TRInternational (TRI) tries its best to be an exemplary chemical distributorship. The company distributes all manner of chemicals and raw materials from locations worldwide. Industries served include adhesives, concrete, cosmetics, food and beverage, paint and coatings, and pharmaceuticals. TRI has its headquarters in Seattle and branch offices in Chicago, Newark, and Oakland. It also has an office in Shanghai, China. The company maintains warehouses in Asia, Europe, and the US, and ships its products to Australia, Canada, Mexico, South Africa, South America, and Sri Lanka. The bulk of its products are sold in the US. TRInternational is owned by CEO Anthony Riddell.

Lenzing AG manufactures cellulose fibers made from beech wood. The company produces about 525,000 tons of textile fibers and nonwoven fibers every year. Its fibers are sold to the textile industry for use in apparel, upholstery, fire hoses, and US military uniforms. Nonwoven fibers are used to make cleaning pads, and wound care and feminine products. Lenzing's plastics division makes thermoplastics, PTFE fibers (Teflon), polymer fibers such as acrylic, and carbon fibers. The company traces its roots back to 1892 as a paper mill in Lenzing, Austria. Lenzing is 85% owned by B&C Holding.

If you need pigments that are more than a figment, Holland Colours has hues you can use. The company sells color additives to plastics manufactures for tinting PVC pipes, siding, food and beverage containers, and silicone sealants and to coating and ink makers. It produces colors in micro granules, granules, powders, and liquids mainly at four plants in the Netherlands, Indonesia, Hungary, and the US for customers in more than 70 countries. Colors are mainly available as pigments, pastes, and powders for use in bottles, toys, and industrial paints and plastics, respectively. Holland Colours also provides lab, technical, and R&D support to third parties. Employees own about half the company.

Cigarettes are certainly hazardous to your health, but the making of cigarette filter materials has been good for Daicel Chemical. The company was founded in 1919 to make celluloid (the first plastic) and still makes cellulose-based products such as cellulose acetate, used in filters and photographic film. Daicel primarily makes films for packaging and plastics. The company also produces an array of organic chemicals (acetic acid, acetic anhydride) used in fibers, paints, pharmaceuticals, and cosmetics. Daicel's aerospace and defense systems/safety systems unit produces inflators for automobile air bags and rocket propellants.

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.

TSO3 helps clean up the medical industry in its own way. Using novel technology to replicate Earth's ozone layer, TSO3 develops and manufactures ozone sterilization processes and products that replicate these processes. The great majority of the company's customers are in the health care industry, such as workers in hospitals, clinics, universities, the pharmaceutical industry, and research centers. Its sterilizers are used to clean surgical and other heat-sensitive medical instruments. TSO3 was founded in 1998 in Quebec City as Technologies of Sterilization with Ozone.

Gallade Chemical has been providing just-in-time delivery of chemicals to thousands of customers. Our distribution reach covers California and entire continental United States. We offer thousands of chemicals from hundreds of top manufacturers. Gallade Chemical is an authorized distributor for 3M, JT Baker, Mallinckrodt, EMD Chemicals, Sigma-Aldrich, MacDermid, Tolber and Spectrum Chemical.

Really Tight Pants? Raisins That Propel? Maybe not, but RTP is a custom compounder of plastic resins. The company manufactures specialty compounds from more than 60 engineering resins that can affect color, level of conductivity, high temperature performance, and wear resistance in engineered plastics. Customers include injection molders, extruders, and OEMs in a wide variety of markets. The company added a new extrusion division in 2004, a new thermoplastic compounding facility the next year, and acquired Wiman Corporation (a maker of plastic films for medical and industrial purposes) in 2006. The family-owned company was founded in 1980 by Ben Miller; his son, Hugh Miller, is CEO.

Got a leak in your roof, deck, wall, floor, bathroom, or just about anywhere else? Tremco's bound to have a product that can help you out. The company, a subsidiary of RPM International, manufactures and sells roofing materials and services, as well as industrial coatings and sealants. Its operating divisions include Tremco Roofing & Building Maintenance, Sealants/Weatherproofing, Tremco Europe, and Euclid Chemical (concrete and masonry products). Tremco operates two manufacturing facilities in North America (one in Ohio and one in Ontario). Among the company's other subsidiaries are the German Illbruck Sealant Systems and Canadian waterproofing materials and sealants supplier Permaquik.

PMC Global makes Bob the Builder's bubble bath "and" the pipe that drains the suds away. The diversified international company produces memory chips, connectors, film, packaging, plastics, plastic-molding equipment, and specialty chemicals, among other things. It operates through about a dozen specialized divisions such as ASC Group (electronics), Cosrich (children's bath, cosmetics, and toiletry products), PMC Specialties Group (specialty chemicals), and VCF Films (PVC and acrylic films). In 2008 it bought Chemtura's oleochemicals unit. CEO Philip Kamins (who owns the company) founded PMC (Plastic Management Corporation) in 1971 as an outgrowth of a small plastics scrap yard he founded in 1964.

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