Ashland Inc. operates as a specialty chemicals company in the United States and internationally. Its Ashland Aqualon Functional Ingredients segment produces cellulose ethers; and specialty additives and functional ingredients. Its products offer functionality, such as thickening and rheology control; water retention; adhesive strength; binding power; film formation; protective colloid, suspending, and emulsifying action; foam control; and pH stability.

Inditherm makes a heat-conducting polymer used for temperature protection for pipelines and storage. It is also used in products such as clothing and medical supplies. Applications include patient warming and muscle heat therapy for the medical market; critical temperature management for mining, utilities, and manufacturing companies; and underpitch heating for sports stadiums (such as the training grounds for Premier League clubs Chelsea and Aston Villa). Inditherm's Speedheat product is used instead of heat packs for sports injuries. Storage products include heated jackets for drums, storage tanks, and intermediate bulk containers. The company was founded in 1998 by Pat O'Grady, who still owns a small stake.

PT. Tri Polyta Indonesia Tbk ("the Company") is the largest Indonesian manufacturer of polypropylene resins. The polypropylene resins produced included homopolymer, random copolymer and impact copolymer. Homopolymer products are mainly used to manufacture a wide range of consumer products such as food packaging, plastic housewares, woven sacks, carpet backing, and other applications. Meanwhile, random copolymer and impact copolymer are mainly used to manufacture automotive parts, electronics appliances, plastic bottles and other applications.The Company market its products under the trade name of Trilene® primarily in the domestic market. The Company was establish in 1988 and started its commercial operation in 1992 with two production trains with a combined annual capacity of 160,000 metric tons. At the end of 1993, the Company completed a debottlenecking project which increased the annual production capacity to 215,000 metric tons. The third production train was completed in 1995. The three trains have a combined annual capacity to produce between 360,000 to 380,000 metric tons of polypropylene, depending on the production mix.The plant which is located in the petrochemical complex in Cilegon, Banten, utilizes UNIPOL® gas-phase technology, which is a low pressure gas-phase reaction process based technology developed by Union Carbide Corporation and Shell Chemical Company. The UNIPOL® technology does not produce liquid waste discharge while majority of the solid wastes are recovered and recycled. The Company also owns a jetty located at its plant site that can accommodate one ship of 80,000 deadweight tons. The Company received its ISO 9002 certification in 1996, ISO 14001 certification in 2000 and subsequently ISO 9001 certification in 2002.

Teknor Apex is no retread. At least not any longer. Founded in 1924 as a tire distributor and retreader, Teknor Apex has sold off those assets to concentrate on chemicals, plastic, and rubber. The company has seven divisions that provide chemicals (plasticizers and toll compounding), garden hoses, rubber (custom mixing and molding of rubber compounds), specialty compounding (custom thermoplastic compound manufacturing and toll compounding of plastics), color concentrates for plastics (Teknor Color Company), thermoplastic elastomers, and vinyl (custom PVC compounds). The founding Fain family owns a controlling interest.

Vista Paint provides a vast array of paints, wallpaper, and window coverings. The company distributes its products through a network of nearly 50 company-owned stores located in California and Nevada. Its paints and coatings are used on residential, commercial, and industrial projects by architecture, decorator, property management, and new-home construction firms, as well as do-it-yourself consumers. The company also offers spray equipment rental, sales, and repair services. Vista Paint was founded by president Eddie Fischer, who still owns the company, and his partner, Walt Jacobson; it was incorporated in 1960 as Grove Paints.

General Magnaplate is one slick, out-of-this-world company. Magnaplate makes coatings that increase the performance of metals. Every NASA vehicle sent into space has had parts coated by Magnaplate. The company's products include HI-T-LUBE (a Guinness record holder as the most slippery solid in the world), TUFRAM coating (used to machine aluminum), and many different basic metal coatings used by the food processing, packaging, electronics, aerospace, and other industries. These coatings significantly increase the durability and lubricity of ferrous and nonferrous metals. The company is controlled by the family of founder and chairman Charles Covino, including his daughter, CEO Candida Aversenti.

Glassy Wing Sharp Shooters and Citrus Thrips beware! Cleary wants turf to be tip top at tee-time. Cleary Chemical Corporation makes fungicides, insecticides, nutrients, and colorants used by golf courses, nurseries, and greenhouses. To fend off the bigger critters, the company makes animal repellants such as Buck Off, designed to keep deer away. It also owns and maintains a golf course, Tara Greens, which offers both regulation and miniature courses.

In a race to the finish line, Polarome International wins by a nose. The New Jersey-based specialty chemicals company manufactures and distributes aroma and flavor chemicals. Polarome maintains manufacturing and distribution operations in the US, Europe, and South America. It has an inventory of more than 1,000 flavor and aroma ingredients (which originate the world over), from Amyris (found in Haiti) to Ylang (brought in from the Comoros Islands). The company, formed in 1951, is owned and operated by the third generation of founder William Bruell's family.

Celanese Corporation engages in producing and selling industrial chemicals, acetyl products, and engineered polymers in North America, Europe, and Asia. The company involves in processing chemical raw materials, such as methanol, carbon monoxide, and ethylene, as well as natural products, including wood pulp into value-added chemicals, thermoplastic polymers, and other chemical-based products. It operates in four segments: Advanced Engineered Materials, Consumer Specialties, Industrial Specialties, and Acetyl Intermediates.

Sid Richardson Carbon & Energy (SRCE) operates in the black -- as in furnace carbon black, a primary non-rubber additive used in the manufacturing of tires. Its Sid Richardson Carbon subsidiary manufactures and markets carbon black at plants in Louisiana, the Texas Panhandle, and West Texas, where the plants convert diesel oil into material used to harden rubber tires. The company produces more than 970 million tons of carbon black a year. Its more than 30 grades of carbon black are also used in industrial rubber applications such as automotive sealing systems and sheet roofing, as well as for printing inks, paints, and batteries. SRCE is owned by Sid Richardson's heirs, the ultra-rich Bass oil family of Texas.

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