No matter what color your car is, chances are you've got a Red Spot on it somewhere. Red Spot Paint & Varnish supplies coatings for automotive plastics, from lacquers for mirrors and grilles to urethanes for fascia and fenders. Its automotive industry customers include GM, Ford, and Toyota. The company also makes primers and topcoats for sporting goods such as golf club shafts and motorcycle helmets. Red Spot's products also wind up on personal electronics, business machines, cosmetics packaging, and aerospace components. President and CEO Charles Storms is the fourth generation of his family to run the company since it was founded by his great-grandfather H. D. Bourland.

Solvay Indupa manufactures and distributes PVC (polyvinyl chloride) resin used in the manufacture of a broad range of industrial and consumers goods; end products include flooring, footwear, packaging materials, pipes, and coatings for wire and cable. The company produces its PVC, sold under the SolVin brand, as well as other chemical products (sodium hydroxide, hydrochloric acid, and hypochlorite) at plants in Argentina and Brazil. Solvay Indupa's annual output of PVC resin totals more than 260,000 tons. The company is a subsidiary of Brussels-based chemical and pharmaceutical maker Solvay Group.

Willamette Valley makes a wide landscape of synthetic paints, primers, sealers, and adhesives for the wood products industry. It also provides metering, dispensing, and application equipment. The company's divisions include Canadian Willamette, Tapel Willamette (a Chilean coatings subsidiary), Idaho Milling and Grain, and Eclectic Products (adhesives, spackle, and so forth). Willamette Valley has manufacturing operations and subsidiaries in Georgia, Idaho, Louisiana, Oregon in the US as well as in Canada and Chile; it also provides services to European and Asian customers.

J.M. Huber claims to make them even better. Hard to believe, we know. Founded in 1890 by Joseph M. Huber and still owned by his heirs, the company makes specialty additives and minerals used to thicken and improve the cleaning properties of toothpaste, the brightness and gloss of paper, the strength and durability of rubber, and the flame-retardant properties of wire and cable. The diverse company also makes oriented strand board (a plywood substitute), explores for and produces oil and gas, and provides technical and financial services. Huber also makes hydrocolloids (thickeners for gums) through subsidiary CP Kelco.

Jamestown Paint had been around when the original Jamestown was settled, residents could have painted their wagons any color they wished. The company, a family-run business founded in 1885, makes more than 2,000 varieties of coatings used by automotive OEMs and other manufacturing companies, including producers of heavy machinery, pipes and containers, general industrial products, and office furniture. It also provides custom formulation, process optimization, training, and waste reduction services. The company serves domestic and international customers, with a focus on clients in the northeastern US.

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.

PT. Tri Polyta Indonesia Tbk ("the Company") is the largest Indonesian manufacturer of polypropylene resins. The polypropylene resins produced included homopolymer, random copolymer and impact copolymer. Homopolymer products are mainly used to manufacture a wide range of consumer products such as food packaging, plastic housewares, woven sacks, carpet backing, and other applications. Meanwhile, random copolymer and impact copolymer are mainly used to manufacture automotive parts, electronics appliances, plastic bottles and other applications.The Company market its products under the trade name of Trilene® primarily in the domestic market. The Company was establish in 1988 and started its commercial operation in 1992 with two production trains with a combined annual capacity of 160,000 metric tons. At the end of 1993, the Company completed a debottlenecking project which increased the annual production capacity to 215,000 metric tons. The third production train was completed in 1995. The three trains have a combined annual capacity to produce between 360,000 to 380,000 metric tons of polypropylene, depending on the production mix.The plant which is located in the petrochemical complex in Cilegon, Banten, utilizes UNIPOL® gas-phase technology, which is a low pressure gas-phase reaction process based technology developed by Union Carbide Corporation and Shell Chemical Company. The UNIPOL® technology does not produce liquid waste discharge while majority of the solid wastes are recovered and recycled. The Company also owns a jetty located at its plant site that can accommodate one ship of 80,000 deadweight tons. The Company received its ISO 9002 certification in 1996, ISO 14001 certification in 2000 and subsequently ISO 9001 certification in 2002.

Cardolite makes an uncanny match out of a nutshell and a brake pad. The company manufactures coating and friction products based on cashew nutshell liquid (CNSL) -- yes, that kind of cashew. Cardolite's products are used in adhesives, concrete, intermediates, resins, inks, and electrical goods for the industrial, specialty coatings, automotive, printing, rubber, and polymer industries; it supplies about 50 countries worldwide. Cardolite operates manufacturing facilities in the US and China, as well as sales and distribution facilities in Belgium and Singapore.

Univar Europe is a leader in the universe of chemical distributors. The Univar Europe company buys chemicals in bulk and blends and packs them for customers in the agricultural, chemicals, coatings, electronics, food and beverage, oil and gas, pharmaceutical, and water treatment industries. Univar Europe also offers inventory management, custom labeling, custom packaging, waste management, warehouse management, and technical support services. The Univar Europe company serves about 56 distribution locations in 25 countries, primarily in Central and Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa. The unit generates $2 billion in revenue each year, or about 28% of parent Univar Inc.'s $7.2 billion in global sales.

KPChemical supplies the necessary ingredients for synthetic fibers, video and audio film, PET bottles, and more. The company develops and exports a variety of petrochemical products to customers around the globe. Among its products are P-X (Para-Xylene), PTA (Purified Terephthalic Acid), PPR (PET Packaging Resin), and PIA (Purified Isophthalic Acids). KPChemical focuses primarily on providing products to clients in China, Europe, and Russia. About 90% of its products are shipped to other countries. Founded in 2001, the company is an affiliate of the Lotte Group.

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