Performance Fibers creates fibers, fabrics and finishes for a distinguished roster of customers across a diverse group of industries. Our locations in North America, Europe and Asia provide our customers everywhere in the world with local support and global resources.Performance Fibers rich history, experienced leadership, culture of excellence, clear vision and strong support from Sun Capital Partners combine to create a growth-oriented, industry-leading business that’s also a great place to work. Performance Fibers are committed to developing partnerships with our customers that take research and development to new levels by focusing on the needs of our customers – and their customers – to provide real solutions and game-changing products to the marketplace.

Cooper Tire & Rubber Company manufactures and markets replacement tires primarily in North America and internationally. It produces passenger car and light truck tires for independent tire dealers, wholesale distributors, regional and national retail tire chains, and other large automotive product retail chains. The company also produces passenger car, light truck, racing, and motorcycle tires, and markets these products to dealers in the replacement markets. In addition, it produces bias, radial light and medium truck tires, and off-the-road tires. The company was founded in 1913 and is based in Findlay, Ohio.

Johnson Matthey Plc operates as a specialty chemicals company in the United Kingdom and internationally. The company operates in three divisions: Environmental Technologies, Precious Metal Products, and Fine Chemicals. The Environmental Technologies division supplies catalysts and related technologies for applications, which benefit the environment, such as pollution control, cleaner fuel, efficient use of hydrocarbons, and the hydrogen economy. It offers catalytic systems for emissions control from vehicles and industrial processes; and catalysts and specialist services, as well as designs and licenses chemical processes for chemical, oil, gas, and refining industries.

Sterling Chemicals, Inc. is a North American producer of selected petrochemicals used to manufacture a wide array of consumer goods and industrial products. Acetic acid is currently our primary product and we benefit from a long-term requirements contract with BP Amoco Chemical Company for this product. Our petrochemicals facility located in Texas City, TX, is strategically located on Galveston Bay and offers approximately 160 acres for future expansion by us, or by other companies that can benefit from our existing infrastructure, facilities, management and operations expertise.

Iogen Corporation wants to affect the greenhouse effect. The company is developing cellulosic ethanol, a fuel that could conceivably cut carbon dioxide emissions created by automobiles. Cellulosic ethanol is derived from the plant waste (barley, corn, or wheat) farmers leave in the fields after a harvest. Iogen also manufactures enzymes used by the animal feed, paper, pulp, and textile industries. Although a private company, Iogen has some powerful friends and counts Royal Dutch Shell, Goldman Sachs, and the Canadian government among its investors.

Dynaction isn't the newest Saturday morning cartoon show -- it's a maker of fine and specialty chemicals through its 70% holding in Produits Chimiques Auxiliaires et de Synth賥 (PCAS). Its products are made for the pharmaceutical sector, primarily, as well as for makers of personal care and fragrance products. More than half of the company's sales are generated outside France. It previously had made power transmissions for heavy industrial use (through subsidiary CMD Engrenages et R餵cteurs) and had other non-chemical businesses, but Dynaction sold off the businesses from 2004-06 and now operates almost entirely through PCAS. Company chairman Christian Moretti holds about 15% of Dynaction.

Monsanto Company provides agricultural products for farmers in the United States and internationally. It has two segments, Seeds and Genomics, and Agricultural Productivity. The Seeds and Genomics segment produces corn, soybeans, canola, wheat, and cotton seeds, as well as vegetable and fruit seeds, including tomato, pepper, eggplant, melon, cucumber, pumpkin, squash, beans, broccoli, onions, and lettuce. This segment also develops biotechnology traits that assist farmers in controlling insects and weeds, as well as provide genetic material and biotechnology traits to other seed companies for their seed brands. The Agricultural Productivity segment offers glyphosate-based herbicides for agricultural, industrial, ornamental, and turf applications; lawn-and-garden herbicides for residential lawn-and-garden applications; and other selective herbicides for control of preemergent annual grass and small seeded broadleaf weeds in corn and other crops. The company offers its products under various brands, including the Roundup Ready, Bollgard, Bollgard II, YieldGard, YieldGard VT, Roundup Ready 2 Yield, and SmartStax for traits; DEKALB, Asgrow, Deltapine, and Vistive for row crop seeds; Seminis, De Ruiter, Royal Sluis, Asgrow, and Petoseed for vegetable seeds; Roundup for herbicides; and Harness for corn. It also licenses germplasm and trait technologies to seed companies. The company sells its products through distributors, retailers, dealers, agricultural co-operatives, plant raisers, and agents, as well as directly to farmers. Monsanto Company has a joint venture with Cargill, Inc. to commercialize a proprietary grain processing technology under the name Extrax. It has collaborations with BASF in plant biotechnology that focuses on high-yielding crops and crops that are tolerant to adverse conditions; and Biotechnology, Inc. to source genetic elements that enable crops to express desirable traits. The company was founded in 2000 and is based in St. Louis, Missouri.

PVS Chemicals sells undrinkable soda, sulfur-based chemicals, and acids that not even Timothy Leary would find palatable. The company's product list includes sulfuric and hydrochloric acids, liquid caustic soda, ferric chloride, and ammonium thiosulfate. These chemicals are used in applications such as water treatment (wastewater, process, and municipal), electronics manufacture (including semiconductor etching), gold and copper mining, and food and aluminum production. PVS Chemicals' subsidiaries include PVS Technologies (water treatment), Dynecol (transportation, analysis, treatment, and recycling of chemicals), and PVS Nolwood (chemical distribution).

Mixing up a batch of colors is the primary activity of Performance Masterbatches. The company, founded in 1975, has developed a system to make color-extruded plastics to customer specifications. The masterbatch process is a mixture of pigments and additives encapsulated during heating into a carrier resin and then cut into a granular shape after cooling. The process allows manufacturers to select the color of their polymer products. Performance Masterbatches uses its Datamatch system to produce a wide range of colors and to ensure color consistency.

Trans-Resources, Inc. Company Profile Better gardening through chemicals. Through five subsidiaries, Trans-Resources, Inc. (TRI) makes specialty plant nutrients as well as industrial and organic chemicals for businesses worldwide. Through Haifa Chemicals, TRI is the world's largest producer of potassium nitrate, a specialized growth nutrient for produce and tobacco; it controls about half of the world market. Haifa Chemicals also produces other fertilizers and food additives. The unit's products are marketed under the Multi-K and Multicote brands. Other TRI subsidiaries make water-soluble and liquid-starter fertilizers, insecticides, herbicides, horticulture supplies, and irrigation equipment. Chairman Arie Genger and family own the company.

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