AEP Industries, Inc. manufactures plastic packaging films in North America. The company produces and markets various polyethylene, polyvinyl chloride, and polypropylene flexible packaging products for consumer, industrial, and agricultural applications. It offers custom and proformance films used for drum, box, carton, and pail liners; furniture and mattress bags; films to cover value products; barrier films; cheese films; and freezer grade bundle films. The company also provides stretch wrap; polyvinyl chloride wrap products used in food and freezer wrap; printed and converted films for various applications, including printed shrink films; and printed, laminated, and converted films for flexible packaging to consumer markets. In addition, it manufactures unplasticized polyvinyl chloride film for use in battery labels, twist films, credit card laminates, PVC films. AEP Industries, Inc. serves the packaging, transportation, beverage, food, automotive, pharmaceutical, chemical, electronics, construction, agriculture, and textile industries. The company was founded in 1970 and is based in South Hackensack, New Jersey.

Start with a strong dose of analytical expertise in organic compounds, add more than a pinch of synthesis, and mix in high quality manufacturing operations. These are the key ingredients that ABITEC says make up its business. Enzyme producer ABITEC's services range from vegetable oil refining to customer-specific ingredients synthesis. In addition to emulsifiers for the food and flavor industries, the company makes oleochemical-based ethoxylates for industrial uses, emollients and emulsifiers for the personal care segment, and excipients for pharmaceutical companies. It is a part of the ingredients unit of Associated British Foods.

The company is Europe's largest chemical distributor (ahead of Univar) and among the top three in the US (along with the likes of Ashland); it also ranks as the top distributor in Latin America. From its 400 locations in 60 countries, Brenntag offers lab services (blending, compounding, preparation), storage, and logistics activities. Among the companies whose products Brenntag supplies are global giants like Arkema, BASF, and Yara. Its industrial and specialty chemicals serve the oil and gas, cosmetics, coatings, plastics, mining, and pulp and paper industries. Brenntag went public in 2010.

PVS Chemicals sells undrinkable soda, sulfur-based chemicals, and acids that not even Timothy Leary would find palatable. The company's product list includes sulfuric and hydrochloric acids, liquid caustic soda, ferric chloride, and ammonium thiosulfate. These chemicals are used in applications such as water treatment (wastewater, process, and municipal), electronics manufacture (including semiconductor etching), gold and copper mining, and food and aluminum production. PVS Chemicals' subsidiaries include PVS Technologies (water treatment), Dynecol (transportation, analysis, treatment, and recycling of chemicals), and PVS Nolwood (chemical distribution).

PAVCO paves the way for other companies' successful outcomes with metal products by developing and processing a variety of chemical products used in the metal-finishing industry. The company's offerings include pre-plating, plating, and post-plating chemistries, as well as waste-treatment products. End users of products treated with PAVCO's chemistries have included companies in the aerospace, automotive, and electronics industries, among others. The company is one of the world's leading suppliers of zinc finishing technology. PAVCO was founded in 1948.

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.

Insl-X Products makes a diverse range of coatings that are marketed throughout the US via a network of distribution warehouses. The company manufactures industrial and architectural paints for customers including professional contractors, distribution companies, and retail consumers. It also makes specialty coatings and paints for floors, sports courts, swimming pools, and traffic markings. Insl-X's brands include Aqua Lock, Hot Trax, Insl-Thane, and Sure Step; it also operates through subsidiaries Coronado Paint and Bruning Paint. Insl-X manufactures its products from four locations in the US. In 2008, president and owner James Weil sold Insl-X to Berkshire Hathaway's paint company, Benjamin Moore.

Hollingsworth & Vose Company manufactures products for engine filtration, air and liquid filtration, and battery separators using nonwoven materials. It also makes advanced composites as well as technical, filter, and specialty papers. The company's engine and industrial filtration products are made to perform in harsh environments and are used in automotive air, automotive lubrication, diesel, fuel, hydraulic, oil, and other specialty filtration applications. Hollingsworth & Vose's battery separators are made with uniform pore structure, chemical stability, and high wicking and absorbency. The company has plants in Germany, the UK, and the US.

Robert McBride, named after its founder, is cleaning up in the private-label market for household cleaners and personal care items. The UK-based manufacturer and wholly owned subsidiary of McBride plc earned Best in Class recognition based on The Grocer magazine's survey of UK grocery retailers. Parent company folded McBride Aircare Limited, an aerosol products manufacturer and distributor, into Robert McBride's operations. The firm also runs a joint venture, Aerosol Products Limited. Robert McBride was founded in 1927 as a chemical processing products company complementing the area's cotton industry.

R. T. Vanderbilt Company opened its doors for business on 42nd Street in New York City in 1916. It was started by a 31-year-old named Robert Thurlow Vanderbilt who had $1,000 of his own, a $24,000 family loan, and a contract to sell clay for a company in the South.Since the paper industry was a prime market for clay, it was here that Robert Vanderbilt saw his Company begin to grow. His success led him to form R. T. Vanderbilt Company's first subsidiary, Continental Clay Company (now Dixie Clay Company) in South Carolina. However, while soft clay was geared to the needs of the paper industry, Continental Clay and North American Clay Company (of which Robert was a director) were also mining hard clays more suitable to the rubber industry. This introduced Vanderbilt to the rubber industry.

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