United Salt Corporation (USC) unites consumer-, agricultural-, and industrial-use salt products under one umbrella. The company produces salt for table use, road deicing, and water conditioning. Other customers use the company's salt as a livestock supplement, to make ice cream, to dry seafood or treat hides, or to create brine for use in oil drilling. USC, which was formed in 1928, sells its products under the Ranch House, Flavor House, Melt Away, Gulf, Sea & Land, Tru-Flo, and Tru-Soft names. The company operates production facilities and a salt mine in Texas, New Mexico, and Virginia.

Coronado Paint Company explores ways to coat any type of surface. The company manufactures architectural protective and decorative coatings, which are sold to independent paint and decorating stores in North America. For professional painters and do-it-yourselfers alike, consumer products include exterior and interior primers, paints, stains, and varnishes. Coronado Paint also makes industrial maintenance and specialty protective coatings. The company was founded in 1957 to manufacture coatings for the US government. It's owned by Insl-X, a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway's Benjamin Moore.

Beardow & Adams is constantly seeking out and creating sticky situations for itself. The company, known as Beardow Adams, is a hot melt adhesives manufacturer, whose products are used in such activities as bookbinding, woodworking, adhering labels to cans, bottles, and refrigerators, and sealing up the tops of cereal boxes. Hot melts are also used in the assembly of products ranging from consumer appliances to automobiles. Its products are distributed worldwide. Beardow Adams was established in 1977 by chairman and managing director Bob Adams and his partner, Len Beardow.

Founded in 1978, Wego is run by partners Bert Eshaghpour and Edward Khalily. Chemical distributor Wego Chemical & Mineral operates throughout the Americas as well as Asia and Europe. Its products include acids, adhesives and sealants, colorants, dyes, pigments, esters, flavors and fragrances, food additives, and intermediates. The company delivers those products to companies operating in the agriculture, cosmetics, detergent, food, mining, pharmaceutical, paper, textile, and water treatment industries. Wego Chemical sources most of its products from Asia, where it owns stakes in manufacturing facilities, taking advantage of less expensive manufacturing costs there.

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.

Dynaction isn't the newest Saturday morning cartoon show -- it's a maker of fine and specialty chemicals through its 70% holding in Produits Chimiques Auxiliaires et de Synth賥 (PCAS). Its products are made for the pharmaceutical sector, primarily, as well as for makers of personal care and fragrance products. More than half of the company's sales are generated outside France. It previously had made power transmissions for heavy industrial use (through subsidiary CMD Engrenages et R餵cteurs) and had other non-chemical businesses, but Dynaction sold off the businesses from 2004-06 and now operates almost entirely through PCAS. Company chairman Christian Moretti holds about 15% of Dynaction.

The highest priority in the conduct of our business is safety and environmental protection. Univar Canada Ltd. policy mandates commitment to this priority by way of systems complying with our stringent standards and all government regulations. We are committed to constant vigilance and continuous improvement.Our operations are guided by the Distributor Code of Practice, the industry standard developed by the Canadian Association of Chemical Distributors (CACD). We participate in the Canadian Chemical Producers, (CCPA), Responsible Care Program, as well as comply with the rigorous Warehousing Standards of the Crop Protection Institute (CPI). Our major locations are registered to ISO 9002 standards. Our commitment to these codes and standards is stated in our Policy.

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.

Makhteshim-Agan Industries (MAI) manufactures generic forms of crop protection chemicals. Its products include herbicides, fungicides, and insecticides. Its first proprietray crop protection product was Rimon, which is not toxic for humans. Formed by Koor Industries' 1998 acquisition of two separate public companies, the agrochemicals company has operations worldwide. Through subsidiaries MAI is also involved in food and nutraceuticals, though the agrochemicals account for nearly all of its sales. The company has increased its focus on the North American market; the region now accounts for about a fifth of its total sales. Koor has been selling its shares in the company and has reduced its stake to about 40%.

South African diversified chemical giant Sasol Limited's Olefins and Surfactants unit (which itself is based in Germany). The division produces a number of commodity and specialty chemicals from its manufacturing sites and an R&D center in the US. Among the products made by Sasol North America are alcohols, alumina, paraffins, specialty surfactants, and fatty acid esters. Sasol North America is composed of what was once ConocoPhillips' chemicals unit, which was spun off as private company Vista Chemical in 1984, went public two years later, was purchased by RWE in 1991, and finally sold to Sasol in 2001.

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