Founded in 1978, Wego is run by partners Bert Eshaghpour and Edward Khalily. Chemical distributor Wego Chemical & Mineral operates throughout the Americas as well as Asia and Europe. Its products include acids, adhesives and sealants, colorants, dyes, pigments, esters, flavors and fragrances, food additives, and intermediates. The company delivers those products to companies operating in the agriculture, cosmetics, detergent, food, mining, pharmaceutical, paper, textile, and water treatment industries. Wego Chemical sources most of its products from Asia, where it owns stakes in manufacturing facilities, taking advantage of less expensive manufacturing costs there.

Hoping to cushion its parent companies' rides through a bumpy economy, Americas Styrenics combines the styrene operations of Dow Chemical and Chevron Phillips Chemical (CP Chem). The 50-50 joint venture makes styrene monomer and a number of polystyrene resins. Its products go into the obvious (packaging and foam peanuts) and the unlikely (envelope windows and lighting applications). Americas Styrenics operates eight manufacturing facilities throughout the US and in Brazil and Colombia. It is the #1 producer of polystyrene and the #2 maker of styrene in the Western Hemisphere.

Robert Walsh, Arthur Schmidt, and George Claytor formed Walsh & Associates, Inc. in 1968. The three St. Louis businessmen had joined Ashland Oil Company briefly following the acquisition of a small chemical distributor where they were employed. Encouraged by customers and suppliers to form an independent regional distribution company of their own, Walsh, Schmidt, and Claytor were fortunate to have several of the original suppliers align with the newly formed Walsh & Associates, Inc. The company has expanded greatly adding regional offices in Kansas City, Missouri, Denver, Colorado, Memphis, Tennessee, Salt Lake City, Utah, Dallas, Texas, and Kalamazoo, MI.

Gantrade gallivants about the globe trading chemical commodities. The company is a petrochemicals firm and producer of vinyl acetate monomer (VAM), as well as carbon black and ethylene and propylene derivatives. The company has marketing and storage operations in the US and throughout Europe. The Parekh family owns Gantrade and has interests in various other chemical companies through a venture with Court Square Capital Partners.

Cryopak Industries wants to cover the temperature-control industry like a blanket. It manufactures products that control temperatures for industrial, pharmaceutical, and consumer applications. It makes reusable ice substitutes, flexible hot and cold compresses, reusable gel ice, and instant hot and cold packs. Shipping products include Flexible Ice Blanket, Ice-Pak, and Hot-Pak. Other brand names include SimplyCozy (neck warmer) and Flex Pak. Cryopak's pharmaceutical products allow for the temperature-controlled transport of medicines. Cryopak was founded in 1993 and grew rapidly with the acquisitions of Northland Ice-Gel and Ice-Pak Group.

JSR Corporation was established in December 1957 by the Special Measures Law for Synthetic Rubber Production to produce domestic synthetic rubbers. Since then, JSR has continued to strive to expand its business and reinforce stabilization of its management, resulting in leading positions in the areas of petrochemical materials, such as synthetic rubbers and emulsions.Additionally, JSR entered into the fast growing information and communication industries by applying its polymer technologies to photo-chemistries and organic synthesis chemistries. The company introduced electronic materials, display materials and optical materials and has achieved a large market share.JSR Corporation changed its name from gJapan Synthetic Rubberh on December 10, 1997 , when the company celebrated its 40th Anniversary, with a commitment to innovative transformation to reconstruct business strategies to provide innovative materials to various areas. JSR will continue to answer the challenge to be a solution provider for new market demands.

In times of stress please watch your step around Adhesives Research's products; they're pressure-sensitive. The company manufactures pressure-sensitive adhesives for the medical (for wound care and IV attachments), electronics (used in the assembly stages for mobile devices, hard drives, etc.), industrial (automotive, glass treatment), and splicing (pulp and paper industry) markets. The company manufactures its products on a custom basis, working with customers worldwide. It operates technical design and manufacturing facilities in Colombia, Ireland, and the US. Adhesives Research was founded in 1961 by chairman Erwin Huber.

Ethyl hears you knocking and it hopes you let its products in. A subsidiary of NewMarket, Ethyl markets its gasoline performance additives and diesel cetane improver (which increases ignition quality in diesel fuel) throughout North America. It also makes anti-knock additive tetraethyl lead (TEL), which once was a primary product line for Ethyl but has seen diminishing returns since the U.S. Clean Air Act and others like it were put in place. NewMarket was formed in 2004 as a holding company for Ethyl and sister company Afton Chemical.

Effective technology has helped EFTEC market its products. Founded in 1985 as a joint venture between EMS-CHEMIE and H.B. Fuller's automotive division, EFTEC manufactures sealants, adhesives, and coatings for use by OEMs in the automotove industry. The company also supplies products to the automotive after-market for repairs, and to the bus and train industries. EFTEC has locations throughout Asia, Europe, and the US (through EFTEC North America). In 2007 EMS bought out Fuller's half of the joint venture for $80 million.

Kyzen -- derived from the Japanese word "kaisan," which means continuous improvement -- is trying to improve the performance of electronics with its specialty cleaning products. The company offers environmentally safer cleaning chemicals (alternatives to ozone depleting chemicals) for semiconductor, optics, and aerospace components, including aluminum tubes, electronic assemblies, medical implants, optical lenses, silicon wafers, and solid rocket motors for the space shuttle. Its Metalnox products are solvents that are specially formulated to remove tough soils used in metal finishing; Optisolv is a line of chemical cleaners for glass and plastics. Kyzen sells via a direct sales force to customers worldwide.

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