If you need pigments that are more than a figment, Holland Colours has hues you can use. The company sells color additives to plastics manufactures for tinting PVC pipes, siding, food and beverage containers, and silicone sealants and to coating and ink makers. It produces colors in micro granules, granules, powders, and liquids mainly at four plants in the Netherlands, Indonesia, Hungary, and the US for customers in more than 70 countries. Colors are mainly available as pigments, pastes, and powders for use in bottles, toys, and industrial paints and plastics, respectively. Holland Colours also provides lab, technical, and R&D support to third parties. Employees own about half the company.

Elkem is one of Norway's largest industrial companies and aims to become a global supplier to the silicon products and solar energy industries. Its products include ferroalloys, silicon metal, carbon, and microsilica. In addition, Elkem produces hydroelectric power for Norway's power market and is involved in energy trading in the Nordic market. It is also developing its own technology for highly purified silicon, to be used in solar cells. Elkem is a subsidiary of Norwegian industrial conglomerate Orkla.

Evonik Industries evidently decided it no longer wanted to get its hands dirty. The enterprise was cut out from RAG, leaving the coal business with that company and taking RAG's former subsidiaries Degussa (chemicals and plastics), STEAG (power generation), and Wohnen (real estate). Degussa operates globally and across multiple chemical platforms; it accounts for about three-quarters of Evonik's business. STEAG operates power generation plants, both in Germany and abroad in Colombia, the Philippines, and Turkey. Evonik's real estate operations include 60,000 housing units in Germany. Investment firm CVC Capital Partners owns a 25% stake in the company.

Yara International tries to make the world green -- and, in the process, make a little green of its own. The manufacturer of fertilizers and industrial gases is among the world's largest makers of plant nutrients and ammonia, selling about 20 million metric tons of fertilizer per year. It is also a top supplier of CO2 and nitrogen chemicals to industrial markets and of nitrates to the explosives industry. Yara has a quarter stake in Chilean fertilizers maker SQM, as does Canadian fertilizers maker PotashCorp. Formerly known as Hydro Agri, the company was spun off in 2004 by Norwegian aluminum giant Norsk Hydro. Yara markets its products worldwide.

The company, now known as TOR Minerals International, was founded by Benelite Corporation of America in 1973. Benelite developed and patented the “Benelite Process” for producing synthetic rutile, the raw material used in HITOX TiO2 pigment. Benelite licensed and helped build several plants throughout the world, which utilize this process, including a plant in Malaysia, which remains the primary supplier of synthetic rutile to TOR Minerals International.The company also offers ALUPREM (premium alumina) products, which are used for color critical applications as fillers and flame retardants; SYNTHETIC RUTILE used as a feed stock for white TiO2 and as a component in welding rod flux; BARTEX, an inert extender pigment, used in coatings; HALTEX, which is used in technical applications, including SMC/BMC thermoset molding compounds, thermoplastic profiles, electrical wire and cable insulation, mining conveyor belts, and specialty coatings as well as adhesives and sealants; and TIOPREM, a series of heat stable colored TiO2 hybrid pigments used in various applications, including engineered plastics, laminates, window profiles, plastic lumber, roofing granules, and ceramic coatings. Its mineral products are used as pigments, pigment extenders, and flame retardants for the manufacture of paints, industrial coatings, plastics, catalysts, and solid surface applications.

HaiKe’s largest business is oil refining and the production and marketing of petrochemical products. These include light fuel oils, gasoline and diesel in addition to a range of minor derivatives such as petroleum coke and liquefied gas. Many industrial sectors, including manufacturing, transport and agriculture, use some form of petroleum based fuel.

China National Chemical Corporation (ChemChina) is a large-scale state-owned company approved by the State Council on the basis of China National Bluestar (Group) Corporation (Bluestar), China National Haohua Chemical (Group) Corporation (Haohua or CHC) and other companies affiliated with the former Ministry of Chemical Industry. Headquartered in Beijing, ChemChina was formally inaugurated on May 9th, 2004, and administrated by the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council of China.The development positioning of ChemChina is "Traditional Chemicals, Advanced Materials", meaning that she will succeed the assets of previous generations, develop advanced chemical materials, basic chemical materials and agrochemicals in the process of restructuring SOEs, and extend properly upstream and downstream.

Biopetrol Industries wants to say auf weidersehen to fossil fuels. The company manufactures biodiesel from rapeseed oil, soybeans, and methanol from three plants in Europe. Biopetrol distributes its products to oil companies, fleet operators, public transportation agencies, and construction and agricultural companies across Europe. It also manufactures bioglycerine. (Crude glycerol is a natural byproduct of making biodiesel; Biopetrol refines it for use in pharmaceuticals and cosmetics.) Swiss commodities giant Glencore International acquired a majority stake in Biopetrol, along with the right to boost its share to a two-thirds majority, at the start of 2010.

INVISTA has a fibrous outlook on life. A global leader in textile and polymer manufacturing, INVISTA is composed of four business units -- Apparel, Intermediates, Performance Surfaces and Materials, and Polymers and Resins -- and its portfolio includes brand names CoolMax, Stainmaster, Lycra, and Thermolite. Its products are used in clothing, plastic packaging, automobile airbags, and pharmaceutical ingredients. DuPont sold INVISTA to Koch Industries in 2004. Koch then merged the company with its own fibers unit, KoSa, leaving only INVISTA remaining. INVISTA operates worldwide.

WACKER is an independent, globally active company that manufactures and sells chemical products and engages in intensive scientific research. A leader in its core businesses – semiconductors, polysilicon, polymers/specialty chemicals and silicones – WACKER forges ahead with innovative chemistry and new technologies, supplying solutions that are market-oriented, energy-saving and environmentally compatible.The company, a subsidiary of German silicon and silicone maker Wacker Chemie, is a custom compounder of a number of silicone products, most extensively silicone rubber. Products include orthopedic putty, industrial silicones, fluorosilicones, platinum cure silicone, spin casting materials, electrically and thermally conductive silicones, closed cell foam and sponge rubber, and silicone color master batches. Wacker SILMIX's products go to serve the aerospace, automotive, jewelry, pharmaceutical, and electrical industries. It has locations in California and Ohio.

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