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It seems that oil and water do mix after all, at least for Nalco Company Energy Services they do. The division of the Nalco Company provides on-site water and process chemical treatment services to petroleum and petrochemical firms. The division's business is separated into three further units: Upstream (products to ensure steady flow and to guard against corrosion and paraffin deposits), Downstream (processes and technologies to aid refiners), and Adomite Well Service (chemicals for the drilling and exploration phases of the oil-getting process).

Not only can you paint the town red with Benjamin Moore paints, you can stain and finish it as well. In addition to ready-mixed colors -- sold under such brands as Benjamin Moore Paints, Moorcraft, and Benwood -- the company can match almost any shade with roughly 3,300 colors. Benjamin Moore also makes industrial coatings and coatings for manufacturers of furniture and roof decking. The company sells its paints through a dealer network of about 4,000 independent paint and decorating stores, most of which are in North America. Benjamin Moore became a subsidiary of Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway in 2000.

Merichem Process Technologies licenses its technologies to customers for whom it then designs, procures, and fabricates equipment to remove hydrogen sulfide (H2S), mercaptans, naphthenic acids, carbon dioxide (CO2), carbonyl sulfide (COS), and other impurities from light and middle distillate hydrocarbons in refineries, from gas liquids and condensates processed at natural gas production facilities and from light crude oils. Most equipment sold by Merichem Process Technologies uses FIBER FILM.

LANXESS Corporation's synthetic rubber products are used by the tire, auto, and industrial goods industries, while its plastics are marketed toward makers of medical and electronic communications products. LANXESS Corp.'s largest unit is its performance chemicals division, which supplies the textiles, pharmaceutical, and automobile industries, among others. The company's other units are perormance polymers (the synthetic rubber operations) and advanced intermediates (basic and fine chemicals). Subsidiaries include Rhein Chemie (rubber chemicals), Sybron Chemicals (ion exchange resins), and Saltigo (fine, agro-, and pharmaceutical chemicals). Parent company LANXESS AG was spun off from Bayer in 2004.

H&R WASAG has exploded in growth by acquiring explosive companies, the specialty chemicals company remains most profitable in manufacturing chemical and pharmaceutical raw materials and plastics. H&R WASAG is involved in such operations as precision-molded parts (Gaudlitz), industrial explosives (WASAG-Chemie), gunpowder (WANO), and blasting machines (ZEB). With its 2005 acquisition of Westspreng, the group became the No. 1 explosives maker in Germany. Formerly Wasag-Chemie, the company added H&R to its name for major shareholder Hansen & Rosenthal and dropped "chemie."

Finally, a Method for the madness of keeping a clean home. Method Products makes and sells home-cleaning products, hand and body cleansers, and air fresheners and candles. It differentiates itself from larger, more established competitors through innovative design -- dish-washing liquid in sleek bowling-pin-shaped bottles, teardrop hand soap bottles, and futuristic-looking mops. It also carves its niche by offering nontoxic, environmentally friendly products in a price range that costs less green. Products are sold at Target, Office Depot, Costco, and other major retailers and grocery stores in the US, Canada, and the UK. Chemical engineer Adam Lowry and account planner Eric Ryan founded the firm in 2001.

The company (SII for short) manufactures a number of specialty and basic chemicals, beginning with aluminum-based products (for the paper and water treatment industries) to zirconium (for makers of titanium dioxide -- the most widely used white pigment). Its core markets include manufacturers of cement, molecular sieves, pharmaceuticals, refinery and automotive catalysts, and zeolites. SII has about 10 manufacturing plants spread throughout the southeast US and Texas. President and CEO Milton Sundbeck owns Southern Ionics.

The Clorox Company engages in the production, marketing, and sales of consumer products in the United States and internationally. The company operates through four segments: Cleaning, Lifestyle, Household, and International. The Cleaning segment consists of laundry, home-care, professional products, and auto-care products. This segment offers its products under the Clorox, Clorox 2, Formula 409, Liquid-Plumr, Pine-Sol, S.O.S, Tilex, Green Works, Armor All, and STP brands. The Lifestyle segment offers food products, water-filtration systems, filters, and natural personal care products.This segment offers its products under the Hidden Valley, K C Masterpiece, Brita, and Burt’s Bees brand names. The Household segment provides charcoal, cat litter and plastic bags, wraps, and container products. This segment offers its products under the Glad, Fresh Step, Scoop Away, Ever Clean, Kingsford, and Match Light brand names. The International segment offers home-care, laundry, auto-care, water filtration, charcoal and cat litter products, dressings, plastic bags, wraps and containers, and insecticides under the Clorox, Javex, Glad, PinoLuz, Ayudin, Limpido, Clorinda, Poett, Mistolin, Lestoil, Bon Bril, Nevex, Brita, Armor All, STP, Green Works, Sabra, Pine-Sol and Agua Jane, Ever Clean, Chux, Kingsford, and Hidden Valley brand names. The company markets its products primarily through mass merchandisers, warehouse clubs, grocery stores, direct sales force, distributors, Internet, retail outlets, and a network of brokers. The Clorox Company was founded in 1913 and is based in Oakland, California.

Tata Chemicals Limited Company Profile At one time salt drove the world's commerce; it still makes up a good bit of the business at Tata Chemicals Limited (TCL). Tata Salt owns a more than 40% share in India's branded salt market, and the company's soda ash business is also tops in the country, controlling nearly a third of India's market. Tata Chemicals divides its business in two segments: Inorganic Chemicals (soda ash, salt, and caustic soda) and Fertilizers (primarily urea and phsophatic fertilizers). A member of the Tata Group, the company operates India's largest inorganic chemical complex in Mithapur. TCL's products end up in such diverse products as salt licks for cattle, fertilizers, cement, glass, processed steel, and detergents.

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