I say, "potato chip." You say, "crisp." But we can all agree Pringles are sought after worldwide. Procter & Gamble Holdings UK, like its US parent The Procter & Gamble Company, manufactures and sells household care items (this includes its Pringles brand); beauty products (includes fragrances like Hugo Boss and Lacoste, cosmetic brand Max Factor, and skin care line Olay); and family health items (like Crest toothpaste and "disposable nappies" Pampers). Procter & Gamble operates more than a dozen locations in the UK, including administrative offices, technical centers, and manufacturing facilities. President Laurent Philippe succeeded Paul Polman, who retired in June 2005.

Talk about carbon-based life forms -- Tokai Carbon lives on the stuff. The company's carbon products include carbon black, a reinforcement and coloring material used in car tires, industrial rubber products, paints, and inks; and artificial-graphite electrodes, which are used in electric-arc steelmaking furnaces. Tokai also makes specialty carbon products (glassy carbon, carbon brushes) and friction materials (used in clutches and brakes). In addition, the company has other operations in areas including real estate rental and cargo-handing. Tokai Carbon operates facilities in Asia, Europe, and North America.

Ashland Hercules Water Technologies will get your water clean even if it means tossing some chemicals into it. The company offers both chemical and non-chemical products that help keep industrial and commercial processing facilities and equipment flowing freely and working efficiently. It produces water treatment additives, polymers, and surfactants; treatments for boiler and water cooling systems; and cleaning chemicals for the marine industry. It also serves customers worldwide in the food processing, mining, pulp and paper, and wastewater industries. Ashland Hercules Water Technologies is a business unit of Ashland, which expanded it greatly with the 2008 acquisition of Hercules.

Denial ain't just a river in Egypt, and Rhein adds up to more than some flowing water in Germany. Rhein Chemie manufactures chemical additives for rubber, lubricants, plastics, and polyurethane from its home base in Germany and half a dozen other locations in Europe, the Americas, and Asia. Its rubber chemicals go into tires, wire and cable products, and belts and hoses. Rhein Chemie's lubricants are used to make metalworking fluids, greases, and turbine and compressor oils. Finally, its engineering plastics include polycarbonates and polyurethanes. The company is a subsidiary of LANXESS and operates in the US through Rhein Chemie Corporation.

Agrium Inc. produces and markets agricultural nutrients, industrial products, and specialty products worldwide, as well as involves in the retail supply of agricultural products and services in North and South America. It operates through three segments: Retail, Wholesale, and Advanced Technologies. The Retail segment markets crop nutrient products, including nitrogen, phosphate, potash, sulphur, and micronutrients; crop protection products, such as herbicides, fungicides, adjuvants, and insecticides; seeds; and a range of custom application and agronomic consulting services, as well as other services, including crop input product application, soil and leaf tissue testing and analysis, and crop scouting. As of December 31, 2008, this segment operated approximately 800 retail farm centers in the U.S., Argentina, and Chile. The Wholesale segment manufactures, purchases, and markets a range of nutrients, including nitrogen-based, potash, and phosphate-based crop nutrient products. It also owns and operates facilities that upgrade ammonia and urea to other products, such as nitrogen solutions and nitric acid. In addition, this segment operates fertilizer granulation and blending plants in the United States. The Advanced Technologies segment produces and sells controlled-release crop nutrient and professional products to the agriculture, specialty agriculture, professional turf, horticulture, and consumer lawn and garden markets. This segment also offers pest control products to the structural pest control industry, including pest control in residential and commercial structures. It was formerly known as Cominco Fertilizers Ltd. and changed its name to Agrium Inc. in 1995. The company was founded in 1931 and is headquartered in Calgary, Canada.

Samsung Total Petrochemicals sticks to the basics. The company manufactures building block chemicals that go into the making of a host of other chemicals needed to make the stuff we can use. It starts with a naphtha cracker, yielding propylene and ethylene, which are the raw materials in the production of all manner of polymers. Samsung Total divides its operations in three: polymer production (polyethylene, polypropylene, high- and low-density polyethylene), base chemicals (selling the ethylene and propylene the company doesn't use itself, as well as aromatics used to make the materials that go into synthetic fibers), and petrochemicals like solvents and liquefied petroleum gases (propane, butane, etc.).

The M. F. Cachat Company is a regional technical sales organization focused on the marketing and distribution of specialty chemical products. Established in 1977, we are privileged to represent industry leaders in the Inks & Coatings, Rubber, Plastics, Adhesives & Sealants, and Consumer Products markets. Our strategic Principal partnerships, combined with our technical sales expertise and market knowledge, positions The M. F. Cachat Company to deliver high quality commercial and technical solutions to our customers across the markets we serve.

INVISTA has a fibrous outlook on life. A global leader in textile and polymer manufacturing, INVISTA is composed of four business units -- Apparel, Intermediates, Performance Surfaces and Materials, and Polymers and Resins -- and its portfolio includes brand names CoolMax, Stainmaster, Lycra, and Thermolite. Its products are used in clothing, plastic packaging, automobile airbags, and pharmaceutical ingredients. DuPont sold INVISTA to Koch Industries in 2004. Koch then merged the company with its own fibers unit, KoSa, leaving only INVISTA remaining. INVISTA operates worldwide.

George S. Coyne Chemical. The company distributes industrial chemicals (for pharmaceuticals, food, and cosmetics), consumer products (pool chemicals, de-icing chemicals, solar salt), and metal finishing and plating chemicals, primarily in the northeastern US. Coyne Chemical also provides related valued-added services, such as warehousing, custom blending and packaging, and environmental consulting. It operates four locations in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. The company was formed in 1868 by George Coyne and is operated by the founder's descendants.

The D.H. Litter Company was established in 1921 and has grown into one of the largest regional chemical distributors in North America, achieving "Top Fifty" status in an industry standard publication.We service and support the Northeast & Mid-Atlantic States. Headquartered in the NYC Metro area, we maintain sales offices and warehousing throughout the region to conveniently service our customers.D.H. Litter operates with a simple mission...they bring value to our Customers, Principals and Employees. Our commitment and growth over the many years has delivered on this promise.

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