Viridas (formerly Caldwell Investments) has decided to give up its textile business in order to help stop global warming. Helping to replace fossil fuels, the company specializes in supplying Crude Jatropha Oil to the biodiesel industry, focusing on the South American, European, and US markets. Its Viridas Brasil Agronegocios subsidiary is developing a trial plantation for producing the oil in Belo Horizonte, before implementing an industrial-scale plantation in Brazil's northeastern region.

Kraton Performance Polymers, Inc., through its subsidiary, Kraton Polymers LLC, produces styrenic block copolymers (SBC) for use in industrial and consumer applications worldwide. Its primary product lines include unhydrogenated SBCs, hydrogenated SBCs, isoprene rubber, isoprene rubber latex, and compounds. The company’s products are used in various end-use markets, including advanced materials; adhesives, sealants, and coatings; and paving and roofing. Its products have applications in soft touch for consumer products, such as tooth brushes and razor blades; power tools; impact resistant engineering plastics;

Agrium U.S. operates south of the border for Canadian fertilizers manufacturer and distributor Agrium. The parent company produces and distributes four major crop nutrients: nitrogen, phosphate, potash, and sulfate fertilizers for the wholesale market. Agrium U.S. operates a network of about 500 retail farm centers in the US and Latin America, and is one of the largest independent retailers of fertilizers, seeds, and chemicals in North America. The US provides Agrium with about two-thirds of its sales. Agrium began originally as Cominco during the 1930s.

Sinnett-Elpaco Coatings makes industrial paints and powder coatings for products in the ammunition, appliance, automotive, construction, electrical, industrial machinery, consumer goods, marine, and office furniture industries. Its products include high-temperature coatings, clear polyester powders, enamels, solvents, epoxies, urethanes, and wash primers. The company, also known as TriTech Coatings, is owned by its executives.

Durr Marketing Associates' forte is raw materials for the specialty chemical market. The company distributes catalysts, inorganic chemicals, pigments, lubricants, rust/corrosion/stain inhibitors, plasticizers, resins, and thickening agents. Its customers include companies in the adhesives and sealants, paints and coatings, plastics and rubber, and electronics industries. Durr Marketing's suppliers include Interplastic, PPG Industries, and Huntsman.

Fuwei Films (Holdings) Co., Ltd., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the development, manufacture, and distribution of plastic film using the biaxial oriented stretch technique, otherwise known as BOPET film (biaxially oriented polyethylene terephthalate). The company offers printing base film used in printing and lamination; stamping foil base film used for packaging of luxury items; metallization film or aluminum plating base film used for vacuum aluminum plating for paper or flexible plastic lamination; and transfer base film used for environmental friendly cigarettes and alcohol packaging. It also provides high-gloss film used for aesthetically enhanced packaging purposes; heat-sealable film used for processed food packaging and other applications; laser holographic base film used as anti-counterfeit film for food, medicine, cosmetics, cigarettes, and alcohol packaging; and matte film used for printing, metallization, stamping, and transfer metallization.The company’s products are used in consumer based packaging, including the food, pharmaceutical, cosmetics, tobacco, and alcohol industries; imaging, such as masking film, printing plates, and microfilms; electronics and electrical industries consisting of wire and cable wrap, capacitors, and motor insulation; and magnetic products, such as audio and video tapes. Fuwei Films (Holdings) Co. markets its products under the Fuwei Films brand name primarily in the People’s Republic of China, Korea, the United States, Europe, and internationally. The company was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Weifang, the People’s Republic of China.

GreenShift Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, develops and commercializes clean technologies that facilitate the use of natural resources in the United States. It owns four corn oil extraction facilities in Oshkosh, Wisconsin; Medina, New York; Marion, Indiana; and Riga, Michigan. The company also owns a bio-diesel refinery located in Adrian, Michigan; and an oilseed crushing facility in Culbertson, Montana. GreenShift Corporation sells its corn oil as a feedstock for biofuel production or for direct use as biofuel. The company was formerly known as GS CleanTech Corporation and changed its name to GreenShift Corporation. GreenShift Corporation was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

NOF might be your one-stop bakery. The company is a major processor of oilseeds, from which it produces oleochemicals (common in personal care items such as detergents and shampoos) and food staples such as margarine, shortening, and processed oils. It also produces explosives used in construction and in military and space applications. In addition, NOF produces materials for electronics and petroleum-based chemicals such as surfactants, polymers, and paints for ships and automobiles. The company operates half a dozen manufacturing locations throughout Japan and international subsidiaries elsewhere in Asia, Europe, and North America.

Arizona Chemical is the world’s leading biorefiner of pine chemicals. We provide natural pine-based materials to our customers in many diverse markets including adhesives, inks, coatings, roadmarking, tires & rubber, personal care, lubricants, fuel additives, mining and oilfield.

Business is booming in good times and in bad at Orica. Its acquisition of the European and North American explosives operations from Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI) put Orica among the world's largest suppliers of commercial explosives. The company primarily serves the mining, quarrying, and construction industries. Additionally, Orica's Chemicals division produces chlor-alkali, mining, water-treatment, and industrial chemicals through its Minova, Chemnet, and other subsidiaries. Orica is also a leader in consumer products in Australia and New Zealand; subsidiaries of that unit include Selleys (home and car care products), Dulux (decorative paints), and Cabot's (woodcare products).

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