At CFC International, beauty by design is only skin deep. The company makes transferable chemical coatings to beautify, protect, and add other kinds of functionality to consumer products. It makes complex functional coatings such as simulated metal used on cosmetic containers and simulated wood grain for ready-to-assemble furniture. CFC also makes holographic authentication seals (popular on tickets and software), heat transfer labels for pharmaceuticals, and magnetic strips for security and credit card uses. The company is a part multi-industry conglomerate Illinois Tool Works (ITW).

Potash One Inc. Company Profile Potash One, formerly ISX Resources, isn't interested in your girl's best friend any longer. The company's chief asset is a permit to acquire 100% of a potash exploration property in Saskatchewan. Formerly it had focused on diamond exploration in Canada's Otish Mountains. It acquired the permit in mid-2007 and changed its name toward the end of the year. The potash property is located adjacent to a mine operated by potash giant Mosaic Company. In 2009 it agreed to buy fellow Canadian potash producer Potash North Resource Corporation.

BioFuel Energy Corp. engages in the production and sale of ethanol and its co-products in the United States. The company has two ethanol plants that produce 115 million gallons of ethanol per year, which are located in Wood River, Nebraska and Fairmont, Minnesota. It sells its products to third party marketer and distributor. The company was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in Denver, Colorado.

King Industries -- does bring the royal touch to a lot of surfaces A manufacturer of additives for coatings and lubricants, King Industries serves customers in the industrial manufacturing, metalworking, rust prevention, and paint industries. It has a distribution network that spans the globe and maintains sales operations in the Netherlands. The company also serves as the Western distributor of a line of coatings additives made by Japanese chemicals company Kusumoto. Founded in 1932, King Industries is still controlled by the family of founder Robert J. King.

Core Molding Technologies, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates as a compounder of sheet molding composites (SMC) and molder of fiberglass reinforced plastics. The company produces fiberglass reinforced molded products and SMC materials for various markets, including light, medium, and heavy-duty trucks, as well as automobiles and automotive after markets, personal watercraft, and other commercial products. It also offers reinforced plastic products to the automotive-aftermarket industry. The company sells its products in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. It was formerly known as Core Materials Corporation and changed its name to Core Molding Technologies, Inc. in 2002. The company was founded in 1988 and is headquartered in Columbus, Ohio.

Quixote Corporation, through its subsidiaries, develops, manufactures, and markets highway and transportation safety products to protect, direct, and inform motorists and highway workers in the United States and internationally. It operates through two segments, Protect and Direct, and Inform. The Protect and Direct segment offers energy-absorbing products, such as crash cushions, truck-mounted attenuators, sand-filled barrels, and water-filled barriers; and directing and guiding products, including flexible post delineators and glare screen systems. These products absorb and dissipate the force of impact in collisions between vehicles and fixed roadside objects, as well as prevent crashes and help control the flow of traffic by directing or guiding. The Inform segment provides advanced sensing products, which measure distance, count, and classify vehicles; weather sensing systems; computerized highway advisory radio transmitting systems; and other transportation equipment.These products offer information to prevent collisions from occurring and to ease traffic congestion. The company sells its products through its direct sales force and a distribution network to customers in the highway construction and safety business, local governments, airports, state and municipal departments of transportation, and other governmental transportation agencies. The company was formerly known as Energy Absorption Systems, Inc. and changed its name to Quixote Corporation in June 1980. Quixote Corporation was founded in 1969 and is based in Chicago, Illinois.

Imperium Renewables, Inc. (IRI) was founded in 2004 by John Plaza to commercialize his novel and innovative design for biodiesel refining, with a focus on fuel quality and environmental sustainability. In August, 2007 we opened the nation's largest BQ-9000® certified biodiesel refinery Imperium Grays Harbor in Hoquiam, Washington, which is capable of producing up to 100 million gallons per year.

If you've washed, shaved, and groomed, then you've probably shared a chemical experience with the folks at International Specialty Products (ISP). The company, also called ISP Chemco, makes about 400 types of specialty chemicals, including food and pharmaceutical ingredients, personal care, and fine chemicals, industrial chemicals (like butanediol for fibers and plastics), and minerals products. ISP also makes waterproofing agents, moisturizers, and preservatives for personal care products such as sunscreen and hair care products. Chairman Samuel Heyman owns ISP; after watching the company's stock dive in 2002, Heyman took ISP private.

Formed in 1952 and still controlled by the family of founder David Tilley, the company operates a large distribution facility in Baltimore. Tilley distributes chemicals, oils, and lubricants over roads both flat and hilly. The company offers a full range of chemicals, specialty chemicals, and solvents for customers in the food, personal care, and pharmaceutical industries. Its oil and lubricant products -- motor oils, hydraulic oils, transmission fluids, rust preventers, metalworking fluids -- are typically used by the automotive and manufacturing industries. Tilley also provides packaging, transfer, and handling services. Tilley's suppliers include Morton Salt, BASF, Rhodia, and Dow.

Independent Chemical Corporation was founded in 1948, by Benjamin Spielman. His wife, Rose, was the firm's first secretary and performed all of the office administrative duties during its early years. The company was founded to provide service to process industries in the New York, New Jersey, Metropolitan Area. Supply service was directed to the textile, leather, fur, and food processing industries; industries that required specialty products and a broad range of industrial chemicals to meet their growing needs. Distribution of specialty products makes Independent Chemical a vital resource today for environmental service companies, manufacturers of institutional laundry and cleaner products, and the Photo Chemical Industry.

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