13131 Lake Fraser Drive Southeast Calgary, Alberta T2J 7E8 Canada Company Perspectives: Agrium is an acknowledged leader in product quality even in an industry where high quality products are the norm. The focus on continuous improvement and "best practices" reflects a philosophy that success depends on the customers' success. Agrium's reputation is built on more than 70 years of experience in a …
7201 Hamilton Boulevard P.O. Box 538 Allentown, Pennsylvania 18105-1501 U.S.A. Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. is the world's third largest producer of industrial, specialty, and medical gases such as oxygen, nitrogen, argon, and hydrogen. Industrial gases contribute over half of the company's sales and nearly three-fourths of its profits. The company's chemicals and intermediates segment, which…
101 Columbia Road Morristown, New Jersey 07962-2497 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Our vision: We will be one of the world's premier companies, distinctive and successful in everything we do. AlliedSignal Inc., formed from the acquisition of Signal Companies, Inc. by Allied Corporation on August 6, 1985, is one of the largest industrial corporations in the world. The company provides a wide range o…
501 Merritt 7 Norwalk Connecticut 06851 U.S.A. Company Perspectives From good chemistry comes good innovations. Arch Chemicals, Inc., is a global specialty chemical company based in Norwalk, Connecticut, involved in two main business segments: treatment products and performance products. Treatment products include chemicals to sanitize drinking water and swimming pools; industrial biocides, used …
3801 West Chester Pike Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073-2387 U.S.A. The ARCO Chemical Company manufactures intermediate chemicals used in a broad range of consumer and industrial products. Major chemicals include propylene oxide, used in a variety of plastics, foams, and paints; tertiary butyl alcohol, used in the production of oxygenated fuels that are blended with gasoline to reduce emissions…
313 West Liberty Street Lancaster, Pennsylvania 17603 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: We will be a fast and flexible learning organization committed to ever-improving the value of Armstrong for our employees, customers, and shareholders. We will be a world leader in all our businesses by excelling in customer satisfaction, innovation, marketing, and manufacturing. These capabilities, our people, and…
2-3-14 Nihonbashi-Muromachi, Chu Tokyo 103-8311 Japan Company Perspectives: Asahi Denka Co. Ltd. has the corporate philosophy of "Aim at Becoming Aggressive, Advanced Enterprise Keeping with Changes the Times Offer" and "Live in Harmony with the World", under which the corporation is now accelerating its globalization focusing on its highly competitive and technologically superior product groups …
50 E. River Center Boulevard Covington, Kentucky 41012-0391 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Ashland is 25,100 customer-focused people working to bring superior product and service solutions to industries and consumers around the world. Founded in 1924 as a regional refiner and marketer of petroleum products, we are now a leading provider of petroleum, chemical and highway construction products and s…
25800 Science Park Drive Cleveland, Ohio 44122 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: While our black powder days are long gone, the original spirit and in itiative remain as part of our corporate culture. We are pleased to b e of service to our mining, construction, and seismic exploration cus tomers in North America and throughout the world. Austin Powder Company is a Cleveland, Ohio-based private compan…
51 Chestnut Ridge Road Montvale, New Jersey 07645 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: The heirs of the original founders and directors continue among those who guide the company today. And while product offerings have expanded and changed, Mr. Benjamin Moore's original philosophy for guiding the company remains in effect to this day: 'First ... a fair deal for everyone. Second ... the giving of value re…
Chertsey Road Windlesham GU20 6HJ United Kingdom Company Perspectives The BOC Group is built around its customers. Whatever the industry or interest, our goal is to respond to their needs as quickly and effectively as possible. Their ever-changing requirements are the driving force behind the development of all our products, technologies and support services. We recognize that BOC people are our …
