TIC Gums was established in 1909 and is operated by the third generation of the Andon family, which has owned the company since 1949. While TIC Gums doesn't spend the day blowing bubbles, its gums are found in everything from donut glaze to hand lotion. The company is a leading US provider of hydrocolloids (thickeners) used in cosmetics, food (including chewing gum), and pharmaceuticals. Products -- including agar; carrageenan; guar gum; and pectin in powder, spray, and "pre-hydrated" forms -- are shipped to customers worldwide. The company has agents and stock locations in Asia, Australia, Europe, South America, and North America.

Mitsubishi Rayon's largest business segment makes chemicals and plastics, principally those based on MMA monomers. Another major business segment produces man-made fibers, including polyester and acrylic fibers and Pylen, a recyclable material used for interior decoration and automobile interiors. Other operations include specialty products such as plastic optical fibers, composite fibers, and water filtration systems. Mitsubishi Rayon is part of the Mitsubishi "keiretsu," a group of firms affiliated through extensive cross-ownership.

Church & Dwight Canada wants to help brighten your teeth and your bath. It's a subsidiary of Church & Dwight Co., the world's #1 producer of baking soda, with its ARM & HAMMER brand. The company specializes in cleaners for home use, personal care products, over the counter medications, birth control products. Church & Dwight Canada makes ARM & HAMMER laundry detergent and kitty litter, Arrid antiperspirant, Nair depilatories, Pearl Drops toothpolish and toothpaste, First Response pregnancy test, and Trojan condoms. With a manufacturing plant located in Montreal, the Canadian operation also makes Gravol, Dioval, Ovol, Atasol, Sterimar, Rub A535, and other over-the-counter pharmaceuticals.

Faultless Starch/Bon Ami aims to keep you crisp, clean, and nicely scented. The company's product lines include the market-leading Faultless and Magic Sizing brand laundry starches, Bon Ami cleaners, Kleen King metal cleaners, the Garden Weasel and WeedPopper garden tools, and Trapp room sprays and candles. It also produces a line of starches and chemicals for the commercial laundry market. Although once in decline, the Bon Ami product line has enjoyed a rise in popularity as an environmentally friendly cleaner, while starch is on the rebound with the return of cotton in garments. Faultless Starch/Bon Ami has been owned and operated by the founding Beaham family since 1887.

The old and the new work together for Aditya Birla Nuvo. It is the second largest producer of rayon yarn in India, and also holds the title of the largest branded apparel company in the country, the second largest producer of carbon black, and is among the biggest fertilizer makers. Aditya Birla Nuvo also is engaged in growth businesseses, including life insurance, telecom, business process outsourcing (BPO) and other IT services. Madura Garments is the company's garments division -- it manages such Indian clothing lines as Van Heusen, Allen Solly, Peter England, and San Frisco. Idea Cellular spearheads it wireless communications unit. The company is a subsidiary of venerable Indian conglomerate Aditya Birla.

LaPolla Industries, Inc. engages in the manufacture and distribution of foam and coatings for commercial and industrial, and residential applications in the United States. Its Foam segment supplies building envelope insulation and roofing foam to the construction industry. The building envelope insulation foam applications consist of perimeter wall and attic space in the commercial and industrial, and residential applications. Its roofing applications consist of new and retrofit commercial and industrial, and residential applications. In addition, this segment provides open and closed cell spray foam insulation and closed cell technology for roofing applications, as well as supplies adhesives and equipment. The Coatings segment offers various protective coatings and primers for roofing systems for new and retrofit applications primarily to the roofing industry. This segment also supplies caulking and equipment. The company was formerly known as IFT Corporation and changed its name to LaPolla Industries, Inc. in November 2005. LaPolla Industries, Inc. was founded in 1977 and is based in Houston, Texas.

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.

Green Plains Renewable Energy, Inc. engages in the production, distribution, and marketing of ethanol and related by-products in the United States. It also involves in grain warehousing and marketing; selling and related services of agronomy and petroleum products; and marketing and distribution of company-produced and third-party ethanol and distillers grains. The company was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska.

Canada's Resin Systems manufactures advanced composite materials designed to replace wood, steel, and concrete. The company's Version polyurethane resins are the basis of its composite materials. Operating division RS Technologies manufactures power transmission poles made of composite materials. The poles, designed to replace conventional wooden and steel poles, are sold to power and utility companies in Canada and the US. Resin Systems achieved full-scale commercial production of its RStandard modular transmission poles in 2005. Two years later it agreed to make Home Depot subsidiary HD Supply Utilities its sole distributor. Resin Systems also makes composite roller tubes used in material handling systems.

Solutia Inc. manufactures and markets various chemical and engineered materials used in the consumer and industrial applications worldwide. The company operates in three segments: Saflex, CPFilms, and Technical Specialties. The Saflex segment produces polyvinyl butyral (PVB) sheet, a plastic interlayer used in the manufacture of laminated glass for automotive and architectural applications; specialty intermediate PVB resin products; and optical grade PVB resin and plasticizer. The CPFilms segment manufactures and sells special custom coated window films under Llumar, Vista, Gila, and Formula One Performance Automotive Films brand names; and produces various films for use in tapes, automotive badging, optical and colored filters, shades, packaging, computer touch screens, electroluminescent displays, and cathode ray tube and flat-panel monitors. The Technical Specialties segment manufactures and sells chemicals for the rubber industry, which include vulcanizing agents, principally insoluble sulfur, and rubber chemicals, such as antidegradants, accelerators, and other rubber chemicals; heat transfer fluids used for indirect heating or cooling of chemical processes in various types of industrial equipment, as well as in solar energy power systems; and aviation hydraulic fluids and aviation solvents used in the aviation industry. Solutia sells its products directly to end users in various industries through a sales force and distributors. The company was founded in 1901 and is headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri.

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