Products: Additives

www.acme-hardesty.com

Acme-Hardesty

is a major marketer and distributor of a wide variety of vegetable oil- and animal fat-based oleochemicals, flavor and fragrance chemicals, and other industrial chemical products throughout the United States. Acme-Hardesty sources from many parts of the World and maintains close relationships with suppliers in Asia, South America, the Middle East, Europe,
and the United States.

Addipel manufactures 100% active additive solutions for the plastics industry. From dry blends to non-dusting forms, Addipel can customize products to meet your needs. With the capability to produce small batch sizes in a matter of hours, Addipel provides a world class level of service.

Experienced in UV absorbers, antioxidants, slip aids, nucleating agents, and numerous other process and performance additives, Addipel can bring real value to your process.

www.buckman.com

In 1945, Buckman Laboratories started with one product, one 50-gallon process vessel, and four employees in a small house in Memphis, Tennessee. Today, Buckman is a global business producing more than 500 different products and employing more than 1,300 people in over 70 countries. The company was originally founded on its unique ability to create and manufacture innovative solutions for controlling the growth of microorganisms. Today, Buckman Laboratories works with industry worldwide to provide advanced chemical treatment technologies and extensive technical service to resolve a variety of complex industrial problems. Our specialty chemicals include microbicides, scale and corrosion inhibitors, polymers, dispersants, and defoamers. Buckman's finished products and raw materials are successfully applied in a number of industries, such as pulp and paper, water treatment, leather, coatings & plastics, wood, and agriculture. Ever since its inception, Buckman has believed that a specialty chemical supplier should listen to and anticipate customer needs and then respond with innovative and unique solutions. Buckman will continue in the future as it has in the past to provide value-added services and products to improve the efficiency and profitability of its customers.

www.chitec.com

Chitec Technology is one of the leading suppliers in the industry of UV coatings additives and plastic additives. Its product lines, ranging from anti-oxidant (Deox), UV absorber (Chiguard), light stabilizer (Chiguard) to photoinitiator (Chivacure, R-gen) have been used by more than 300 customers including a few fortune 500 companies.

Customer satisfaction and production innovation are not only Chitec's ISO 9001 quality policies, but also Chitec's strategies for future business expansion. We will endeavor to serve our customers needs and will grow with them.

www.croda.com

Croda products are sold mainly to industry, forming part of other people's products. For example, our surfactants help to create high quality cosmetic creams and lotions. Dietary supplements containing our specialty lipids can help to protect your health and even treat certain diseases. Our fatty acid amides add 'slip' to plastic surfaces, so plastic bags can be easily peeled apart. From foods to cars to cleaning wipes, the markets we serve are as diverse as industry itself. Croda isn't a household name, but household names have made us successful. In 2003, our 1700 or so employees in 31 companies located in 27 countries achieved worldwide sales of almost £300m.

www.evans-chemetics.com

EVANS CHEMETICS manufactures ORGANIC DIVALENT SULFUR CHEMICALS primarily Thioglycolic Acid, Mercaptopropionic Acid, Thiodipropionic acid, and their derivatives. EVANS CHEMETICS also manufactures a large number of specialty sulfur chemicals. These include Thioglycerol, Ethanolamine Sulfite, Sulfoethyl Methacrylate and others. Our products find applications in hair care, cosmetic, food packaging, food additive, pharmaceuticals, plastics, and many other uses.

We at EVANS CHEMETICS maintain with an innovative and highly skilled lean organization and long, steady and successful experiences in the global marketplace a commitment to our esteemed customer base. In this regard, our foremost goal is to provide unmatched quality and undivided dedication to our customers.

Our product line is flexible and reliable. Sustainability of our products drives us continuously to development of better qualities with improved processes under permanent control of our environment.

www.everspringchem.com

Established in 1988 under our parent company Sunko Group, Everspring Chemical is a fast-growing specialty chemical company that produces high-quality and cost-effective antioxidants for the polymer industries.
In 1969, the first Sunko company, Sunko Chemical Co., Ltd., was founded in Taichung and was one of the leaders in the field agrochemicals in Taiwan. With continuous study and development, Sunko Group has expanded to many new markets.

www.evonik.com

Evonik is a multinational corporation consistently aligned to high-yield specialty chemistry. Our particular strengths are the ability to innovate, reliability, excellence, and intelligent linking. All this is expressed in the claim “creating essentials” -with our products and system solutions we are creating something valuable and indispensable for the success of our customers. Degussa is characterized by speed, flexibility, flat hierarchies, and the greatest possible proximity to customers and markets. Responsibility for operational business is held by five divisions – Construction Chemicals, Fine & Industrial Chemicals, Performance Materials, Coatings & Advanced Fillers, and Specialty Polymers – divided into 21 business units. The important role played by the business units is expressed in Degussa's management philosophy, "As decentralized as possible, as central as necessary". Accordingly, the business units act as "entrepreneurs within the enterprise". They are supported at their various locations by entrepreneurially managed service units offering assistance in such fields as human resources, accounting, information technology, and infrastructure in competition with outside companies. The Corporate Center in Dusseldorf, Germany, provides strategic control functions.

www.hydrite.com/

Hydrite Chemical Co., established in 1929, is a diversified chemical company with national reach. We take time to listen to you so we can understand your processes completely. Then we work with you at every step, utilizing our experience to provide you with solutions.

