The Mosaic Company engages in the production and marketing of concentrated phosphate and potash crop nutrients for the agriculture industry in the United States and internationally. The company operates through three segments: Phosphates, Potash, and Offshore. The Phosphates segment produces phosphate crop nutrients for use in crop nutrients and feed phosphate for animal feed ingredients. The Potash segment produces and sells potash for use as fertilizers and animal feed ingredients, as well as in industrial applications. Potash is also used for de-icing and as a water softener regenerant. The Offshore segment produces and/or markets phosphate-, potash-, and nitrogen-based crop nutrients and animal feed ingredients, as well as operates sales offices, crop nutrient blending and bagging facilities, port terminals, and warehouses. The Mosaic Company sells its products primarily to wholesale distributors, retail chains, cooperatives, independent retailers, and national accounts. The company was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Plymouth, Minnesota. The Mosaic Company is a subsidiary of Cargill, Incorporated.

Robert Walsh, Arthur Schmidt, and George Claytor formed Walsh & Associates, Inc. in 1968. The three St. Louis businessmen had joined Ashland Oil Company briefly following the acquisition of a small chemical distributor where they were employed. Encouraged by customers and suppliers to form an independent regional distribution company of their own, Walsh, Schmidt, and Claytor were fortunate to have several of the original suppliers align with the newly formed Walsh & Associates, Inc. The company has expanded greatly adding regional offices in Kansas City, Missouri, Denver, Colorado, Memphis, Tennessee, Salt Lake City, Utah, Dallas, Texas, and Kalamazoo, MI.

Cabot Corporation provides specialty chemicals and performance materials worldwide. Its product lines include carbon black, metal oxides, supermetals, and specialty fluids. The carbon black product line comprises rubber blacks, performance products, and inkjet colorants. The company offers these products for various markets, such as automotive, building materials, agricultural, coatings, toners, plastics, inkjet printing, and electronics market. The metal oxides product line consists of fumed metal oxides, including fumed silica and fumed alumina, and dispersions; and aerogel products for the automotive, construction, microelectronics, and consumer products industries. The supermetals product line includes tantalum, niobium, and their alloys.The company’s tantalum powder is used to make capacitors for computers, networking devices, wireless phones, and electronics for automobiles and other devices; superalloys and chemical process equipment are used for various other industrial and aerospace applications; finished tantalum sputtering is used for film applications, such as semiconductors, inkjet heads, magnetics, and flat panel displays. The specialty fluids product line comprises cesium formate, a drilling and completion fluid, for use in high pressure and high temperature oil and gas well operations. The company was founded in 1882 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Don't expect nominal consistency from California Products; no matter its name, the company is based in New England. Through its California Paints division, the company makes paints and coatings for home and office uses, ceiling whites and enamels for hard wall interiors, and finishes and primers. Its Plexipave Sport Surfacing Systems and DecoSystems divisions make tennis, track, and other sport surfaces, and subsidiary Fiberlock Technologies manufactures environmental containment products. Employees are majority shareholders in the company, whose name dates back to its founding as a subsidiary of a West Coast stucco manufacturer. In 2007 private equity behemoth Apollo Management took a stake in the company.

Materia’s Nobel Prize winning green metathesis technology provides chemical and material companies with a competitive edge. Customers use our groundbreaking technology to manufacture novel products inaccessible with traditional methods and to replace established production processes with faster, less expensive, greener routes. By working with Materia, our partners access a powerful innovation platform, leading application know-how, and a dominant IP position. With our technological expertise and understanding of market needs, we effectively focus our efforts on the development of products and services that contribute to a greener world.

Soluol's waterborne and solvent borne polyurethane resins, coatings, and adhesives are probably part of your daily routine. The company is the maker of the SOLUCOTE line of coatings that transform fabrics into water and flame resistant materials, make rubber gloves more slippery (and easier to fit), and protect pills in blister packaging. Originally a manufacturer of textile auxiliaries, Soluol shifted operations to silicone emulsification in 1968 and water-based products in the late 1970s. In 2008 Dutch chemicals giant DSM acquired Soluol to increase its North American presence through its DSM Resins U.S. unit.

George S. Coyne Chemical. The company distributes industrial chemicals (for pharmaceuticals, food, and cosmetics), consumer products (pool chemicals, de-icing chemicals, solar salt), and metal finishing and plating chemicals, primarily in the northeastern US. Coyne Chemical also provides related valued-added services, such as warehousing, custom blending and packaging, and environmental consulting. It operates four locations in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. The company was formed in 1868 by George Coyne and is operated by the founder's descendants.

In a race to the finish line, Polarome International wins by a nose. The New Jersey-based specialty chemicals company manufactures and distributes aroma and flavor chemicals. Polarome maintains manufacturing and distribution operations in the US, Europe, and South America. It has an inventory of more than 1,000 flavor and aroma ingredients (which originate the world over), from Amyris (found in Haiti) to Ylang (brought in from the Comoros Islands). The company, formed in 1951, is owned and operated by the third generation of founder William Bruell's family.

Timminco produces silicon metal for the chemical (silicones), aluminum and electronics/solar industries, through its majority owned production partnership with Dow Corning, known as Québec Silicon. Timminco is also a producer of solar grade silicon, using its proprietary technology for purifying silicon metal, for the solar photovoltaic energy industry, through its wholly owned subsidiary Bécancour Silicon.

Canada's good for more than just sketch comedy and hockey; it also makes quite a lot of specialty chemicals. Celanese Canada is the Canadian subsidiary of specialty chemicals maker Celanese. The company makes basic chemicals, polymers, polypropylene films, and food ingredients. The company operates two emulsion facilities in Quebec and Ontario. Celanese shuttered a formaldehyde production plant in 2004 and then did the same with its line of acetate products by 2007.

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