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.

Teknos wants to color your world. The company makes a wide range of high-quality paints and industrial coatings used in the consumer, construction, industrial, and manufacturing sectors. Its products include retail and architectural paints, metal paints and coatings, powder coatings, wood paints and coatings, and coil coatings. Teknos' paints and coatings are used to paint cars, bridges and steel structures, industrial equipment, plywood, and road markings. Its powder coatings, which are durable and environmentally friendly, are used to paint appliances, shelving, garden furniture, and bicycles. Founded in 1948 and still one of Finland's largest family-owned businesses, Teknos operates in Europe and Russia.

PVS Chemicals sells undrinkable soda, sulfur-based chemicals, and acids that not even Timothy Leary would find palatable. The company's product list includes sulfuric and hydrochloric acids, liquid caustic soda, ferric chloride, and ammonium thiosulfate. These chemicals are used in applications such as water treatment (wastewater, process, and municipal), electronics manufacture (including semiconductor etching), gold and copper mining, and food and aluminum production. PVS Chemicals' subsidiaries include PVS Technologies (water treatment), Dynecol (transportation, analysis, treatment, and recycling of chemicals), and PVS Nolwood (chemical distribution).

In 1989, the Thai government, through the Board of Investment, granted promotional privileges to Vinythai to operate as one of the nation’s largest petrochemical down streamers in the National Petrochemical Complex (NPC2), for the production of polyvinyl chloride (PVC), vinyl chloride monomer (VCM), chlorine, and other co-products such as caustic soda. Vinythai’s production facilities are located in the country’s industrial capital – Map Ta Phut Industrial Estate on the Eastern Seaboard in Rayong Province.Vinythai Public Company Limited manufactures and distributes products that resin-ate around the world. Its main product, PVC (polyvinyl chloride) resin, is used to make everything from clothes to building materials, medical supplies to automobile parts. Vinythai also produces significant quantities of caustic soda used in the exploration, production, and processing of petroleum, as well as in the production of biodiesel and natural gas. A majority of its products are sold in Thailand, the remainder, throughout Southeast Asia.

Elementis Specialties is the premier worldwide leader in manufacturing and development of innovative rheological modifiers. We provide a comprehensive specialty additives portfolio including rheology modifiers, defoamers, colorants and tinting systems, waxes, and surface active additives for the coatings, construction, personal care, ink, oil field and lubrication markets. An extensive range of specialty surfactant lines for various types of applications complete our offering to the market place.

INVISTA has a fibrous outlook on life. A global leader in textile and polymer manufacturing, INVISTA is composed of four business units -- Apparel, Intermediates, Performance Surfaces and Materials, and Polymers and Resins -- and its portfolio includes brand names CoolMax, Stainmaster, Lycra, and Thermolite. Its products are used in clothing, plastic packaging, automobile airbags, and pharmaceutical ingredients. DuPont sold INVISTA to Koch Industries in 2004. Koch then merged the company with its own fibers unit, KoSa, leaving only INVISTA remaining. INVISTA operates worldwide.

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.

Don't expect nominal consistency from California Products; no matter its name, the company is based in New England. Through its California Paints division, the company makes paints and coatings for home and office uses, ceiling whites and enamels for hard wall interiors, and finishes and primers. Its Plexipave Sport Surfacing Systems and DecoSystems divisions make tennis, track, and other sport surfaces, and subsidiary Fiberlock Technologies manufactures environmental containment products. Employees are majority shareholders in the company, whose name dates back to its founding as a subsidiary of a West Coast stucco manufacturer. In 2007 private equity behemoth Apollo Management took a stake in the company.

When you need some crimson -- or any other color, for that matter -- Cloverdale Paint hopes you come straight to them. The paint and coatings manufacturer maintains more than 100 retail stores and a network of dealer outlets across Western Canada and the Pacific Northwest. Cloverdale Paint also manufactures architectural and industrial maintenance products. In recent years, Cloverdale has expanded by acquiring US-based rival Rodda Paint and the Canadian Guertin Coatings; both companies continue to operate as independent subsidiaries. The company has four manufacturing facilities. Cloverdale Paint was founded in 1933.

Borouge Pte Limited sells a lot of plastic. The company is the Asia/Pacific regional sales and marketing arm of polymer manufacturing concern Borouge. Its polyolefin products (polyethylene and polypropylene) are sold to customers that make water, gas, and industrial pipe; packaging; and automotive components. Borouge, the parent company, is a joint venture between Borealis and Abu Dhabi National Oil Company.

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