Titan Chemicals reigns supreme among Malaysian petrochemical manufacturers. Founded in 1989, the group produces olefins (ethylene and propylene) and polyolefins (various polyethylene and polypropylene products like LDPE, LLDPE, and HDPE). They're all key ingredients found in such products as carpet fibers, packaging film, automotive parts, and plastic pipes and bottles. Titan's primary industrial complex includes eight manufacturing plants; the company also operates another complex in Indonesia. High-growth markets like China and niche markets such as Vietnam, Bangladesh, and the Philippines sit firmly in Titan's export sights. Titan agreed in 2010 to be acquired by South Korea's Honam Petrochemical.

Dupont's latest crop of products helps Thailand's agricultural producers protect their own crops. A subsidiary of chemical giant DuPont, Dupont (Thailand) makes crop protection products such as weed suppressing herbicides and pesticides. The company also markets chemicals, polymers, refinishes, and fibers to customers in the nutrition, health care, apparel, construction, packaging, printing, electronics, and transportation sectors. Established in 1971, DuPont (Thailand) operates a handful of production plants across the country and is part of DuPont's 15-country Asia Pacific production network.

Textile Rubber & Chemical Company (TRCC) doesn't want to pull the rug out from under your feet. It prefers to make that rug stronger and more comfortable. The company manufactures a number of rubber, latex, and polyurethane compounds that are used to make backings for rugs and carpets; as the raw ingredients in textile, rubber, and plastic products; and as additives for asphalt surfaces. TRCC operates on five continents and maintains 13 operating divisions and subsidiaries, including Perpetual Machine Company (maker of carpet finishing equipment), Tiarco (latex chemicals manufacturer), and XL Brands (maker of floor covering adhesives and carpet care products).

Prince Agri Products is concerned with the health of cattle and swine. The company, a subsidiary of Phibro Animal Health (formerly called Philipp Brothers Chemicals), refines trace minerals such as cobalt, copper, iodine, iron, manganese, molybdenum, and zinc, as well as additives to be used as premixes for animal feed. Its CHROMAX (chromium tripicolinate) is a nutritional supplement fed to over 3 million sows every day. Prince Agri also makes feed flavoring additives such as the raspberry-flavored PIGORTEK for piglets. The company was founded in 1980.

C.P. Pokphand Co. (CPP) is the Chinese arm of Thailand-based Charoen Pokphand Group. The company's products include animal feed additives (chlortetracycline and hydrochloride chlortetracycline, which are broad-spectrum antibiotics), made at its Huazhong Chia Tai and Pucheng Chia Tai subsidiaries. Its Northern Ek Chor unit manufactures Dayang brand of cub-style motorcycles, scooters, bicycles, and tricycles). Its Shanjiang Deni Carburetor joint venture manufactures motorcycle and auto carburetors, along with automotive accessories. In addition, through its ECI-Metro operations, the company is a dealer for Caterpillar products, offering sales, leasing, and repair for the heavy-equipment manufacturer's products.

In 1989, the Thai government, through the Board of Investment, granted promotional privileges to Vinythai to operate as one of the nation’s largest petrochemical down streamers in the National Petrochemical Complex (NPC2), for the production of polyvinyl chloride (PVC), vinyl chloride monomer (VCM), chlorine, and other co-products such as caustic soda. Vinythai’s production facilities are located in the country’s industrial capital – Map Ta Phut Industrial Estate on the Eastern Seaboard in Rayong Province.Vinythai Public Company Limited manufactures and distributes products that resin-ate around the world. Its main product, PVC (polyvinyl chloride) resin, is used to make everything from clothes to building materials, medical supplies to automobile parts. Vinythai also produces significant quantities of caustic soda used in the exploration, production, and processing of petroleum, as well as in the production of biodiesel and natural gas. A majority of its products are sold in Thailand, the remainder, throughout Southeast Asia.

Verenium Corporation engages in the development and production of specialty enzyme products, and production and commercialization of biofuels. It operates in two segments, Biofuels and Specialty Enzymes. The Biofuels segment focuses on the production and commercialization of biofuels, primarily ethanol from cellulosic biomass. The Specialty Enzymes segment develops enzymes for use in alternative fuels, specialty industrial processes, and animal nutrition and health markets. Its products include Fuelzyme—LF, an alpha amylase enzyme, designed to improve the efficiency and economics of ethanol production from corn and other grain, or starch sources; Purifine enzyme for biodiesel applications; Amylase-T Transgenic Corn Amylase; Purifine for edible nutritional oils; Luminase for pulp and paper processing; Phyzyme XP; Quantum phytase; Bayovac SRS that is designed to prevent disease in farmed Atlantic salmon; and Phytase-T, which supplements Quantum phytase.The company has strategic collaborations with Syngenta AG for the discovery and development of a range of novel enzymes; Bunge Oils, Inc. to discover and develop novel enzymes for the production of edible oil products; Cargill Health and Food Technologies to discover and develop novel enzymes for the production of a proprietary Cargill product; BASF AG to develop biocatalytic enzymes; Danisco Animal Nutrition to identify and develop a novel phytase enzyme; Bayer Animal Health to develop and market products to prevent infectious diseases in fish; and BP for the production of cellulosic ethanol from non-food feed stocks. It operates in North America, South America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. The company was formerly known as Diversa Corporation and changed its name to Verenium Corporation in June 2007 as a result of the merger with Celunol Corp. Verenium Corporation was founded in 1992 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Vertellus Specialties manufactures chemicals for the agricultural, nutritional, pharmaceutical, personal care, and performance material markets. The company's Agriculture and Nutrition Specialties division's products include pyridine, picolines, and vitamin B-3. Vertellus' Specialty Materials operations include the manufacture of DEET (a primary ingredient in mosquito repellent), pharmaceutical intermediates, as well as castor and citrate polymer additives for use in plastics, adhesives, coatings, and sealants. It operates manufacturing facilities in Asia, Europe, and North America. Investment firm Wind Point Partners owns Vertellus.

H&R WASAG has exploded in growth by acquiring explosive companies, the specialty chemicals company remains most profitable in manufacturing chemical and pharmaceutical raw materials and plastics. H&R WASAG is involved in such operations as precision-molded parts (Gaudlitz), industrial explosives (WASAG-Chemie), gunpowder (WANO), and blasting machines (ZEB). With its 2005 acquisition of Westspreng, the group became the No. 1 explosives maker in Germany. Formerly Wasag-Chemie, the company added H&R to its name for major shareholder Hansen & Rosenthal and dropped "chemie."

Cigarettes are certainly hazardous to your health, but the making of cigarette filter materials has been good for Daicel Chemical. The company was founded in 1919 to make celluloid (the first plastic) and still makes cellulose-based products such as cellulose acetate, used in filters and photographic film. Daicel primarily makes films for packaging and plastics. The company also produces an array of organic chemicals (acetic acid, acetic anhydride) used in fibers, paints, pharmaceuticals, and cosmetics. Daicel's aerospace and defense systems/safety systems unit produces inflators for automobile air bags and rocket propellants.

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