6555 West Good Hope Road Milwaukee Wisconsin 53223 U.S.A. Company Perspectives At Brady, our mission is to provide innovative identification solutions which improve safety, security, productivity and performance for customers worldwide. Brady Corporation, formerly known as W. H. Brady Company, is an international manufacturer of high performance labels and signs, printing systems and software, la…
Oldham Road Middleton, Manchester M24 2DB United Kingdom Company Perspectives: As ever, our overriding motivation is to capitalise on the organic growth potential in our businesses through innovation whilst pursuing our acquisitional strategy in product and geographical areas of interest to us. We remain optimistic for the outcome of the year and confident in the success of our long-term business…
1 North Field Court Lake Forest Illinois 60045-4811 U.S.A. Company Perspectives At Brunswick, we believe our strengths are many, and we intend to vigorously use them. The continuing challenge is to uncompromisingly execute that strategy and build upon the six competitive operating platforms that have served us so well in both solid or uncertain economic times. These platforms are to: Steadily and…
7 Mercedes Drive Montvale, New Jersey 07645 U.S.A. Bush Boake Allen Inc. manufactures flavor and fragrance chemicals and aroma chemicals for the food, beverage, pharmaceutical, and household products industries. The flavorings, including essential oils, seasonings, and spice extracts, impart a desired taste and smell to a broad range of consumer products, such as snack foods, confections, soft dr…
75 State Street Boston, Massachusetts 02109-1806 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Cabot will be a great company--the best company in all markets that it serves, best particularly in safety, quality and innovation; employee, customer and community satisfaction; and shareholder return. Cabot will become a great company by striving for excellence in everything it does, through: highly motivated employee…
400 Calgon Carbon Drive Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15205 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Calgon Carbon is the world's largest manufacturer of granular activated carbon with production and operations in North America, Europe, and Asia. Calgon Carbon Corporation is a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania-based public company dedicated to granular activated carbon, a material that has the ability to absorb odors and …
Tecoyotitla 412 Mexico, D.F. 01050 Mexico Company Perspectives: Our enterprise's basic operational objective is to serve the client, incorporating fundamental concepts such as the constant search for continual improvement, working with clients and suppliers to fulfill and exceed the expectations of the market. Celanese Mexicana, S.A. de C.V. (CelMex) is one of Mexico's major producers of chemical…
469 North Harrison Street Princeton, New Jersey 08543-5297 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: The combination of a broad and well-balanced product portfolio, well-developed distribution capabilities in the U.S., and a growing international presence will all help the Company continue to meet its growth objectives over the next few years. With the excellent assets at the Company's disposal, our long-term…
18 Hanover Square London, W1A 2BB England Courtaulds plc is the world's second-largest producer of acrylic fibers and a major global producer of rayon. With a history going back to 1816, the firm split into two independent companies, Courtaulds plc and Courtaulds Textiles plc, on January 1, 1990. As an independent company, Courtaulds plc comprises five divisions: coatings, chemicals, fibers and f…
Five Garret Mountain Plaza West Paterson, New Jersey 07424 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Cytec's diverse portfolio of products and technologies is supported by vertical integration, which distinguishes us from most other specialty chemical companies. We produce the major building block chemicals used as intermediates in manufacturing many of our specialty chemicals and specialty materials. This pr…
2030 Willard H. Dow Center Midland, Michigan 48674 U.S.A. To say that Dow is a very large chemical company is an understatement. Its annual sales are roughly equal to the Gross National Products of Kenya and Uganda combined. At last count the company offered more than two thousand different products. Approximately half of Dow's income comes from basic chemicals, but plastics, specialty chemicals,…
8600 Governors Drive Cincinnati, Ohio 45249 U.S.A. For over 70 years, Drackett Co. was a primary competitor in the homecare products market. Among its products were Drano drain cleaner, Windex glass cleaner, Vanish toilet bowl cleaner, Behold and Endust furniture polishing aids, Mr. Muscle oven cleaner, Scrubbee scouring pads, Renuzit air fresheners, and O-Cedar brooms and mops. The company becam…
