Stephenson Group has been cleaning up on soap bases and other specialty chemicals. The company manufactures specialty chemicals for use in products ranging from cosmetics to textiles. Its divisions include personal care, paper-recycling chemicals, specialty chemicals, and textile chemicals. Its products include fatty acid soaps, silicone emulsions for the printing industry, anti-foams for the food industry, and liquid soaps for janitorial suppliers. The company operates a worldwide network of agents and distributors and has warehousing facilities in North America, Europe, and China. Stephenson Group, founded in 1856, is owned by holding company Thos. Bentley & Son.

Virotec International develops and manufactures chemicals to minimize the negative impact of industrial activity on the environment. The company offers products based on its Bauxsol technology that treat, neutralize, convert, or recycle sewage (ViroSewage), wastewater (ViroFlow), acidic soil (ViroSoil), and contaminated mine waste (ViroMine). The company operates several subsidiaries in the UK, US, Australia, and Italy. Sales in Australia, Asia-Pacific, and the Middle East accounts for a majority of the company's revenue. In 2008, UK-based environmental services provider Hydrodec acquired Virotec.

Gevo is a leading renewable chemicals and advanced biofuels company. We are developing biobased alternatives to petroleum-based products using a combination of synthetic biology and chemistry. We plan to produce isobutanol, a versatile platform chemical for the liquid fuels and petrochemicals markets. Isobutanol has broad market applications as a solvent and a gasoline blendstock that can help refiners meet their renewable fuel and clean air obligations. It can also be further processed using well-known chemical processes into jet fuel and feedstocks for the production of synthetic rubber, plastics and polyesters.

Brenntag UK first took wing as Albion Chemicals Group in 2001, emerging from the nest of Hays Chemicals through a management-led buyout. The company is the United Kingdom's No. 2 chemicals distributor (behind Univar). In addition to its distribution businesses, Brenntag UK operates a chlor-alkali chemicals manufacturing plant. The company has a network of a dozen distribution depots and another six specialties sites across the UK and Ireland to supply businesses in the region. Following the MBO in 2001 it operated as Albion even after global distributor Brenntag acquired it in 2006. By 2009 the parent company decided to re-brand it as its own and changed the name to Brenntag UK.

Williams Partners L.P. engages in gathering, transporting, processing, and treating natural gas, as well as fractionating and storing natural gas liquids (NGL) in the United States. Its natural gas liquids result from natural gas processing and crude oil refining and are used as petrochemical feedstocks, heating fuels, and gasoline additives. The company’s Gathering and Processing segment provides natural gas gathering, transporting, processing, and treating services to customers under contractual arrangements. As of December 31, 2008, it owned an approximate 3,800-mile natural gas gathering system, including three natural gas processing plants and two natural gas treating plants located in the San Juan Basin in Colorado and New Mexico; an approximate 1,800-mile natural gas gathering system comprising a natural gas processing plant located in the Washakie Basin in Wyoming; an integrated natural gas gathering and transportation pipeline system extending from offshore in the Gulf of Mexico to a natural gas processing plant and a NGL fractionator in Louisiana; and an unregulated sour gas gathering pipeline consisting of approximately 34 miles of pipeline off the coast of Alabama. The company’s NGL Services segment provides natural gas liquids fractionation and storage services. It operated three integrated NGL storage facilities, and had a 50% interest in an NGL fractionator located in Conway, Kansas. Williams Partners GP LLC serves as the general partner of the company. Williams Partners L.P. was founded in 2005 and is based in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Borouge Pte Limited sells a lot of plastic. The company is the Asia/Pacific regional sales and marketing arm of polymer manufacturing concern Borouge. Its polyolefin products (polyethylene and polypropylene) are sold to customers that make water, gas, and industrial pipe; packaging; and automotive components. Borouge, the parent company, is a joint venture between Borealis and Abu Dhabi National Oil Company.

Austin Powder has the original boom box. The company was founded in 1833 to manufacture black powder used to blast rocks, mine coal, create canals, and generally move mountains. Today Austin Powder's commercial explosives are used primarily for construction, mining, quarrying, and seismic exploration. Products include detonating cord, detonator-sensitive emulsions, cast boosters, and high-explosive emulsions. It also makes electric and non-electric detonators. Austin International, through joint ventures and partnerships, provides explosives for projects outside the US, mostly in other parts of the Americas. The company distributes in the US and Canada through 65 company-owned stores.

According to Firmenich International, Prunella is "fruity" while Dorinia is "floral" -- all part of the business of creating chemical flavors and fragrances. With operations worldwide, Firmenich produces flavors and fragrances for perfumes, cosmetics, foods and beverages, and household products. It ranks among the world leaders in flavors and fragrances along with International Flavors & Fragrances and Givaudan and has about 15% of market share. Firmenich operates about 20 manufacturing sites and maintains three R&D facilities located in China, Switzerland, and the US. The company has been owned and operated by the Firmenich family since the late 19th century.

FinishMaster sells tons of paint. The company is a top US distributor of automotive paints, coatings, and accessories, which it sells mainly to customers in the collision repair industry. FinishMaster distributes a wide variety of brand name products from such producers as BASF, DuPont, 3M, and PPG (its top suppliers accounting for 87% of sales in 2009). The firm's distribution network serves its customers from more than 160 sales outlets in 28 states. In 2010 FinishMaster was acquired by auto parts distributor Uni-Select Inc.

New Generation Biofuels Holdings, Inc., through its wholly owned subsidiary, New Generation Biofuels, Inc., holds an exclusive license to commercialize proprietary technology to manufacture an alternative biofuels from vegetable oils and animal fats in North America, Central America, and the Caribbean. It offers its biofuels for use in diesel fuel applications, including power generation, commercial and industrial heating, and marine transportation. The company was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in Columbia, Maryland.

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