No liposuction or weight loss miracles here, but Lipo Chemicals can help you tan without burning, sweat without stinking, and age without looking old. The specialty chemicals company manufactures raw materials and ingredients for the fragrance, personal care, food, and pharmaceutical industries. Lipo has sales offices and affiliated companies throughout the world that market esters, cosmetic oils, preservatives, humectants, exfoliates, emulsifiers, and tanning enhancers to companies like Avon, Procter & Gamble, and Mary Kay Cosmetics. It also offers formulation and technical support services. Co-founded in 1962 by Louis Frischling (who died in late 2007), the company is controlled by the Frischling 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.

Van Horn, Metz & Co. was founded in 1950 by Harold Van Horn and Donald Metz. The company was designed to offer raw materials for industry use. These are now sold by VHM's salesforce from Maine southward to Florida and Westward to Missouri. VHM has grown to include 12 warehouses and 6 sales offices strategically located throughout the Mid-Atlantic, Northeast, South, and Ohio Valley regions.

Environmental Recycling Technologies develops plastic molding processes for the automotive and other industries. The holding company operates through subsidiaries worldwide. A leader in plastics recycling technology, the group has focused on developing building material products using powder impression moulding (PIM) technology. PIM is used to produce a strengthened plastic composite comparable to metal, which is used for products in the construction, automotive, marine, aviation, and other markets. Chairman Ken Brooks and director Bill Widger started the company as CAMCO Corporation in 1997. It soon became 3DM Worldwide and changed its name again in 2007.

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.

Materia’s Nobel Prize winning green metathesis technology provides chemical and material companies with a competitive edge. Customers use our groundbreaking technology to manufacture novel products inaccessible with traditional methods and to replace established production processes with faster, less expensive, greener routes. By working with Materia, our partners access a powerful innovation platform, leading application know-how, and a dominant IP position. With our technological expertise and understanding of market needs, we effectively focus our efforts on the development of products and services that contribute to a greener world.

Buckman Laboratories International defends the world against tiny invaders. The global specialty chemicals manufacturer originated as a producer of chemicals that control the growth of microorganisms such as mold and fungi. Today the company's more than 1,000 products are key to aqueous industrial processes used in manufacturing and treating pulp and paper, leather, paint, coatings, plastics, and wood. They include chemical intermediates, coagulants, corrosion inhibitors, defoamers, dispersants, flocculants, microbicides, polymers, and scale inhibitors. The family of founder Stanley Buckman owns the company through Bulab Holdings.

Occidental Chemical (OxyChem) manufactures basic chemicals, vinyls, and performance chemicals. The company is the top US maker of chlorine and caustic soda (used in bleach, plastics, and pulp and paper) and the top producer of potassium hydroxide, or caustic potash (used in fertilizers). Through subsidiary OxyVinyls it's the leading North American maker of vinyl chloride monomer (VCM), which is used to make PVC resins. The company operates some 22 plants throughout the US as well as another three in Brazil, Canada, and Chile. (OxyChem owns 50% of the Brazilian plant.)

Lightly touching the envelope to his brow, the omniscient Karnak the Magnificent might've quipped, " An IRA, an umbrella, and Karnak's Energy Star-rated products," divining the answer to "Name three things that cover your assets." Karnak the Corporation, with more than 70 years of experience, manufactures roofing and waterproofing protective coatings, as well as cements and sealants that are rated for fire resistance and wind uplift. The company sells its Underwriters Laboratories-certified products worldwide through such business partners as Allied Building Products Corp. Karnak maintains manufacturing and warehouse locations throughout the US and markets its products globally.

CRI/Criterion Catalyst Company puts the pedal to the metal for the chemically challenged. The company acts as the European distributor for its parent, CRI Catalyst, which itself is a subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell. Through its subsidiary, Criterion Catalysts & Technologies, CRI/Criterion Catalyst provides hydroprocessing chemicals used by petrochemical companies. In 2011 BASF Catalysts acquired CRI/Criterion's global styrene catalysts business in a move to expand into markets in the Middle East and China.

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