10406 Tucker Street Beltsville, Maryland 20705 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Duron paints have been used at the Pentagon, Walt Disney World, MGM Studios--even the White House. But while Duron's business has grown, its mission has remained the same--to meet the needs of professional painters better than anyone else in the business. Duron Inc. is a paint manufacturer and retailer dedicated to the pr…
1007 Market Street Wilmington, Delaware 19898 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Our ability to adapt to change and our foundation of unending scientific inquiry has enabled DuPont to become one of the world's most innovative companies. But, in the face of constant change, innovation and discovery, our core values have remained constant: commitment to safety, health and the environment; high ethical st…
330 South Fourth Street P.O. Box 2189 Richmond, Virginia 23217 U.S.A. With facilities in the United States, Japan, France, England, and Belgium, Ethyl Corporation was a leading manufacturer and marketer of value-added performance chemicals for the petroleum and plastics industries in the mid-1990s. The diversified company also produced high-tech chemical intermediates for detergents, polymers, el…
Route de La Plaine 45 CH-1283 La Plaine, Geneva Switzerland Company Perspectives: Do businesses have a soul? This question was raised by Alain Etchegoyen, a renowned French professor of philosophy and business consultant. At Firmenich we are convinced that businesses do have a soul. Apart from its people and resources, our soul is the spirit which has enabled us to remain true to ourselves and to…
P.O. Box 1249 Jackson, Mississippi 39215-1249 U.S.A. First Mississippi Corporation is the largest company chartered in Mississippi and the only company from that state to be listed on the New York Stock Exchange. Operating in one of the more economically underdeveloped regions of the United States, First Mississippi is a crucial local enterprise. In addition to providing employment and tax revenu…
4600 Arrowhead Drive Ann Arbor, Michigan 48105 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Our mission is to be a leader in global manufacturing and distribution of quality inks, colorants, supplies, and expert support services to the graphic arts industry and other color consumers. Flint Ink Corporation is the largest American-owned manufacturer of printing inks, inkjet inks, and toners, for newspaper, directo…
1680 Route 23 North Wayne, New Jersey 07474 U.S.A. Perhaps best known for its kitchen counter surfaces, Formica Corporation is the world's largest manufacturer of high-pressure laminate for use in residential and commercial building. In fact, the name Formica has become virtually synonymous with decorative laminate, and the company's products, available in a wide variety of colors, textures, and …
201 Tun Hwa North Road Taipei Taiwan Company Perspectives: Each individual in our Company takes personal pride in achieving performance excellence. Through our common goal we aspire to explore, challenge, and strive to exceed the best industry practice in every task performed. This enables us to maintain global competitiveness, achieve healthy, continual growth that will benefit society, and fulf…
3135 Easton Turnpike Fairfield, Connecticut 06828-0001 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: GE has always been a multi-business company. Over the past 125 years, GE has swiftly evolved to seize new opportunities created by changes in technology and the economy. Today GE is building new platforms in industries and markets with above-GDP growth that provide opportunities to apply GE technology and manageme…
400 Perimeter Center Terrace Suite 595 Atlanta, Georgia 30346-1232 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Georgia Gulf's mission is to continue to be an efficient, integrated manufacturer and marketer of quality chemical and plastic products to users worldwide and to grow responsibly in present and closely related businesses. We are dedicated to continuous improvement of the processes, products and service…
One Great Lakes Boulevard P.O. Box 2200 West Lafayette, Indiana 47906-0200 U.S.A. Great Lakes Chemical Corporation is one of the world's largest manufacturers of bromine and brominated chemical products. Bromine, an acrid red liquid which irritates the skin, mixes easily with hundreds of organic compounds, producing thousands of toxic and non-toxic chemicals. Although bromine compounds are not it…
