Products: Resins

www.agc.co.jp/english/index.html

The Asahi Glass Company was founded in 1907 by Toshiya Iwasaki, the second son of the second president of the original Mitsubishi Corporation. Under him, it succeeded in the first Japanese production of sheet glass. His pioneering spirit, summarized in the basic principle: "Never take the easy way out--address the difficulties, " was the driving force behind Asahi Glass's mastery of a succession of difficult business challenges and the company's subsequent dynamic growth.

www.butvar.com

Polyvinyl butyral resins are employed in a wide array of industrial and commercial applications. These unique resins offer impressive performance, as well as outstanding versatility. Butvar polyvinyl butyral resins have a combination of properties that make them a key ingredient in a variety of successful formulations. Some of these properties for which Butvar is widely used are: outstanding binding efficiency, optical clarity, adhesion to a large number of surfaces, and toughness combined with flexibility

www.cargill.com

While we take pride in offering the broadest line of vegetable-based industrial oils, fatty acids, and esters on the market, we're really in the business of helping your business succeed. Our sales team - comprised of technical, research and development, and risk management professionals - consults with you to learn your requirements and customize solutions to address them. We recommend the optimal chemistries for your applications, from base oils to innovative low-VOC products. We provide inventory and supply chain management tool. And, if you like, offer risk management advice and specialized option pricing strategies drawn from our global market insights and experience. Uniquely, Cargill's production is completely integrated. We not only process oilseeds at our 51 worldwide plants, we also perform any further processing, refining and chemical modifications of oils ourselves. So, from the time farmers bring us their crops to the day we deliver your order, we're in control. That enables us to ensure consistent quality and exceptional service - a hallmark of our company since it began in 1865 as a small Iowa grain elevator.

www.eliokem.com

Eliokem manufactures and markets on a global basis specialty emulsion polymers in dry and latex forms. The North American Polymer Plant and Technical Center are located in Akron, Ohio. Eliokem is the former Specialty Chemical Division of The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. which was spun off in 2001. The Akron facility is part of a global organization that is headquartered in France with subsequent manufacturing in France, India and China.

Well known brands with strong market positions make up Eliokem's product portfolio: Pliolite, Plioway, Pliotec and Hydro Pliolite. The resins main markets include: vertical masonry, elastomeric coatings, waterproofing sealers, odorless stain blocking primers, concrete sealers and stains.

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 and Industrial Chemicals, Performance Materials, Coatings and 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.gellnerindustrial.com

We are a family owned and operated business for over twenty-five years and we take great pride in providing you with personalized service. Our success has been a result of fulfilling the unique needs of our customers by delivering the finest quality water based acrylic polymers available today. We remain an industry benchmark by providing the finest in customer service and the manufacturing resources and processes for the design of customized products. With full product inventory availability, short lead-time and same or next day delivery - we remain a market leader.

www.phenoxy.com

InChem Corp is a global specialty resin and surfactant manufacturer. Many of our resins have been used to enhance performance in coatings, inks, adhesives, and composites for more than 35 years and they continue to offer unique chemistries to ever-changing performance standards. Our headquarters and ISO 9002 certified facility in Rock Hill, South Carolina service customers worldwide, along with additional production facilities in Europe. InChem surfactant facilities are located in Portugal, France, and South Africa.

www.morflex.com

Morflex is a specialty chemical manufacturer that produces organic esters and intermediates and is the world's largest supplier of DEET, the main active ingredient found in most insect repellents. Located in Greensboro, North Carolina, Morflex employs approximately 100 people. Morflex was founded in 1927 as the Morton Chemical Company. In 1935, it became the Morton-Withers Chemical Company and it was acquired by Pfizer in 1957 as part of Pfizer Specialty Chemicals. In 1983, a group of employees purchased the operations from Pfizer and it was renamed Morflex. It operated as an ESOP until 1990, when it was purchased by Reilly Industries, Inc. Today, Morflex, Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Reilly Industries, Inc., a world leading producer of pyridine and pyridine derivatives with headquarters in Indianapolis, Indiana. Morflex received ISO 9001 registration in January 1994, which was most recently renewed in February 2003. ISO 9000 is a series of international quality assurance standards developed by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) in Geneva, Switzerland. Morflex has an active quality improvement process in place and is committed to continuous improvement in health, safety and environmental performance. The company actively participates in Responsible Care, through its participation in the American Chemistry Council (ACC) and is also a member of the Synthetic Organic Chemical Manufacturers' Association (SOCMA).

www.npc.com.tw/english/e-index.htm

Our core business is plastics. But we have established ourselves as a significant player in other industries such as fibers, textiles, dyeing, and finishing, electronic materials, education, and medical services. Aside from a variety of petrochemical materials, our investments in the past few years in the No. 6 Naphtha Cracking Project have also brought us into the fields of oil refining, naphtha cracking, and power business. Our Group comprises Formosa Plastics, Nan Ya Plastics, Formosa Chemicals; Fibre, Formosa Petrochemical, and more than a dozen affiliated companies and overseas investments. In addition, we run Ming Chin Institute of Technology, Chang Gun Memorial Hospital, Chang Gung University, and Chang Gun Institute of Nursing on a non-profit basis.

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.