Deep Intelligence Across Industries

Company Headquarters: Michigan, US Founded: 1959 Workforce: ~150 Company Working: Master Finish Company is a high-volume metal plating company, which serves OEM manufacturers with high-quality metal finishing and plating needs throughout the US and Canada. It offers its products through various segments, namely specialty finishes and process, metal plating services, preplate finishing, and postplate finishing. Under the specialty finishes and process segment, it provides green trivalent chrome plating for plumbing, automotive, hardware, and appliances.

Company Headquarters: Minden, US Founded: 1994 Workforce: ~50 Company Working: CHEMEON Surface Technology, LLC (CHEMEON) is a business-to-business provider offering metal surface engineering solutions worldwide. It operates through three segments, namely specialty chemicals for chromate conversion, anodizing and chromate conversion, and supplementary chemicals. Under the specialty chemicals for chromate conversion segment, it offers eco-friendly and excellent trivalent chromate substitute for carcinogenic hexavalent chromates. Its complete line of patented and proprietary metal finishing chemistry is a one-stop solution for all anodizing, conversion coating, and chem film needs. The products are largely used across diverse industries, such as automotive, electronics, aerospace, marine, and medical.

Company Headquarters: Wyoming, US Founded: 1977 Workforce: ~150 Company Working: Electro Chemical Finishing (ECF) is an industry leader in decorative surface finishing applications. ECF operates through PVD coatings, electroplating, trivalent chrome, and specialty finishes segments. The trivalent chrome segment provides aesthetic effects similar to that of conventional plating methods and is used in medical and automotive industries among others. It provides decorative finishing technology for both metal and plastic substrates with superior performance characteristics.

Company Headquarters: Indianapolis, US Founded: 2010 Workforce: ~50 Company Working: Asterion, LLC is a surface technology company that offers pretreatment chemistry, high-performance plating process, and powder coatings to the surface finishing industry. It is primarily engaged in various segments, including auxiliary products, acid salts and additives, cleaning products, coatings, plating, and wastewater treatment. Under the coatings segment, it produces trivalent chromium coatings, used in passivation and anti-corrosion applications. It distributes traditional and custom blended chemistry for different uses, such as pollution control and preventive applications.

Company Headquarters: Wolverhampton, UK Founded: 1983 Workforce: ~85 Company Working: Midland Polishing & Plating Ltd (Midland) offers top quality, fast, and cost-effective polishing and plating services for a wide cross-section of components and parts. It provides various services including metal polishing, vibratory polishing, centerless polishing, bright nickel, satin nickel, hexavalent chrome, trivalent chrome, bright chrome, satin chrome, and gold plating. The trivalent chrome segment offers Cr3+ electroplating which is used for plating and finishing in automotive, brewery fittings, and architectural hardware, among others.

Company Headquarters: Carlsbad, US Founded: 1979 Workforce: ~10 Company Working: Ronatec C2C, Inc. (Ronatec) is one of the largest industry suppliers of chemicals, equipment, and related services to different industries. It is a pioneer in the trivalent chromium plating market. It operates largely in two main segments, namely metal finishing and machinery. The metal finishing segment produces a trivalent chromium plating process, which is widely used in aerospace and automotive industries. Its local distribution network and international availability makes it capable of providing high-quality products at low-cost prices. They have warehouse locations spread across several North American countries.

Company Headquarters: Illinois, US Founded: 1970 Workforce: ~ 75 Company Working: Chem Processing, Inc. (CPI), an ISO/AS and NADCAP certified company, is known for its comprehensive metal finishing capabilities. It operates through various segments—aluminum anodizing, zinc plating, electroless nickel plating, dry film lubricants, fluoropolymer coatings, cadmium plating, and silver plating. Under the zinc plating segment, it provides trivalent chromium seals. The trivalent chromium finishing products serve various industries such as aerospace, heavy machinery, automotive, agriculture, defense, and medical.

Company Headquarters: Berlin, Germany Founded: 1993 Workforce: ~4,000 Company Working: Atotech provides plating chemicals, decorative and functional surface finishing, package substrate and semiconductor production, and equipment and services for printed circuit board (PCB), among others. It operates through two segments, namely electronics and general metal finishing. Under the general metal finishing segment, it produces trivalent chromium finishing’s which finds applications in automotive and communications industries. Its operations are spanned across 47 countries worldwide.

