For those interested in the environmentally responsible pursuit of leisure, SeaLife Corporation helps get you there. Its two subsidiaries, SeaLife Marine and ProTerra Technologies, coat your boat and keep your golf course--or your lagoon--green and healthy. SeaLife Marine's antifoul paints are hydroreactive, becoming increasingly smooth when submerged, which gives shell, weed, and algae no place to latch onto. ProTerra's soil conditioner, Soil ResQ, maintains soil with a balance of nutrients, micronutrients, and humus; its Nulagoon product breaks down waste in lagoons. CEO Robert McCaslin owns 15% of the company, while secretary J.P. Heyes owns 14%.

Champion Technologies produces specialty chemicals that help companies in the oil and gas industry withstand surface equipment problems such as internal pipe corrosion and flow assurance. The company's chemicals also are used in water-oil separation. Its manufacturing facilities are located in North America and Europe, with blending facilities located throughout the world. Special Products, a division of Champion Technologies, is a supplier of base chemicals for use in oilfield cementing, drilling, refining, and stimulation. Its Champion Environmental Technologies focuses on products that combat environmental damage from underwater drilling. The company is a subsidiary of Permian Mud Service.

Hanwha Chemical Corporation emerged, along with its home country's industrial economy, in the early 1960s. Today the diversified South Korean chemical company manufactures polyethylene (for industrial films and packaging products), PVC (pipes, cable insulation, and hoses), and caustic soda (used by the pulp, paper, and petroleum industries). Hanwha has also entered new business areas such as environmental and electronic materials, including water-soluble resins, wastewater treatment technology, and semiconductor slurry.

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.

Dyno Nobel Inc. is the North American unit of explosives maker Dyno Nobel. The company, which operates more than 50 manufacturing and distribution facilities throughout the continent, is North America's leading supplier of explosives. Primary customers include mining, construction, and industrial quarry companies. Its former parent company, the Norwegian private equity firm Industrie Kapital, divided the parent company in 2005 and sold the Australian and North American operations to Macquarie Bank. Rival Orica acquired the other operations. Dyno Nobel remains the world's second-largest explosives producer behind Orica, though it was acquired by Australian agrochem maker Incitec Pivot in 2008.

I say, "potato chip." You say, "crisp." But we can all agree Pringles are sought after worldwide. Procter & Gamble Holdings UK, like its US parent The Procter & Gamble Company, manufactures and sells household care items (this includes its Pringles brand); beauty products (includes fragrances like Hugo Boss and Lacoste, cosmetic brand Max Factor, and skin care line Olay); and family health items (like Crest toothpaste and "disposable nappies" Pampers). Procter & Gamble operates more than a dozen locations in the UK, including administrative offices, technical centers, and manufacturing facilities. President Laurent Philippe succeeded Paul Polman, who retired in June 2005.

When people tell stories about Motomco, someone always dies at the end. Fortunately for the rest of us, that someone is a rodent. Motomco manufactures and distributes rodenticides, bait stations, and traps under brand names such as Jaguar, Hawk, Tomcat, Rampage, Eraze, and Mole and Gopher Bait. The company markets its products to both agricultural and residential customers.

Charkit Chemical Corporation, first and foremost, we want to express gratitude to our long-term customers as well as our newer partners. After 27 years in business, this is the perfect time to thank you for the confidence you have placed in us. Today we are working together in a complex national and global business environment that is having its impact on every industry, affecting the way we conduct business and formulate the strategies to ensure continued success.

Little Sioux Corn Processors operates an ethanol plant in northwest Iowa. (It actually owns a 60% interest in the limited partnership that owns the ethanol facility.) The company converts bushels of corn into ethanol, distiller grains (used as feed for the dairy and beef industries), and corn oil. Ethanol is used as an additive to gasoline as well as a fuel enhancer for high-octane motors, and it burns more cleanly than normal gasoline thereby reducing carbon monoxide emissions. Little Sioux's production capacity is about 90 million gallons of ethanol annually, more than double its orginal capacity after successive expansions.

Tredegar Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the manufacture and sale of plastic films, elastics, and laminate materials primarily for personal and household care products, and packaging and surface protection applications. It offers apertured film and nonwoven materials for use in feminine hygiene products, baby diapers, and adult incontinent products; breathable, embossed, and elastic materials that are used as components for baby diapers, adult incontinent products, and feminine hygiene products; and absorbent transfer layers for use in baby diapers and adult incontinent products. The company also provides apertured films, breathable barrier films, and laminates that regulate fluid or vapor transmission for use in industrial, medical, agricultural, and household markets, including disposable mops, facial wipes, and filter layers for personal protective suits, facial masks, and landscaping fabric.The company also produces a range of packaging films for paper products; and laminating films for food packaging applications. In addition, it produces single and multi-layer surface protection films for use in protecting components of flat panel displays and liquid crystal display televisions during the manufacturing process. Tredegar has operations in the United States, Canada, Latin America, Europe, Asia, the Netherlands, Hungary, China, Italy, and Brazil. The company was founded in 1988 and is headquartered in Richmond, Virginia.

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