Start with a strong dose of analytical expertise in organic compounds, add more than a pinch of synthesis, and mix in high quality manufacturing operations. These are the key ingredients that ABITEC says make up its business. Enzyme producer ABITEC's services range from vegetable oil refining to customer-specific ingredients synthesis. In addition to emulsifiers for the food and flavor industries, the company makes oleochemical-based ethoxylates for industrial uses, emollients and emulsifiers for the personal care segment, and excipients for pharmaceutical companies. It is a part of the ingredients unit of Associated British Foods.

American Air Liquide. The company supplies industrial gases (oxygen, nitrogen, CO2, argon, etc.) to companies in the automotive, chemicals, food and beverage, and health care industries. The US distribution arm of industrial gas provider Air Liquide, the company can, depending on its customers' needs, it can manufacture onsite, ship its product in cylinders, or through 1,800 miles of pipeline. It operates 200 locations throughout the US, including 100 manufacturing facilities. American Air Liquide also fulfills semiconductor companies' gas and liquid chemical requirements from its own fabrication plants.

Nippon Synthetic Chemical Industry doesn't run a charity, but it does have a soup kitchen of sorts. The company, known as Nippon Gohsei, makes specialty polymer chemicals like Gohsenol, a polyvinyl alcohol that affects water solubility, and Soarnol, a resin for use with food packaging and fuel tanks. Its products fall into two categories -- acetyl and fine chemicals, and synthetic (functional and adhesive) resins including film -- used in the manufacture of consumer products. Nippon Gohsei creates vinyl resins, polymers, and liquefied acetylene that end up in agricultural, packaging, and electronic products. Mitsubishi Chemical owns more than a third of the company.

Chapelthorpe plc has one principal division, namely Fibres. The Fibres division supplies polypropylene fibre to the automotive, floor coverings, technical textiles, geotextitiles and home furnishings markets and has operations in the United Kingdom, Austria and the United States. In addition, the Company has a joint venture in the specialist coatings industry, suppliying vinyl coated paper and plastisol to the wall coverings industry. Management is committed to enhancing shareholder value through the continued development of the Group and by optimising the opportunities afforded by the key positions it has developed in its international markets.

In times of stress please watch your step around Adhesives Research's products; they're pressure-sensitive. The company manufactures pressure-sensitive adhesives for the medical (for wound care and IV attachments), electronics (used in the assembly stages for mobile devices, hard drives, etc.), industrial (automotive, glass treatment), and splicing (pulp and paper industry) markets. The company manufactures its products on a custom basis, working with customers worldwide. It operates technical design and manufacturing facilities in Colombia, Ireland, and the US. Adhesives Research was founded in 1961 by chairman Erwin Huber.

Occidental Chemical (OxyChem) manufactures basic chemicals, vinyls, and performance chemicals. The company is the top US maker of chlorine and caustic soda (used in bleach, plastics, and pulp and paper) and the top producer of potassium hydroxide, or caustic potash (used in fertilizers). Through subsidiary OxyVinyls it's the leading North American maker of vinyl chloride monomer (VCM), which is used to make PVC resins. The company operates some 22 plants throughout the US as well as another three in Brazil, Canada, and Chile. (OxyChem owns 50% of the Brazilian plant.)

Because you're not likely to be creating ion exchange resins out of your garage, LANXESS Sybron Chemicals does the job for you. LANXESS bought Sybron in 2000 and added its own ion exchange resins business to form one company that can serve both the industrial and domestic water treatment sectors. In addition to being used for domestic water softening and in waste water treatment, Sybron's products are used in catalysis and in processing specialty chemicals (removing heavy and precious metals like brine and mercury). They can also be used in sweetener and food processing to remove unwanted properties (minerals, odors, acids, etc.).

Dover Chemical Corporation is a leading producer of alkylphenols, chlorinated paraffins, polymer additives, liquid and solid antioxidants (including organophosphites), flame retardants, and additives for water-based and oil-based metalworking fluids. It is among the top US manufacturers of chlorinated paraffins, which are used to make flame retardants, and it is major producer of liquid phosphites in North America.

In a race to the finish line, Polarome International wins by a nose. The New Jersey-based specialty chemicals company manufactures and distributes aroma and flavor chemicals. Polarome maintains manufacturing and distribution operations in the US, Europe, and South America. It has an inventory of more than 1,000 flavor and aroma ingredients (which originate the world over), from Amyris (found in Haiti) to Ylang (brought in from the Comoros Islands). The company, formed in 1951, is owned and operated by the third generation of founder William Bruell's family.

Penn Color might not have anything to do with your pen color, but there's a good chance that some piece of plastic within your line of sight is colored by Penn. The Pennsylvania company manufactures dispersions, colorants, inks, and coatings primarily for the plastics industry, but also for automobile makers, printers, construction materials, packaging, wall covering and flooring, and even for use in nail polish. Penn Color has six manufacturing plants in the South East and North East US and one in the Netherlands. The company was formed in 1964 as PFD Plastics.

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