C. L. Hauthaway & Sons manufactures finishing materials and advanced polymers used by textiles and coatings makers. The company makes coatings resins (polyurethanes), leather finishes (adhesion promoters, basecoat polymers), and textile finishes (flame retardant polymers and compounds); it also offers custom polyurethane manufacturing. Hauthaway serves customers in the US and abroad in such industrial coatings markets as flooring, automotive interior plastics, leather finishing, and other industrial maintenance industries, and it's expanding into the industrial film-converting market. The company was formed by Charles L. Hauthaway in 1852 as a manufacturer of protective coatings for shoes.

O'Neil Color and Compounding makes colorants and compounds for a variety of plastics used in packaging, bottles, toys, and horticultural and industrial products. It has about 20 advanced production lines and produces custom compounds such as flame retardant, anti-stat, and wear resistant materials for resin systems. The company is a subsidiary of Primex Plastics, which is itself a subsidiary of ICC Industries. It was founded in 1957 by Frank O'Neil.

Innophos Holdings, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, produces and sells specialty phosphates primarily in North America. The company offers specialty salts and specialty acids, such as sodium aluminum phosphate, sodium acid pyrophosphate, sodium hexametaphosphate, monocalcium phosphate, dicalcium phosphate, tricalcium phosphate, pharma calcium phosphate, ammonium phosphate, potassium phosphate, polyacid, and sodium tripolyphosphate. Its specialty salts are used as flavor enhancers in beverages, electrolytes in sports drinks, texture modifiers in cheeses, leavening agents in baked goods, calcium and phosphorus sources for nutritional supplements, and pharmaceutical excipients and abrasives in toothpastes; and specialty acids are used in industrial applications, such as asphalt modification and petrochemical catalysis.

Sun Chemical is the world's largest inks maker; it also makes all manner of coatings. In addition to inks and coatings for paper, packaging, metal, and other products, Sun Chemical manufactures printing plates for corrugated packaging. Its inks and coatings products are sold under the Sun Chemical, Kohl & Madden, US Ink, and Coates brands. The company operates more than 250 manufacturing, sales, and service locations in Europe and the Americas. Sun Chemical has been a subsidiary of Japanese inks and coatings maker DIC (formerly Dainippon Ink and Chemicals) since 1987 when the latter bought the graphic arts division of what is now Sequa.

Kemira tackled the water challenge in its strategy in 2008. The company is investing in research and development, strongly and consistently, to offer to water-intensive industries solutions that help save water and energy. Over the years, Kemira has accumulated impressive expertise and knowledge related to water-intensive processes. Combined with water chemistry, this competence enables Kemira to create production processes that require less water, energy and other invaluable resources.

Japan's super packaging company is JSP Corporation, which manufactures foamed plastic products used to create food containers, electronics packaging, and automobile parts. The company's products are made using one of two methods: extrusion foaming and bead foaming. Its global subsidiary, JSP International, is among the leading manufacturers of expanded polypropylene beads, primarily used by the automotive industry. Since the 1990s the company has made international expansion a priority. JSP now gets almost a third of its total sales outside Japan. The company was founded in 1962.

Super Glue really sticks to it. The maker of Super Glue, Bondini, and other adhesives and sealants sells both consumer product and industrial brands. Those products include Super Glue, ProSeal, and ZAP; manufacturing and industrial brands include Super Glue and Pacer Industrial. Its industrial products include automotive aftermarket products such as sealants and instant gaskets, and adhesives for the automotive, medical device, and electronics industries. In 2003 a group led by former board member E.T. Gravette took the company private. Super Glue Corporation was known as Pacer Technology until 2005.

Allvivo Vascular develops biomimetic surface materials -- coatings for biomedical and research instruments. Founded in 1999 to develop research being done at the University of Utah and incubated at the University of Alabama, Allvivo Vascular has graduated and moved to California. The company's primary target market is to provide coatings for stents used in coronary interventions. Its products enable researchers to control cells' reactions to contact with tools whether in lab experimentation or surgical implantation (both ex vivo and in vivo, thus the name allvivo).

Hollingsworth & Vose Company manufactures products for engine filtration, air and liquid filtration, and battery separators using nonwoven materials. It also makes advanced composites as well as technical, filter, and specialty papers. The company's engine and industrial filtration products are made to perform in harsh environments and are used in automotive air, automotive lubrication, diesel, fuel, hydraulic, oil, and other specialty filtration applications. Hollingsworth & Vose's battery separators are made with uniform pore structure, chemical stability, and high wicking and absorbency. The company has plants in Germany, the UK, and the US.

Cardolite makes an uncanny match out of a nutshell and a brake pad. The company manufactures coating and friction products based on cashew nutshell liquid (CNSL) -- yes, that kind of cashew. Cardolite's products are used in adhesives, concrete, intermediates, resins, inks, and electrical goods for the industrial, specialty coatings, automotive, printing, rubber, and polymer industries; it supplies about 50 countries worldwide. Cardolite operates manufacturing facilities in the US and China, as well as sales and distribution facilities in Belgium and Singapore.

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