No liposuction or weight loss miracles here, but Lipo Chemicals can help you tan without burning, sweat without stinking, and age without looking old. The specialty chemicals company manufactures raw materials and ingredients for the fragrance, personal care, food, and pharmaceutical industries. Lipo has sales offices and affiliated companies throughout the world that market esters, cosmetic oils, preservatives, humectants, exfoliates, emulsifiers, and tanning enhancers to companies like Avon, Procter & Gamble, and Mary Kay Cosmetics. It also offers formulation and technical support services. Co-founded in 1962 by Louis Frischling (who died in late 2007), the company is controlled by the Frischling family.

Witton Chemical Company is an international fine chemical contract manufacturer based in the UK, with a 50 year history of manufacturing chemicals for a wide range of international customers from all sectors of industry. We develop ongoing partnerships for chemical manufacture and toll manufacture with some of the largest adhesive, electronic, paint, sealant, petrochemical, and pharmaceutical companies worldwide.

Evonik Degussa Corporation is the North America arm of German chemical giant, Evonik Degussa GmbH. Like its parent, it operates through six divisions, the biggest of which are Industrial Chemicals (chlorides and peroxides) and Inorganic Materials (silicon products and carbon black). The other units are Consumer Specialties, Health and Nutrition, Coatings and Additives, and Performance Polymers. Products range from amino acids and building protection coatings to another of its specialties, specialty acrylic products including its best known brand, Plexiglas.

The company is Europe's largest chemical distributor (ahead of Univar) and among the top three in the US (along with the likes of Ashland); it also ranks as the top distributor in Latin America. From its 400 locations in 60 countries, Brenntag offers lab services (blending, compounding, preparation), storage, and logistics activities. Among the companies whose products Brenntag supplies are global giants like Arkema, BASF, and Yara. Its industrial and specialty chemicals serve the oil and gas, cosmetics, coatings, plastics, mining, and pulp and paper industries. Brenntag went public in 2010

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.

Srithai Superware Public Company Limited is Thailand's largest manufacturer of melamine tableware distributed under the brand names Ektra, Flowerware, Melamineware, Superware, UNICA, and Vanda. Srithai exports melamine tableware to countries worldwide. Srithai Superware Public Company also manufactures other plastic products, including auto parts, bottle crates, furniture, garbage bins, and pallets. Srithai operates a mould-making business, as well. The company was originally incorporated in 1963 to manufacture and distribute household plasticware.

Matteson-Ridolfi distributes chemicals such as catalysts, pigments, resins, solvents, surfactants, and thickening agents to companies in the adhesives and sealants, automotive, glass and refractory, paints and coatings, pharmaceuticals, pulp and paper, and soaps and detergents industries. The company maintains facilities in Cleveland; Detroit; and Louisville, Kentucky. Customers include Cabot and other major chemical manufacturers. The family of company president Scot Westerbeek owns Matteson-Ridolfi, which was founded in 1932.

Thailand's first cement manufacturer, Siam Cement was founded in 1913 on orders from King Rama VI. The government controls almost a third of Siam Cement. Siam Cement has more to hold it together than its name suggests. It still makes cement (sold under the Elephant and Tiger brands), but gets most of its sales from petrochemicals, paper, and packaging; other lines of business include building products and distribution. Siam Cement also has real estate holdings. The Siam Cement Public company cracked out of its cement mold in response to Asia's financial crisis of the late 1990s; acquisitions made it one of Thailand's biggest industrial conglomerates, with five business units encompassing more than 100 companies.

Dynamotive Energy Systems Corporation is an energy solutions provider headquartered in Vancouver, Canada, with offices in the USA and Argentina. Its carbon/ greenhouse gas neutral fast pyrolysis technology uses medium temperatures and oxygen-free conditions to turn dry waste biomass and energy crops into BioOil® for power and heat generation. BioOil® can be further converted into vehicle fuels and chemicals. Dynamotive’s process does not require feedstock that has alternative food use. The Company, and its blue-chip partners and customers, are emerging leaders in converting both biomass residues and energy crops into fuels that are technologically viable and environmentally sound, as well as economically competitive to fossil fuels.

ELANTAS PDG has a long business pedigree when it comes to making protective and performance-enhancing electronic coatings, varnishes, and resins. Although scholars might take issue, the company claims that "founder P. D. George coined the word 'Pedigree' in 1919 to denote quality." Etymology aside, the company -- which is owned by German conglomerate ALTANA -- makes wire coatings, insulating varnishes, and encapsulating resins designed to insulate, protect, and improve the performance of wires and other electronic components. ELANTAS PDG (formerly called P. D. George Corporation) also makes resins used in other electronic products and applications, including banding tape, adhesives, and laminating resins.

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