www.marooninc.com

Maroon Inc. and ChemMet LLC have partnered to bring North America a world-class source of PTSI. Maroon's experience in global logistics and distribution of specialty chemicals, partnered with ChemMet's market knowledge and customer relationships, offers consumers a new option for their PTSI requirements. Aligned with an integrated manufacturer, independent laboratories, and superior quality, Maroon Inc. PTSI offers the right product, service, and price to the coatings, adhesives, and sealants markets.

www.norac.com

The markets that NORAC serves demand the highest standards of product quality and purity. NORAC manufactures all its chemicals, including industrial products, using many of the same quality systems that we apply to pharmaceuticals. For more than five decades, Norac's advanced process technologies have generated the best yields and most consistent products in the industry. Our manufacturing know-how helps NORAC deliver superior products and improved value for our customers. We invest heavily in state-of-the-art technology and continue to upgrade our manufacturing facilities. You can trust NORAC quality! NORAC practices what it preaches. The company is led by the second generation of family management and the founder's philosophy remains unchanged...make the best products possible, work directly with customers to solve problems, and find new ways to add value for the customer. When you need help, NORAC responds, whether you have a question for a sales representative, a chemist, or the President. When it comes to customer service, Norac's smaller size and committed employees serve you better! NORAC is a specialty chemical company. NORAC is respected by its customers, employees, competitors, and the communities in which they operate. NORAC has manufacturing locations in the U.S. and Europe. Years of building excellent customer relationships have given NORAC an understanding of what it takes to help their customers succeed. Norac's mission is simple: deliver the highest quality and product consistency; anticipate and respond to customer needs; provide superior value in every transaction.

www.oci.co.kr

OCI is a world class manufacturer of the Konasil brand of fumed silica based in South Korea. A publicly traded company founded in 1959, OCI focuses on the manufacture of specialty inorganic chemicals. These products are used in the sealants & adhesives, coatings, polyester gel coats and ancillary markets.

www.polyram.co.il

Polyram is Israel's leading manufacturer of engineering thermoplastic compounds for the automotive, electrical component, and home electrical appliance industries. Established in 1986, Polyram has earned a reputation as a reliable, yet flexible, manufacturer, able to meet every customer's specific need with guaranteed consistency and uniformity, no matter what batch size. Polyram supplies both standard and customized thermoplastics in combinations of glass fibers, glass beads, and mineral fillers. The compounds are flame retardant, heat stabilized, hydrolysis resistant, and UV stabilized, with a number of other modifications available upon request. The company's Research and Development department brings to the market special, unique polymer compounds and provides creative solutions to customers' requests. Polyram conforms to the highest quality control standards such as ISO-9001 the QS-9000 internationally recognized standard of the automotive industry, the NSF-61 drinking water standard, and UL94.

www.polystarusa.com

Entrepreneurial spirit epitomizes Polystar. This dynamic organization, located in Dalton, Georgia, utilizes state-of the-art reactors along with top personnel, to provide solutions to formulators of Epoxy Resin systems. The cornerstone of Polystar's Product Line revolves around a series of monofunctional, difunctional and trifunctional diluents, along with a very diverse line of epoxy curing agents. In addition, Polystar further complements their product line with specialty surfactants. Polystar maintains a level of quality and consistency on par with the growing demands of the marketplace.

www.rianlon.com

Rianlon Chemical Co. specializes in the Research and Development, production and marketing of various polymer additives. Rooted in Tianjin University, Rianlon has offers world class technical backing as well as financial support from its parent company, RIG. Rianlon has built its brand in the polymer, plastic, rubber, fiber, coatings, sealants and adhesives markets.

www.sncz.net

SNCZ provides a full range of high performance, cost-effective anticorrosive pigments to the paint and coatings industry worldwide. A significant share of SNCZ's resources is invested in new product development to fulfill the rapidly changing needs of the marketplace, especially in terms of risk-free products. A Health, Safety and Environmental Management System is currently under development and will be presented for certification against international standards in the near future. The SNCZ chromate plant is fully automated and remote controlled to ensure a safe working environment. The key values of SNCZ are Health and Safety, Quality, Product Stewardship, and compliance with contemporary Environmental standards. The SNCZ Quality Management System is ISO 9002 certified.

www.solvay.com

In an increasingly complicated world, we want to make it easier for you, our customer, to do business. To this end, we've consolidated our three core chemical companies, Solvay Interox, Solvay Minerals, and Solvay Fluorides, under one name: Solvay Chemicals. Chemicals for the widest variety of applications, allied with ease of doing business. From hydrogen peroxide to soda ash. Polyglycerols to caprolactones. Strontium/barium to inorganic fluorides. Percarbonates to calcium peroxide...and more. Solvay Chemicals provides hassle-free products and services. Now you have one less thing to worry about. Solvay Chemicals. Focusing on fundamentals.

www.zeochem.com

Zeochem is a major producer of molecular sieve adsorbents located in Louisville, Kentucky. Owned by Zeochem AG of Uetikon, Switzerland, Zeochem, USA Division has unique strengths in catalysts, adsorbents, and other specialty chemicals to give a broad-based foundation of manufacturing, engineering, and technical expertise. Zeochem continues to build on this foundation with its own customer-oriented R&D, technical service organization, and growing sales force-all technically educated and trained, with years of experience in the industries they service. Together with Chemie Uetikon, Zeochem provides coordinated global support to all molecular sieve adsorbent markets. This is particularly important to natural gas processing, petroleum refining, and petrochemicals where worldwide product and technical support is essential. Zeochem emphasizes development of innovative, advanced products for the marketplace and customized state-of-the-art manufacturing technology to produce products specific to customers' needs. Zeochem welcomes such alliances with customers for product development. Agreements range from a "handshake" all the way to a formal contract.