Esschem manufactures acrylics, glass, and silicones used as raw materials for medical devices with dental, audiological, cosmetic, and orthopedic applications. The company's resins and polymers also are used by the pharmaceutical, specialty chemical, and electronics industries. Esschem's specialties include custom synthesis and blending, esterification, polymerization, and purification. The company is owned by the Justi Group (controlled by the founding Just family) and works with a group of affiliates to provide plastics, silicones, and glass raw materials worldwide.

Cole Chemical & Distributing provides chemical ingredients to petrochemical manufacturers, oil companies, and personal care product makers. The company's products include acids, alcohols, amines, chlor-alkali, chlorinated solvents, fatty chemicals, glycol ethers, lubricants, and resins from suppliers including BASF, Cargill, and Dow Corning. It offers safety training, custom blending, warehousing, logistics, and custom packaging services from its locations throughout the US; the company also has import and export operations.

Westport Innovations Inc. the research, development, and marketing of engines and fuel injection systems that use gaseous fuels, including natural gas, liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), hydrogen, and hydrogen-enriched compressed natural gas for the on-road commercial vehicle sector primarily in North America and Asia. The company offers engines utilizing gaseous fuels for transit and shuttle buses, conventional trucks and tractors, and refuse collection trucks, as well as specialty vehicles, such as short haul port drayage trucks, material handling trucks, street sweepers, and vehicles for selected industrial applications; direct injection LNG system for heavy-duty trucks; and engines fuelled with LPG primarily for the OEM forklift market. It also provides alternative fuel engines, and relevant parts and kits for use in automobiles, heavy duty trucks, power generation, and shipping applications; and cryogenic tanks for compressed natural gas or liquefied natural gas. The company was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.

Terra Industries Inc., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the production and marketing of nitrogen and methanol products for agricultural and industrial markets in North America and the United Kingdom. The company offers fertilizers, such as anhydrous ammonia, urea ammonium nitrate solutions, ammonium nitrate, and urea, as well as nitric acid, carbon dioxide, and dinitrogen tetroxide. It sells its products to national agricultural retail chains, farm cooperatives, independent dealers, and industrial customers. The company was founded in 1964 and is headquartered in Sioux City, Iowa.

AptarGroup, Inc. designs, manufactures, and sells product dispensing systems. It operates in three segments: Beauty & Home, Closures, and Pharma. The Beauty & Home segment primarily sells pumps and aerosol valves, and accessories to the personal care, household, and food/beverage markets; pumps and decorative components to the fragrance/cosmetic market; and fragrance/cosmetic and personal care fine mist spray pumps, personal care lotion pumps, and continuous spray aerosol valves. The Closures segment provides dispensing closures and non-dispensing closures primarily to the personal care, food/beverage, and household markets. The Pharma segment offers pumps and metered dose inhaler valves for allergy, cold, or flu treatments to the pharmaceutical market. The company sells and markets its products through sales force, independent representatives, and distributors in the United States, Europe, Argentina, Brazil, Canada, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Mexico, and Thailand. AptarGroup, Inc. was founded in 1992 and is based in Crystal Lake, Illinois.

Rohm and Haas is the one to blame if you can't get that paint out of your hair. The company divides its operations among six units, the largest of which is the paints and coatings materials group, which makes additives and binders used by paint makers. There's also the packaging and building materials group and the primary materials division, which makes acrylates. (Those businesses operate within the Specialty Materials segment.) The electronic materials segment makes photoresists and materials for printed wiring boards. Rohm and Haas exited its salt business in 2009 when it sold Morton Salt to German chemicals company K+S for about $1.7 billion. Dow, the nation's largest chemicals maker, owns the company.

Anderol thanks its lucky stars for all those pesky environmentalists that have many chemical companies running scared. The trend away from petroleum-based fluids fits the company's plans perfectly. Anderol's synthetic lubricants are used in gas engines and compressors and as hydraulic fluids and food-grade lubricants. The company is based in New Jersey and has operations worldwide, including Venezuela, Italy, the Netherlands, Japan, China, and Canada. It became a subsidiary of Chemtura in 2007 when the specialty chemicals giant acquired its parent company, Kaufman Holdings, which also controls synthetic lubricants producer Hatco.

Rasa Industries can help your company dig itself a hole. Rasa has three major business segments: machinery, chemicals, and electronic materials. Its machinery segment makes pipe-jacking machines used for tunneling in the installation of sewer, gas, and water lines and electricity and communication networks; it also makes screens and pumps for dealing with the slurry that its pipe-jacking machines produce. Rasa's chemical products include phosphorus, ferric oxide, and phosphoric acid. In 2011 Rasa's electronics division sold its silicon wafer recycling operations to RS Technologies. The unit continues to make high-purity materials such as gallium and phosphorus for electronics.

Evonik Degussa GmbH Company Profile Evonik Degussa's likes a chemical reaction, or a least a good reaction to its chemical products. The German giant operates as the chemical unit of Evonik Industries and groups those operations in a half dozen units. The largest division makes Industrial Chemicals like chlorides, peroxides, and propylene derivatives. Evonik Degussa's Inorganic Materials segment makes silicon products for solar energy applications and carbon black.

Treibacher Industries' chemical and metallurgy business is elemental. Its Steel and Foundry Products unit manufactures noble alloys like vanadium and molybdenum, while the Recycling division takes care of industrial metals that result as waste product from the first unit (recycling vanadium, nickel, and molybdenum). Treibacher's High Performance Materials division produces carbide powders used to manufacture tools and electrical parts, and the company's Rare Earths and Chemicals unit's products are used to manufacture batteries, electronics, ceramics, and catalysts. Treibacher has a subsidiary in Slovenia and a sales unit in Canada.

Inviting Real Estate Agents, Job Placements Agents, Educational Institutes, Software Service Providers, Real Estate Builders, Marriage Bureaus, Travel Agents, Restaurant Owners, Health & Fitness Centers and other Local Businesses to Post a FREE Classified Advertisement on Cootera.com Classifieds Website.