Shintech produces PVC (the chemical also known as polyvinyl chloride) resins. Based in Houston, Shintech's manufacturing plants are located in Texas and Louisiana. The only other product the company makes is caustic soda. Shintech serves customers primarily in North America, but also exports its products worldwide. Established in 1973, Shintech is a US subsidiary of Japanese diversified chemicals giant Shin-Etsu Chemical Co. It's the largest maker of PVC in the US, just as Shin-Etsu is the largest in the world.

Pain Enterprises helps customers in a number of industries (including the chemicals, food processing, hospitality, medical, packaging, and restaurant markets) by supplying them with carbon dioxide as gas (in bulk, cylinder, and nitrogen/CO2 mix forms) and as dry ice (in pellet or block versions). It also sells CO2 atmospheric safety monitors and alarms. Pain Enterprises retails dry ice through its BerryCold Retail Dry Ice division. The company, which was established in 1957, operates five dry ice plants and about 20 sales offices, primarily in the Midwest.

Akzo Nobel is the world's largest paint maker, but it can do more than paint a pretty picture. The company is also among the world's largest chemical manufacturers and a major salt producer. Akzo Nobel divides its business into three lines. The paints group produces decorative paints and primarily serves Europe and North America. Akzo Nobel's coatings group manufactures marine and protective coatings, packaging coatings, automotive finishes, and industrial coatings. The specialty chemicals unit makes pulp and paper chemicals, functional chemicals (flame retardants, crop nutrients), industrial chemicals (salt and chlor alkalies), surfactants, and specialty starches.

Treibacher Industries' chemical and metallurgy business is elemental. Its Steel and Foundry Products unit manufactures noble alloys like vanadium and molybdenum, while the Recycling division takes care of industrial metals that result as waste product from the first unit (recycling vanadium, nickel, and molybdenum). Treibacher's High Performance Materials division produces carbide powders used to manufacture tools and electrical parts, and the company's Rare Earths and Chemicals unit's products are used to manufacture batteries, electronics, ceramics, and catalysts. Treibacher has a subsidiary in Slovenia and a sales unit in Canada.

FUCHS PETROLUB keeps things running smoothly. The company is one of the world's leading independent manufacturers of automotive and industrial lubricants. Its products include engine and gear oils, metalworking fluids, metal forming lubricants, corrosion preventatives, quenching oils, biodegradable lubricants, and greases. The company also provides polishing pastes and tools as well as anti-freeze, mining products, and vaselines. FUCHS PETROLUB operates through about 40 production facilities and about 60 subsidiaries worldwide.

Church & Dwight Canada wants to help brighten your teeth and your bath. It's a subsidiary of Church & Dwight Co., the world's #1 producer of baking soda, with its ARM & HAMMER brand. The company specializes in cleaners for home use, personal care products, over the counter medications, birth control products. Church & Dwight Canada makes ARM & HAMMER laundry detergent and kitty litter, Arrid antiperspirant, Nair depilatories, Pearl Drops toothpolish and toothpaste, First Response pregnancy test, and Trojan condoms. With a manufacturing plant located in Montreal, the Canadian operation also makes Gravol, Dioval, Ovol, Atasol, Sterimar, Rub A535, and other over-the-counter pharmaceuticals.

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.

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.

Evonik Degussa GmbH Company Profile Evonik Degussa's likes a chemical reaction, or a least a good reaction to its chemical products. The German giant operates as the chemical unit of Evonik Industries and groups those operations in a half dozen units. The largest division makes Industrial Chemicals like chlorides, peroxides, and propylene derivatives. Evonik Degussa's Inorganic Materials segment makes silicon products for solar energy applications and carbon black.

Whitaker Oil is a chemicals distributor that focuses on specialty chemicals and automotive fluids from locations in the Southeast US. The company also provides blending and custom packaging services. It sells chemicals from suppliers such as Akzo Nobel, Clariant, Flint Hills, Ineos Chlor, LANXESS, and Sunoco Chemicals. In 2008,Whitaker Oil expanded its operation to include the distribution of resins (epoxy and polyester), fiberglass and other composite materials. Whitaker Oil is a family-owned company that was founded in the 1920s, with a single gas pump.

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