3100 East Hennepin Avenue Minneapolis, Minnesota 55413 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Our mission is to exceed our customers' expectations as a high quality, service oriented chemical supplier. We will adapt quickly to the changing needs of customers with a keen focus on technical expertise, teamwork, safety, profitability and responsible care of the the environment and our community. Hawkins Chemi…
Hercules Plaza 1313 North Market Street Wilmington, Delaware 19894-0001 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: At Hercules, we strive to increase our competitive advantage through work process redesign; understand and meet our customer requirements; create more efficient and cost effective business processes throughout the Company; utilize and develop the skills and energy of all employees to achieve conti…
3600 West Lake Avenue Glenview Illinois 60026-1215 U.S.A. Company Perspectives Founded in 1912, ITW's recipe for success has been consistent: value added products and outstanding service win the day with customers. We place a high premium on the development of highly engineered products and systems, most of which are developed in tandem with our customers. And we continue to ensure that our custo…
2100 Sanders Road Northbrook, Illinois 60062 U.S.A. IMC Fertilizer Group, Inc. (IMCF) was created in 1988 when the onetime International Minerals & Chemicals Corporation divested its fertilizer assets in the form of a new, publicly traded company. As the fertilizer market was then in the midst of a long and disastrous slump, the spin-off proved to be most beneficial for the parent company, which …
Imperial Chemical House Millbank London SW1P 3JF England Imperial Chemical Industries was formed by the 1926 merger of Great Britain's four major chemical companies: Nobel Industries Limited, the United Alkali Company, the British Dyestuffs Corporation and Brunner, Mond and Company Limited. The birth of the ICI coincided with the rise of the two other great chemical cartels, namely, Du Pont and t…
20 Manchester Square London W1U 3AN United Kingdom Company Perspectives: ICI's vision is to be the industry leader in creating value for customers and shareholders. ICI will succeed by operating at the highest levels of excellence, acquiring unrivalled knowledge of key markets and using technology creatively. The result will be products which deliver greater benefits for the company's customers, …
Millenium Tower 23 Aranha Street Tel-Aviv 61070 Israel Company Perspectives: ICL has unique access to nature's gifts. In Israel, it has exclusive concessions from the State of Israel to extract minerals from the virtually inexhaustible Dead Sea and holds concessions to mine the rich Negev Desert. The Dead Sea is a vast source of potash, bromine, salt, magnesium and magnesium chloride, and the Neg…
2-4 Cockspur Street Trafalgar Square London SW1Y 5BQ United Kingdom Company Perspectives: Johnson Matthey has expertise in abundance, adding real value and advanced technology to precious metals and specialised materials. Our unrivalled skills, which embrace refining, fabrication, marketing and research, have been maintained through constant change and adaptation to market conditions, and a relen…
PO Box 2021 Sandefjord Norway Company Perspectives Jotun A/S will enhance long-term competitiveness and financial performance through a responsible approach, attitude, and actions regarding Health, Safety and Environment. Jotun A/S is one of the world's top producers of paints and coatings; the company ranks number ten worldwide, and is also the leading supplier of paints and coatings to the Scan…
4-3-6 Fushimi-machi, Chuo-ku Osaka Japan Company Perspectives Corporate Mission: 1. To further build company credibility with the public and to contribute to society, by providing products and services that achieve customer satisfaction. 2. To build on our knowledge and strive for technological innovations, in order to improve the company's performance. 3. To harness the collective efforts of all…
Porkkalankatu 3 PO Box 330 Helsinki FIN-00101 Finland Company Perspectives: We aim to be: the leading chemical and integrated service provider for the pulp & paper industry; the world leader in chemical water purification; a leading European paint and coatings company; a world-class performer in industrial chemicals. Finland's Kemira Oyj is a leading industrial chemicals manufacturer focused on f…
