North American Composites (NAC) comes in. A business unit of resins maker Interplastic Corporation, NAC distributes composites and cast polymers that act as reinforcing fibers for a resins mixture. NAC's two dozen distribution locations form a distribution network that stretches throughout the US and Canada.

Ink-stained wretches everywhere have INX International Ink to thank (or blame) for their plight. The company, a subsidiary of Japanese ink maker Sakata, manufactures printing ink and other coatings. INX makes inks for metal decorating; for flexible, rigid, and paper packaging; and for commercial printing. It maintains about 30 manufacturing facilities in North America and another 20 worldwide.

Aceto Corporation, incorporated in 1947, is a global leader in the sourcing, regulatory support, marketing and distribution of pharmaceuticals, nutraceuticals, specialty chemicals and crop protection products. With business operations in ten countries, we distribute over 1,000 chemical compounds used either as principal raw materials or as finished products in the pharmaceutical, agricultural, color, surface coating/ink and general chemical consuming industries. Our global operations, including a sourcing staff of 26 in Shanghai and 12 in India, are distinctive in our industry and enable our worldwide sourcing and regulatory capabilities.

Inabata & Co. is all over the map, literally and figuratively. The company has operations in such varied segments as information technology and electronics, housing materials, chemicals, plastics, and food, offering its products around the world. The company produces IT and electronic goods including flat panel displays, copiers and printers, while its chemical products include dyestuffs, paper chemicals, paint, ink, and adhesives. Offerings in the plastics segments include resins, performance plastics, and packaging materials. Inabata also supplies seafood, agricultural, and meat products to commercial clients worldwide.

Nippon Carbide has grown with the times. The company makes basic chemicals, but it also makes films, synthetic resins, and electronic materials. Nippon Carbide's films segment is its largest and makes wrapping film and reflective films for street signs. The company's resins unit makes melamine resins (for tableware), resins used in glue, and heat-resistant resins (used in pipes). Its electronic materials segment makes ceramic wiring boards and specialty resins. The chemical segment makes carbide derivatives and basic and fine chemical products ranging from pharmaceuticals to pesticides.

To Seventh Generation, green is good. The term means environmentally friendly and nontoxic. For the conscientious company, it's also money in the bank. It makes cleaning and laundry supplies, paper products, personal care items, and diapers and wipes under the Seventh Generation name, which is derived from the Iroquois practice of considering how decisions may affect the next seven generations. Suppliers make its products from recycled or renewable materials using nontoxic ingredients. Seventh Generation's products are sold in the US and Canada through natural goods stores, supermarkets, catalogs, and online. Owned by Jeffrey Hollender and a group of investors, the company hired a new CEO in mid-2009.

Cambridge Isotope Laboratories (CIL) helps scientists avoid having to say "oops!" by providing a stable research base. The company produces stable (non-radioactive) isotopes -- and chemical compounds labeled with stable isotopes -- for research and laboratory purposes. Its annual production capacity is 120 kilograms of Carbon-13 and 250 kilograms of Oxygen-18. CIL offers more than 8,000 products including amino acids, carbohydrates, gases, buffers, and dioxins, as well as specialty products such as forensic testing standards that monitor the effectiveness of a given drug and a new type of non-invasive "breath test" substrate used to gain information on metabolism.

SNF manufactures water soluble polymers such as synthetic flocculants, coagulants, and dispersants used for municipal and industrial water and wastewater treatment. Other industries served by SNF include paper processing, textile printing, oil production, agriculture, and personal-care products manufacturing. The American arm of French polymer maker SNF Floerger, the company has about a dozen polymer production facilities around the US. Business units include Chemtall, Floquip (polymer preparation equipment), Polychemie, and Polydyne.

CECO Environmental Corp. provides air pollution control products and services primarily in the United States. It engineers, designs, builds, and installs systems that capture, clean, and destroy contaminants from industrial facilities; and equipment that controls emissions from industrial facilities. The company operates in four divisions: Contracting, Equipment, Components/Parts, and Engineering/Design. The Contracting division offers dust collectors, oil mist collectors, chip conveyance systems, air houses, and conveyors, as well as engages in custom sheet metal fabrication.The Equipment division provides regenerative thermal oxidation, catalytic and thermal oxidation, and selective and regenerative catalytic reduction solutions; and dampers, expansion joints, fiber-bed filter mist collectors, catenary grid and narrow gap, replacement filters, repack services, heavy duty air handling and conditioning solutions, fume exhaust systems, air-curtain hoods, strip/coil coolers and dryers, pulsejet bag houses, reverse air bag houses, pulsejet cartridge and fabric filters, flue gas coolers, exhaust treatment systems, and foundry sand reclamation equipment. It also offers industrial and FCC cyclones, air classifiers, scrubbers, electrostatic precipitators, medial filtration, and pneumatic conveying and industrial ventilation solutions.The Components/Parts division offers component parts for industrial air systems and clamp-together componentized ducting systems. The company serves aerospace, brick, cement, ceramics, metalworking, ethanol, printing, paper, food, foundries, power plants, metal plating, woodworking, chemicals, glass, tobacco, automotive, ethanol, and pharmaceutical industries. CECO Environmental Corp. was founded in 1966 and is headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Total's strategy is to tightly integrate its subsidiaries with the parent company's operations, and Total Petrochemicals USA operates directly in coordination with Total's US plants. For the most part Texans don't cotton to foreigners, especially those from France. But Total Petrochemicals USA, the North American arm of French energy giant Total's basic chems unit, is doing just fine in Houston. The company manufactures base and petrochemicals from facilities in Texas and Louisiana and also operates a refinery in Texas. Total Petrochemicals produces olefins (ethylene and propylene), polyolefins (polypropylene and polyethylene), aromatics (benzene, toluene, and xylene), and transportation fuels.

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