Akzo Nobel Inc. works hard to create the right chemistry. The US subsidiary of Dutch paints and chemicals giant Akzo Nobel N.V., the company develops and makes chemicals, coatings, and health care products. Its chemicals business includes catalysts, functional chemicals, polymers, pulp and paper chemicals, and surfactants. The coatings sector includes car refinishes, decorative coatings, and industrial coatings and finishes. While the parent company is the world's largest coatings maker, its American subsidiary traditionally has been driven by its chemicals business. In 2007 Akzo Nobel sold its pharmaceuticals operations, which included oral contraceptives, antidepressants, and pharmaceutical raw materials.

Momentive Performance Materials is the world's second largest producer of silicones and silicone derivatives. We are a global leader in the development and manufacturing of products derived from quartz and specialty ceramics.SILICONES are a multi-functional family of materials used in thousands of products and serve as a critical component in our customers’ formulations. Silicones are generally used as an additive to a wide variety of end-use products in order to provide or enhance certain attributes, such as resistance (heat, ultraviolet light and chemical), lubrication, adhesion or viscosity. Some of the most well-known end-use product applications include caulk, adhesive labels, foam products, cosmetics and tires.

Greystone Logistics, Inc. manufactures and sells recycled plastic pallets in the United States. It offers rackable pallets of various measurements; mid-duty picture frame, a picture frame, Web-top pallet that utilizes inter-locking design and is produced using a proprietary blend of recycled plastics; mid-duty stackable, a Web-top pallet; mid-duty 3-runner, a Web-top pallet that utilizes a patented inter-locking design on a three runner bottom; and flat deck, which has a solid top. The company’s products are used in the beer, automotive, chemical, consumer products, grocery, produce and food production, paper and forest products, retailing, and steel and metals industries. It sells its pallets through a network of independent contractor distributors. Greystone Logistics also offers various excess reprocessed and repelletized resins that are sold to other users of recycled plastic. The company was formerly known as PalWeb Corporation and changed its name to Greystone Logistics, Inc. in March 2005. Greystone Logistics was founded in 1969 and is based in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

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.

Occidental Chemical (OxyChem) manufactures basic chemicals, vinyls, and performance chemicals. The company is the top US maker of chlorine and caustic soda (used in bleach, plastics, and pulp and paper) and the top producer of potassium hydroxide, or caustic potash (used in fertilizers). Through subsidiary OxyVinyls it's the leading North American maker of vinyl chloride monomer (VCM), which is used to make PVC resins. The company operates some 22 plants throughout the US as well as another three in Brazil, Canada, and Chile. (OxyChem owns 50% of the Brazilian plant.)

Champion Technologies produces specialty chemicals that help companies in the oil and gas industry withstand surface equipment problems such as internal pipe corrosion and flow assurance. The company's chemicals also are used in water-oil separation. Its manufacturing facilities are located in North America and Europe, with blending facilities located throughout the world. Special Products, a division of Champion Technologies, is a supplier of base chemicals for use in oilfield cementing, drilling, refining, and stimulation. Its Champion Environmental Technologies focuses on products that combat environmental damage from underwater drilling. The company is a subsidiary of Permian Mud Service.

New Japan Chemical is an old hand in the laboratory. The company researches and manufactures a variety of oleochemicals such as fatty acids, glycerin, and fatty alcohols as well as other chemical products like epoxy resins, plasticizers, and solvents. Its chemicals are used by other manufacturers in the preparation of personal care and other household products. New Japan Chemical operates from four manufacturing facilities throughout Japan and has subsidiaries elsewhere in Asia and the UK. The company, established in 1919, began by selling hydrogen and oxygen it made through electrolysis of water.

A shot of Vitamin K helps farmers grow bigger and better crops. Uralkali is one of the world's top producers of potash, a form of potassium carbonate commonly used as a fertilizer. The company produces 5 million tons of potash per year, or 10% of the world's supply. (Canada's PotashCorp leads the way with 10 million tons, or 20%.) Uralkali operates two mines in Russia and five production plants. The company makes about two-thirds of its total sales to just Brazil and China. Uralkali was founded in 1930 by the Russian government and privatized in 1992. In 2007 it became the country's first public chemical company.

The highest priority in the conduct of our business is safety and environmental protection. Univar Canada Ltd. policy mandates commitment to this priority by way of systems complying with our stringent standards and all government regulations. We are committed to constant vigilance and continuous improvement.Our operations are guided by the Distributor Code of Practice, the industry standard developed by the Canadian Association of Chemical Distributors (CACD). We participate in the Canadian Chemical Producers, (CCPA), Responsible Care Program, as well as comply with the rigorous Warehousing Standards of the Crop Protection Institute (CPI). Our major locations are registered to ISO 9002 standards. Our commitment to these codes and standards is stated in our Policy.

The Dow Chemical Company engages in the manufacture and supply of products used primarily as raw materials in the production of customer products and services worldwide. The Electronic and Specialty Materials segment offers materials for chemical mechanical planarization pads and slurries, chemical processing aids and intermediates, electronic displays, food and pharmaceutical processing and ingredients, home and personal care ingredients, hygiene and infection control, photolithography materials, printed circuit board materials, process and materials preservation, semiconductor packaging, connectors and industrial finishing, and water purification. It’s Coatings and Infrastructure segment offers sticking and bonding solutions; insulation, housewrap, sealant, and adhesive products and systems; and construction chemical solutions and building-integrated photovoltaics. The Health and Agricultural Sciences segment provides agricultural and plant biotechnology products, pest management solutions, and healthy oils. The company’s Performance Systems offers plastics, adhesives, glass bonding systems, emissions control technology, films, fluids, structural enhancement, and acoustical management solutions, as well as elastomers, specialty films, and plastic additive products, and skin and microcellular polyurethane foams and systems, and epoxy solutions and systems. Its Performance Products segment provides amines, emulsion polymers, epoxy resins, oxygenated solvents, polyurethane, and specialty monomer products. The company’s Basic Plastics segment offers polyethylene, polypropylene, equipolymers, and polystyrene resins. Its Basic Chemicals segment provides ethylene dichloride, vinyl chloride monomer, caustic soda, and ethylene oxide. The Hydrocarbons and Energy segment procures fuels, natural gas liquids, and crude oil-based raw materials, as well as supplies monomers, power, and steam. The Dow Chemical was founded in 1897 and is based in Midland, Michigan.

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