500 New Holland Avenue Lancaster, Pennsylvania 17602-2104 U.S.A. Kerr Group Inc., formerly Kerr Glass Manufacturing Corp., is a nearly 100-year-old company that is a major producer and distributor of plastic and glass packaging products worldwide. The Lancaster, Pennsylvania-based firm is recognized as a prominent manufacturer and supplier of a full line of plastic packaging products, including c…
José Luis Lagrange 103 Mexico, D.F. 11510 Mexico Company Perspectives: The performance and quality of our products, coupled with a constant stride towards innovation and access to Kimberly-Clark Corporation's technological know-how, allow KCM to hold leading market positions in all product categories. Kimberly-Clark de México, S.A. de C.V. (KCM) is the largest manufacturer and seller of consume…
16 S. Pennsylvania Avenue Oklahoma City Oklahoma 73107 U.S.A. Company Perspectives LSB Industries, Inc. is a manufacturing, marketing, and engineering company with activities on a worldwide basis. Listed on the American Stock Exchange, LSB Industries, Inc. is a diversified holding company based in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, whose subsidiaries are divided among three major categories: Chemical, Clim…
Highway 18 West Donaldsonville, Louisiana 70346 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: In our view, the total quality process is dependent upon achieving and maintaining as a normal operating condition these fundamentals: consistent quality of product, meeting or setting new standards for marketplace requirements; consistent level of service which exceeds the expectations of our customers; consistent patte…
3622 Highway 49 East P.O. Box 388 Yazoo City, Mississippi 39194-0388 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Mississippi Chemical Corporation has fostered a culture that is best described as doing the right thing. A strong commitment to workplace safety, environmental stewardship and a commitment to do what we'll say we'll do are also part of the company-wide ethic. This well-established corporate culture m…
5-2, Marunouchi 2-chome Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-0005 Japan Company Perspectives: Mitsubishi Chemical is focused on the pursuit of satisfaction for customers, shareholders, and employees. We place the highest priority on customer satisfaction. By regarding it as a fundamental element of all of our business activities and forming deeper relationships with our customers, we will enhance the satisfacti…
5-2, Marunouchi 2-chome Chiyoda-ku Tokyo 100 Japan The Mitsubishi industrial empire was founded by Yataro Iwasaki late in the 19th century, and expanded rapidly into general trading and a variety of industrial occupations. So great was its influence that it became known as a zaibatsu, or "money clique." As Mitsubishi grew, it purchased factories from bankrupt or failing companies and established …
Kasumigaseki Bldg. 2-5, Kasumigaseki 3-chome Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100 Japan Mitsui Petrochemical Industries, Ltd., also known as Mitsui Sekka, is one of Japan's leading petrochemical companies. Mitsui Petrochemical is part of the Mitsui Group, one of the largest of Japan's keiretsu--loosely connected groups of corporations interrelated by networks of ownership. Mitsui Petrochemical produces and sell…
100 North Riverside Plaza Chicago, Illinois 60606 U.S.A. Morton International&mdash?obably best known for its popular blue canister of table salt, featuring a raincoat-clad girl with an umbrella and the tagline, "when it rains, it pours"--is a diversified company maintaining profitable divisions involved in a wide range of products that include chemicals and automotive airbags. In 1986 the compan…
100 North Riverside Plaza Chicago Illinois 60606 U.S.A. Morton International, Inc.--probably best known for its popular blue canister of table salt, featuring a raincoat-clad girl with an umbrella and the tagline, "when it rains, it pours"--is a diversified wholly owned subsidiary of the chemical maker Rohm and Haas Company. Morton's focus is on two industry segments: the manufacture and sale of …
10 Finderne Avenue Bridgewater, New Jersey 08807-3300 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: National Starch and Chemical Company is, and will remain, a global specialty products company with demonstrated expertise in its fundamental competencies of natural and synthetic Polymer chemistry. A subsidiary of U.K. giant Imperial Chemical Industries PLC, National Starch and Chemical Company is a major manufactu…
Gustav Adolfs Torg 18 Box 16397 S-103 27 Stockholm Sweden Nobel Industries AB is one of Europe's leading manufacturers of specialty industrial chemicals, paints, and adhesives. The company has 300 diverse subsidiaries and allied companies under its umbrella, operating in six major categories. Seventy-seven percent of its sales are in markets outside Sweden. Nobel is a world leader in the field of…
