OMNOVA Solutions, Inc. provides emulsion polymers, specialty chemicals, and decorative and functional surfaces for various commercial, industrial, and residential end uses primarily in the United States, Asia, and Europe. It operates in two segments, Performance Chemicals and Decorative Products. The Performance Chemicals segment produces a range of emulsion polymers and specialty chemicals based on styrene butadiene, styrene butadiene acrylonitrile, styrene butadiene vinyl pyridine, polyvinyl acetate, acrylic, styrene acrylic, vinyl acrylic, glyoxal, and fluorochemical chemistries. Its custom-formulated products are tailored for coatings, binders, and adhesives, which are used in paper, carpet, nonwovens, construction, adhesives, tape, tire cord, floor polish, textiles, graphic arts, plastic parts, and various other specialty applications.The Decorative Products segment develops, designs, produces, and markets a line of decorative and functional surfacing products, including commercial wallcoverings, coated and performance fabrics, vinyl, paper and specialty laminates, and performance films. Its products are used in various applications, including commercial building refurbishment, remodeling, and new construction; residential cabinets, flooring, and furnishings; transportation markets comprising school busses, marine, and automotive; and recreational vehicles, manufactured housing, and various industrial film applications. The company sells its products through internal marketing, sales, and technical service teams to manufacturers; through independent distributors to building owners, contractors, architects, interior designers, and other specifiers; and through agents to manufacturers of cabinets, furniture, seating, and other products. OMNOVA Solutions was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Fairlawn, Ohio.

Mawana Sugars helps make India a bit cleaner and fatter. The company's businesses manufacture chlor-alkali chemicals used in cleaning products (caustic soda, chlorine, bleaching powder) and retail sugar (under its eponymous brand). The chemical business operates through Siel Chemical Complex. The company had been known as Siel Limited until early 2008, when it completed its merger with Mawana Sugars and took that company's name. The former Siel Limited had spun off Mawana earlier in the decade, but the two companies decided to re-combine in 2007.

Ashland Distribution is the one to call. The largest division of specialty chemicals company Ashland distributes chemicals, plastics, and composites (thermoset resins and associated products) in North America and plastics in Europe and China. Ashland Distribution serves coatings, adhesives, and inks makers; plastics compounders; the aerospace and electronics industries; and metalworking lubricant and chemical manufacturers. Parent company Ashland agreed in 2010 to sell the distribution business to private equity firm TPG Capital for $930 million.

Salt has preserved K+S (for Kali und Salz) for more than a century. Founded in 1889 to mine salt, K+S gets more than 40% of its sales from potash, which is extracted from salt and used in fertilizers. The company also produces salt used for industrial purposes (such as making glass), as well as for deicing roads and cooking. K+S is Germany's top salt producer and supplies about 12% of the world's potash. In addition, the company recycles waste materials and provides underground waste disposal services. In 2009 the company helped Dow pay for its acquisition of Rohm and Haas by agreeing to buy Morton Salt for about $1.7 billion. The deal makes K+S the world's #1 salt producer.

Enormous steel factories call for monolithic refractories, and Minteq International delivers. A wholly owned subsidiary of Minerals Technologies Inc., Minteq produces refracting materials for surfaces or applications exposed to extreme high temperatures. The company primarily serves the aluminum, cement, iron, polymer, steel, and other manufacturing industries. Its Pyrogenics Group produces pyrolytic graphite used for thermal management in aerospace, electronics, and glass applications. Subsidiary Ferrotron provides refractories for steel makers, and Minteq's ASMAS unit, acquired in 2006, serves the steel industry in Eastern Europe and Turkey.

Cooley Group Holdings' polymer materials are used to create a variety of cool products, including digital murals, safety gear, and reservoir liners. The company designs and manufactures advanced polymer coatings for flexible membranes. Cooley's operating groups include Sign and Awning Products (backlit signs and awnings), Specialty Products (medical, sports, transportation, and marine), Building Products (roofing), Engineered Membranes (environmental containment, construction, military), Digital Products (outdoor advertising), and Cooley Europe in the Netherlands (automotive, industrial and commercial construction, horticulture). The company was founded as Cooley Finishing Company in 1926 by Arthur Cooley.

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.

Total Petrochemicals is just a small portion of a very large TOTAL. The Total Petrochemicals company is the business unit in charge of the French energy giant's worldwide production of base petrochemicals (olefins and aromatics), polyethylene, polypropylene, and styrenics (styrene, polystyrene, and elastomers). Olefins are the basic building blocks of the chemical world, such as ethylene and propylene, and are manufactured primarily from natural gas and naphtha; they are the raw materials used in just about everything else the company makes. The Total Petrochemicals is invested heavily in Asia through 50-50 joint venture Samsung Total Petrochemicals, which offers Total a prominent gateway into Asia and in particular the Chinese market.

Sun Chemical is the world's largest inks maker; it also makes all manner of coatings. In addition to inks and coatings for paper, packaging, metal, and other products, Sun Chemical manufactures printing plates for corrugated packaging. Its inks and coatings products are sold under the Sun Chemical, Kohl & Madden, US Ink, and Coates brands. The company operates more than 250 manufacturing, sales, and service locations in Europe and the Americas. Sun Chemical has been a subsidiary of Japanese inks and coatings maker DIC (formerly Dainippon Ink and Chemicals) since 1987 when the latter bought the graphic arts division of what is now Sequa.

Shiloh Industries, Inc. manufactures and sells first operation blanks, engineered welded blanks, complex stampings, and modular assemblies for the automotive, heavy truck, and other industrial markets in the United States. Its steel blanks, which are engineered two dimensional shapes cut from flat-rolled steel, are used for structural and exterior steel components, such as support brackets, frame sides, fenders, hoods and doors. These blanks include first operation exposed and unexposed blanks and advanced engineered welded blanks. The engineered welded blanks generally consist of two or more sheets of steel of the same or various material grade, thickness, or coating that are welded together utilizing mash seam resistance and laser welding. Its stampings are principally used as components in mufflers, seat frames, structural rails, window lifts, heat shields, vehicle brakes, and other structural body components. The company’s complex stampings and modular assemblies include components used in the structural and powertrain systems of a vehicle.Its structural systems include bumper beams, door impact beams, steering column supports, chassis components, and structural underbody modules; and powertrain systems consist of deep draw components, such as oil pans, transmission pans, and valve covers. Shiloh Industries also designs and engineers precision tools and dies, and welding and assembly equipment. In addition, the company provides various intermediate steel processing services, such as oiling, leveling, cutting-to-length, slitting, edge trimming of hot and cold-rolled steel coils, and inventory control services for automotive and steel industry customers. Its customers primarily include original equipment manufacturers; Tier I automotive suppliers; manufacturers in the lawn and garden, and heavy duty truck and trailer industries; and steel producers. Shiloh Industries was founded in 1950 and is headquartered in Valley City, Ohio.

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