ARCH CHEMICALS, INC., headquartered in Norwalk, CT, is a global Biocides company with annual sales of approximately $1.5 billion. Arch and its subsidiaries provide innovative, chemistry-based solutions to
control the growth of harmful microbes, helping make people’s lives better, safer, and healthier. The company’s concentration is in water, hair and skin care products, treated wood, paints and coatings, building products, and health and hygiene applications. Arch operates in two segments: Treatment Products and Performance Products. Together with its subsidiaries, Arch has approximately 3,000 employees, and manufacturing and customer-support facilities in North and South America, Europe, Asia, Australia and Africa.
BRENNTAG NORTH AMERICA, INC., headquartered in Reading, PA, is a part of the Brenntag Group, the global leader in distribution of industrial and specialty chemicals. Brenntag North America provides value to its customers and suppliers through superior supply-chain logistics, single sourcing, technical assistance, and other value-added services. Readily available through their distribution network is a full line of commodity and specialty chemicals, serviced through a dedicated workforce aimed at not just meeting, but exceeding customer expectations. Brenntag North America strives towards continuous improvement by bringing the latest technology to their distribution system in order to assure the customer is getting the right products, at the right time every time, and in compliance with the regulatory community. Brenntag’s future is molded in partnering relationships with its customers and suppliers alike. Brenntag is a global company with the “local point of view,” operating 120 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’s established corporate citizenship program illustrates these commitments through preserving and investing in communities, creating products to advance human progress, and generating shared value through philanthropic efforts around the world. Dow is a diversified chemical company that delivers a broad range of products and services to customers in around 160 countries, connecting chemistry and innovation with the principles of sustainability to help provide everything from fresh water, food and pharmaceuticals to paints, packaging and personal care products.
ICL PERFORMANCE PRODUCTS, LP is a worldwide leader in the manufacturing and marketing 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.
IRONSHORE ENVIRONMENTAL, headquartered in New York, NY, is a diversified specialty commercial insurance enterprise with experienced management, a highly skilled staff, and a superior balance sheet, with no legacy costs or burdens. Ironshore is strong and ready to bring needed capacity and expertise to any size disaster. Ironshore protection covers property and liability risks in the U.S., the U.K., Europe, the Caribbean and other regions of the world.
SHELL OIL COMPANY, headquartered in Houston, TX, including its consolidated companies and its share in equity companies, is one of America's leading oil and natural gas producers, natural gas marketers, gasoline marketers and petrochemical manufacturers. Shell, a leading oil and gas producer in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico, is a recognized pioneer in oil and gas exploration and production technology. Shell Oil Company is an affiliate of the Shell Group, a global group of energy and petrochemical companies, employing approximately 104,000 people and operating in more than 110 countries and territories.
UNIVAR, headquartered in Bellevue, WA, is one of the world’s leading independent distributors of industrial and specialty chemicals and related services. Univar provides its customer base, made up of 250,000 customers, with a full portfolio of products. Univar operates a network of approximately 170 distribution centers throughout North America, Europe and China. In 2008, Univar reported sales of $9.4 billion.
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 of
approximately 750,000.
THAMES & KOSMOS (T&K), headquartered in Portsmouth, RI, was founded in 2001 and operates as the exclusive 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 high-quality 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, meaningful reading materials for a rich learning experience.
SOCIETY OF CHEMICAL MANUFACTURERS & AFFILIATES (SOCMA), headquartered in Washington, DC, is the leading international trade association serving chemical manufacturers since 1921. SOCMA members play an indispensable role in the U.S. chemical industry by producing intermediates, specialty chemicals and ingredients used to develop a wide range of commercial and consumer products. These products are essential to the life, health and well-being of people everywhere.
EXPO CHEMICAL COMPANY, INC., headquartered in Houston, TX, is a chemical distributor that for 34 years has innovatively 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 can also toll-produce custom products. Expo facilitates customers and suppliers in moving surplus, widespec, dead-stock inventory, and by-product streams.
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INC., headquartered in Dallas, TX, serves the world’s most innovative electronics companies, helping them develop new ideas that change the way we live. By providing semiconductor technologies that promote greater power efficiency, enable more features, enhance performance and deliver more value, TI expands the possibilities every day for how we learn, connect, grow and discover. TI has been innovating and impacting the world for nearly 80 years. This innovation includes such world-changing technology as the first integrated circuit and the first electronic handheld calculator.
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.