Bygdoy allé 2, N-0240, Oslo 2 Norway U.S. Headquarters: Norsk Hydro Americas, Inc. 100 North Tampa Street, Suite 3350 Tampa, Florida 33602 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Hydro is an industrial group based on the processing of natural resources to meet needs for food, energy and materials. We must do this in ways that do not diminish the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. The ch…
1 New Bond St. P.O. Box 15008 Worcester, Massachusetts 01615-0008 U.S.A. The Norton Company is quite possibly the world's leading producer of grinding wheels and coated and bonded abrasives. It is the leading producer of silicon carbide. From its inception as an offshoot of a small pottery works in Worcester, Massachusetts, in 1885, Norton pioneered the development of new abrasives. It evolved fr…
9420 Santa Anita Ave. Rancho Cucamonga, California 91730 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Pacer is a world-class manufacturer and distributor of items we all know, use, and see in stores throughout 70 countries in the world. The quality of our products' packaging and deployment have achieved a world-class caliber reputation with our customer base. Branded products include Super Glue, Zap hobby produc…
One PPG Place Pittsburgh Pennsylvania 15272-0001 U.S.A. Company Perspectives Our Vision: We will be recognized as a preeminent global engineered-materials and services company that fully engages our people, passionately embraces new ideas, seeks out transforming technologies and operates with unbending ethical standards. PPG Industries, Inc. is a global producer of protective and decorative coati…
99 Park Avenue New York, New York 10016 U.S.A. Quantum Chemical Corporation (prior to 1988, the National Distillers and Chemical Corporation) is one of the largest U.S. producers and marketers of propane gas petrochemicals--industrial chemicals derived from petroleum refining. The company's USI Division is the country's largest manufacturer and marketer of polyethylene, in which it holds the numb…
1177 Summer Street Stamford, Connecticut 06905-5529 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Our commitment is to provide long term value to shareholders. We won't be satisfied with anything less than financial performance consistently within the top quartile of our industry. We will achieve these business objectives while maintaining high ethical standards and meeting our responsibilities to our communities…
103-105 Bath Road Slough, Berkshire SL1 3UH United Kingdom Company Perspectives: Reckitt Benckiser is about passionately delivering better solutions in household cleaning and health & personal care to customers and consumers, wherever they may be, for the ultimate purpose of creating shareholder value. This vision defines both our purpose and our values as a Company. Reckitt Benckiser plc is one …
1107 East Louisiana Street Evansville, Indiana 47711 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: We will become the best company in the world at developing, marketing, and manufacturing specialized coatings for plastics. We will understand customer needs, both current and future; listen to our customers to keep pace with a changing market; and provide our customers with a product that satisfies all their requir…
P.O. Box 13582 Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709-3582 U.S.A. Reichhold Chemicals, Inc. (RCI) is a leading producer of chemicals used for coatings, adhesives, emulsions, and reactive polymers, with 31 factories located throughout North America. The company was started in the 1920s by a German immigrant who provided new, fast-drying paints to the automotive industry. From this basis, Rei…
100 Independence Mall West Philadelphia Pennsylvania 19106-2399 U.S.A. Company Perspectives At Rohm and Haas imagination means exploring the frontiers of technology--pushing beyond conventional boundaries to create products once thought impossible. Imagination is information racing at the speed of light through electronic devices, microscopic light-reflecting polymers protecting skin from harmful…
100 Hale Street Newburyport, Massachusetts 01950-3504 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: The Cabot company seeks to foster ideas, relationships, and adventure. Ideas because employees need to reinvent their job every day. Relationships because the company wants an atmosphere of harmony, openness, and empowerment. Adventure because Cabot seeks a bias toward action and thinking outside the box. Samuel Ca…
