Insl-X Products makes a diverse range of coatings that are marketed throughout the US via a network of distribution warehouses. The company manufactures industrial and architectural paints for customers including professional contractors, distribution companies, and retail consumers. It also makes specialty coatings and paints for floors, sports courts, swimming pools, and traffic markings. Insl-X's brands include Aqua Lock, Hot Trax, Insl-Thane, and Sure Step; it also operates through subsidiaries Coronado Paint and Bruning Paint. Insl-X manufactures its products from four locations in the US. In 2008, president and owner James Weil sold Insl-X to Berkshire Hathaway's paint company, Benjamin Moore.

In a race to the finish line, Polarome International wins by a nose. The New Jersey-based specialty chemicals company manufactures and distributes aroma and flavor chemicals. Polarome maintains manufacturing and distribution operations in the US, Europe, and South America. It has an inventory of more than 1,000 flavor and aroma ingredients (which originate the world over), from Amyris (found in Haiti) to Ylang (brought in from the Comoros Islands). The company, formed in 1951, is owned and operated by the third generation of founder William Bruell's family.

Phibro Animal Health manufactures specialty chemicals for agricultural and industrial uses. Its largest segment by far, Animal Health and Nutrition produces feed additives, including trace minerals, vitamins, and antibiotics. Its antibacterials protect against salmonellosis and fowl cholera. Phibro's Industrial Chemicals unit produces pigments and minerals such as iron and manganese, which are used as colorants and in brick, masonry, and glass. It also makes additives used in the manufacture of ethanol. Other subsidiaries include distributor PhibroChem and European specialty chemicals maker Ferro Metal & Chemical. The company operates worldwide. Chairman and president Jack Bendheim owns Phibro Animal Health.

Headquartered in France with operations in more than 70 countries, state-owned SNPE has its fingers in a lot of pies: energetic materials (propellants for car airbags and propulsion for rockets); fine chemicals for pharmaceutical, agrochemical, and other uses; and specialty chemicals used in such applications as explosives, inks, fuel additives, and nail polishes. SNPE's subsidiaries and operating units include Bergerac NC (specialty chemicals), Isochem (fine chemicals), and SNPE Mat鲩aux Energ鴩ques (energetic materials). That last unit also owns, with joint-venture partner MBDA , solid rocket motor maker Roxel.

TPC Group Inc. produces specialized lines of chemical products to chemical and petroleum based companies worldwide. The company offers C4 processing products, including butadiene, which is used to produce synthetic rubber; butene-1x that is used in the manufacture of plastic resins, fuel additives, and synthetic alcohols; and raffinates and methyl tertiary butyl ether, which are used in gasoline blend stock formations. It also provides performance chemicals comprising isobutylene that is used in the production of specialty rubbers, lubricant additives, detergents, and coatings; polyisobutylenes, which are used in the production of fuel and lube additives, caulks, adhesives, sealants, and packaging; diisobutylene that is used in the manufacture of surfactants, plasticizers, and resins; and propylene derivatives, such as nonene and tetramer, which are used as intermediates in the production of plasticizers, lube oil additives, surfactants, antioxidants, and other performance products. The TPC Group Inc. was formerly known as Texas Petrochemicals Inc. and changed its name to TPC Group Inc. in January 2010. TPC Group was founded in 1943 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas.

FutureFuel Corp. engages in the manufacture and marketing of specialty chemicals and biofuels in the United States and internationally. The company operates in two segments, Chemicals and Biofuels. The Chemicals segment offers custom manufacturing chemicals, including a bleach activator for detergent manufacturers; proprietary herbicide for life sciences companies; and chlorinated polyolefin adhesion promoters and antioxidant precursors for chemical companies. This segment also provides performance chemicals, such as polymer (nylon) modifiers and several small-volume specialty chemicals, as well as agricultural intermediates and additives, imaging chemicals, fiber additives, and various specialty pharmaceutical intermediates. Its products are used in various markets and end uses, including detergent, agrochemical, automotive, photographic imaging, coatings, nutrition, and polymer additives. The Biofuels segment offers biodiesel and cellulose-derived biofuels. The company was founded in 2005 and is based in Clayton, Missouri.

Super Glue really sticks to it. The maker of Super Glue, Bondini, and other adhesives and sealants sells both consumer product and industrial brands. Those products include Super Glue, ProSeal, and ZAP; manufacturing and industrial brands include Super Glue and Pacer Industrial. Its industrial products include automotive aftermarket products such as sealants and instant gaskets, and adhesives for the automotive, medical device, and electronics industries. In 2003 a group led by former board member E.T. Gravette took the company private. Super Glue Corporation was known as Pacer Technology until 2005.

Boero Bartolomeo has it covered. Through its subsidiaries, the holding company manufactures paints, varnishes, and resins for houses and yachts. Its Boero Colori France and Rover Colori E Vernici subsidiaries (both wholly owned) manufacture paints for the yachting, decorative, and do-it-yourself sectors. Other operations include Boero Colori (paints for the retail, building, and anticorrosion markets), Boher (coil coating), and Boat SpA (marine and protective coatings). Chairman Andreina Boero and her family control Boero Bartolomeo; Italian financial firm ADR has a 17% stake in the company.

Kemira tackled the water challenge in its strategy in 2008. The company is investing in research and development, strongly and consistently, to offer to water-intensive industries solutions that help save water and energy. Over the years, Kemira has accumulated impressive expertise and knowledge related to water-intensive processes. Combined with water chemistry, this competence enables Kemira to create production processes that require less water, energy and other invaluable resources.

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.

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