Custom Building Products (CBP) likes to hold things together. The producer of tile-setting grout and adhesives makes such products as epoxies, cement, household and industrial glues, sealants, acrylic resins, clay mortars, putties, and latex, as well as gypsum products and concrete repair products. The company also offers installation tools, cleaning and maintenance equipment, and a library of how-to-do-it and other resource materials. The company manufactures and distributes its wares from about a dozen locations in North America. Its customers include architects, contractors, dealers, distributors, and do-it-yourselfers. CBP was founded in 1964 by Thomas Peck and Mike Bilek.

Witton Chemical Company is an international fine chemical contract manufacturer based in the UK, with a 50 year history of manufacturing chemicals for a wide range of international customers from all sectors of industry. We develop ongoing partnerships for chemical manufacture and toll manufacture with some of the largest adhesive, electronic, paint, sealant, petrochemical, and pharmaceutical companies worldwide.

Mexican conglomerate Alfa is a big player in four different industry segments. Alpek, a global petrochemical concern with an emphasis on synthetic fibers (Akra Polyester, DAK Americas, Nyltek, Indelpro, PTAL, Temex) accounts for about 40% of sales. Alfa's other operations consist primarily of refrigerated-foods manufacturer and distributor Sigma Alimentos (Yoplait yogurt, Oscar Mayer), aluminum auto part maker Nemak (engine heads and blocks), and telecom company Alestra. Alfa has alliances with more than 20 companies (such as AT&T, Ford, and Kraft) around the world. It operates more than 75 production facilities throughout the Americas, Asia, and Europe, though Mexico provides almost half of its sales.

Jones-Blair makes coatings with a Southern accent. That is, y'all, it makes industrial and construction coatings and epoxies from its US locations in Louisiana, Texas, and Tennessee and its one Canadian service center in Alberta.The company's high-performance industrial coatings division makes acrylic-urethane, alkyd, and acrylic coatings for decorative and protective applications, including automotive manufacturing, oil-field service, imaging, signs, and woodworking. Jones-Blair's Neogard division produces elastomeric coatings (waterproofing and roof, floor, and wall coating systems) used in construction.

Mixing up a batch of colors is the primary activity of Performance Masterbatches. The company, founded in 1975, has developed a system to make color-extruded plastics to customer specifications. The masterbatch process is a mixture of pigments and additives encapsulated during heating into a carrier resin and then cut into a granular shape after cooling. The process allows manufacturers to select the color of their polymer products. Performance Masterbatches uses its Datamatch system to produce a wide range of colors and to ensure color consistency.

If you need pigments that are more than a figment, Holland Colours has hues you can use. The company sells color additives to plastics manufactures for tinting PVC pipes, siding, food and beverage containers, and silicone sealants and to coating and ink makers. It produces colors in micro granules, granules, powders, and liquids mainly at four plants in the Netherlands, Indonesia, Hungary, and the US for customers in more than 70 countries. Colors are mainly available as pigments, pastes, and powders for use in bottles, toys, and industrial paints and plastics, respectively. Holland Colours also provides lab, technical, and R&D support to third parties. Employees own about half the company.

HELM U.S. (a subsidiary of Germany-based HELM Aktiengesellschaft) distributes specialty and industrial chemicals from chemical producers to industrial customers in the Americas. Founded in 1976, the company specializes in distributing raw materials for producers of thermoset resins and coatings. Typical products include both liquid (acetone, acrylates, methanol, propylenes, xylenes) and solid (borax, fumaric acid, melamine, titanium dioxide) chemicals. The company also offers logistics services such as chemical tanker chartering, documentation, and import and export regulatory assistance.

Shiloh Industries, Inc. manufactures and sells first operation blanks, engineered welded blanks, complex stampings, and modular assemblies for the automotive, heavy truck, and other industrial markets in the United States. Its steel blanks, which are engineered two dimensional shapes cut from flat-rolled steel, are used for structural and exterior steel components, such as support brackets, frame sides, fenders, hoods and doors. These blanks include first operation exposed and unexposed blanks and advanced engineered welded blanks. The engineered welded blanks generally consist of two or more sheets of steel of the same or various material grade, thickness, or coating that are welded together utilizing mash seam resistance and laser welding. Its stampings are principally used as components in mufflers, seat frames, structural rails, window lifts, heat shields, vehicle brakes, and other structural body components. The company’s complex stampings and modular assemblies include components used in the structural and powertrain systems of a vehicle.Its structural systems include bumper beams, door impact beams, steering column supports, chassis components, and structural underbody modules; and powertrain systems consist of deep draw components, such as oil pans, transmission pans, and valve covers. Shiloh Industries also designs and engineers precision tools and dies, and welding and assembly equipment. In addition, the company provides various intermediate steel processing services, such as oiling, leveling, cutting-to-length, slitting, edge trimming of hot and cold-rolled steel coils, and inventory control services for automotive and steel industry customers. Its customers primarily include original equipment manufacturers; Tier I automotive suppliers; manufacturers in the lawn and garden, and heavy duty truck and trailer industries; and steel producers. Shiloh Industries was founded in 1950 and is headquartered in Valley City, Ohio.

Merichem Process Technologies licenses its technologies to customers for whom it then designs, procures, and fabricates equipment to remove hydrogen sulfide (H2S), mercaptans, naphthenic acids, carbon dioxide (CO2), carbonyl sulfide (COS), and other impurities from light and middle distillate hydrocarbons in refineries, from gas liquids and condensates processed at natural gas production facilities and from light crude oils. Most equipment sold by Merichem Process Technologies uses FIBER FILM.

Arclin works closely with its customers to create custom manufacturing-environment solutions that enhance efficiencies and productivity. And through constant efforts to applying our best-in-class science and technologies to address the complex needs of the building and construction, agricultural and natural resources industries.

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