Jinshanwei Shanghai 200540 China With more than 55 plants, Shanghai Petrochemical Co., Ltd. (SPC) is China's largest and most diverse petrochemical enterprise, ranking among the country's biggest corporations. By the early 1990s, the firm was China's only petrochemical entity to combine petroleum, chemicals, chemical fibers, and plastics operations at one site. Its complex included: one ethylene …
333 Clay Street, Suite 3600 Houston Texas 77002-4109 U.S.A. Company Perspectives Our objectives are to be a premier producer of petrochemicals, to maintain a strong market position, to achieve first quartile cost performance in all of our major products and to provide superior customer service. Sterling Chemicals, Inc., is a petrochemical manufacturer focused on styrene, acetic acid, and plastici…
90 Park Avenue New York New York 10016 United States It is only in recent years that Sterling Drug, Inc. has developed innovative ethical drugs through its own research. For a company that manufactures Bayer aspirin, the leading American aspirin brand, this seems like an unusual occurrence. Yet the company's success has always relied more heavily on growth through acquisition and advertising rath…
Zürcher Strasse 12 CH-8401 Winterthur Switzerland Company Perspectives: Our primary goal is to create value by utilizing our engineering know-how in selected industrial markets. Sulzer Ltd. is an engineering firm with worldwide operations divided into five business divisions: Sulzer Metco, Sulzer Turbomachinery Services, Sulzer Pumps, Sulzer Chemtech, and Sulzer Hexis. Sulzer Metco produces surf…
6-7, 1-chome, Minami Honmachi Chuo-ku, Osaka Japan Teijin Limited is one of the leading Japanese synthetic fiber companies, ranking second to Toray Industries, Inc. in the textile fiber industry. Textiles accounted for 64.5% of Teijin's total sales in 1990, the remainder coming from chemicals, pharmaceuticals, and other products. Rayon yarn was produced commercially in Japan for the first time by…
1-6-7 Minami Honmachi Chuo-ku Osaka 541-8587 Japan Company Perspectives: Corporate Philosophy. Enhancing the quality of life through a deep insight into human nature and needs, together with the application of our creative abilities. IN HARMONY WITH SOCIETY. Our aim is to grow and evolve in harmony with the progress of society, thus justifying the trust of our shareholders, customers and the publ…
600 Fourth Street Sioux City, Iowa 51101 U.S.A. Terra Industries, Inc., is one of the nation's largest producers and marketers of nitrogen fertilizer, crop protection products, seed, and services for farmers, dealers, and professional growers. Terra supplies dealers and growers with more than 5,000 different products, as well as feed ingredients and application services. The company also produces…
2030 Willard H. Dow Center Midland, Michigan 48674 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: To constantly improve what is essential to human progress by mastering science and technology. To say that The Dow Chemical Company is a very large chemical company is an understatement. At the end of 2001, Dow took over du Pont as the largest chemicals company in the United States. At last count the company offered m…
One Liberty Lane Hampton, New Hampshire 03842 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: The General Chemical Group is a leading producer of soda ash and calcium chloride. Following the spinoff of its manufacturing and performance products businesses in 1999, General Chemical has become a smaller, more focused company committed to creating value as a low-cost, high-quality producer of its core industrial chemi…
620 Buckbee Street Rockford, Illinois 61104 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: The successful expansion of the Testor Corporation is largely due in part to the modernization of the facilities, the introduction of the latest in computer technology, and of course a dedicated staff and work force. Based in Rockford, Illinois, The Testor Corporation manufactures a wide variety of products for plastic and m…
2-1, Nihonbashi-Marunouchi 2-chome Chuo-ku Tokyo 103-8666 Japan Company Perspectives: Toray strives to contribute to society through the creation of new value by innovative ideas, technologies, and products. Our mission is to provide new value to our customers through high-quality products and superior services, to provide our employees with opportunities for self-development in a challenging env…
2-1 Marunouchi 2-chome Nihonbashi, Chuo-ku Tokyo Japan Toray Industries, Inc.'s main fields of operations are general materials, consisting of textiles and compound materials; advanced end products, consisting of pharmaceuticals, medical equipment and electronics; and services relating to fashion and information. The company is focusing on pharmaceuticals, medical equipment, and electronics as bu…
