Americhem leads the industry in solving highly complex technical problems that our competitors can’t touch.Solving color and performance challenges may be our forte, but we didn’t acquire that skill overnight. Americhem was founded in 1941 as a manufacturer’s representative that sold fillers and additives to the rubber industry. In 1959, we offered our first batch of color concentrates, and we’ve been at the industry forefront ever since.Today, Americhem is one of the largest custom color concentrates manufacturers in the world. Privately owned through generations of expansion, we’ve retained our service focus with groundbreaking technology, a single-minded pursuit of quality and total responsiveness to customer needs

A small branch on a big tree, Helena Chemical Company Western Business Unit is the western US division of the agricultural products unit of the US arm of a large Japanese trading concern. The company manufactures fertilizers and pesticides and provides agricultural services and supplies. Helena Chemical maintains locations in eight western US states: Arizona, California, Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, and Washington. The Western Business Unit manufactures fertilizers for suppliers and also provides formulation services for private label products.

Formed in 1965, Transammonia is owned by founder Ronald Stanton. Fertilizers, liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), and petrochemicals form the lifeblood of international trader Transammonia. The company trades, distributes, and transports these commodities around the world. Transammonia's fertilizer business includes ammonia, phosphates, and urea. Its Sea-3 subsidiary imports and distributes propane to residential, commercial, and industrial customers in the northeastern US and Florida. The Trammochem unit trades in petrochemicals, specializing in aromatics, methanol, methyltertiary butyl ether (MTBE), and olefins. Trammo Petroleum trades oil products including gasoline, heating oil, jet fuel, and naphtha.

If you are going by sea Hempel would like to go with you. The company makes paint and coatings for ships, shipping containers, yachts. Its products are also used on bridges, tunnels, and docks in marine environments. Hempel sells decorative paint for home and office mostly in Asia and the Middle East. Hempel has nearly 30 factories and 250 distribution centers worldwide along with about 50 sales offices for operations in more than 80 countries. Most of its customers are in oil and gas, civil construction, rail transport, power generation, and chemical plants. J.C. Hempel founded the company that bears his name in 1917.

Central Garden & Pet is happy to help with both pets and pests. The company is among the largest US manufacturers and distributors of lawn, garden, and pet supplies, providing its products to pet supplies retailers, home improvement centers, nurseries, and mass merchandisers from approximately 40 manufacturing plants and another 35 distribution centers throughout the US; it also has sales offices in the UK. Central Garden & Pet's proprietary brand lines include AMDRO fire ant bait, Four Paws animal products, Kaytee bird seed, Nylabone dog chews, Norcal pottery, Pennington grass seed and bird seed products, and TFH pet books. Chairman and CEO William Brown controls not quite 50% of the company's voting rights.

It isn't just about red ink or black ink at DIC Corporation -- it's green, blue, and yellow, too. The company's graphic arts unit (more than half of sales) produces offset, gravure, and news inks, coatings for paper and cans, printing supplies (plates, films), and presses. It also makes imaging products (toners, drums, magnetic foils). DIC has three other business units: industrial materials (building materials and synthetic resins), high-performance and applied products (PET bottles, colorants, polymer additives, and labels), and electronic and information materials (engineering plastics and epoxy resins). It had been known by the name Dainippon Ink and Chemicals until mid-2008.

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.

When your roof starts leaking, you can turn to Carlisle Coatings & Waterproofing's products to stop it from happening again. The division of Carlisle Companies unit SynTec makes primers, mastics, deck coatings, drainage systems, construction membranes, and roofing underlayment. The company also manufactures duct sealants and adhesives for HVAC equipment. Carlisle Coatings & Waterproofing makes its products at four manufacturing plants and maintains sales offices throughout the US and in Canada. Its brands include Barricoat, Eco-Fast, and Vapor-Lock, which are targeted for the construction, industrial, and maintenance markets.

Solvay works to render its customers' problems solved. Solvay Chemicals International SA is part of the chemical sector of industrial giant Solvay SA, and accounts for about one-third of the parent company's business. The sector produces hydrogen peroxide, soda ash, sodium bicarbonate, and sodium percarbonate under two product groupings. The largest group is Solvay Chemicals, which has an electrochemistry and fluorinated products cluster and oxygen and organics clusters. Primary markets include adhesives and sealants, aerospace, automotive, environment, food and drink, glass, paints and coatings, medical devices, semiconductors and electronics, and soap and detergent.

The Wacker family controls more than half of the publicly traded company. Wacker-Chemie puts the silicon in the silicon chip industry -- literally. The German chemicals company supplies silicon, silicone, and silanes to the personal computer, telecom, and electronics industries. Divided into five units -- Silicones, Siltronic, Polymers, Polysilicon, and Fine Chemicals -- Wacker manufactures surface coating resins, industrial salt, acetyls, and insulation materials. Subsidiary Siltronic AG manufactures silicon wafers for the semiconductor industry.

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