Ciba Specialty Chemicals aims to make things stronger, brighter, less clingy, and cleaner. (Note to Parents: it can't achieve this with kids.) Ciba produces specialty chemicals through three business segments: coating effects (pigments, anti-static additives, and whitening agents); plastic additives (additives for lubricants and plastics); and water and paper treatment (for the paper production, water and wastewater treatment, detergent, and hygiene industries). Ciba sells in more than 120 countries, mostly in Europe, the Americas, and the Asia-Pacific region; Europe accounts for almost half of sales. BASF, the world's largest chemicals maker, bought Ciba for about $4 billion in 2009.

Arkema hoards a dozen or so commodity and specialty chemicals units that operate worldwide. Those businesses reside within Arkema's industrial chemicals (acrylics, fluorochemicals, thiochemicals, and hydrogen peroxide), performance chemicals (specialty chemicals, technical polymers, and organic peroxides), and vinyl products (chlorochemicals and PVC resins and products) segments. Arkema operates 80 manufacturing facilities in Europe, North America, and Asia, and six research centers in France, Japan, and the US. Multinational oil and gas leviathan TOTAL spun off the company in 2006.

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.

Cigarettes are certainly hazardous to your health, but the making of cigarette filter materials has been good for Daicel Chemical. The company was founded in 1919 to make celluloid (the first plastic) and still makes cellulose-based products such as cellulose acetate, used in filters and photographic film. Daicel primarily makes films for packaging and plastics. The company also produces an array of organic chemicals (acetic acid, acetic anhydride) used in fibers, paints, pharmaceuticals, and cosmetics. Daicel's aerospace and defense systems/safety systems unit produces inflators for automobile air bags and rocket propellants.

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.

JSR Corporation was established in December 1957 by the Special Measures Law for Synthetic Rubber Production to produce domestic synthetic rubbers. Since then, JSR has continued to strive to expand its business and reinforce stabilization of its management, resulting in leading positions in the areas of petrochemical materials, such as synthetic rubbers and emulsions.Additionally, JSR entered into the fast growing information and communication industries by applying its polymer technologies to photo-chemistries and organic synthesis chemistries. The company introduced electronic materials, display materials and optical materials and has achieved a large market share.JSR Corporation changed its name from gJapan Synthetic Rubberh on December 10, 1997 , when the company celebrated its 40th Anniversary, with a commitment to innovative transformation to reconstruct business strategies to provide innovative materials to various areas. JSR will continue to answer the challenge to be a solution provider for new market demands.

General Chemical Performance Products can be found in your water pipes, in your refrigerator, and inside your medicine cabinet. General Chemical manufactures performance chemicals for such industries as food additives and pharmaceuticals (active ingredients for drugs), environmental services (water treatment), high technology (chemicals for semiconductor manufacturing), and chemicals processing. In 2009 private equity group American Securities paid $675 million including debt to buy General Chemical's parent company, GenTek, and its subsidiaries.

Bion Environmental Technologies, Inc., through its subsidiaries, focuses on the development of its waste management technology, which provides environmental solutions to agriculture industry in the United States. The company provides solutions for environmentally sound clean-up of the waste streams of large-scale confined animal feeding operations, and for integration of renewable energy production, ethanol production, sustainable animal husbandry, and organic soil/fertilizer and feed production. It intends to design, construct, and operate a Bion system to treat the waste of the dairy cows, including milkers, dry cows, and heifers at the Kreider Dairy, located in Mannheim, Pennsylvania. The company was founded in 1987 and is based in New York, New York.

Nippon Carbide has grown with the times. The company makes basic chemicals, but it also makes films, synthetic resins, and electronic materials. Nippon Carbide's films segment is its largest and makes wrapping film and reflective films for street signs. The company's resins unit makes melamine resins (for tableware), resins used in glue, and heat-resistant resins (used in pipes). Its electronic materials segment makes ceramic wiring boards and specialty resins. The chemical segment makes carbide derivatives and basic and fine chemical products ranging from pharmaceuticals to pesticides.

H. Muehlstein & Co. has been bouncing around the plastic and rubber distribution business since the early 20th century. The company distributes polymers manufactured by the likes of Dow, Exxon Mobil, and BP. Its products include engineering resins, polyethylene, polypropylene, and polystyrene. Muehlstein sells 3 billion pounds of plastic and rubber products to about 6,500 manufacturers in 75 countries. It also operates through subsidiaries Muehlstein International, Channel Prime Alliance, and Pegasus Polymers. The company has been a part of European chemical and plastics distributor the Ravago Group since 2006.

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