HELM is in control of its own ship. A marketer and distributor of chemicals, the company's products include fertilizers, insecticides, additives, pharmaceuticals, animal and human nutrients, and plastics. Founded at the turn of the last century and based in Germany -- with about 60% of its sales coming from Europe -- HELM has operations in more than 30 countries in Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and North America.

AECI Limited Company Profile AECI makes chemicals for a range of uses -- from blowing things up to making keeping pests away from your crops. The company, operating through its subsidiaries, manufactures and distributes explosives, specialty chemicals, and specialty fibers. Its subsidiaries include African Explosives (with business primarily in Africa but expanding worldwide), Chemical Services (or Chemserve, whose products ranging from detergents to mining chemicals to plastics to agricultural chemicals), and SANS Fibres (polyester and nylon fibers). It also operates South African property developer Heartland Properties. AECI had also made decorative coatings, sold under the Dulux name brand, but sold those operations in 2007.

GreenMan Technologies, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the design, development, and manufacture of environmentally responsible products using recycled materials, primarily recycled rubber in the United States. It offers playground safety tiles, roadside anti-vegetation products, construction molds, and highway guard-rail rubber spacer blocks. The company’s products provide schools and other political subdivisions solutions for safety, compliance, and accessibility. It also involves in playground design, equipment, and installation. The company was founded in 1992 and is based in Savage, Minnesota.

Cabot Corporation provides specialty chemicals and performance materials worldwide. Its product lines include carbon black, metal oxides, supermetals, and specialty fluids. The carbon black product line comprises rubber blacks, performance products, and inkjet colorants. The company offers these products for various markets, such as automotive, building materials, agricultural, coatings, toners, plastics, inkjet printing, and electronics market. The metal oxides product line consists of fumed metal oxides, including fumed silica and fumed alumina, and dispersions; and aerogel products for the automotive, construction, microelectronics, and consumer products industries. The supermetals product line includes tantalum, niobium, and their alloys.The company’s tantalum powder is used to make capacitors for computers, networking devices, wireless phones, and electronics for automobiles and other devices; superalloys and chemical process equipment are used for various other industrial and aerospace applications; finished tantalum sputtering is used for film applications, such as semiconductors, inkjet heads, magnetics, and flat panel displays. The specialty fluids product line comprises cesium formate, a drilling and completion fluid, for use in high pressure and high temperature oil and gas well operations. The company was founded in 1882 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Van Diest Supply Company has tied itself up with a corn belt. The agricultural chemical distributor and maker sells its wares under the Corn Belt Products brand name. Those wares include herbicides, pesticides, adjuvants (which enhance the properties of herbicides and pesticides), and spray drift management products (which keep the herbicides and pesticides where they're intended to be and not drifting off to harm the surrounding environment). With a fleet of about 200 trucks and pickups, Van Diest ships its products from about a dozen distribution centers spread throughout an 18-state area of the Midwest. The family-operated company was founded by president Bob Van Diest in 1956.

Chevron Oronite develops and markets quality additives that improve the performance of fuels and lubricants. We provide innovative solutions that keep the world moving.A subsidiary of Chevron Corporation, Oronite employs more than 2,000 people worldwide in a global organization comprising three regional operations with sales networks that extend to local markets.

Textile Rubber & Chemical Company (TRCC) doesn't want to pull the rug out from under your feet. It prefers to make that rug stronger and more comfortable. The company manufactures a number of rubber, latex, and polyurethane compounds that are used to make backings for rugs and carpets; as the raw ingredients in textile, rubber, and plastic products; and as additives for asphalt surfaces. TRCC operates on five continents and maintains 13 operating divisions and subsidiaries, including Perpetual Machine Company (maker of carpet finishing equipment), Tiarco (latex chemicals manufacturer), and XL Brands (maker of floor covering adhesives and carpet care products).

InteliCoat Technologies hopes its specialty coatings are found to be intelligent solutions for its customers' needs. The company manufactures coatings and substrates for use primarily in digital imaging equipment. Its products include dispersion coatings, optically clear films, coated papers, and flexible laminates. InteliCoat's products are sold worldwide under the brand name Magic; it also provides private-label services for OEMs and distributors. Other brand names include Jet Set, for the CAD market, and MagicL饠digital imagine media products. Investment firm Sun Capital Partners owns the company.

HELM U.S. (a subsidiary of Germany-based HELM Aktiengesellschaft) distributes specialty and industrial chemicals from chemical producers to industrial customers in the Americas. Founded in 1976, the company specializes in distributing raw materials for producers of thermoset resins and coatings. Typical products include both liquid (acetone, acrylates, methanol, propylenes, xylenes) and solid (borax, fumaric acid, melamine, titanium dioxide) chemicals. The company also offers logistics services such as chemical tanker chartering, documentation, and import and export regulatory assistance.

Bri-Chem Corp. is Western Canada's leading wholesale distributor of drilling fluids and steel products to the energy industry. Bri-Chem Corp. sells over 150 different products in a wide variety of weights and clays, as well as various diameter steel pipe, tubing and casing particular to the oil and gas fields in Western Canada and parts of the United States. In addition, the Company also distributes these products to non-oilfield related industries such as mining, industrial and construction industries.

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