Wikoff Color makes a rainbow of elements that can't be wiped off. The company makes aqueous coatings and overprint varnishes in addition to its line of inks marketed around the globe. Its products are primarily used by customers in the graphic arts industry for lithography, flexography, letterpress, and gravure printing processes; Wikoff also makes functional coatings and specialty items. The company operates approximately 30 manufacturing plants and service centers, throughout the Eastern half of North America (plus one in British Columbia). Wikoff was founded in 1956 by Fred Wikoff and is owned by its employees.

InteliCoat Technologies hopes its specialty coatings are found to be intelligent solutions for its customers' needs. The company manufactures coatings and substrates for use primarily in digital imaging equipment. Its products include dispersion coatings, optically clear films, coated papers, and flexible laminates. InteliCoat's products are sold worldwide under the brand name Magic; it also provides private-label services for OEMs and distributors. Other brand names include Jet Set, for the CAD market, and MagicL饠digital imagine media products. Investment firm Sun Capital Partners owns the company.

Dash Multi-Corp runs quickly across multiple industries to create a myriad of products. The company is a holding corporation that oversees manufacturers of chemicals (polyurethanes, PVC compounds, elastomers, polyols, catalysts, and fire retardants), textiles (knitted, coated, and laminated products), and rubber goods (flooring products). The company's 10 subsidiaries include MarChem, Harvin Reaction Technology, Griptex, RB Rubber, and Milan Molded Rubber Products. Dash Multi-Corp is owned by founder and president Marvin Wool and his family.

Dyno Nobel has exploded and landed down under. Formerly based in Norway, Dyno Nobel was founded in 1865 by an associate of Swedish dynamite inventor and prize giver Alfred Nobel. The company makes explosives at more than 65 manufacturing and distribution facilities in Australia and North America. It sells to mining, construction, and industrial quarry companies, among other industries. Once split into four geographic segments (Asia Pacific, Europe and Africa, Latin America, and North America), Dyno Nobel was restructured in 2005. Three years later, Australian agrochem maker Incitec Pivot bought Dyno Nobel for about $3 billion.

The prognosis for Procter & Gamble Nordic: lots of consumer goods for Scandinavian customers. P&G Nordic carries out the Scandinavian operations of global consumer products giant Procter & Gamble, which opened its first office in the region (in Sweden) in 1969. P&G Nordic brings many of the parent company's top brands to consumers in Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden. Well-known offerings include Olay cosmetics, Pampers diapers, Pringles potato chips, Vicks throat products, Tampax tampons, Pantene and Wella shampoos, and laundry and kitchen cleaning products such as Ajax, Dynamo, and Febreze.

Whether it flies, bulldozes, or hauls golfers, Arrow-Magnolia International has something that cleans it. The company makes about 400 chemical cleaners that it sells under its own brands; it also distributes nonchemical janitorial supplies. Its products include chemicals used in construction (concrete and rust removers), government engineering (street and equipment cleaners), aviation (carbon and dirt removers), and golf course maintenance. Arrow-Magnolia makes more than half of its products in-house and sells them through independent representatives and a dozen distributors. An investment group led by Tanya Tippeconnic-Shaw has owned Arrow-Magnolia since 2005.

ADEKA serves the chemically dependent. The company's sales come primarily from producing chemicals including caustic soda (used in soap and paper), oleochemicals, additives for resins and polymers, and electronic materials. Founded in 1917 as a part of the Furukawa Group, ADEKA expanded into margarine in 1929 and now also makes shortening, mayonnaise, and raw food materials, among other food items. Independent now, ADEKA operates primarily in Japan, but also has business throughout Asia as well as in France, Germany, and the US.

Soy -- not just a food substitute anymore. Evidently, it can be a chemical substitute as well. Franmar Chemical manufactures 100% biodegradable and recyclable soybean- and corn-based products for the restoration and remodeling, asbestos removal, screen-printing, industrial cleaning, boating, and consumer markets. Some brand names include Bean-e-doo adhesive remover, Kernel Clean surface and window cleaner, Ickee Stickee Unstuck Graffiti Remover, and Soy Smooth hand lotion. Customers of the environmentally responsible products include government agencies and foreign restoration companies. President Frank Sliney founded the company in 1983.

Pinnacle Polymers operates a polypropylene plant at the peak of performance. The company, from that one plant in Louisiana, sells its products throughout North America. Those products and services include injection molding, sheet and thermoforming, and fiber extrusion products. Pinnacle Polymers was founded in 1991 under the name Epsilon Products Company. Epsilon sold its Pennsylvania plant to Sunoco Chemicals in 2000, and the Lousiana operations became Pinnacle. Pinnacle Polymers became a part of French polypropylene company Polychim the following year.

CF Industries Holdings, Inc. manufactures and distributes nitrogen and phosphate fertilizer products in North America and export markets. It operates in two segments, Nitrogen and Phosphate. The Nitrogen segment offers ammonia, urea, and urea ammonium nitrate solutions. The Phosphate segment provides diammonium phosphate, monoammonium phosphate, and granular muriate of potash used in agricultural fertilizer applications. The company also owns a 50% interest in KEYTRADE AG, a fertilizer trading company. CF Industries Holdings’ customers include cooperatives and independent fertilizer distributors located in the grain-producing states of the Midwestern United States. The company was founded in 1946 and is headquartered in Deerfield, Illinois.

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