Finally, a Method for the madness of keeping a clean home. Method Products makes and sells home-cleaning products, hand and body cleansers, and air fresheners and candles. It differentiates itself from larger, more established competitors through innovative design -- dish-washing liquid in sleek bowling-pin-shaped bottles, teardrop hand soap bottles, and futuristic-looking mops. It also carves its niche by offering nontoxic, environmentally friendly products in a price range that costs less green. Products are sold at Target, Office Depot, Costco, and other major retailers and grocery stores in the US, Canada, and the UK. Chemical engineer Adam Lowry and account planner Eric Ryan founded the firm in 2001.

Church & Dwight Canada wants to help brighten your teeth and your bath. It's a subsidiary of Church & Dwight Co., the world's #1 producer of baking soda, with its ARM & HAMMER brand. The company specializes in cleaners for home use, personal care products, over the counter medications, birth control products. Church & Dwight Canada makes ARM & HAMMER laundry detergent and kitty litter, Arrid antiperspirant, Nair depilatories, Pearl Drops toothpolish and toothpaste, First Response pregnancy test, and Trojan condoms. With a manufacturing plant located in Montreal, the Canadian operation also makes Gravol, Dioval, Ovol, Atasol, Sterimar, Rub A535, and other over-the-counter pharmaceuticals.

Wikoff Color makes a rainbow of elements that can't be wiped off. The company makes aqueous coatings and overprint varnishes in addition to its line of inks marketed around the globe. Its products are primarily used by customers in the graphic arts industry for lithography, flexography, letterpress, and gravure printing processes; Wikoff also makes functional coatings and specialty items. The company operates approximately 30 manufacturing plants and service centers, throughout the Eastern half of North America (plus one in British Columbia). Wikoff was founded in 1956 by Fred Wikoff and is owned by its employees.

Custom Building Products (CBP) likes to hold things together. The producer of tile-setting grout and adhesives makes such products as epoxies, cement, household and industrial glues, sealants, acrylic resins, clay mortars, putties, and latex, as well as gypsum products and concrete repair products. The company also offers installation tools, cleaning and maintenance equipment, and a library of how-to-do-it and other resource materials. The company manufactures and distributes its wares from about a dozen locations in North America. Its customers include architects, contractors, dealers, distributors, and do-it-yourselfers. CBP was founded in 1964 by Thomas Peck and Mike Bilek.

Vystar is vying to be a health care star. The company makes Vytex, a natural rubber latex product that retains the positive properties of latex (strength, comfort, widespread availability, good barrier) without producing the allergic reaction that plagues about 20% of health care workers and more than 70% of patients. Vytex is used in health care supplies including surgical and exam gloves, probe covers, catheters, tubing, and adhesives. Non-medical uses include sponges, balloons, condoms, threads and other textiles, and mattresses. It can be inserted into the manufacturing process just like natural latex so customers don't have to reconfigure assembly lines. Vystar's goods are made by Revertex Malaysia.

Jacob Stern & Sons, which primarily operates through subsidiary Acme-Hardesty, is a global oleochemicals and agricultural products distributor. Acme-Hardesty distributes an array of oil- and fat-based chemicals, as well as flavor and fragrance ingredients and industrial chemical products. Its customers include manufacturers of adhesives, coatings, lubricants, soaps, food, pharmaceuticals, and personal care products. In addition to the chemicals it gets domestically, Acme-Hardesty's oleochemicals are imported from Asia, the Middle East, and South America.

ICL Performance Products LP Company Profile ICL Performance Products LP is phosphorific! The North American unit of the performance products segment of Israel Chemicals Limited (ICL), it produces phosphorus chemicals, phosphoric acid, and phosphate salts. The chemicals are used in foods, cleaners, water treatment, flat-panel displays, oral care products, paints and coatings, and pharmaceuticals. The company also manufactures flame retardants. ICL Performance Products operates plants in Brazil and the US (California, Kansas, Missouri, and New Jersey). It represents about a quarter of its parent's total business.

Emerald Performance Materials was just a part of Lubrizol's Noveon unit. Since 2006, though, the company has been a stand-alone company owned by private investor Sun Capital Partners. The company makes additives, dyes, fine chemicals, silicones, and specialty polymers. Emerald Performance Materials serves the food and beverage companies, plastics and adhesives makers, and lubricants producers. Based in Ohio, the company operates globally. In 2008 the company made two acquisitions: CVC Specialty Chemicals (which it added to its Specialty Polymers unit) and Wolstenholme's carbon black dispersions for printing ink business (which became part of subsidiary Emerald Hilton Davis).

Haviland Enterprises distributes chemicals such as acids, alcohols, amines, chelating agents, lubricants, solvents, and surfactants. The company also provides contract blending and packaging, research and development, technical service, compliance training, and supply chain management services. It primarily serves customers in the Midwestern US but provides services to all 50 states and overseas as well. Associated companies include Haviland Contoured Plastics, which makes spiral-wound plastic hose, and Haviland Consumer Products, which blends and packages swimming pool chemicals for private-label customers.

InteliCoat Technologies hopes its specialty coatings are found to be intelligent solutions for its customers' needs. The company manufactures coatings and substrates for use primarily in digital imaging equipment. Its products include dispersion coatings, optically clear films, coated papers, and flexible laminates. InteliCoat's products are sold worldwide under the brand name Magic; it also provides private-label services for OEMs and distributors. Other brand names include Jet Set, for the CAD market, and MagicL饠digital imagine media products. Investment firm Sun Capital Partners owns the company.

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