Like a prissy fourth-grade girl, Willert Home Products doesn't like things to be smelly. The company manufactures incense and oils (Spiritual Sky and Scented Garden), toilet deodorizers (Bowl Fresh), potpourri and other home fragrances (Concerto), insecticides (Enoz), and a kind of moth preventative that doesn't leave that moth ball-y odor afterward (Reefer-Galler). Willert's products are sold nationally in grocery and discount stores like Wegmans, Winn-Dixie, and Wal-Mart and internationally in more than 40 countries. Willert Home Products was formed by August Willert and George Irwin in 1946; the Willert family owns and runs the company.

They say you reap what you sow, and that's just fine with fertilizer company Hanfeng Evergreen. Through its operations in China, Hanfeng makes nitrogen and phosphate-based fertilizers for soybean, rice, corn, and wheat crops, as well as for lawns, trees, flowers, and other urban greenery. The company specializes in slow-release fertilizers, which unlike more traditional fertilizers, are coated or chemically altered for slow and controlled release into soil. It produces about 725,000 metric tons (or about 800,000 US tons) of fertilizer annually, targeting its products primarily to the growing agricultural market in China.

Ethyl hears you knocking and it hopes you let its products in. A subsidiary of NewMarket, Ethyl markets its gasoline performance additives and diesel cetane improver (which increases ignition quality in diesel fuel) throughout North America. It also makes anti-knock additive tetraethyl lead (TEL), which once was a primary product line for Ethyl but has seen diminishing returns since the U.S. Clean Air Act and others like it were put in place. NewMarket was formed in 2004 as a holding company for Ethyl and sister company Afton Chemical.

Got potash? If not, the Arab Potash Company (APC) would be glad to fix you up. The company mines the Dead Sea for potassium chloride, one of several potassium-based compounds commonly known as potash. The substance is used primarily for fertilizer, but also has industrial applications, for example in the manufacture of glass and ceramic. Canadian industry bigwig Potash Corp. bought more than a quarter of the company in 2003 and installed some of its own executives in APC management roles. Jordan Investment Corp. also owns more than a quarter of APC.

DNT doesn't provide TNT, but it does supply its customers with a variety of other volatile substances. The company, which does business as E.W. Kaufmann, distributes specialty chemicals and equipment throughout the northeastern US from warehouses in Massachusetts, Maryland, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. E.W. Kaufmann began as a sales representative organization in 1956; the employee-owned company now distributes chemicals from some 30 different manufacturers. Its suppliers include BASF, Huntsman, and Reichhold. Subsidiary E.W. Kaufmann Services provides storage and transportation tanks and maintenance and installation services.

Arkema hoards a dozen or so commodity and specialty chemicals units that operate worldwide. Those businesses reside within Arkema's industrial chemicals (acrylics, fluorochemicals, thiochemicals, and hydrogen peroxide), performance chemicals (specialty chemicals, technical polymers, and organic peroxides), and vinyl products (chlorochemicals and PVC resins and products) segments. Arkema operates 80 manufacturing facilities in Europe, North America, and Asia, and six research centers in France, Japan, and the US. Multinational oil and gas leviathan TOTAL spun off the company in 2006.

Victims of biological attacks and cow udders alike have reason to be grateful to Avon Rubber. The company custom-engineers polymers for a variety of applications, including respirators and gas masks for defense applications and liners and tubes for milking dairy cows. In addition, Avon Rubber supplies much of the world's milking inflation products. The company also makes skirting for hovercraft and fendering products for marine transportation. Its Bell Avon unit makes products such as temporary fuel or water storage tanks. Avon Rubber was founded in 1885.

Dynamotive Energy Systems Corporation is an energy solutions provider headquartered in Vancouver, Canada, with offices in the USA and Argentina. Its carbon/ greenhouse gas neutral fast pyrolysis technology uses medium temperatures and oxygen-free conditions to turn dry waste biomass and energy crops into BioOil® for power and heat generation. BioOil® can be further converted into vehicle fuels and chemicals. Dynamotive’s process does not require feedstock that has alternative food use. The Company, and its blue-chip partners and customers, are emerging leaders in converting both biomass residues and energy crops into fuels that are technologically viable and environmentally sound, as well as economically competitive to fossil fuels.

Ferro Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, produces specialty materials and chemicals for a range of manufacturers worldwide. It offers inorganic specialty products, including glazes, frits, enamels, pigments, dinnerware decorations, and other performance materials; organic specialty products, such as polymer specialty materials, engineered plastic compounds, pigments dispersions, and high-potency pharmaceutical active ingredients; and electronic materials comprising high-performance dielectrics, conductive pastes, metal powders, and polishing materials. The company’s products are used in various applications in markets, including appliances, transportation, building and renovation, electronics, household furnishings, industrial products, packaging, and pharmaceuticals. It serves manufacturers of tile, appliances, construction materials, automobile parts, glass, bottles, vinyl flooring and wall coverings, solar cells, multi-layer capacitors, and pharmaceuticals. The company sells its products directly to customers, as well as through indirect sales channels, such as agents and distributors. Ferro Corporation was founded in 1919 and is headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio.

Andes Chemical Corp. was founded in South Florida in April of 1986. We are an export company that specializes in raw materials for the manufacture of paints, inks, adhesives, concrete and masonry additives, cosmetics, pharmaceutical and personal care products. Andes Chemical was started with minimal warehousing space totaling only 500 square feet. Yet, with only one salaried employee, the company succeeded in achieving a Sales Volume of $1.8M during the first 6 months of operation.

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