E. T. Horn wants chemical makers to phone home ... the company's home office, that is. The company distributes chemical ingredients in the western US. Customers include manufacturers of coatings, lubricants, elastomers and composites, building materials, food, and personal care products. E. T. Horn maintains warehouses in California, Oregon, and Utah and serves customers in 11 western US states. Its suppliers include Aqualon, Cabot, and Momentive Performance Materials.

Global Nuclear Fuel-Japan Co. (GNF-J) is part of a joint venture formed by General Electric, Toshiba, and Hitachi as early as 1967 to introduce to Japan a boiling water reactor developed by GE. The company now designs, develops, and manufactures nuclear fuel in Japan (since 1971) and offers core management services and quality control for the fuel. General Electric has the controlling 51% stake in the venture, and Toshiba and Hitachi split the remaining share. Formerly Japan Nuclear Fuel Co. (JNF), GNF-J integrated into the GE Energy division in 2000.

Tnemec (pronouced tah-KNEE-mick, it is cement spelled backwards) makes more than 100 different paints and coatings that can be used as primers on concrete, masonry, steel, and flooring materials. It also provides waterproofing, corrosion prevention (for wastewater facilities), and exterior finishing products. Subsidiary Chemprobe Coating Systems specializes in masonry products, while the company's StrataShield division focuses on floor and wall coatings. Tnemec has manufacturing and distribution facilities throughout the US, and it has sales representatives in Canada, Europe, and Latin America.

Hawkeye Energy Holdings sure hopes you have. Operating through affiliates Hawkeye Renewables, Hawkeye Growth, and Hawkeye Gold, the ethanol maker runs two production facilities in Iowa from which it produces approximately 215 million gallons annually. Like most ethanol producers, Hawkeye Energy also markets distiller grains (a by-product of the manufacturing process) as animal feed. Private equity firm Thomas H. Lee Partners (THL) acquired 80% of the company, formerly called Iowa Falls Ethanol Plant, in 2006.

Specialty chemical company Cognis prides itself on being aware of the chemical marketplace. The company -- whose name is derived from the Latin cognoscere, "to know or perceive" -- operates through three business units: Care Chemicals, Nutrition and Health, and Functional Products. Among Cognis' products are environmentally friendly inks and coatings, synthetic lubricants, oilfield chemicals, fatty acids, and dietary supplements. Once a subsidiary of chemicals giant Henkel, Cognis is now owned by an investment group led by Permira and Goldman Sachs.

New Generation Biofuels Holdings, Inc., through its wholly owned subsidiary, New Generation Biofuels, Inc., holds an exclusive license to commercialize proprietary technology to manufacture an alternative biofuels from vegetable oils and animal fats in North America, Central America, and the Caribbean. It offers its biofuels for use in diesel fuel applications, including power generation, commercial and industrial heating, and marine transportation. The company was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in Columbia, Maryland.

Breen wants to inject some color into things. Breen Color Concentrates formulates and manufactures custom plastic colorants, primarily for blow molders of consumer packaging, extrusion and injection molders, and wire and cable manufacturers. It also provides application assistance, custom packaging and labeling, and analysis certification. Breen Color Concentrates serves customers throughout North America. The company was founded in 1976 and acquired by investment firm Spell Capital Partners (through another plastics company it owns, PVC Compounders) in 2007. It joins a stable of six plastics companies Spell has recently acquired.

Rowell Chemical is a Midwest's premier supplier of inorganic acid and alkali compounds. Founded in 1980, Rowell Chemical Corp. has grown its products and services to include chemical manufacturing, repackaging and custom compounding in addition to bulk truckload distribution. Commitment to customer service, quality, safety and value has been the key to Rowell's success. A product of particular note is Sodium Hypochlorite, which is offered in a variety of strengths. We also offer Crystal Hypochlorite, which through a series of special filtering steps produces a bleach solution of extraordinary quality.

The Dow Chemical Company engages in the manufacture and supply of products used primarily as raw materials in the production of customer products and services worldwide. The Electronic and Specialty Materials segment offers materials for chemical mechanical planarization pads and slurries, chemical processing aids and intermediates, electronic displays, food and pharmaceutical processing and ingredients, home and personal care ingredients, hygiene and infection control, photolithography materials, printed circuit board materials, process and materials preservation, semiconductor packaging, connectors and industrial finishing, and water purification. It’s Coatings and Infrastructure segment offers sticking and bonding solutions; insulation, housewrap, sealant, and adhesive products and systems; and construction chemical solutions and building-integrated photovoltaics. The Health and Agricultural Sciences segment provides agricultural and plant biotechnology products, pest management solutions, and healthy oils. The company’s Performance Systems offers plastics, adhesives, glass bonding systems, emissions control technology, films, fluids, structural enhancement, and acoustical management solutions, as well as elastomers, specialty films, and plastic additive products, and skin and microcellular polyurethane foams and systems, and epoxy solutions and systems. Its Performance Products segment provides amines, emulsion polymers, epoxy resins, oxygenated solvents, polyurethane, and specialty monomer products. The company’s Basic Plastics segment offers polyethylene, polypropylene, equipolymers, and polystyrene resins. Its Basic Chemicals segment provides ethylene dichloride, vinyl chloride monomer, caustic soda, and ethylene oxide. The Hydrocarbons and Energy segment procures fuels, natural gas liquids, and crude oil-based raw materials, as well as supplies monomers, power, and steam. The Dow Chemical was founded in 1897 and is based in Midland, Michigan.

Henkel focuses on home and hearth. The international company makes branded products for laundry and home care (Persil, Purex, Pril), cosmetics and toiletries (Schwarzkopf, Fa, Dial), and adhesives (Loctite, Ceresit, Teroson). Most of Henkel's operations are centered in Europe, although its ownership of The Dial Corporation gives it access to the US market. Henkel serves customers in more than 125 countries from offices extending nearly everywhere but Greenland and Australia. Relatives of the founding Henkel family control the company, which began in 1876. Amid an economic downturn in the US and abroad, Henkel in 2009 initiated a long-term strategy with financial targets that extend into 2012.

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