The industrial-strength version of S.C. Johnson & Son, JohnsonDiversey split from the well-known company in 1999 to make commercial cleaning, hygiene, pest control, and food sanitation products for retailers, building service contractors, hospitality firms, and foodservice operators. It operates 31 manufacturing facilities in almost 25 countries. JohnsonDiversey also provides safety and application training, safety and hygiene consulting, and hygiene auditing. It's the #2 global industrial and institutional cleaning products company behind Ecolab. Europe represents more than half of the firm's sales, which span some 160 countries. The Johnson family controls two-thirds of the company; Unilever controls the rest.

Talk about carbon-based life forms -- Tokai Carbon lives on the stuff. The company's carbon products include carbon black, a reinforcement and coloring material used in car tires, industrial rubber products, paints, and inks; and artificial-graphite electrodes, which are used in electric-arc steelmaking furnaces. Tokai also makes specialty carbon products (glassy carbon, carbon brushes) and friction materials (used in clutches and brakes). In addition, the company has other operations in areas including real estate rental and cargo-handing. Tokai Carbon operates facilities in Asia, Europe, and North America.

CEPS, formerly known as Dinkie Heel, invests in a handful of specialty businesses. Its Davies Odell business makes body armor, protective underwear, matting for equestrian and dairy use, and a range of footwear repair products. CEPS' Friedman's is a specialist textile importer. The company acquired Friedman's, an importer and distributor of Lycra materials used in dancewear and swimwear, in 2005. The company's Sunline Direct Mail unit is engaged in the the polythene wrapping of mail packs. CEPS has been operating since 1930.

Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation (MCC) operates the basic and petrochemicals businesses of Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings Corporation. Among the products the company makes are polyolefins like polyethylene and polypropylene, polycarbonate, and purified terephthalic acid (PTA). Mitsubishi Chemical operates manufacturing and R&D facilities throughout Japan and also maintains a presence in Asia, Europe, and the US. MCC is one of three units that comprise Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings; the other two are Mitsubishi Plastics and pharmaceuticals maker Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma.

Fu Yu Corporation manufactures and supplies injection moulding and plastic accessories to the worldwide market. Its fabrications services cater to such clients as 3M, Agilent Technologies, and Siemens that primarily reside in the automotive, electronics, information technology, and medical sectors. The company's products are used to produce injection moulding for the assembly of computers and peripherals, cell phones and televisions, and diagnostic and medical equipment. Established in 1978, Fu Yu Corporation owns about a dozen plants and facilities across China, Malaysia, and Singapore. Its Malaysian operations are conducted through majority-owned, publicly traded subsidiary LCTH Corporation.

Reflec likes to reflect on new ways to commercialize glow-in-the-dark products. The company -- which operates through subsidiaries Reflecmedia and Reflec Evolution -- makes reflective products that allow TV and film producers to project special effects. Customers include BBC TV, CNN, and Disney. Reflec is engaged in powder processing and micro-grinding, as well as in research and development for the production of reflective systems. Reflec maintains offices in Hong Kong, the UK, and the US. Its Reflec (USA) unit holds patents and trademarks for reflective inks and clothing in the US. A newly formed subsidiary (in 2006), Perseus Global Security Technologies, provides security and risk analysis services.

Rogers Corporation develops, manufactures, and distributes specialty material-based products and components for fabricators and contract manufacturers that produce components and products for original equipment manufacturers OEMs worldwide. Its Printed Circuit Materials segment offers rigid circuit board laminates for high frequency printed circuits and flexible circuit board laminates for flexible interconnections. This segment offers these products primarily to printed circuit board manufacturers and equipment manufacturers for applications in the computer, portable communication device, communications infrastructure, aerospace and defense, and consumer markets.The company’s High Performance Foams segment offers urethane foams and silicone materials to fabricators, distributors, and OEMs for applications in consumer electronics, mass transit, aerospace, and defense and other markets. This segment’s foams are used for making high performance gaskets and seals in vehicles, portable communications devices, computers, and peripherals; cushion insole materials for footwear and related products; healthcare and medical materials for body cushioning and orthotic appliances; and R/bak compressible printing plate backing and mounting products for cushioning flexographic plates for printing on packaging materials; and silicone foams for making flame retardant gaskets and seals in communications, aircraft, trains, cars and trucks markets, as well as for shielding extreme temperature or flame. Its Custom Electrical Components segment provides power distribution components, and electroluminescent lamps and inverters for the ground transportation and portable communication device markets. The company’s Other Polymer Products segment offers elastomer components, nonwoven composite materials, and thermal management products, as well as engages in the resale of flexible circuit material products. Rogers Corporation was founded in 1832 and is based in Rogers, Connecticut.

A shot of Vitamin K helps farmers grow bigger and better crops. Uralkali is one of the world's top producers of potash, a form of potassium carbonate commonly used as a fertilizer. The company produces 5 million tons of potash per year, or 10% of the world's supply. (Canada's PotashCorp leads the way with 10 million tons, or 20%.) Uralkali operates two mines in Russia and five production plants. The company makes about two-thirds of its total sales to just Brazil and China. Uralkali was founded in 1930 by the Russian government and privatized in 1992. In 2007 it became the country's first public chemical company.

The world's #2 ink maker (behind Sun Chemical), Flint Group produces inks and coatings for a variety of applications, including packaging, publication, commercial uses, and digital printing. It operates four business units: printing inks, flexographic products (printing plates), pigments (colorants and additives), and printing blankets, sleeves, and chemicals. Flint owns plants throughout the world, and its customers produce magazines, newspapers, catalogs, and packaging materials. The company's products include sheetfed and web offset, ultraviolet and electronic beam (UV/EB) curable, and flexographic inks as well as environmently friendly vegetable oil-based inks. Flint Group is owned by CVC Capital Partners.

Allvivo Vascular develops biomimetic surface materials -- coatings for biomedical and research instruments. Founded in 1999 to develop research being done at the University of Utah and incubated at the University of Alabama, Allvivo Vascular has graduated and moved to California. The company's primary target market is to provide coatings for stents used in coronary interventions. Its products enable researchers to control cells' reactions to contact with tools whether in lab experimentation or surgical implantation (both ex vivo and in vivo, thus the name allvivo).

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