Clariant Corporation is clearly into the chemicals business. The company is divided into four segments: Textile, Leather, and Paper Chemicals; Functional Chemicals; Pigments and Additives; and Masterbatches (which are color and additive concentrates). As the North American subsidiary of Swiss specialty chemicals maker Clariant AG, Clariant Corp. oversees operations in Canada and the US and has about 25 manufacturing facilities and service centers throughout North America.

The Dow Chemical Company engages in the manufacture and supply of products used primarily as raw materials in the production of customer products and services worldwide. The Electronic and Specialty Materials segment offers materials for chemical mechanical planarization pads and slurries, chemical processing aids and intermediates, electronic displays, food and pharmaceutical processing and ingredients, home and personal care ingredients, hygiene and infection control, photolithography materials, printed circuit board materials, process and materials preservation, semiconductor packaging, connectors and industrial finishing, and water purification. It’s Coatings and Infrastructure segment offers sticking and bonding solutions; insulation, housewrap, sealant, and adhesive products and systems; and construction chemical solutions and building-integrated photovoltaics. The Health and Agricultural Sciences segment provides agricultural and plant biotechnology products, pest management solutions, and healthy oils. The company’s Performance Systems offers plastics, adhesives, glass bonding systems, emissions control technology, films, fluids, structural enhancement, and acoustical management solutions, as well as elastomers, specialty films, and plastic additive products, and skin and microcellular polyurethane foams and systems, and epoxy solutions and systems. Its Performance Products segment provides amines, emulsion polymers, epoxy resins, oxygenated solvents, polyurethane, and specialty monomer products. The company’s Basic Plastics segment offers polyethylene, polypropylene, equipolymers, and polystyrene resins. Its Basic Chemicals segment provides ethylene dichloride, vinyl chloride monomer, caustic soda, and ethylene oxide. The Hydrocarbons and Energy segment procures fuels, natural gas liquids, and crude oil-based raw materials, as well as supplies monomers, power, and steam. The Dow Chemical was founded in 1897 and is based in Midland, Michigan.

EMCO Chemical Distributors has developed a special chemistry with its Midwest manufacturing customers. The company distributes chemicals that include acids, alcohols, surfactants, solvents, and other industrial and specialty chemicals. Its custom packaging facility provides contract blending and packaging services and concentrates on filling orders for hazardous chemicals. Long situated solely in Chicago, EMCO has in recent years opened new facilities in Minneapolis/St. Paul; Kenosha, Wisconsin; and suburban St. Louis. Its waste services division supplies processed non-hazardous waste to Covanta's New York waste-to-energy facility. President, CEO, and owner Edward Polen founded EMCO in 1971.

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.

Cambridge Isotope Laboratories, Inc. (CIL) is the world's premier producer of stable isotope labeled compounds and the world leader in the field of isotope separations with an annual production capacity of 120 kilograms of Carbon-13 and annual production capacity of 250 kilograms of Oxygen-18. For more than 20 years, CIL has specialized in the development, production, and marketing of stable (non-radioactive) isotopes and chemical compounds labeled with stable isotopes. With an inventory of over 8000 products, CIL has the most complete product offering of stable isotope labeled compounds available.

One can get wrapped up in the chemical products produced by Asahi Kasei Spandex Europe and not have to worry about rehab. The company, a subsidiary of Asahi Kasei's fibers unit, produces manmade fibers under the brand name Dorlastan that are used in apparel, paper machine clothing, fishing line, and zippers. It had been a part of LANXESS, and before that of Bayer MaterialScience, until Asahi Kasei acquired the company in 2006. It was called Dorlastan Fibers until its new parent changed its name in 2007; prior to that name change, it was called Bayer Faser until the summer of 2004, when it took the name of its best-known product brand.

Badger State Ethanol, LLC is operating a dry-mill ethanol production facility in Monroe, Wisconsin. The plant started production mid- October, 2002 with a name-plate capacity of 40 million gallons of ethanol and 128,000 tons of dried distillers grains with solubles (DDGS) each year. Since startup, the plant has continued to increase production up in excess of 50 million gallons of ethanol per year. Badger State Ethanol is proud of its role in helping to reduce America's dependency on foreign oil by producing clean burning, environmentally friendly, renewable fuel.

Lenzing AG manufactures cellulose fibers made from beech wood. The company produces about 525,000 tons of textile fibers and nonwoven fibers every year. Its fibers are sold to the textile industry for use in apparel, upholstery, fire hoses, and US military uniforms. Nonwoven fibers are used to make cleaning pads, and wound care and feminine products. Lenzing's plastics division makes thermoplastics, PTFE fibers (Teflon), polymer fibers such as acrylic, and carbon fibers. The company traces its roots back to 1892 as a paper mill in Lenzing, Austria. Lenzing is 85% owned by B&C Holding.

Coronado Paint Company explores ways to coat any type of surface. The company manufactures architectural protective and decorative coatings, which are sold to independent paint and decorating stores in North America. For professional painters and do-it-yourselfers alike, consumer products include exterior and interior primers, paints, stains, and varnishes. Coronado Paint also makes industrial maintenance and specialty protective coatings. The company was founded in 1957 to manufacture coatings for the US government. It's owned by Insl-X, a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway's Benjamin Moore.

Canada's Resin Systems manufactures advanced composite materials designed to replace wood, steel, and concrete. The company's Version polyurethane resins are the basis of its composite materials. Operating division RS Technologies manufactures power transmission poles made of composite materials. The poles, designed to replace conventional wooden and steel poles, are sold to power and utility companies in Canada and the US. Resin Systems achieved full-scale commercial production of its RStandard modular transmission poles in 2005. Two years later it agreed to make Home Depot subsidiary HD Supply Utilities its sole distributor. Resin Systems also makes composite roller tubes used in material handling systems.

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