Jiangsu Overseas Group Corporation helps oversee the flow of specialty chemical products in and out of China. The company primarily distributes pharmaceutical and dyestuff intermediates. Its product line includes bromines, esters, phase transfer catalysts, and coupling agents. Jiangsu Overseas Group primarily draws its products from plants within the JOC Group and affiliated factories. China is the company's top customer, where it has also engaged with chemical research institutes to create new chemical products.

ICL Performance Products LP Company Profile ICL Performance Products LP is phosphorific! The North American unit of the performance products segment of Israel Chemicals Limited (ICL), it produces phosphorus chemicals, phosphoric acid, and phosphate salts. The chemicals are used in foods, cleaners, water treatment, flat-panel displays, oral care products, paints and coatings, and pharmaceuticals. The company also manufactures flame retardants. ICL Performance Products operates plants in Brazil and the US (California, Kansas, Missouri, and New Jersey). It represents about a quarter of its parent's total business.

Callahan Chemical carries chemicals to creators of coatings, cleaners, and cosmetics. The distribution company's chemicals are also used in inks, adhesives, personal care products, pharmaceuticals, and vitamin products. Product categories include antimicrobials, silicones, solvents, urethanes, surfactants, humectants, preservatives, and specialty resins. The company's suppliers include Dow Chemical, Eastman Chemical, Rhodia, and Stepan. Callahan transports products from four warehouses in the northeastern US and Puerto Rico; it also offers packaging and blending services.

Esschem manufactures acrylics, glass, and silicones used as raw materials for medical devices with dental, audiological, cosmetic, and orthopedic applications. The company's resins and polymers also are used by the pharmaceutical, specialty chemical, and electronics industries. Esschem's specialties include custom synthesis and blending, esterification, polymerization, and purification. The company is owned by the Justi Group (controlled by the founding Just family) and works with a group of affiliates to provide plastics, silicones, and glass raw materials worldwide.

lin Corporation engages in the manufacture and sale of chlor alkali products in the United States and internationally. The company operates in two segments, Chlor Alkali Products and Winchester. The Chlor Alkali Products segment manufactures and sells chlorine and caustic soda, sodium hydrosulfite, hydrochloric acid, hydrogen, bleach products, and potassium hydroxide. The Winchester segment offers sporting ammunition, reloading components, small caliber military ammunition and components, and industrial cartridges. The company serves various industrial customers, wholesalers, and other distributors, as well as the U.S. Government and its prime contractors.

Shide Group is a leading manufacturer of chemical building materials. Founded in 1992 and headquartered in Dalian, China, Shide produces more than 500,000 tons of plastic door and window profiles annually. Flagship subsidiary Dalian Shide Plastics Industry is one of the largest production centers for PVC sectional materials. Its product line includes PVC profiles, windows and doors, pipes, pipefitting, sheet materials, and accessories. Shide has also diversified into petrochemical production, insurance and healthcare services, and home-appliance manufacturing.

CRI Catalyst Company is part of CRI/Criterion Inc., the global catalyst technology company of the Shell Group. CRICC operates research laboratories, development facilities, manufacturing plants and business units throughout the world.It is dedicated to providing a broad customer base with effective and cost-efficient catalysts and technologies. CRI has a range of products with specific focus on

Yara's theme is Man against Nature as it strives to develop environmentally friendly applications for its fertilizers. Yara America is the North American subsidiary of Norwegian fertilizer company Yara International. The company produces both nitrogenous and phosphatic fertilizers for the agricultural and horticultural industry from Yara's network of about 30 terminals in the US and Canada. Yara North America unit was formerly called Hydro Agri North America before its parent company was spun off from industrial giant Norsk Hydro in 2004.

What, other than gravity, keeps your floor from floating up into the heavens? It might be the products manufactured by BASF Building Systems (formerly called Degussa Building Systems), a business unit within BASF's Construction Chemicals division. The division makes adhesives and sealants that bond wood and rubberized flooring to various substrates; its products are also used by the automotive industry to bond metal, plastics, and laminates. As well, BASF Building Systems manufactures sealants, water repellents, grouting, and concrete and masonry repair products. In 2006, BASF, the world's largest chemicals maker, bought Degussa's Construction Chemicals unit for about $3 billion.

A shot of Vitamin K helps farmers grow bigger and better crops. Uralkali is one of the world's top producers of potash, a form of potassium carbonate commonly used as a fertilizer. The company produces 5 million tons of potash per year, or 10% of the world's supply. (Canada's PotashCorp leads the way with 10 million tons, or 20%.) Uralkali operates two mines in Russia and five production plants. The company makes about two-thirds of its total sales to just Brazil and China. Uralkali was founded in 1930 by the Russian government and privatized in 1992. In 2007 it became the country's first public chemical company.

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