carbon fiber) used as coating materials on telecommunication products (satellite receivers), automobiles, and boats. Additionally, ACG's products are used in pattern, tooling, and component manufacturing by the aerospace and defense, automotive, communications, and sports industries. Its manufacturing facilities are located in the UK and South Africa. ACG is part of the Composite Structural Materials subsidiary of UK industrial distribution company UMECO, which acquired Advanced Composites Group in 2004.

Albemarle Corporation engages in the development, manufacture, and marketing of engineered specialty chemicals. It operates in three segments: Polymer Additives, Catalysts, and Fine Chemicals. The Polymer Additives segment offers brominated, mineral, and phosphorus flame retardants that are used in plastic enclosures for consumer electronics, printed circuit boards, wire and cable, electrical connectors, textiles, foam insulation, and foam seating in furniture and automobiles. This segment also produces plastic and other additives, such as curatives, antioxidants, and stabilizers. The Catalysts segment provides refinery catalysts, including hydroprocessing catalysts, fluidized catalytic cracking catalysts, and additives; and polyolefin catalysts comprising aluminum and magnesium-alkyls, which are used as co-catalysts, as well as metallocene/single-site catalysts that aid in the development and production of new polymers.The Fine Chemicals segment offers performance chemicals, including elemental bromine, alkyl bromides, inorganic bromides, and various bromine fine chemicals, which are used in various industrial applications; and tertiary amines for surfactants, biocides, disinfectants, and sanitizers; potassium and chlorine-based products that are used in industrial applications; alkenyl succinic anhydride for paper-sizing formulations; and aluminum oxides that are used in various refractory, ceramic, and polishing applications. This segment also engages in fine chemistry services business, which offers custom manufacturing, research, and chemical scale-up services for companies. The company provides its products and services to manufacturers of consumer electronics, building and construction materials, automotive parts, packaging, pharmaceuticals and agrichemicals, and petroleum refiners in the United States and internationally. Albemarle Corporation was founded in 1993 and is based in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Mexican conglomerate Alfa is a big player in four different industry segments. Alpek, a global petrochemical concern with an emphasis on synthetic fibers (Akra Polyester, DAK Americas, Nyltek, Indelpro, PTAL, Temex) accounts for about 40% of sales. Alfa's other operations consist primarily of refrigerated-foods manufacturer and distributor Sigma Alimentos (Yoplait yogurt, Oscar Mayer), aluminum auto part maker Nemak (engine heads and blocks), and telecom company Alestra. Alfa has alliances with more than 20 companies (such as AT&T, Ford, and Kraft) around the world. It operates more than 75 production facilities throughout the Americas, Asia, and Europe, though Mexico provides almost half of its sales.

Hoping to cushion its parent companies' rides through a bumpy economy, Americas Styrenics combines the styrene operations of Dow Chemical and Chevron Phillips Chemical (CP Chem). The 50-50 joint venture makes styrene monomer and a number of polystyrene resins. Its products go into the obvious (packaging and foam peanuts) and the unlikely (envelope windows and lighting applications). Americas Styrenics operates eight manufacturing facilities throughout the US and in Brazil and Colombia. It is the #1 producer of polystyrene and the #2 maker of styrene in the Western Hemisphere.

Arch Chemicals, Inc., a biocides company, provides chemistry-based and related solutions to destroy and control the growth of harmful microbes in the United States and internationally. Its Treatment Products segment manufactures and sells chlorine-based and non-chlorine-based products and equipment for the sanitization and treatment of residential and commercial pool and spa water, drinking water, and water used in industrial applications. It also offers personal care and industrial biocides that control dandruff on the scalp and the growth of micro-organisms, such as fungi and algae; and biocides for anti-bacterial applications. In addition, this segment produces wood treatment chemical solutions that protect wood against rot, fungal decay, or termites and other insects; and provides industrial or consumer-applied products for the surface decoration and protection of wood, including stains, polyester-based, and polyurethane-based coatings, and water-based coatings.The company’s Performance Products segment manufactures and sells urethane intermediate products, such as specialty polyols, which are used as ingredients for elastomers, adhesives, coatings, sealants, and rigid foam; glycols and glycol ethers for use as ingredients in cleaners, personal care products, and antifreeze; and flexible polyols. This segment also supplies hydrazine hydrates and hydrazine derivatives used as chemical blowing agents, water treatment chemicals, agricultural products, and pharmaceutical intermediates, as well as for use as fuel in satellites, expendable launch vehicles, and auxiliary and emergency power units. Arch Chemicals, Inc. serves pool and spa retailers, consumer product companies, big box retailers, furniture manufacturers, chemical and equipment distributors, wood treaters, sawmills, other chemical manufacturers, and the United States’ government. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Norwalk, Connecticut.

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.

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