Trans-Resources, Inc. Company Profile Better gardening through chemicals. Through five subsidiaries, Trans-Resources, Inc. (TRI) makes specialty plant nutrients as well as industrial and organic chemicals for businesses worldwide. Through Haifa Chemicals, TRI is the world's largest producer of potassium nitrate, a specialized growth nutrient for produce and tobacco; it controls about half of the world market. Haifa Chemicals also produces other fertilizers and food additives. The unit's products are marketed under the Multi-K and Multicote brands. Other TRI subsidiaries make water-soluble and liquid-starter fertilizers, insecticides, herbicides, horticulture supplies, and irrigation equipment. Chairman Arie Genger and family own the company.

Berli Jucker Public Company (BJC) embraces diversity. The conglomerate's principal activities are manufacturing, packaging, and distributing consumer, construction, and technical and imaging products. Its top consumer offerings include tissue paper, snack foods, and soap marketed under BJC's brand names. The firm is also a leading manufacturer of glass, aluminum, and plastic packaging for beverages, oil, and personal care products. Among the brands that BJC imports and markets are 3M, Ansell, Polaroid, Quaker Oats, Schwan-Stabilo, and UHU. The conglomerate was founded in 1882.

Golden Grain Energy, an ethanol production company with a plant in Iowa that converts corn into ethanol, which is most commonly used as an additive to unleaded gasoline. Other uses include high octane fuel enhancer and a non-petroleum fuel substitute. Golden Grain Energy's plant has a production capacity of 110 million gallons of ethanol and 120,000 tons of distillers grains per year. The distillers grains are used to produce animal feed. In 2009, with raw material costs rising and selling prices falling, the company cut back production at the plant.

Tokuyama Corporation company was established in 1918 when it began producing soda ash. Tokuyama has your chemical and cement needs covered. The company boasts a diverse set of operations as a manufacturer of organic and inorganic chemicals, cement and building materials, and specialty materials used in the electronics and medical fields. Its revenues are split fairly evenly among these three segments. Products include caustic soda, polyvinyl chloride (PVC), and microporous film; cement, ready-mix concrete, and plastic window sashes; and dental impression material, medical diagnostic analyzers, and optical lens solvents. Tokuyama is composed of about 90 subsidiaries that operate throughout Asia, Europe, and the US.

Avecia has become dependent on pharmaceuticals, and it doesn't want to kick the habit. After much pruning, the specialty and fine chemicals maker has two main segments: oligomedicines and biologics. The biologics unit, based in the UK, develops microbial and human therapeutic proteins. The other business segment provides oligonucleotide products for all stages of production: pre-clinical, clinical, and post launch. This oligomedicines unit is headquartered in Massachusetts. In the latter half of the decade the company began a reorganization that involved selling off its chemicals unit that made products for laser printers and copiers and intermediates for pharmaceuticals and agricultural chemicals.

The Clorox Company engages in the production, marketing, and sales of consumer products in the United States and internationally. The company operates through four segments: Cleaning, Lifestyle, Household, and International. The Cleaning segment consists of laundry, home-care, professional products, and auto-care products. This segment offers its products under the Clorox, Clorox 2, Formula 409, Liquid-Plumr, Pine-Sol, S.O.S, Tilex, Green Works, Armor All, and STP brands. The Lifestyle segment offers food products, water-filtration systems, filters, and natural personal care products.This segment offers its products under the Hidden Valley, K C Masterpiece, Brita, and Burt’s Bees brand names. The Household segment provides charcoal, cat litter and plastic bags, wraps, and container products. This segment offers its products under the Glad, Fresh Step, Scoop Away, Ever Clean, Kingsford, and Match Light brand names. The International segment offers home-care, laundry, auto-care, water filtration, charcoal and cat litter products, dressings, plastic bags, wraps and containers, and insecticides under the Clorox, Javex, Glad, PinoLuz, Ayudin, Limpido, Clorinda, Poett, Mistolin, Lestoil, Bon Bril, Nevex, Brita, Armor All, STP, Green Works, Sabra, Pine-Sol and Agua Jane, Ever Clean, Chux, Kingsford, and Hidden Valley brand names. The company markets its products primarily through mass merchandisers, warehouse clubs, grocery stores, direct sales force, distributors, Internet, retail outlets, and a network of brokers. The Clorox Company was founded in 1913 and is based in Oakland, California.

It seems that oil and water do mix after all, at least for Nalco Company Energy Services they do. The division of the Nalco Company provides on-site water and process chemical treatment services to petroleum and petrochemical firms. The division's business is separated into three further units: Upstream (products to ensure steady flow and to guard against corrosion and paraffin deposits), Downstream (processes and technologies to aid refiners), and Adomite Well Service (chemicals for the drilling and exploration phases of the oil-getting process).

Greystone Logistics, Inc. manufactures and sells recycled plastic pallets in the United States. It offers rackable pallets of various measurements; mid-duty picture frame, a picture frame, Web-top pallet that utilizes inter-locking design and is produced using a proprietary blend of recycled plastics; mid-duty stackable, a Web-top pallet; mid-duty 3-runner, a Web-top pallet that utilizes a patented inter-locking design on a three runner bottom; and flat deck, which has a solid top. The company’s products are used in the beer, automotive, chemical, consumer products, grocery, produce and food production, paper and forest products, retailing, and steel and metals industries. It sells its pallets through a network of independent contractor distributors. Greystone Logistics also offers various excess reprocessed and repelletized resins that are sold to other users of recycled plastic. The company was formerly known as PalWeb Corporation and changed its name to Greystone Logistics, Inc. in March 2005. Greystone Logistics was founded in 1969 and is based in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Effective technology has helped EFTEC market its products. Founded in 1985 as a joint venture between EMS-CHEMIE and H.B. Fuller's automotive division, EFTEC manufactures sealants, adhesives, and coatings for use by OEMs in the automotove industry. The company also supplies products to the automotive after-market for repairs, and to the bus and train industries. EFTEC has locations throughout Asia, Europe, and the US (through EFTEC North America). In 2007 EMS bought out Fuller's half of the joint venture for $80 million.

Reflec likes to reflect on new ways to commercialize glow-in-the-dark products. The company -- which operates through subsidiaries Reflecmedia and Reflec Evolution -- makes reflective products that allow TV and film producers to project special effects. Customers include BBC TV, CNN, and Disney. Reflec is engaged in powder processing and micro-grinding, as well as in research and development for the production of reflective systems. Reflec maintains offices in Hong Kong, the UK, and the US. Its Reflec (USA) unit holds patents and trademarks for reflective inks and clothing in the US. A newly formed subsidiary (in 2006), Perseus Global Security Technologies, provides security and risk analysis services.

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