Thai Central Chemical's (TCC) business is coming up roses. The company is a leading producer of compound fertilizers. TCC supplies roughly 1.2 million metric tons of fertilizer a year to the Thai agricultural market via two domestic production plants. Its products facilitate the growth of rice, rubber plants, palm, fruit, vegetables, and flowers; its Ox Brand fertilizer is especially popular among Thai farmers. TCC subsidiaries are additionally engaged in the production of pesticides, basic chemicals, textile chemicals, solvents, and plastic products. The company was established in 1973.

SNF manufactures water soluble polymers such as synthetic flocculants, coagulants, and dispersants used for municipal and industrial water and wastewater treatment. Other industries served by SNF include paper processing, textile printing, oil production, agriculture, and personal-care products manufacturing. The American arm of French polymer maker SNF Floerger, the company has about a dozen polymer production facilities around the US. Business units include Chemtall, Floquip (polymer preparation equipment), Polychemie, and Polydyne.

Sure-Gro Inc. Company Profile Sure-Gro is engaged in making and distributing packaged consumer lawn and garden products. It makes fertilizer, grass seed, pest-control, and horticultural products for consumer and commercial use. The company's consumer brands include Green Earth, Pickseed, Plant-Prod, So-Green, and Wilson. Set up at the end of 2007 when Spectrum Brands sold its Canadian consumer products business to private investment group RoyCap Merchant Banking and Clarke Inc., the company quickly went about building its business through two acquisitions the following year. Those two businesses produce soil, fertilizers, and packaging products in Canada.

Continental Carbon sees a red door and wants it painted black. Founded in 1936, the company manufactures carbon black from three plants in Alabama, Oklahoma, and Texas. It has marketing and distribution operations in other areas of the US, and it has a carbon black manufacturing subsidiary in India. Continental Carbon produces nearly 20 different grades of carbon black that are used for tires and other rubber and plastic products. The company is owned by China Synthetic Rubber Corporation.

IRPC Public Company Limited ranks among the leading integrated petrochemical companies in Thailand, producing naphtha, liquefied petroleum gas, and lubricant oils. The company's operations include petroleum, mostly refined products (gasoline, diesel, and fuel oils), though also lubricating oils and asphalt. IRPC 's other major business is the manufacture of olefins (ethylene and propylene) and aromatics (benzene, toluene, and xylene) that are used to make pretty much every kind of plastic used in all manner of industries. The company had been operating under bankruptcy protection for much of the decade.

AECI Limited Company Profile AECI makes chemicals for a range of uses -- from blowing things up to making keeping pests away from your crops. The company, operating through its subsidiaries, manufactures and distributes explosives, specialty chemicals, and specialty fibers. Its subsidiaries include African Explosives (with business primarily in Africa but expanding worldwide), Chemical Services (or Chemserve, whose products ranging from detergents to mining chemicals to plastics to agricultural chemicals), and SANS Fibres (polyester and nylon fibers). It also operates South African property developer Heartland Properties. AECI had also made decorative coatings, sold under the Dulux name brand, but sold those operations in 2007.

Petrochem Carless wants to keep drivers from having to do without their vehicle. The company offers products such as antifreeze, brake fluids, de-icers, and racing fuels. It also supplies chemical solvents such as alcohols, amines, and esters. Petrochem Carless is one of the top European refiners and distributors of specialty hydrocarbons and advanced automotive fluids, as well as a leading supplier of drilling fluids. It was formed in 2000 when Petrochem bought Carless (which traces its history back to 1859) from Spanish giant Repsol and merged the two companies' operations. The company underwent a management buyout (backed by Lloyds Banking Group) in 2005, and Lloyds offered to buy it outright in 2010.

AEP Industries, Inc. manufactures plastic packaging films in North America. The company produces and markets various polyethylene, polyvinyl chloride, and polypropylene flexible packaging products for consumer, industrial, and agricultural applications. It offers custom and proformance films used for drum, box, carton, and pail liners; furniture and mattress bags; films to cover value products; barrier films; cheese films; and freezer grade bundle films. The company also provides stretch wrap; polyvinyl chloride wrap products used in food and freezer wrap; printed and converted films for various applications, including printed shrink films; and printed, laminated, and converted films for flexible packaging to consumer markets. In addition, it manufactures unplasticized polyvinyl chloride film for use in battery labels, twist films, credit card laminates, PVC films. AEP Industries, Inc. serves the packaging, transportation, beverage, food, automotive, pharmaceutical, chemical, electronics, construction, agriculture, and textile industries. The company was founded in 1970 and is based in South Hackensack, New Jersey.

Agrium U.S. operates south of the border for Canadian fertilizers manufacturer and distributor Agrium. The parent company produces and distributes four major crop nutrients: nitrogen, phosphate, potash, and sulfate fertilizers for the wholesale market. Agrium U.S. operates a network of about 500 retail farm centers in the US and Latin America, and is one of the largest independent retailers of fertilizers, seeds, and chemicals in North America. The US provides Agrium with about two-thirds of its sales. Agrium began originally as Cominco during the 1930s.

Brenntag North America can hook you up. One of the largest chemical distributors in North America, the company offers hundreds of industrial and specialty chemicals -- from acetic acid to zinc oxide -- and provides custom blending and packaging of chemicals in dry, liquid, or gaseous states. Customers include manufacturers in such industries as chemicals, pharmaceuticals, paints, electronics, pulp and paper, cosmetics, food and beverages, textiles, and water treatment. European private equity group BC Partners owns Brenntag, and thus Brenntag North America.

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