Nufarm Limited Company Profile Even if you've got an old ranch, Nufarm would like to help you kill some weeds in the name of protecting your crops. Nufarm manufactures herbicides and pesticides and controls the marketing rights to Monsanto's Roundup brand of herbicides for Australia and New Zealand. The company is also developing a seeds business. While the Asia/Pacific region is the company's biggest, accounting for a third of its business, Nufarm operates worldwide and continues its international expansion efforts. Since 2007 the company has made significant acquisitions in Brazil, the UK, and the US.

The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company engages in the development, manufacture, distribution, and sale of tires and related products and services worldwide. It manufactures rubber tires for automobiles, trucks, buses, aviation, motorcycles, farm implements, earthmoving and mining equipment, industrial equipment, and various other applications. The company offers tires under ‘Goodyear’, ‘Dunlop’, ‘Kelly’, ‘Fulda’, ‘Debica’, ‘Sava’, and various other Goodyear owned house brands, as well as under private-label brands. It also retreads truck, aviation, and off-the-road tires; manufactures and sells tread rubber and other tire retreading materials; provides automotive repair services and miscellaneous other products and services; and manufactures and sells flaps for truck tires and other types of tires. As of December 31, 2008, the company operated approximately 1,600 tire and auto service center outlets, where it offers its products for retail sale and provides automotive repair and other services. The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company was founded in 1898 and is based in Akron, Ohio.

Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan Inc. engages in the production and sale of fertilizers, and related industrial and feed products in North America. The company manufactures and sells solid and liquid phosphate fertilizers; animal feed supplements; and industrial acid, which is used in food products and industrial processes. It also produces nitrogen fertilizers, as well as nitrogen feed and industrial products, including ammonia, urea, nitrogen solutions, ammonium nitrate, and nitric acid. Potash Corporation’s primary customers for fertilizer products include retailers, dealers, cooperatives, distributors, and other fertilizer producers. In addition, the company produces potash from six mines in Saskatchewan and one mine in New Brunswick. It sells purified phosphoric acid directly to consumers of the product. The company was founded in 1953 and is based in Saskatoon, Canada.

Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings is the largest chemical manufacturer in Japan. Subsidiary Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation produces a wide variety of petrochemicals, specialty chemicals, and the like. Another unit, Mitsubishi Plastics, manufactures plastics and films, data storage devices such as CDs and DVDs, as well as chemicals for semiconductor manufacturing. Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma makes pharmaceutical products for central nervous system, cardiovascular, and gastrointestinal disorders, in addition to OTC and anti-inflammatory drugs. In 2010, it added Mitsubishi Rayon as its fourth business unit. Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings was formed in 2005 as the parent company of Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation.

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.

alchimer is a practitioner of high-tech alchemy. The company specializes in chemical coatings used in both microelectronics and biomedical implants. alchimer's electro-grafting technology allows coating solutions (organic, polymer-based films) to be used on conducting and semi-conducting surfaces. alchimer's coatings can be used in such biomedical applications as drug-eluting stents; technological applications include integrated circuit manufacturing. A 2001 spin-off of the Commissariat ࠬ'Energie Atomique, the French government's atomic energy agency, Alchimer is owned by a consortium of private investors that includes AGF Private Equity and Rothschild.

SABIC isn't meant to be an anagram for basic; that's just a happy accident. SABIC Europe manufactures basic and intermediate petrochemicals, including polyethylene, polypropylene, and other polyolefins, for customers throughout Europe. SABIC Europe is the European arm of Saudi Basic Industries (SABIC), the largest non-oil producing company in the Middle East, and one of the world's leading petrochemical producers. The company also distributes its parent's products throughout the continent; its manufacturing complexes are in Germany, the Netherlands, and the UK.

Though Incitec Pivot is Australia's largest producer of fertilizers, it plans to get even bigger by blowing things up. The company's main products are phosphate fertilizers (ammonium phosphates and superphosphates, primarily); it also produces urea and anhydrous ammonia. Incitec Pivot also manufactures industrial chemicals -- for water treatment and process manufacturing -- using by-products from the manufacturing process. The company was formed in 2003 through the merger of fertilizer makers Incitec and Pivot; Orica had owned 70% of Incitec Pivot until it sold that majority stake in 2006. Two years later Incitec Pivot bought explosives maker (and direct rival to Orica) Dyno Nobel for $3 billion.

Ocean Bio-Chem, Inc. engages in the manufacture, marketing, and distribution of various appearance and maintenance products for boats, recreational vehicles, automobiles, and aircrafts under the Star brite brand name, as well as private label formulations in the United States and Canada. The company’s marine product line consists of polishes, cleaners, protectants, and waxes of various formulations. This line also includes motor oils, vinyl protectants, cleaners, teak cleaners, teak oils, bilge cleaners, hull cleaners, silicone sealants, polyurethane sealants, polysulfide sealants, gasket materials, lubricants, antifouling additives, and anti-freeze coolants, as well as brushes, poles and tie-downs, and other related marine accessories. The company’s automotive product line comprises brake and transmission fluids; hydraulic, gear, and motor oils; anti-freeze and windshield washes; and automotive polishes, cleaners, and associated appearance items, as well as StarTron enzyme fuel treatment for diesel and gas engines. Ocean Bio-Chem also offers cleaners, polishes, detergents, fabric cleaners and protectors, silicone sealants, water proofers, gasket materials, degreasers, vinyl cleaners, protectors, toilet treatment fluids, and anti-freeze coolants to the recreational vehicle/power sports markets. In addition, it blends and packages various chemical formulations, as well as manufactures PVC and HDPE blow molded bottles. Ocean Bio-Chem serves customers through mass merchandisers and specialized marine retailers. The company was formerly known as Star brite Corporation and changed its name to Ocean Bio-Chem, Inc. in 1984. Ocean Bio-Chem, Inc. was founded in 1973 and is based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

Dow AgroSciences, a subsidiary of Dow Chemical, doesn't want its customers to be bugged. The subsidiary makes insecticides, herbicides, and fungicides for agricultural applications, as well as for residential pest control. It also develops genetically modified (GM) seeds under the Mycogen and Phytogen names. Dow AgroSciences splits its operations into five product lines: plant gentics and biotechnology (in addition to seeds the unit has developed food products like the heart-healthy Natreon canola oil), weed management, disease management, pest management, and urban pest management. It has operations in more than 50 countries around the world.

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