Canpotex is the world's largest exporter of potash, an international marketing and distribution company wholly owned by the Saskatchewan potash producers: Agrium Inc., The Mosaic Company, and Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan Inc.As a competitive world supplier, Canpotex markets and distributes Saskatchewan potash to customers overseas, principally to countries in Asia, Latin America, and Oceania. Operating since 1972, Canpotex has corporate offices in Singapore, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Saskatoon, and Vancouver.

From painting to printing, Clariant GmbH makes it brighter. The company makes pigments for paints, lacquers, plastics, and other specialty applications. The company also makes masterbatches, printing inks for ink jet and laser printing, additives to improve heat resistance, and aluminum paints. Other divisions make surfactants, polymers, pharmaceutical and agricultural fine chemicals, and distribute color and additive concentrates. Clariant GmbH sells to the automotive, electronics, consumer goods, medical, packaging, and textiles markets. The company is the German unit of Swiss specialty chemical giant Clariant International and accounts for about 15% of its parent's total sales.

Whether it flies, bulldozes, or hauls golfers, Arrow-Magnolia International has something that cleans it. The company makes about 400 chemical cleaners that it sells under its own brands; it also distributes nonchemical janitorial supplies. Its products include chemicals used in construction (concrete and rust removers), government engineering (street and equipment cleaners), aviation (carbon and dirt removers), and golf course maintenance. Arrow-Magnolia makes more than half of its products in-house and sells them through independent representatives and a dozen distributors. An investment group led by Tanya Tippeconnic-Shaw has owned Arrow-Magnolia since 2005.

Samsung, but instead of making all that stuff you see at the electronics store, it buys and sells all manner of consumer and industrial goods. Samsung C&T America (SCTA, the C&T stands for construction and trading) is the US arm of the Korean commodities trading, marketing and distribution, and investment company Samsung C&T (a part of the Samsung chaebol, or industrial group). As a commodities trader, SCTA deals in chemicals, steel, metals, textiles, and natural resources. The company's marketing and distribution efforts include consumer products ranging from health care products to FUBU clothing and US Polo Association footwear.

Business is booming in good times and in bad at Orica. Its acquisition of the European and North American explosives operations from Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI) put Orica among the world's largest suppliers of commercial explosives. The company primarily serves the mining, quarrying, and construction industries. Additionally, Orica's Chemicals division produces chlor-alkali, mining, water-treatment, and industrial chemicals through its Minova, Chemnet, and other subsidiaries. Orica is also a leader in consumer products in Australia and New Zealand; subsidiaries of that unit include Selleys (home and car care products), Dulux (decorative paints), and Cabot's (woodcare products).

Warwick International has been cleaning up in the chemicals business for more than a quarter century. Based in Wales, the company is a leading manufacturer of a bleach activator called MYKON that allows detergents to become more powerful more quickly and at lower temperatures. Additionally, the Warwick Group maintains a number of chemical distribution companies worldwide. In addition to serving the household and industrial detergents industry, the group targets such industries as water treatment, textile processing, coatings, and personal care. In 2008 Close Brothers' private equity unit acquired Warwick for $235 million from American aerospace and manufacturing company Sequa.

Through its subsidiaries, Thai Rubber Latex Corporation makes latex concentrate, as well as various finished products made from that concentrate. More than half of the company's revenue is derived from its manufacturing of latex concentrate, the major raw material used in the manufacture of rubber and latex products including gloves, condoms, and rubber thread. The company also manufactures latex gloves and rubber thread from its majority-owned subsidiaries Universal Latex Products and World Flex. Thai rubber Latex operates nine manufacturing facilities.

Contract Chemicals began life in 1977 as a gun-for-hire in the world of specialty chemical manufacturing. Its chemicals (including bromides, chlorides, intermediates, and salts) are made for the agrochemical, fragrance, detergent, food and beverage, pharmaceutical, and photography industries. The company's products are used in antibiotics and anti-hypertension drugs as well as salt and vinegar potato chips. The bulk of Contract Chemicals' revenues come from exports to the US, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Korea, and Switzerland.

SABIC Innovative Plastics is among the world's largest producers of high-performance polymers used bymanufacturers of electronics, office equipment, computer, and automotive. The company's units include Specialty Film & Sheet, which makes the polycarbonate sheet and film under the Lexan brand name; Polymershapes, a plastic film, sheet, and tube distributor; and Resins, a producer of all manner of plastic resins (the starting point in making most plastic materials). SABIC IP also owns LNP Engineering Plastics, a plastics compounding firm. The company was formed in 2007 when General Electric sold GE Plastics to Saudi Arabia's largest public company, SABIC, for $11 billion.

TVK went from painting the town red to covering it in plastic(s). Tiszai Vegyi Kombinat Rt. (TVK) began as a factory commissioned to produce paint for the Soviet Union; today it manufactures petrochemicals, primarily olefins and polyolefins. TVK is Hungary's sole manufacturer of polyolefins and has 20% of Central Europe's petrochemical market share. The company sells its products -- ethylene, propylene, and their derivatives -- to small- and medium-sized plastics makers throughout Europe. TVK is majority owned by Hungary's largest company, oil biggie MOL Group.

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