Company Headquarters: Connecticut, US Founded: 1922 Workforce: ~4,500 Company Working: MacDermid, Inc. (MacDermid) is a leading trivalent chrome systems provider. It is engaged in developing, researching, acquiring, production, marketing, and servicing of specialty chemicals. It operates through various segments—graphics solutions, offshore solutions, electronics solutions, industrial solutions, assembly solutions, assembly solutions, and autotype. Under industrial solutions, MacDermid Enthone, its subsidiary provides trivalent chrome finishing to end-use industries, such as aerospace, automotive, construction, and electronics. It provides chemical process solutions and surface finishing with operating facilities across more than 50 countries.

Company Headquarters: Shandong Province, China Founded: 1988 Workforce: ~2500 Company Working: Shandong Chambroad Petrochemicals Co. Ltd (Shandong Chambroad) is a fully owned subsidiary of Shandong Chambroad Holding Co., Ltd. The company is involved in the production and supply of petrochemicals and operates through the gasoline and diesel oils, petrochemicals, and materials segments. The company is the first local refining enterprise in the Shandong province and sells its products in over 16 provinces and cities in China. Shandong Chambroad has 11 technical innovation alliances with over 19 universities and research institutes globally.

Company Headquarters: Shandong Province, China Founded: 2002 Workforce: ~1500 Company Working: Zibo Qixiangtengda Chemical Co., Ltd (Zibo Qixiangtengda), a subsidiary of Zibo Qixiang Petrochemical Industry Group Co., Ltd, engages in the production and supplying of butadiene, isobutylene, tert-butanol, MTBE, butadiene rubber, and carboxylated styrene butadiene latex, among others. The company is one of the largest methyl ethyl ketone (MEK) manufacturers in the world with an annual production capacity of 190,000 tons. Zibo Qixiangtengda opened the first plant for oxidative dehydrogenation of butadiene in China with an annual capacity of 150,000 tons. The company exports its products to more than 10 countries, including the US, Japan, Canada, South Korea, and India. Zibo Qixiangtengda produces 30,000 metric tons of high purity isobutene annually.

Company Headquarters: Russia Founded: 1967 Workforce: NA Company Working: PJSC Nizhnekamskneftekhim engages in the production of petrochemical products. The company is the leading producer of synthetic rubbers and plastic in Russia. It offers more than 120 products including specialty synthetic rubber, polystyrene, polypropylene, ABS-plastics, and other petrochemical products such as ethylene oxide, propylene oxide, alpha-olefins, and surfactants.

Company Headquarters: Houston, Texas, US Founded: 1943 Workforce: ~500 Company Working: TPC Group manufactures value-added products derived from petrochemicals. It provides raw materials for chemical and petroleum-based companies in North America. The company operates through two segments—performance products and C4 processing. TPC Group is the largest manufacturer of butene-1 and finished butadiene in North America. It mostly caters to producers of synthetic rubber, plastics, surfactants, and fuel additives. The company’s C4 processing segment offers butadiene and butene-1, which are mostly used in manufacturing synthetic alcohol and plastic resins. The performance products segment offers high purity isobutylene, which is primarily used in the manufacturing of coatings and surfactants, synthetic rubbers, and fuel additives

Company Headquarters: Moscow, Russia Founded: 2007 Workforce: ~10,000 Company Working: Uralchem JSC (Uralchem) is a leading manufacturer of nitrogen and phosphate fertilizers in Russia. It is the second-largest ammonium nitrate manufacturer in the world and ranks first in Russia. It operates through various segments, including N (NS) fertilizers, NP (NPS) fertilizers, NPK (NPKS) fertilizers, water-soluble fertilizers, and special products. Under the N (NS) fertilizers segment, the company offers fertilizer-grade ammonium nitrate (AN) with a production capacity of over 2.7 million tonnes per year. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Uralchem Holding PLC

Company Headquarters: City of Industry, US Founded: 2008 Workforce: ~10 Company Working: Prominent Systems, Inc. (Prominent Systems) is a leading manufacturer of complete range of activated carbon products and services. The company is primarily engaged in the production of coconut shell activated carbon, coal-based activated carbon, lignite and wood-based activated carbon, odor control carbon, and other filter media products. Under the coconut shell activated carbon, coal-based activated carbon, lignite and wood-based activated carbon, and odor control carbon segments, it offers activated carbon with various mesh sizes. It started as a worldwide distributor of activated carbon and gradually entered into onsite filter bed removal and installation services. It produces high-quality products and services in the industry.

