Founded in 1935 as a maker of caustic soda, Tosoh (a Japanese abbreviation of oriental soda) still produces caustic soda but has expanded into a number of other areas. Today Tosoh's three core chemicals businesses -- petro-, basic, and specialties -- account for roughly equal portions of sales. The company's basic chemicals include polyvinyl chloride (PVC), vinyl chloride monomer (VCM), and chlorine. Its petrochemicals include olefins and aromatics such as benzene, toluene, and ethylene. Tosoh has been building up its higher-margin specialty chemicals like ethylene amines and specialty materials such as quartz. The Tosoh Corporation company has more than 140 affiliates worldwide but gets about 90% of sales from Japan.

Pervo Paint hopes the elements won't penetrate its coatings. The company makes a variety of paints and industrial coatings ranging from exterior and interior house paint to those used to mark highways and parking lots. Its products include curb coatings, interior and exterior paints, industrial enamels, waterproofing systems, and thermoplastic marking materials. Pervo Paint serves customers in the midwestern and western US, as well as in Canada, Mexico, China, and Korea. The company has been family-owned and -operated since it was founded in 1929 by Herman Van Dulst and his son-in-law Henry DeRuiter. Pervo means impenetrable in Dutch.

Penn Color might not have anything to do with your pen color, but there's a good chance that some piece of plastic within your line of sight is colored by Penn. The Pennsylvania company manufactures dispersions, colorants, inks, and coatings primarily for the plastics industry, but also for automobile makers, printers, construction materials, packaging, wall covering and flooring, and even for use in nail polish. Penn Color has six manufacturing plants in the South East and North East US and one in the Netherlands. The company was formed in 1964 as PFD Plastics.

HaiKe’s largest business is oil refining and the production and marketing of petrochemical products. These include light fuel oils, gasoline and diesel in addition to a range of minor derivatives such as petroleum coke and liquefied gas. Many industrial sectors, including manufacturing, transport and agriculture, use some form of petroleum based fuel.

Carlisle Companies Incorporated manufactures construction materials in the United States and internationally. Its Construction Materials segment offers rubber and thermoplastic polyolefin roofing systems; and related roofing accessories, such as flashings, fasteners, sealing tapes, coatings and waterproofing, insulation products, liquid and spray-applied waterproofing membranes, vapor and air barriers, HVAC duct sealants, and hardware products. It serves new construction, re-roofing, water containment, HVAC sealants, and coatings and waterproofing markets, as well as markets and sells polyvinyl chloride membrane and accessories purchased from third party suppliers. The company’s Transportation Products segment provides bias-ply, non-automotive rubber tires, stamped and roll-formed steel wheels, and accessories for the lawn and garden, golf car, home appliance, power equipment, trailer, all terrain vehicle, power sports/recreational vehicles, and agriculture markets; open-deck construction trailers; dump trailers for the material hauling; specialized trailers for large-capacity multi-unit trailers; and over-the-road commercial trailers for heavy equipment and truck dealers and commercial haulers.Its Applied Technologies segment offers foodservice permanentware, table coverings, cookware, display pieces, catering equipment, fiberglass and composite material trays and dishes, industrial brooms, brushes, mops, and rotary brushes; and wire and RF/microwave connectors and cable assemblies. The company’s Specialty Products segment provides heavy-duty friction blocks, disc linings, braking systems parts, and specialty friction products for heavy-duty equipment and truck dealers and replacement part and aftermarket distributors; and insulated temperature/climate-controlled truck bodies for customers in warehouse-to-retail store delivery and home food delivery. Carlisle Companies was founded in 1917 and is based in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Timminco produces silicon metal for the chemical (silicones), aluminum and electronics/solar industries, through its majority owned production partnership with Dow Corning, known as Québec Silicon. Timminco is also a producer of solar grade silicon, using its proprietary technology for purifying silicon metal, for the solar photovoltaic energy industry, through its wholly owned subsidiary Bécancour Silicon.

Velsicol was founded in 1931; the company was the subject of a management buyout in 1986 and then was acquired by private equity firm Arsenal Capital in 2005. Three years later Arsenal split the business in half and created a new company called Genovique Specialties that houses Velicol's former benzoate esters manufacturing operations. Velsicol Chemical knows what it takes to make things flexible. The Velsicol Chemical LLC is a top producer of chlorendic anhydride-based intermediates for flame retardants and pesticides; it also makes additives for epoxy resins and polyurethanes.

AEP Industries, Inc. manufactures plastic packaging films in North America. The company produces and markets various polyethylene, polyvinyl chloride, and polypropylene flexible packaging products for consumer, industrial, and agricultural applications. It offers custom and proformance films used for drum, box, carton, and pail liners; furniture and mattress bags; films to cover value products; barrier films; cheese films; and freezer grade bundle films. The company also provides stretch wrap; polyvinyl chloride wrap products used in food and freezer wrap; printed and converted films for various applications, including printed shrink films; and printed, laminated, and converted films for flexible packaging to consumer markets. In addition, it manufactures unplasticized polyvinyl chloride film for use in battery labels, twist films, credit card laminates, PVC films. AEP Industries, Inc. serves the packaging, transportation, beverage, food, automotive, pharmaceutical, chemical, electronics, construction, agriculture, and textile industries. The company was founded in 1970 and is based in South Hackensack, New Jersey.

TCR Industries, founded by Tony Rumfola in 1975, will recognize its thirty-sixth year operating as a manufacturers' representative organization June 1st. Our beginning was dealing in distressed inventory brought on by the infamous "oil embargo" which occurred in the early 1970s. A very large percentage of manufacturers requiring chemical raw materials overbought because uncertanties of availability requirements to make their finished products. Thus, when the curtain lifted ending the "oil embargo" caused shortages, there were staggering inventories interfering with cash flows. Opportunities were there to buy these inventories at discounted prices and sell at discounted, but profitable prices. The process was helpful to all parties concerned, and it helped in the start up of TCR.

When super glue isn't enough, it's time to turn to the pros at Sound Specialty Coatings. The company makes epoxy, paint, coating, and adhesive products for residential, commercial, maritime, and military uses. They also manufacture hydrophobic and antistatic coatings for use in clean rooms, on rebar, in fisheries, for the lining of brewery tanks, and for marine vessels. Their products are nontoxic and environmentally friendly, which means anyone can use them.

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