Do-it-yourself Van Goghs fill their palettes with Diamond-Vogel Paint's products. The company makes architectural (interior and exterior), industrial, and heavy-duty protective coatings, paints, and stains under such brand names as Diamond Vogel and Van Sickle. Its Old Masters unit makes stains, varnishes, pickling, and other wood care products. Diamond-Vogel Paint sells its products through about 70 company-owned stores, primarily in the midwestern and southwestern US. The company's stores also sell home decorating products such as wallpaper and window treatments. Diamond-Vogel Paint, which was founded by Dutch immigrant Andrew Vogel in 1926, is owned and managed by the third generation of the Vogel family.

Rust-Oleum has been fighting the spread of iron oxide for more than 80 years. The company makes paints and similar coatings that resist moisture and corrosion. Designed for materials that are exposed to the elements, including light fixtures, patio furniture, wheelbarrows, mailboxes, and window trim, Rust-Oleum products come in multiple colors and textures. It also makes paints for indoor furniture, epoxies for garage floors and truck beds, and oil finishes for wood. Originally founded in 1921 by a Scottish-born sea captain named Robert Fergusson who discovered fish oil prevented rust, Rust-Oleum is now a subsidiary of chemicals and consumer products heavyweight RPM International.

Elkem is one of Norway's largest industrial companies and aims to become a global supplier to the silicon products and solar energy industries. Its products include ferroalloys, silicon metal, carbon, and microsilica. In addition, Elkem produces hydroelectric power for Norway's power market and is involved in energy trading in the Nordic market. It is also developing its own technology for highly purified silicon, to be used in solar cells. Elkem is a subsidiary of Norwegian industrial conglomerate Orkla.

Agrium Inc. produces and markets agricultural nutrients, industrial products, and specialty products worldwide, as well as involves in the retail supply of agricultural products and services in North and South America. It operates through three segments: Retail, Wholesale, and Advanced Technologies. The Retail segment markets crop nutrient products, including nitrogen, phosphate, potash, sulphur, and micronutrients; crop protection products, such as herbicides, fungicides, adjuvants, and insecticides; seeds; and a range of custom application and agronomic consulting services, as well as other services, including crop input product application, soil and leaf tissue testing and analysis, and crop scouting. As of December 31, 2008, this segment operated approximately 800 retail farm centers in the U.S., Argentina, and Chile. The Wholesale segment manufactures, purchases, and markets a range of nutrients, including nitrogen-based, potash, and phosphate-based crop nutrient products. It also owns and operates facilities that upgrade ammonia and urea to other products, such as nitrogen solutions and nitric acid. In addition, this segment operates fertilizer granulation and blending plants in the United States. The Advanced Technologies segment produces and sells controlled-release crop nutrient and professional products to the agriculture, specialty agriculture, professional turf, horticulture, and consumer lawn and garden markets. This segment also offers pest control products to the structural pest control industry, including pest control in residential and commercial structures. It was formerly known as Cominco Fertilizers Ltd. and changed its name to Agrium Inc. in 1995. The company was founded in 1931 and is headquartered in Calgary, Canada.

Turns out that not all dirt is created equal. Tetra Micronutrients produces mineral additives that make bad dirt better. Its zinc and manganese micronutrients are completely water-soluble, which is important in actually getting the micronutrients to the plants where they improve plant nutrition and the health of animals that eat the plants. The company is based in Texas, has its manufacturing facility in Nebraska, and its sales force is spread throughout the US and into Mexico and Canada.

Southwall Technologies Inc. develops, manufactures, and markets energy saving films and glass products for automotive and architectural markets worldwide. It offers thin film coatings on flexible substrates for the automotive glass, electronic display, window film, and architectural glass products. The company’s products include transparent solar-control films for automotive glass; anti reflective films for computer screens, including flat panel displays and plasma displays; transparent conductive films for use in touch screen and liquid crystal displays; energy control films for architectural glass; and various other coatings. It develops products to save energy and reduce carbon emissions in homes, buildings, and automobiles. The company also offers various products that control sunlight in automotive glass, reduce light reflection, reduce electromagnetic radiation, and improve image quality in electronic display products, as well as conserve energy in architectural products. Southwall Technologies sells its products to original equipment manufacturers, glass and window fabricators, and distributors through direct sales force and sales representatives. The company was founded in 1979 and is based in Palo Alto, California.

Akzo Nobel is the world's largest paint maker, but it can do more than paint a pretty picture. The company is also among the world's largest chemical manufacturers and a major salt producer. Akzo Nobel divides its business into three lines. The paints group produces decorative paints and primarily serves Europe and North America. Akzo Nobel's coatings group manufactures marine and protective coatings, packaging coatings, automotive finishes, and industrial coatings. The specialty chemicals unit makes pulp and paper chemicals, functional chemicals (flame retardants, crop nutrients), industrial chemicals (salt and chlor alkalies), surfactants, and specialty starches.

What's Brewer Science brewing up? The company produces chemicals used by makers of electronics and semiconductors. Its chemicals include anti-reflective coatings and specialty polymers and resins. Brewer Science also makes baking and curing equipment used to make wafers and photo masks. Its customers include companies in the aviation, automotive, diagnostic, communications, and computer manufacturing industries. The company operates from locations in nine countries and gets more than half of its sales from international customers. CEO Terry Brewer founded the company with his wife, Paula, in 1981.

Prince Agri Products is concerned with the health of cattle and swine. The company, a subsidiary of Phibro Animal Health (formerly called Philipp Brothers Chemicals), refines trace minerals such as cobalt, copper, iodine, iron, manganese, molybdenum, and zinc, as well as additives to be used as premixes for animal feed. Its CHROMAX (chromium tripicolinate) is a nutritional supplement fed to over 3 million sows every day. Prince Agri also makes feed flavoring additives such as the raspberry-flavored PIGORTEK for piglets. The company was founded in 1980.

CRI Catalyst Company is part of CRI/Criterion Inc., the global catalyst technology company of the Shell Group. CRICC operates research laboratories, development facilities, manufacturing plants and business units throughout the world.It is dedicated to providing a broad customer base with effective and cost-efficient catalysts and technologies. CRI has a range of products with specific focus on

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