5655 W. 73rd Street Chicago, Illinois 60638 U.S.A. Turtle Wax, Inc. is the world's largest manufacturer of car-care products. The Chicago-based company controls over 60 percent of the U.S. car wax market and sells its products in Europe, the Pacific Basin, and Central and South America. It also markets chemicals for commercial car washes, owns and operates the largest chain of full-service car wa…
12-32, Nishi-Honmachi, 1-chome Ube, Yamaguchi 755-8633 Japan Company Perspectives: UBE's corporate vision for the 21st century can be summarized in the phrase: 'Working with science to create a future that supports comfortable lifestyles.' This represents UBE's commitment to creating a comfortable society in the future, by pursuing diversified businesses and producing a wide variety of products. …
39 Old Ridgebury Road Danbury, Connecticut 06817 U.S.A. Union Carbide Corporation is the world's largest producer of ethylene glycol, commonly used as antifreeze, and is a leading manufacturer of the world's most widely used plastic, polyethylene. In spite of a massive fatal disaster at its Bhopal, India, pesticide plant in 1984 and a devastating takeover attempt that followed, the corporation re…
2150 Schuetz Road St. Louis, Missouri 63146 U.S.A. United Industries Corporation is a St. Louis, Missouri-based company with its business divided among three operating divisions. Operating under the Spectrum Brands name, the Home and Garden division offers household insecticide and insect repellent products, insect control products, and lawn and garden fertilizer and organic growing media product…
Hamilton Street at Broad Richmond Virginia 23230 United States Universal Corporation was known until the 1980s as Universal Leaf Tobacco Company, Incorporated, and it remains the world's largest independent leaf tobacco dealer. Universal buys, processes, stores, and sells tobacco in all of the world's tobacco-growing regions. For many years, Universal's most important customer has been Philip Mor…
1501 North Hamilton Street Richmond, Virginia 23230 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Universal strives to be the leading supplier to each of the major tobacco product manufacturers worldwide by operating as one company worldwide with strong local management in key operating areas; by developing and maintaining mutually beneficial long-term strategic alliances with major manufacturers; by optimizing u…
15990 North Barker's Landing Road P.O. Box 19020 Houston Texas 77224 United States Though the history of Vista proper is actually rather brief, its parent company does have a longer history and in fact dates back almost 40 years (a relatively long time in the chemical industry). On 20 July 1984 a management-led investment team at Conoco Chemicals Company purchased their company's assets from the …
P. O. Box 571 Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53201-0571 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Find a niche and work to own it. Risk trying the untried. View every customer as your ultimate employer. Above all, stick to it. W. H. Brady Co. is an international manufacturer of coated films and identification labels, signs, and related products for the global industrial, commercial, governmental, public utility, medica…
551 Paper Mill Road Newark, Delaware 19711 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: W.L. Gore & Associates is a provider of unique, innovative, best-in-class, high value, high quality products that consistently do what we say they do. Gore was established for the purpose of developing and utilizing technology in the field of fluorocarbon polymers, especially polytetrafluoroethylene. W.L. Gore & Associates In…
Zumhoferstrae 25 Postfach 160 73635 Rudersberg Baden-Württemberg Germany Company Perspectives: Form follows function. Doors and windows are by nature products which must be more than simply functional, they must please the eye too. And since the architectural landscape is such a broad field and because tastes must be catered down to the smallest detail, our range of forms, colors, and materials …
Temple Fields Harlow Essex CM20 2BH United Kingdom Yule Catto & Company plc is one of Europe's leading specialty chemicals groups. Based in Harlow, Essex, England, Yule Catto operates in three primary areas: Polymer Chemicals, including water-based polymers, natural rubber latex, synthetic latex, resins, acetates, as well as products based on these raw materials, including medical gloves and late…