Company Headquarters: Kirchhundem, Germany Founded: 1988 Workforce: ~50 Company Working: Silcarbon Aktivkohle GmbH (Silcarbon Aktivkohle) offers highly specialized activated carbons for water, air, and biogas purification, among others. The company operates through various segments, namely activated carbon, silica-gel, purosil, molecular sieves, and other filter materials. Under the activated carbon segment, it provides high-quality activated carbon that finds applications in pharmaceuticals, food and beverages, and air and water purification.

Company Headquarters: West Palm Beach, US Founded: 1997 Workforce: ~5000 Company Working: Oxbow Activated Carbon (Oxbow) is one of the world’s leading producers and distributors of a diverse range of activated carbon products, which is backed by expert technical support and knowledgeable customer care. The company operates through four segments, namely activated carbon, equipment, services, and specialty media. Under the activated carbon segment, it manufactures various forms of activated carbon that serve water treatment, food & beverage, and cosmetics industries, among others. It is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Oxbow Carbon LLC.

Company Headquarters: Roeselare, Belgium Founded: 1990 Workforce: ~125 Company Working: DESOTEC Activated Carbon (Desotec) is established as a European market leader in developing, production, and supply of purification solutions based on activated carbon technology. It operates through analysis, activated carbon, filter solutions, plug and play, and reactivation segments. Under the activated carbon segment, it manufactures a wide range of porous sized activated carbon. It has pioneered the market for the purification of gases and liquids through mobile activated carbon filters. It has three state-of-the-art reactivation furnaces with a combined total capacity of around 12,400 tons of output annually. It marks presence in Poland, Spain, Italy, France, Germany, and the UK. Desotec is a wholly owned subsidiary of EQT AB.

Company Headquarters: Frankfurt, Germany Founded: 1936 Workforce: ~ 45 Company Working: Donau Carbon GmbH (Donau Carbon) is one of the leading companies in the activated carbon business. It operates through various segments, including activated carbon, reactivation, and service/ activated carbon filters. Under the activated carbon segment, the company manufactures activated carbon and its reactivated products that find applications in mercury removal from coal-fired power plants, water treatment, cosmetics, food and beverages, air purification, among others. It has four production sites spread across Germany, Austria, the Philippines, and the US. It has various representative offices and cooperation partners spread in 60 countries globally.

Company Headquarters: Republic of Bashkortostan, Russia Founded: 2013 Workforce: ~ 5,000+ Company Working: Bashkir Soda Company was formed in May 2013 by the merging of Soda OJSC and Kaustik OJSC. The corporation operates one of the country's major chemical complexes. The company is a modern enterprise that manufactures a wide range of high-quality chemicals, including soda ash, refined sodium bicarbonate (baking soda), silica fillers, calcium chloride, PVC, soft cable compounds, caustic soda, hydrochloric acid, dichloroethane, corrosion inhibitors, chlorinated paraffin wax, polyethylene polyamines, PVC films and many others. The company is a market leader in the production of soda ash, baking soda and PVC, as well as in the production of caustic soda and soft cable compounds. The company is one of the few that produces terephthaloyl chloride, anodes with ruthenium-iridium coating, and cationic polyelectrolyte flocculant. Russia, CIS countries, Europe, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East are all served by the corporation. Bashkir Soda Company's products are delivered to the country's chemical, oil-and-gas sector, metallurgy and defense complex.

Company Headquarters: Ankara, Turkey Founded: 2010 Workforce: ~ 650 Company Working: Kazan Soda Elektrik, a Ciner Group subsidiary, is a chemical industrial and electric energy firm based in Ankara Province, Turkey, that produces natural soda ash and baking soda from trona. The Kazan Soda Elektrik is divided into three sections: mining, processing, and cogeneration. While the mining location is in Kahramankazan district, the production plant is in Ankara Province's Sincan district, northwest of Ankara. The mining section of the facility provides trona solution (trisodium hydrogendicarbonate dihydrat) to the processing section, which is the principal source of soda ash and baking soda. The plant's yearly capacity is 2.5 million tonnes of soda ash (sodium carbonate, Na2CO3) and 200,000 tonnes of baking soda (sodium bicarbonate, NaHCO3). Dense Soda Ash (sodium carbonate) and Sodium Bicarbonate products, which are used in industries ranging from glass production to baking powder, are delivered to many nations across the world, the majority of which are European.

