Bet Coronado never thought to look in Arkansas. LSB Industries did, though, and found its own El Dorado there. El Dorado Chemical is part of the chemical manufacturing division of LSB. It makes agricultural products and industrial chemicals, including nitrogen-based fertilizers, nitric acid, sulfuric acid, and industrial-grade ammonium nitrate for the mining industry. The company operates a manufacturing facility in El Dorado, Arkansas and has marketing and distribution operations in the south-central US. It ships products to wholesale customers by truck or railcar; it also serves retail customers.

A strong reaction to business? That's nothing new for Produits Chimiques Auxiliaires et de Synth賥 (PCAS), which makes fine and specialty chemicals for a variety of industries. Synthetic and active ingredients for the pharmaceutical industry account for about half of PCAS' sales. Other significant segments make aroma chemicals for perfumes and synthetic and photosensitive chemicals for applications in photography, graphic arts, and electronics manufacturing. The company also develops additives for industrial lubricants and technical fluids, and it prepares pharmaceuticals in final dosage form. French manufacturer Dynaction owns about 70% of the company.

SolvChem distributes solvents and chemicals such as acids, alcohols, amines, chlorinated solvents, esters, glycol ethers, ketones, plasticizers, and sulfates. Its customers include companies in the paints and coatings, petroleum refining, and plastic industries. The company delivers products throughout five states in the southwestern US and exports commodities throughout the Americas. Suppliers include Equistar Chemicals and Shell Chemical. Founder Gabriel Baizan formed the company in the late 1960s and his family still owns SolvChem.

SI Group came to life by bringing good varnishes to life for General Electric. Founded by Howard Wright in 1906, the company was established to develop insulating varnishes for GE's early electrical devices. SI Group makes friction material resins for use in the manufacture of brake linings and clutch facings. The company's other products include alkylphenols, phenolic resins, and electronic chemicals used in the production of semiconductors, imaging products, packaging, rubber compounds, agrochemicals, dyes, fuel additives, and flavoring agents. SI Group's manufacturing operations are located worldwide. Descendants of Wright still own the company, which was called Schenectady International until 2006.

Barton Solvents packages, stores, and delivers solvents and other chemical products for customers in 13 Midwestern states. Products include cleaning solvents, paint thinners, hydraulic systems oil, corrosion inhibitors, and surfactants. Barton has distribution locations in Iowa, Kansas, and Wisconsin. Suppliers include ADM, BASF, Ineos, and Shell Chemicals.

Jiangsu Overseas Group Corporation helps oversee the flow of specialty chemical products in and out of China. The company primarily distributes pharmaceutical and dyestuff intermediates. Its product line includes bromines, esters, phase transfer catalysts, and coupling agents. Jiangsu Overseas Group primarily draws its products from plants within the JOC Group and affiliated factories. China is the company's top customer, where it has also engaged with chemical research institutes to create new chemical products.

Advanced Composites Group (ACG) makes composite materials (plastics and carbon fiber) used as coating materials on telecommunication products (satellite receivers), automobiles, and boats. Additionally, ACG's products are used in pattern, tooling, and component manufacturing by the aerospace and defense, automotive, communications, and sports industries. Its manufacturing facilities are located in the UK and South Africa. ACG is part of the Composite Structural Materials subsidiary of UK industrial distribution company UMECO, which acquired Advanced Composites Group in 2004.

Elekeiroz's customers are hooked on toxic substances. The company's annual output of 468,000 tons of chemicals is divided evenly between organic and inorganic products. The organic chemicals it produces include alcohol-based solvents, formaldehyde, and sulfur; its inorganic chemicals include components for drying agents and dyes, additives for pesticides, and plasticizers used in the manufacture of PVC and other plastics.

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.

Brenntag UK first took wing as Albion Chemicals Group in 2001, emerging from the nest of Hays Chemicals through a management-led buyout. The company is the United Kingdom's No. 2 chemicals distributor (behind Univar). In addition to its distribution businesses, Brenntag UK operates a chlor-alkali chemicals manufacturing plant. The company has a network of a dozen distribution depots and another six specialties sites across the UK and Ireland to supply businesses in the region. Following the MBO in 2001 it operated as Albion even after global distributor Brenntag acquired it in 2006. By 2009 the parent company decided to re-brand it as its own and changed the name to Brenntag UK.

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