Arizona Chemical is the world’s leading biorefiner of pine chemicals. We provide natural pine-based materials to our customers in many diverse markets including adhesives, inks, coatings, roadmarking, tires & rubber, personal care, lubricants, fuel additives, mining and oilfield.

PTT Aromatics and Refining (PTTAR) is in the additives business. The company makes products such as paraxylene, benzene, toluene, and orthoxylene, which are used in everything from food containers, polyester fiber, and synthetic rubber to paints and insecticide. PTTAR sells its products mostly to Thai companies, fulfilling its mandate to reduce the need for importing chemicals. About a third of the company's goods are exported to other Asian nations. PTTAR refines some 2.2 million tons of aromatics per year. PTT, Thailand's largest oil and gas company, owns 49% of PTTAR, which was formed in 2007 from the merger of The Aromatics (Thailand) and Rayong Refinery.

J.M. Huber claims to make them even better. Hard to believe, we know. Founded in 1890 by Joseph M. Huber and still owned by his heirs, the company makes specialty additives and minerals used to thicken and improve the cleaning properties of toothpaste, the brightness and gloss of paper, the strength and durability of rubber, and the flame-retardant properties of wire and cable. The diverse company also makes oriented strand board (a plywood substitute), explores for and produces oil and gas, and provides technical and financial services. Huber also makes hydrocolloids (thickeners for gums) through subsidiary CP Kelco.

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.

Shintech produces PVC (the chemical also known as polyvinyl chloride) resins. Based in Houston, Shintech's manufacturing plants are located in Texas and Louisiana. The only other product the company makes is caustic soda. Shintech serves customers primarily in North America, but also exports its products worldwide. Established in 1973, Shintech is a US subsidiary of Japanese diversified chemicals giant Shin-Etsu Chemical Co. It's the largest maker of PVC in the US, just as Shin-Etsu is the largest in the world.

Turtle Wax would have been one of those kitchen table success stories, except Ben and Marie Hirsch concocted their polish in the bathtub. In the 1950s they changed the name of their company from Plastone Polish to Super Hard Shell and later to Turtle Wax. Now led jointly by their daughter Sondra Healy and son Denis John Healy Jr., the family-owned firm makes more than 1,250 products, including car waxes, polishes, and cleaners and sells them in 90 countries. Other products include engine treatments, vinyl and leather protectants, and odor removers. Turtle Wax also supplies bulk chemicals to car washes and operates some 20 car washes in the Chicago and Kansas City areas.

Oil-Dri Corporation of America engages in the development, manufacture, and marketing of sorbent products in the United States and internationally. It offers cat litter products, including coarse and scoopable products under the Cat’s Pride and Jonny Cat brand names; industrial and automotive sorbent products comprising clay-based sorbent products, such as Oil-Dri branded floor absorbent, which are used for floor maintenance in industrial applications to provide a non-slip and nonflammable surface for workers; and bleaching clay and clarification aid products under the pure-Flo, Perform and Select, and Ultra-Clear brand names that are used in bleaching, purification, and filtration applications. The company also provides agricultural and horticultural products consisting of granular and powdered mineral absorbent products under the Agsorb, Flo-Fre, Terra-Green, and Pro’s Choice brand names, which are used as carriers for crop protection chemicals, agricultural drying agents, bulk processing aids, growing media components, and sports field products; and animal health and nutrition products for livestock feed industry under the ConditionAde, Pel-Unite, and Pel-Unite Plus brand names. Its customers include mass merchandisers, wholesale clubs, drugstore chains, pet retail outlets, dollar stores, retail grocery stores, distributors of industrial cleanup and automotive products, and environmental service companies, as well as processors and refiners of edible oils, petroleum-based oils, and biodiesel fuel; manufacturers of animal feed and agricultural chemicals; and marketers of consumer products and sports turf users. Oil-Dri Corporation sells its products through sales force, food brokers, and distributors, including industrial, auto parts, safety, sanitary supply, chemical, and paper distributors, as well as catalogs. The company was founded in 1941 and is based in Chicago, Illinois.

Through its subsidiaries, Thai Rubber Latex Corporation makes latex concentrate, as well as various finished products made from that concentrate. More than half of the company's revenue is derived from its manufacturing of latex concentrate, the major raw material used in the manufacture of rubber and latex products including gloves, condoms, and rubber thread. The company also manufactures latex gloves and rubber thread from its majority-owned subsidiaries Universal Latex Products and World Flex. Thai rubber Latex operates nine manufacturing facilities.

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.

Brown bears, black bears, snow-white polar bears -- BEHR Process Corporation manufactures all the colors in the bear rainbow. The company produces coatings such as paint, stains, and varnishes that are sold primarily through The Home Depot; its best-selling line is exclusive to the home-improvement warehouse giant. The company was founded in 1947 out of Otho Behr's garage as a marketer of linseed oil. It grew into a stain and varnish manufacturer and, by the mid-80s, began to make architectural paints. BEHR also owns Masterchem Industries, which makes the primer KILZ. Home-improvement materials company Masco owns BEHR.

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