EMCO Chemical Distributors has developed a special chemistry with its Midwest manufacturing customers. The company distributes chemicals that include acids, alcohols, surfactants, solvents, and other industrial and specialty chemicals. Its custom packaging facility provides contract blending and packaging services and concentrates on filling orders for hazardous chemicals. Long situated solely in Chicago, EMCO has in recent years opened new facilities in Minneapolis/St. Paul; Kenosha, Wisconsin; and suburban St. Louis. Its waste services division supplies processed non-hazardous waste to Covanta's New York waste-to-energy facility. President, CEO, and owner Edward Polen founded EMCO in 1971.

Sun Chemical Europe wants you to put a coat on -- preferably one its own. The company manufactures inks and coatings for everything from silk screening to food packaging to the printing industry. The European division of Dainippon Ink's Sun Chemical, the company maintains manufacturing facilities throughout the continent, operates in nearly 30 countries, and is headquartered in the UK. Among the brand names Sun Chemical Europe's products are marketed under are Coates Lorilleux, Hartmann, Gibbon, Swale, Kohl & Madden, and US Ink. The company's business is divided among the following units: packaging, publication, commercial, and industrial.

Solvay works to render its customers' problems solved. Solvay Chemicals International SA is part of the chemical sector of industrial giant Solvay SA, and accounts for about one-third of the parent company's business. The sector produces hydrogen peroxide, soda ash, sodium bicarbonate, and sodium percarbonate under two product groupings. The largest group is Solvay Chemicals, which has an electrochemistry and fluorinated products cluster and oxygen and organics clusters. Primary markets include adhesives and sealants, aerospace, automotive, environment, food and drink, glass, paints and coatings, medical devices, semiconductors and electronics, and soap and detergent.

ICL Performance Products LP Company Profile ICL Performance Products LP is phosphorific! The North American unit of the performance products segment of Israel Chemicals Limited (ICL), it produces phosphorus chemicals, phosphoric acid, and phosphate salts. The chemicals are used in foods, cleaners, water treatment, flat-panel displays, oral care products, paints and coatings, and pharmaceuticals. The company also manufactures flame retardants. ICL Performance Products operates plants in Brazil and the US (California, Kansas, Missouri, and New Jersey). It represents about a quarter of its parent's total business.

Wynn's company was founded in 1939 and is a unit of Illinois Tool Works (ITW). The products made by Wynn's have been to the moon and featured in Steve Martin's The Jerk. Wynn's develops, manufactures, and markets specialty chemical products and automotive service equipment. The company's lubricating oils reduce friction in car engines and NASA rockets alike. Wynn's products include engine oil, coolants, transmission and brake fluids, and HVAC chemicals. In addition to US business, Wynn's reach extends to Asia, Australia, Europe, and Latin America.

Cray Valley beats Kellogg's any day -- the French company can boast of four scoops of resins. Cray Valley, along with affiliates Cook Composites and Polymers (CCP) and Sartomer, forms the worldwide resins business for TOTAL's chemicals division. It manufactures structural, coatings, hydrocarbon, and powder resins. Among the end products Cray Valley's resins find themselves in are inks, varnishes, paints, adhesives, and gel coats. The company has manufacturing plants in Africa, Asia, and throughout Europe. Since TOTAL joined together Cray Valley, CCP, and Sartomer in 1990 the company has grown its business through successive international acquisitions.

Dupont's latest crop of products helps Thailand's agricultural producers protect their own crops. A subsidiary of chemical giant DuPont, Dupont (Thailand) makes crop protection products such as weed suppressing herbicides and pesticides. The company also markets chemicals, polymers, refinishes, and fibers to customers in the nutrition, health care, apparel, construction, packaging, printing, electronics, and transportation sectors. Established in 1971, DuPont (Thailand) operates a handful of production plants across the country and is part of DuPont's 15-country Asia Pacific production network.

EAU Technologies, Inc. develops, manufactures, and markets equipment that uses water electrolysis to create non-toxic cleaning and disinfecting fluids. The company’s products include Primacide A, a disinfecting and sanitizing fluid that kills bacteria, yeast, molds, viruses, and other organisms; Primacide B, an alkaline-based cleaner that emulsifies oils, fats, and other lipids; and Primacide C, a cleaning fluid for spraying on produce in grocery stores, and on consumer products requiring a longer shelf life. Its products are used in commercial food processing and organic or non-organic agricultural products that clean, disinfect, remediate, hydrate, and moisturize, as well as to treat various facets and phases of the food chain, from soil to animal feed to meat processing by eliminating dangerous and unhealthy pathogens from the food chain. EAU Technologies markets its products to dairy production and processing, meat and poultry processing, clean in place for food and beverage processing, and agricultural grow-out and processing sectors for commercial and residential use. The company was formerly known as Electric Aquagenics Unlimited, Inc. and changed its name to EAU Technologies, Inc. in January 2007. EAU Technologies, Inc. was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Kennesaw, Georgia.

Rust-Oleum has been fighting the spread of iron oxide for more than 80 years. The company makes paints and similar coatings that resist moisture and corrosion. Designed for materials that are exposed to the elements, including light fixtures, patio furniture, wheelbarrows, mailboxes, and window trim, Rust-Oleum products come in multiple colors and textures. It also makes paints for indoor furniture, epoxies for garage floors and truck beds, and oil finishes for wood. Originally founded in 1921 by a Scottish-born sea captain named Robert Fergusson who discovered fish oil prevented rust, Rust-Oleum is now a subsidiary of chemicals and consumer products heavyweight RPM International.

KiON isn't the new low-budget, high-mileage car out of Detroit; it's an old high-performance polysilazane-based resin manufacturer north of Philadelphia. The company's resins are used in coatings, electronics, and ceramics, and by the defense industry. Polysilazane resins are intermediates composed of alternating silicon and nitrogen atoms. The company was established in 1987 as Commodore Polymer Technologies. Swiss specialty chemical company Clariant, looking to bolster its own polysilazane manufacturing operations, acquired KiON in early 2006 from previous owners Blum Technology Trust.

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