From poisoning garden pests to exfoliating dry skin, Lonza puts itself in the middle of things. As the US operations of its parent company, Lonza accounts for about a third of the Lonza Group's $2.5 billion in annual sales. While Lonza doesn't actually make consumer products, the company provides chemical ingredients and intermediates for the personal care, water treatment, pharmaceutical, and plastics industries, from its nine manufacturing and R&D locations throughout the US.

Neville Chemical Company is a manufacturer of synthetic hydrocarbon resins and coumarone-indene resins. Established in 1925, Neville Chemical Company is privately owned with the Corporate Headquarters and main manufacturing facility located on Neville Island. The Island is located in the Ohio River, six miles west of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. On April 20, 1999, Nevcin Polymers B.V. became a wholly owned subsidiary of Neville Chemical Company. Nevcin had been an equally owned joint venture in the Netherlands for the past forty years. Nevcin has since been re-named Neville Chemical Europe BV.Our resins are blended into a wide range of quality products. The major markets that utilize Neville's resins are printing inks, adhesives and sealants, rubber goods, paints, coatings and concrete cure. Synthetic resins are produced from two primary raw materials. The first is a crude heavy solvent naphtha obtained during the production of coke from coal. This is used to manufacture Neville's coumarone-indene resins. The second is petroleum streams obtained during the cracking or chemical treatment of petroleum. These are used to manufacture Neville's petroleum hydrocarbon resins. The Company's Neville Island and Dutch facilities have an effective quality program in place.

Church & Dwight Co., Inc., together with its subsidiaries, develops, manufactures, and markets a range of household, personal care, and specialty products under various brand names in the United States and internationally. The company operates in three segments: Consumer Domestic, Consumer International, and Specialty Products. The Consumer Domestic segment offers household products for deodorizing, such as ARM & HAMMER baking soda and cat litter products; laundry and cleaning products, including XTRA and ARM & HAMMER laundry detergents, OXICLEAN pre-wash laundry additive, SCRUB FREE, KABOOM, ORANGE GLO, and BRILLO cleaning products; and personal care products, such as TROJAN condoms, ORAJEL oral analgesics, NAIR depilatories and waxes, FIRST RESPONSE and ANSWER home pregnancy and ovulation test kits, ARRID and ARM & HAMMER antiperspirant, and SPINBRUSH battery-operated toothbrushes. The Consumer International segment primarily sells various personal care products in international markets, including France, the United Kingdom, Canada, Mexico, Australia, Brazil, and China. The Specialty Products segment produces sodium bicarbonate, which it sells together with other specialty inorganic chemicals for a range of industrial, institutional, medical, and food applications. This segment also sells a range of animal nutrition and specialty cleaning products. Church & Dwight sells its products through supermarkets, drug stores, mass merchandisers, industrial customers, and distributors. The company was founded in 1846 and is based in Princeton, New Jersey.

ITWC makes performance polyurethane systems. In addition to prepolymers, the company manufactures polyesters, adhesives, additives, extenders and curatives, and mold releases, and it makes machines that are used to mix and pour urethane compounds into molds. ITWC also provides equipment such as degassers, hot tables, and curative and prepolymer tanks, and it provides molding, troubleshooting, and technical training services. CEO Walter Smith founded the company in 1988; Smith retains a majority stake in the company.

GreenMan Technologies, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the design, development, and manufacture of environmentally responsible products using recycled materials, primarily recycled rubber in the United States. It offers playground safety tiles, roadside anti-vegetation products, construction molds, and highway guard-rail rubber spacer blocks. The company’s products provide schools and other political subdivisions solutions for safety, compliance, and accessibility. It also involves in playground design, equipment, and installation. The company was founded in 1992 and is based in Savage, Minnesota.

Detrex Corporation and its subsidiaries manufacture and sell products used in the industrial manufacturing and commercial construction industries in the United States and internationally. The company’s principal products include specialty chemicals, including lubricant additives and high purity hydrochloric acid; and PVC and CPVC plastic pipe, duct, and shapes. It manufactures lubricant additives, which are used for enhancing the properties of hydraulic oils, metalworking fluids, gear oils, and greases; high purity hydrochloric acid for semiconductor specifications and pharmaceutical manufacturing applications; and specialty chemicals, including pyrroles.The company also produces corrosion resistant PVC and CPVC thermoplastic extrusions, including industrial piping, duct systems, machining profiles, and other custom extrusions; PVC and CPVC industrial pressure pipe in sizes ranging from 1/8” through 24” diameters; and fire sprinkler pipe, CPVC plumbing piping, ultra pure water piping, low flame and smoke containment piping, and PVC piping products for use in various applications in chemical and industrial processing, high purity, food and beverage, fire protection, micro-electronics, water and waste water, commercial hot and cold water distribution systems, power generation, and aquaculture markets. Its customers include manufacturers of automobiles, lubricants, farm implements, appliances, and ordinance materials; and computers, telecommunications, aerospace, and optical products, as well as commercial and industrial construction industries. Detrex Corporation was founded in 1920 and is headquartered in Southfield, Michigan.

Bayer MaterialScience's parent company, the Bayer Group, may no longer get most of its money from chemicals and plastics but the unit's share isn't exactly immaterial. Though MaterialScience now ranks behind the health care division of the German conglomerate, with 120 sites throughout the world it still accounts for more than a third of Bayer's annual sales. MaterialScience makes raw materials for adhesives and coatings; it also manufactures plastics, films, and resins. Its products are marketed to the automotive, construction, footwear, sports, and textiles industries, among others.

Penford Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the development, manufacture, and marketing of specialty natural-based ingredient systems for various industrial and food applications in the United States, Australia, and New Zealand. It develops and manufactures ingredients with starch as a base. The starch products are manufactured primarily from corn, potatoes, and wheat, and are used as binders and coatings in paper and food production. The various forms of starches include ethylated, oxidized, and cationic. The ethylated and oxidized starches are used in coatings and as binders, providing printability to fine white, magazine, and catalog paper. Cationic and other liquid starches are used in the paper forming process in paper production, providing bonding of paper fibers and other ingredients. Penford sells its products through a direct sales force, as well as through distributor agreements. The company was founded in 1894 and is headquartered in Centennial, Colorado.

Biopetrol Industries wants to say auf weidersehen to fossil fuels. The company manufactures biodiesel from rapeseed oil, soybeans, and methanol from three plants in Europe. Biopetrol distributes its products to oil companies, fleet operators, public transportation agencies, and construction and agricultural companies across Europe. It also manufactures bioglycerine. (Crude glycerol is a natural byproduct of making biodiesel; Biopetrol refines it for use in pharmaceuticals and cosmetics.) Swiss commodities giant Glencore International acquired a majority stake in Biopetrol, along with the right to boost its share to a two-thirds majority, at the start of 2010.

Continental Carbon sees a red door and wants it painted black. Founded in 1936, the company manufactures carbon black from three plants in Alabama, Oklahoma, and Texas. It has marketing and distribution operations in other areas of the US, and it has a carbon black manufacturing subsidiary in India. Continental Carbon produces nearly 20 different grades of carbon black that are used for tires and other rubber and plastic products. The company is owned by China Synthetic Rubber Corporation.

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