Evonik Industries evidently decided it no longer wanted to get its hands dirty. The enterprise was cut out from RAG, leaving the coal business with that company and taking RAG's former subsidiaries Degussa (chemicals and plastics), STEAG (power generation), and Wohnen (real estate). Degussa operates globally and across multiple chemical platforms; it accounts for about three-quarters of Evonik's business. STEAG operates power generation plants, both in Germany and abroad in Colombia, the Philippines, and Turkey. Evonik's real estate operations include 60,000 housing units in Germany. Investment firm CVC Capital Partners owns a 25% stake in the company.

Spur Ventures is involved in phosphate mining and phosphate fertilizer manufacturing in a joint venture with Hubei Yichang Phosphate Chemical in China. The Canadian company, which holds a majority interest in the venture, produces NPK fertilizer -- a compound containing nitrogen, phosphorous, and potassium -- in China's central province of Hubei. Spur Ventures also operates a phosphoric acid plant in Yichang, which has the capacity to produce 60,000 tons of phosphoric acid per year and will be used to supply the joint venture's fertilizer plant.

Rasa Industries can help your company dig itself a hole. Rasa has three major business segments: machinery, chemicals, and electronic materials. Its machinery segment makes pipe-jacking machines used for tunneling in the installation of sewer, gas, and water lines and electricity and communication networks; it also makes screens and pumps for dealing with the slurry that its pipe-jacking machines produce. Rasa's chemical products include phosphorus, ferric oxide, and phosphoric acid. In 2011 Rasa's electronics division sold its silicon wafer recycling operations to RS Technologies. The unit continues to make high-purity materials such as gallium and phosphorus for electronics.

Kohl Marketing moves products for companies like Degussa, BASF, and Akzo Nobel; the chemical distributor's wingspan stretches from eastern Pennsylvania down to Florida and west to Tennessee and Mississippi. It distributes raw chemical materials to makers of paints, plastics, textiles, adhesives, graphic arts, and building materials. Kohl Marketing has distribution centers in North Carolina, Florida, and at its home base in Roswell, Georgia.

DuPont Agriculture & Nutrition is into seed, weed, and feed. The largest of DuPont's five business units, DuPont Agriculture & Nutrition contains a number of units, subsidiaries, and joint ventures devoted to plant growth and protection. The division encompasses DuPont Crop Protection (herbicides, fungicides, and insecticides), joint venture Solae (soy-based ingredients with Bunge), and Qualicon (microbial testing). Most of the division's sales occur in the first half of the calendar year. The company has joint ventures based in the UK, Mexico, and Russia. It also includes Pioneer Hi-Bred, a producer of hybrid corn seeds.

Mexican conglomerate Alfa is a big player in four different industry segments. Alpek, a global petrochemical concern with an emphasis on synthetic fibers (Akra Polyester, DAK Americas, Nyltek, Indelpro, PTAL, Temex) accounts for about 40% of sales. Alfa's other operations consist primarily of refrigerated-foods manufacturer and distributor Sigma Alimentos (Yoplait yogurt, Oscar Mayer), aluminum auto part maker Nemak (engine heads and blocks), and telecom company Alestra. Alfa has alliances with more than 20 companies (such as AT&T, Ford, and Kraft) around the world. It operates more than 75 production facilities throughout the Americas, Asia, and Europe, though Mexico provides almost half of its sales.

The Clorox Company engages in the production, marketing, and sales of consumer products in the United States and internationally. The company operates through four segments: Cleaning, Lifestyle, Household, and International. The Cleaning segment consists of laundry, home-care, professional products, and auto-care products. This segment offers its products under the Clorox, Clorox 2, Formula 409, Liquid-Plumr, Pine-Sol, S.O.S, Tilex, Green Works, Armor All, and STP brands. The Lifestyle segment offers food products, water-filtration systems, filters, and natural personal care products. This segment offers its products under the Hidden Valley, K C Masterpiece, Brita, and Burt’s Bees brand names. The Household segment provides charcoal, cat litter and plastic bags, wraps, and container products.This segment offers its products under the Glad, Fresh Step, Scoop Away, Ever Clean, Kingsford, and Match Light brand names. The International segment offers home-care, laundry, auto-care, water filtration, charcoal and cat litter products, dressings, plastic bags, wraps and containers, and insecticides under the Clorox, Javex, Glad, PinoLuz, Ayudin, Limpido, Clorinda, Poett, Mistolin, Lestoil, Bon Bril, Nevex, Brita, Armor All, STP, Green Works, Sabra, Pine-Sol and Agua Jane, Ever Clean, Chux, Kingsford, and Hidden Valley brand names. The company markets its products primarily through mass merchandisers, warehouse clubs, grocery stores, direct sales force, distributors, Internet, retail outlets, and a network of brokers. The Clorox Company was founded in 1913 and is based in Oakland, California.

For UOP, it's not necessarily what you make, it's how you make it. The subsidiary of Honeywell's Specialty Materials segment develops and licenses technologies for processing chemicals. The technologies mainly are used in petroleum-derived products and chemicals (such as ethylene and propylene), but also in the manufacture of products further downstream like plastics, detergents, and fibers. Three-quarters of the world's ethylene production is made using UOP technologies. UOP also produces catalysts, alumina adsorbents (used to purify gas and dry air), and molecular sieves. Until 2005 it had been a joint venture of Honeywell and Union Carbide (which is owned by Dow Chemical).

Sid Richardson Carbon & Energy (SRCE) operates in the black -- as in furnace carbon black, a primary non-rubber additive used in the manufacturing of tires. Its Sid Richardson Carbon subsidiary manufactures and markets carbon black at plants in Louisiana, the Texas Panhandle, and West Texas, where the plants convert diesel oil into material used to harden rubber tires. The company produces more than 970 million tons of carbon black a year. Its more than 30 grades of carbon black are also used in industrial rubber applications such as automotive sealing systems and sheet roofing, as well as for printing inks, paints, and batteries. SRCE is owned by Sid Richardson's heirs, the ultra-rich Bass oil family of Texas.

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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