Company Headquarters: Colorado, United States Founded: 1991 Workforce: ~ 30-40 Company Working: Natural Soda LLC is a manufacturer of food components. Sodium bicarbonate is offered by the company to the food and baking, personal care, pharmaceutical, animal nutrition, agriculture, water treatment, and industrial markets. Natural Soda has clients all around the world. The Piceance Creek Basin in Colorado is home to the company's processing facility. The Piceance Creek Basin holds the only known major deposit of nahcolite in North America, and Natural Soda is one of the few enterprises taking advantage of this world-class resource. The company uses a technique that involves injecting hot water into the nahcolite beds, dissolving the nahcolite, returning the saturated brine to the operation, and recrystallizing pure sodium bicarbonate crystals as the hot brine cools.

Company Headquarters: France Founded: 2003 Workforce: 3,200 Company Working: Novacap is a leading European chemicals company operating in three business divisions, namely, pharmaceutical & cosmetics, mineral specialties, and performance chemicals. It is a leading producer of sodium carbonate, sodium bicarbonate, and sodium silicate in Europe, with four manufacturing plants in France. The products offered are ISO 9001, ISO 14001, OHSAS 18001, GMP Feed, and Excipact certified. The company operates 26 industrial plants and 2 main R&D centers, mainly in Europe, Asia and North America. Novacarb and Novabay are the major subsidiaries of Novacap, that are engaged in the production of sodium bicarbonate.

Company Headquarters: Minnesota, US Founded: 1982 Workforce: ~1,300 Company Working: RTP Company (RTP) is engaged in the manufacturing and distribution of specialty thermoplastic compounding products in pelletized, sheet, and film form to injection molding and plastics processing companies worldwide. The company offers colors and masterbatches, conductive, thermoplastic elastomer, flame retardant, high temperature plastic compounds, and structural and wear-resistant products. Under the conductive segment, it manufactures EMI shielding plastic compounds that are used in the automotive, electrical and electronics, industrial, healthcare, and energy industries. The company has 20 manufacturing plants located in three continents and sales representatives throughout the Americas, Europe, and Asia.

Company Headquarters: Shanghai, China Founded: 1996 Workforce: ~500 Company Working: Richest Group Limited (Richest Group) is a major global chemical manufacturer and supplier. It primarily operates through segments such as alloy products, OLED intermediate, rare earth product, amino acids, rubber and plastic, food additives, pesticide, solvent, inorganic salt, plant extract, water treatment, and other products. Under the other products segment, it manufactures manganese dioxide, furfuryl alcohol, VAE emulsion, sodium hydroxide, bromoethane, and pine oil, among others. It has international trade relations with major companies in the US, Germany, South Korea, Japan, New Zealand, Chile, and India, among others. It has two R&D laboratories in Shanghai and Wuhan, and three production sites in Zhejiang, Jiangsu, and Shandong.

Company Headquarters: New Delhi, India Founded: 1992 Workforce: ~73 Company Working: Benson Polymers Limited (Benson) is a leading manufacturer and exporter of a wide range of adhesive products. It provides a varied range of well-known consumer and industrial brands of adhesives. It operates through various product segments, namely cyanoacrylate adhesive, CA glue non-blooming, instant wood glue, wood seal, PVC door and window glue, finger nail glue, cyanoacrylate adhesive in gel, consumer pack CA glue, and water-based emulsion. Under the water-based emulsion segment, it provides wood emulsion and VAE emulsion. It supplies the products to various end-use industries such as adhesives and sealant, paints and coatings, and construction.

Company Headquarters: Chicago, US Founded: 1937 Workforce: ~50 Company Working: U.S. Adhesives, Inc. is one of the leading adhesives manufacturers and suppliers in the country. It is an adhesive formulator of varied range of adhesive and glue products and customizes products according to customer’s specific requirements. It operates through four segments, namely water-based resins, animal glues, hot melt, and dextrin. Under the water-based resins segment, it manufactures VAE emulsion, PVA emulsion, acrylics, SBR latex, natural rubber adhesives, and construction adhesives sealers and coatings. These products serve various end-use industries such as construction, packaging, and book binding.