ARCH CHEMICALS, INC., headquartered in Norwalk, CT, is a global Biocides company. Arch operates in two segments: Treatment Products and Performance Products. The company's concentration is in water, hair and skin care products, treated wood, paints and coatings, building products, and health and hygiene applications.
Brenntag North America, Inc.,headquartered in Reading, PA, is a part of the Brenntag Group, a global distributor of industrial and specialty chemicals. Brenntag operates various branch locations, distribution centers, and fleet operations in strategic geographic areas across the U.S. and Canada.
THE DOW CHEMICAL COMPANY FOUNDATION, headquartered in Midland, MI, believes in the power of the "Human Element" to change the world. The Dow Foundation places a high value on listening to its communities and strives not just to be a good neighbor, but a global corporate citizen. Dow is a diversified chemical company that delivers a broad range of products and services from fresh water, food and pharmaceuticals to paints, packaging and personal care products.
ICL PERFORMANCE PRODUCTS, LP, headquartered in St. Louis, MO, is a manufacturer of phosphates, phosphoric acid, and phosphorus chemicals. ICL provides a complete line of multifunctional products for food, pharmaceutical, industrial, and high-tech applications and products ICL manufactures are used in diverse markets and applications from baking and beverages, to cleaning products and water treatment, to asphalt and semiconductors.
PVS-NOLWOOD CHEMICALS, INC., headquartered in Detroit, MI,
is a Midwest chemical distributor with primary focus in Michigan, Ohio and Indiana. The company’s supply partnerships offer product lines from Oxy, Olin, Dow, Stepan, BASF, PPG, ICL, Clariant, and Rhodia along with many other domestic and international suppliers. PVS-Nolwood is a member of the National Association of Chemical Distributors and a founding member of Omni-Chem.
SHELL CHEMICAL COMPANY, headquartered in Houston, TX, is a petrochemical manufacturer founded in 1929. Shell Chemical companies manufacture and deliver petrochemical building blocks to large industrial customers in all parts of the world. Shell Chemical Company is an affiliate of the Shell Group, a global group of energy and petrochemical companies.
UNIVAR, headquartered in Redmond, WA, is an independent distributor of industrial and specialty chemicals and related services. Univar provides services to industries as varied as chemical compounding, personal care, pharmaceutical, waste management, and professional pest control. Univar purchases chemicals from manufacturers in truck, railcar, or tankcar volumes and distributes them to customers who purchase in smaller quantities.
* Company sponsors of the 2011 National Challenge and International Year of Chemistry Celebration Dinner to be held on June 20 at The Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, PA.
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CHEMICAL DISTRIBUTORS (NACD), headquartered in Arlington, VA, is an international association of chemical distributor companies that purchase and take title to chemical products from manufacturers. Member companies process, formulate, blend, re-package, warehouse, transport, and market these chemical products exclusively for an industrial customer base.
THAMES & KOSMOS (T&K), headquartered in Portsmouth, RI, was founded in 2001 and operates as the North American distributor for the science kit line of their partner company - the 180-year-old, German-based publishing house, Franckh-Kosmos Verlags-GmbH. The T&K mission is to improve informal science education by publishing science- and technology-related educational products for children of all ages. Emphasis is placed on teaching concepts and skills through hands-on modeling of real world devices and processes, and by offering comprehensive reading materials.
SOCIETY OF CHEMICAL MANUFACTURERS & AFFILIATES (SOCMA), headquartered in Washington, DC, is an international trade association serving chemical manufacturers. SOCMA members produce intermediates, specialty chemicals, and ingredients used to develop a wide range of commercial and consumer products.
EXPO CHEMICAL COMPANY, INC., headquartered in Houston, TX, is a chemical distributor that, for 34 years, has sourced a wide-range of chemicals, including specialty chemicals for I&I, the oilfield, mining, remediation, chemical process, and other industries. In addition to representing several manufacturers, Expo also toll-produces custom products. Expo facilitates customers and suppliers in moving surplus, widespec, dead-stock inventory, and by-product streams.
PQ CORPORATION, headquartered in Malvern, PA, is a producer of silicate, zeolite, and other performance materials serving the detergent, pulp and paper, chemical, petroleum, catalyst, water treatment, construction, and beverage markets. It is a global enterprise, operating in 19 countries on five continents, and along with its chemical businesses, includes Potter Industries a wholly owned subsidiary, which produces engineered glass materials serving the highway safety, polymer additive, metal finishing, and conductive particle markets.
TURNING TECHNOLOGIES, LLC, headquartered in Youngstown, OH, develops interactive response systems utilizing the latest software and hardware tools available and transforms them into state of the art applications for audience and student response. The company’s flagship product, TurningPoint® Software and Responsive Innovations ResponseCard® keypads, integrate with Microsoft’s PowerPoint® software, providing the most advanced combination of knowledge and technology currently available in the field of audience and student assessment.
