To Seventh Generation, green is good. The term means environmentally friendly and nontoxic. For the conscientious company, it's also money in the bank. It makes cleaning and laundry supplies, paper products, personal care items, and diapers and wipes under the Seventh Generation name, which is derived from the Iroquois practice of considering how decisions may affect the next seven generations. Suppliers make its products from recycled or renewable materials using nontoxic ingredients. Seventh Generation's products are sold in the US and Canada through natural goods stores, supermarkets, catalogs, and online. Owned by Jeffrey Hollender and a group of investors, the company hired a new CEO in mid-2009.

Donaldson Company, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the manufacture and sale of filtration systems and replacement parts worldwide. The company operates in two segments, Engine Products and Industrial Products. The Engine Products segment offers air filtration systems, exhaust and emissions systems, liquid filtration systems, and replacement parts. This segment serves independent distributors, original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) dealer networks, private label accounts, and equipment fleets, as well as OEMs in the construction, mining, agriculture, aerospace, defense, and truck markets.The Industrial Products segment provides dust, fume, and mist collectors; compressed air purification systems; liquid filters and parts; air filter systems; PTFE membrane and laminates; and specialized air filtration systems for a range of applications, including computer hard disk drives. This segment sells its products to various industrial end-users, OEMs of gas-fired turbines, and OEMs and end-users requiring clean air. Donaldson Company, Inc. was founded in 1915 and is based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Epicore BioNetworks puts the earth at the core of its scientific creations. The company manufactures environmentally sensitive biotechnology products for commercial, industrial, and consumer applications. It mixes natural bacteria, enzymes, microbes, and other biodegradable, non-toxic ingredients to create products for diverse industries like agriculture, cleaning and sanitation, food processing and nutrition, and environmental remediation. Those products include water treatment chemicals, agrochemicals, and sanitizers and deodorizers.

Praxair is content to use Praxair Distribution. The company distributes industrial, medical, and other gases to more than 600 Praxair locations in the US and Canada. Praxair Distribution delivers industrial gases and hardware to welders; respiratory gases and healthcare equipment to hospitals and homecare patients; and specialty gases and equipment to electronics, pharmaceutical, food and beverage, and chemical companies. It uses a line of stores and depots, specialty gases labs, cylinder-filling plants, homecare service locations, and distribution centers to serve its customers' needs.

New Japan Chemical is an old hand in the laboratory. The company researches and manufactures a variety of oleochemicals such as fatty acids, glycerin, and fatty alcohols as well as other chemical products like epoxy resins, plasticizers, and solvents. Its chemicals are used by other manufacturers in the preparation of personal care and other household products. New Japan Chemical operates from four manufacturing facilities throughout Japan and has subsidiaries elsewhere in Asia and the UK. The company, established in 1919, began by selling hydrogen and oxygen it made through electrolysis of water.

United Gilsonite Laboratories (UGL) prevents leaky roofs and warped decks. The company manufactures paint and wood and masonry finishing products including cement paints, caulking compounds, wall patching materials, and waterproofing products. Its brand names include DRYLOK and ZAR. Founded in 1932 by Gerald Payne, UGL has four manufacturing centers in Illinois, Mississippi, Nevada, and Pennsylvania. It sells more than 80 products through 15,000 dealers, including hardware stores and home repair centers, in the US and abroad.

Filtrona is an international, market leading speciality plastic and fibre products supplier listed on the London Stock Exchange. Filtrona is a well invested global business, headquartered in the UK, with 30 manufacturing facilities, 40 distribution units and sales offices, and four research facilities spread across 25 countries in the Americas, Europe and Asia. Filtrona employs some 4,300 people across the world.Filtrona operates in a dynamic international market environment. The Company continues to invest to expand capacity and capability, to improve operational performance and customer service, and to exploit new business opportunities.

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.

Elastogran makes specialty elastomers and more. Elastrogran is one of the global leaders of polyurethane manufacturing. The company, a subsidiary of world's No. 1 chemicals maker BASF, makes polyurethane systems and polyurethane special elastomers. It is also a manufacturer and supplier of polyurethane raw materials. Polyurethane consists primarily of two raw materials produced from crude oil: isocyanate and polyol. One of its products, Elastollan, is used in ventilation mesh for sports shoes and in the automotive and electronics industries. Elastogran operates about a dozen sites in Europe and works closely with affiliate BASF Coatings to sell its polyurethane products throughout Europe.

GTL Resources is a leading bio-refining company which, through its subsidiary Illinois River Energy, produces over 100 million gallons of ethanol per year from its production facility in Rochelle, Illinois USA. GTL developed the project, secured the financing, managed the construction, and now runs the business. The Rochelle site enjoys plentiful nearby corn due to the many high-yielding and abundant acres planted in the area. Other locational advantages include: quick truck access to Chicago’s major ethanol market via nearby interstates (I-39, I-88 and I-90), rail access to other ethanol markets via direct connection to the UP and BNSF, and low cost access to Dried Distillers Grains with Solubles (DDGS) markets in Asia via close proximity to Global III, a major intermodal container terminal.

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