Adhesive tape has been holding Nitto Denko together for more than 50 years. The company makes industrial adhesive tapes for the electronics, automotive, health care, packaging, and construction industries. Nitto Denko separates its business into three segments: Industrial Products (double-coated adhesive tape, barcode labels, etc.), Electronic Products (semiconductor encapsulating resins and flexible printed circuits), and Functional Products (tissue-cultured ginseng, pest control products, and transdermal patches). The Industrial and Electronics segments provide nearly all of the Nitto Denko's sales.

Chemtura would like to be the future of chemicals making. The company ranks among the top specialty chemical companies in the US, along with the likes of Ecolab and Hexion, and among the leading plastics additives maker globally. Aside from plastic additives, Chemtura holds niche-leading positions in petroleum additives, flame retardants, and swimming pool chemicals. Its other products include urethanes and crop protection chemicals. Just more than half of its total sales come from outside the US. In 2009 Chemtura's US operations, faced with significantly decreased sales volumes and the resultant declining liquidity, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

Compass Minerals International, Inc., through its subsidiaries, engages in the production and marketing of inorganic mineral products in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. The company operates in two segments, Salt and Specialty Fertilizer. The Salt segment produces salt and magnesium chloride for use in road deicing and dust control, food processing, water softeners, pool salt, and agricultural and industrial applications. This segment also purchases potassium chloride and sells as a finished product. The Specialty Fertilizer segment produces and markets potash crop nutrients and industrial grade sulfate of potash, which are used in the production of specialty fertilizers for vegetables, fruits, tea, potatoes, nuts, tobacco, and turf grass. The company operates a rock salt mine located in Goderich, Ontario; and the salt mine located in Winsford, the United Kingdom. It primarily serves producers of intermediate chemical products used in the production of vinyls and other chemicals, and pulp and paper, as well as water treatment and other industrial uses. The company markets its products through a direct sales force, and a network of brokers. It was formerly known as Salt Holdings Corporation and changed its name to Compass Minerals International, Inc. in November 2003. Compass Minerals International was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in Overland Park, Kansas.

It's clear what Deft makes: clear wood finishes and more. Founded in 1953, the company manufactures coatings for two markets: residential (interior wood stains and finishes) and industrial (aerospace and transportation coatings). Its home products include clear wood finishes, interior and exterior clear polyurethanes, and wood stains. Its aerospace products include polyurethane and epoxy primers and coatings. Deft's products can be bought from small paint-supply stores such as Conklin Paint and Do It Best, as well as large suppliers like Lowe's, Kmart, Home Depot, and Wal-Mart. The company is owned and run by members of the founding Desmond family.

S.C. Johnson & Son helped to replace the flyswatter with the spray can. The company is one of the world's largest makers of consumer chemical products, including Glade, Mr. Muscle, Raid, Pledge, Brise, Drano, Fantastik, Kabbikiller, OFF!, Scrubbing Bubbles, Saran, Shout, Vanish, Windex, and Ziploc. S.C. Johnson peddles its products in more than 110 countries. The founder's great-grandson and once one of the richest men in the US, Samuel Johnson, died in 2004. His immediate family owns about 60% of S.C. Johnson; descendants of the founder's daughter own about 40%. Chairman Dr. Fisk Johnson assumed the title of CEO when president, CEO, and director Bill Perez left for Nike in late 2004.

AgriTec Systems, Inc. is a Delaware corporation with two wholly owned operating subsidiaries, AgriTec, Inc. and enviroLife, Inc. AgriTec, Inc. has a history of developing and is in the final stages of commercializing patents and other technology related to the use of agricultural wastes as raw materials. Most of the development to date has been focused on processing rice hull ash (RHA) – the waste product from rice mill cogeneration businesses that use rice hulls as their primary fuel stock.

Clean Diesel Technologies, Inc. designs, develops, markets, and licenses technologies and solutions that reduce harmful emissions from internal combustion engines, and improve fuel economy and engine power. Its products and solutions include the Platinum Plus fuel-borne catalyst, a diesel fuel soluble additive that reduces particulates, unburned hydrocarbons, and carbon monoxide emissions; ARIS, an advanced reagent injection system used in selective catalytic reduction systems for control of emissions of nitrogen oxides from diesel engines, and for hydrocarbon injection applications; diesel particulate filter technology based on catalyzed wire mesh filter elements; and biofuels technology, including Biodiesel Plus. The company also offers various engineering and development consulting services. It sells its products to distributors and resellers, as well as to various transportation segments, including on-road, off-road, rail and marine, and other end users. The company offers its products through its distribution network, direct sales, sales consultants, and agents primarily in the United States, Europe, and Asia. Clean Diesel Technologies was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Bridgeport, Connecticut.

Global Earth Energy, Inc. focuses primarily on the production of bio-diesel. The company also provides advisory and transactional services for various companies to develop and implement strategies to obtain capital and achieve their financial objectives. In addition, it intends to offer its services in the areas of strategy, planning, finance, systems, accounting, and human resources. The company was formerly known as Global Wataire, Inc. and changed its name to Global Earth Energy, Inc. in February 2008. Global Earth Energy was founded in 2004 and is based in Buffalo, New York.

Brenntag North America can hook you up. One of the largest chemical distributors in North America, the company offers hundreds of industrial and specialty chemicals -- from acetic acid to zinc oxide -- and provides custom blending and packaging of chemicals in dry, liquid, or gaseous states. Customers include manufacturers in such industries as chemicals, pharmaceuticals, paints, electronics, pulp and paper, cosmetics, food and beverages, textiles, and water treatment. European private equity group BC Partners owns Brenntag, and thus Brenntag North America.

Abengoa Bioenergy is the only truly global ethanol producer, with about a dozen plants in the US, Europe, and South America. Its plants have a production capacity of 840 million gallons a year, including 380 million gallons in the US. The company's primary product is fuel-grade ethanol, which, when blended with gasoline, raises oxygen levels and cuts exhaust emissions pollutants such as carbon monoxide. Its research and development unit works in partnership with universities and other companies to develop improved processing technology for ethanol. Abengoa Bioenergy has been a part of Spanish engineering firm Abengoa, which owns about 80% of the company, since 2002.

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