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.

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.

ADEKA serves the chemically dependent. The company's sales come primarily from producing chemicals including caustic soda (used in soap and paper), oleochemicals, additives for resins and polymers, and electronic materials. Founded in 1917 as a part of the Furukawa Group, ADEKA expanded into margarine in 1929 and now also makes shortening, mayonnaise, and raw food materials, among other food items. Independent now, ADEKA operates primarily in Japan, but also has business throughout Asia as well as in France, Germany, and the US.

Rohm and Haas is the one to blame if you can't get that paint out of your hair. The company divides its operations among six units, the largest of which is the paints and coatings materials group, which makes additives and binders used by paint makers. There's also the packaging and building materials group and the primary materials division, which makes acrylates. (Those businesses operate within the Specialty Materials segment.) The electronic materials segment makes photoresists and materials for printed wiring boards. Rohm and Haas exited its salt business in 2009 when it sold Morton Salt to German chemicals company K+S for about $1.7 billion. Dow, the nation's largest chemicals maker, owns the company.

Brown bears, black bears, snow-white polar bears -- BEHR Process Corporation manufactures all the colors in the bear rainbow. The company produces coatings such as paint, stains, and varnishes that are sold primarily through The Home Depot; its best-selling line is exclusive to the home-improvement warehouse giant. The company was founded in 1947 out of Otho Behr's garage as a marketer of linseed oil. It grew into a stain and varnish manufacturer and, by the mid-80s, began to make architectural paints. BEHR also owns Masterchem Industries, which makes the primer KILZ. Home-improvement materials company Masco owns BEHR.

Srithai Superware Public Company Limited is Thailand's largest manufacturer of melamine tableware distributed under the brand names Ektra, Flowerware, Melamineware, Superware, UNICA, and Vanda. Srithai exports melamine tableware to countries worldwide. Srithai Superware Public Company also manufactures other plastic products, including auto parts, bottle crates, furniture, garbage bins, and pallets. Srithai operates a mould-making business, as well. The company was originally incorporated in 1963 to manufacture and distribute household plasticware.

H. Heller & Co.'s loading dock is where the rubber meets the road. The company manufactures plastic and rubber raw materials through affiliated companies American Thermoplastics, Heller Performance Polymers, and Gulf Performance Polymers. Heller manufactures thermoplastic resins, recycled plastics, and rubber compounds and additives; it also provides custom blending and compounding. The company serves customers in the packaging, film, wire and cable, and sheet and molding industries throughout Canada, Mexico, and the US.

Nufarm UK, a subsidiary of Australian crop protection manufacturer Nufarm Limited, specializes in producing herbicides. In addition to a broad array of phenoxyacetic and phenoxy propionic herbicides, Nufarm UK makes other crop protection and related agricultural chemicals, including fungicides, pesticides, adjuvant oils, and growth regulators. Products include herbicides Lentipur and Nu-shot and fungicides Difcor and Solace. It serves the UK and Irish markets. In 2009 Nufarm acquired A H Marks, greatly adding to its operations in the UK.

Converted Organics Inc. engages in the manufacture, sale, and distribution of liquid and solid fertilizers, and natural soil amendment/enhancement products combining disease suppression and nutrition characteristics. It uses liquid and solid food waste as raw material to manufacture soil amendment products. The company sells and distributes its products in agribusiness, turf management, and retail markets. Converted Organics Inc. was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Spur Ventures is involved in phosphate mining and phosphate fertilizer manufacturing in a joint venture with Hubei Yichang Phosphate Chemical in China. The Canadian company, which holds a majority interest in the venture, produces NPK fertilizer -- a compound containing nitrogen, phosphorous, and potassium -- in China's central province of Hubei. Spur Ventures also operates a phosphoric acid plant in Yichang, which has the capacity to produce 60,000 tons of phosphoric acid per year and will be used to supply the joint venture's fertilizer plant.

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