Viridas (formerly Caldwell Investments) has decided to give up its textile business in order to help stop global warming. Helping to replace fossil fuels, the company specializes in supplying Crude Jatropha Oil to the biodiesel industry, focusing on the South American, European, and US markets. Its Viridas Brasil Agronegocios subsidiary is developing a trial plantation for producing the oil in Belo Horizonte, before implementing an industrial-scale plantation in Brazil's northeastern region.

Tokuyama Corporation company was established in 1918 when it began producing soda ash. Tokuyama has your chemical and cement needs covered. The company boasts a diverse set of operations as a manufacturer of organic and inorganic chemicals, cement and building materials, and specialty materials used in the electronics and medical fields. Its revenues are split fairly evenly among these three segments. Products include caustic soda, polyvinyl chloride (PVC), and microporous film; cement, ready-mix concrete, and plastic window sashes; and dental impression material, medical diagnostic analyzers, and optical lens solvents. Tokuyama is composed of about 90 subsidiaries that operate throughout Asia, Europe, and the US.

Ciba Specialty Chemicals aims to make things stronger, brighter, less clingy, and cleaner. (Note to Parents: it can't achieve this with kids.) Ciba produces specialty chemicals through three business segments: coating effects (pigments, anti-static additives, and whitening agents); plastic additives (additives for lubricants and plastics); and water and paper treatment (for the paper production, water and wastewater treatment, detergent, and hygiene industries). Ciba sells in more than 120 countries, mostly in Europe, the Americas, and the Asia-Pacific region; Europe accounts for almost half of sales. BASF, the world's largest chemicals maker, bought Ciba for about $4 billion in 2009.

Canada Colors and Chemicals Limited is one of the largest independent distributors in Canada, and the 6th largest distributor in North America. Founded by Mr. R.R. Carr-Harris in 1920, the company's growth over the past many years has been built on strong customer service, quality assurance and responsible care. Our distribution services span Canada with warehouses located in Brampton, Windsor, Montreal, Vancouver and Leduc, as well as a sulphuric acid manufacturing plant in Elmira Ontario.

Formosa Chemicals & Fiber Corporation (FCFC) was founded on March 5, 1965. At the time of our inception, Taiwan was in great shortage of natural fibers due to the lack of resources. In support of a rapidly developing textile industry, we decided to build an integrated fiber plant that made wood pulp from small broadleaf woods or twigs grown along the paths of forests in mountainous regions of Taiwan for the production of rayon and engaged in textile processing. After years of rapid expansion, the company now has seven business divisions, namely First Chemical Division, Petrochemicals Division, Third Chemical Division, Plastics Division, Textile Division, Nylon Division, and Engineering & Construction Division, as well as a carpet project team. In recent years we have diversified into petrochemical and power generation businesses with plants in Changhwa, Ilan, Dongshan, Chiayi Hsin Kang, and Yunlin Mailiao, turning ourselves into a major manufacturer of chemicals, fibers, petrochemical and plastic materials in Taiwan.

Dover Chemical Corporation is a leading producer of alkylphenols, chlorinated paraffins, polymer additives, liquid and solid antioxidants (including organophosphites), flame retardants, and additives for water-based and oil-based metalworking fluids. It is among the top US manufacturers of chlorinated paraffins, which are used to make flame retardants, and it is major producer of liquid phosphites in North America.

Evonik Degussa Corporation is the North America arm of German chemical giant, Evonik Degussa GmbH. Like its parent, it operates through six divisions, the biggest of which are Industrial Chemicals (chlorides and peroxides) and Inorganic Materials (silicon products and carbon black). The other units are Consumer Specialties, Health and Nutrition, Coatings and Additives, and Performance Polymers. Products range from amino acids and building protection coatings to another of its specialties, specialty acrylic products including its best known brand, Plexiglas.

Treatt, founded in 1886, operates as R C Treatt in the UK and Treatt USA in the US. Treatt tricks your nose and taste buds into liking a thing. Although the company points out that it is not a flavor and fragance company, Treatt does make raw materials used in the flavor and fragrance and food and beverages industries. It blends and distills essential oils. Products include flavor-enhancing citrus oils and Treattarome, a line of flavors named after the food from which they are distilled. The company's ingredients are used in air fresheners, cosmetics, soaps, soft drinks, confectionery, and pharmaceuticals. The Bovill family, including managing director Hugo Bovill, control 29% of the company.

I say, "potato chip." You say, "crisp." But we can all agree Pringles are sought after worldwide. Procter & Gamble Holdings UK, like its US parent The Procter & Gamble Company, manufactures and sells household care items (this includes its Pringles brand); beauty products (includes fragrances like Hugo Boss and Lacoste, cosmetic brand Max Factor, and skin care line Olay); and family health items (like Crest toothpaste and "disposable nappies" Pampers). Procter & Gamble operates more than a dozen locations in the UK, including administrative offices, technical centers, and manufacturing facilities. President Laurent Philippe succeeded Paul Polman, who retired in June 2005.

JFC Technologies makes the chemicals that make up modern medicine. The company develops and manufactures a variety of pharmaceutical ingredients and applied materials, supplying customers with anywhere from milligrams to multiple tons of ingredients used in making their own products. JFC's chemicals are used in pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, and nutritional supplements. The company began operations in 1970 as Jame Fine Chemicals. Besides its manufacturing plant and headquarters in New Jersey, JFC also opened a 50,000 square foot pharmaceutical plant in Ningbo, China.

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