Founded in 1916, The Shepherd Chemical Company is a fourth generation, family owned specialty chemical company dedicated to being our customer’s best co-development partner and long term supplier. Our track record of value creation and customer service has made us a trusted partner for 36 of the world’s top 50 chemical companies. In collaboration with our customers, we are working to solve some of the world’s most complex problems through the synthesis, scale up, and commercialization of inorganic and organic metal compounds for the global marketplace. Our metal chemistry experts create solutions for exacting chemical applications—from automotive safety to healthcare innovation. Over 50% of our production is co-developed with our customers. Our R&D scientists enhance the chemical development process, working with our customers hand-in-hand from laboratory discovery and synthesis to pilot development and through rapid scale-up and commercialization. We ideate, challenge, and strategize together toward the shared vision of exceeding our customers’ expectations and achieving complex product requirements. Shepherd Chemical operates three manufacturing plants in North America and Europe and manages sales and distribution offices worldwide. Everyday, our more than 250 employees relentlessly pursue Shepherd’s core purpose of Creating Value and Brightening Lives. Visit us at www.shepchem.com. Email us at [email protected]. Tweet us at @ShepChemical: https://twitter.com/shepchemical

Based in Columbus, Ohio, U.S.A., Franklin International was established in 1935 and today is among the largest privately held manufacturers of adhesives, sealants and polymers for commercial and industrial applications. Franklin integrates its core competency – emulsion polymerization – into a broad product offering, including glues, adhesives, hot melts, binders, sizing compounds and more. These products are distributed across six continents for use in construction, furniture manufacturing, millwork, paper converting, pressure-sensitive products and fiberglass reinforcement.

Emery Oleochemicals is a leading global specialty chemicals manufacturer. We provide formulators and manufacturers with best-in-class renewable solutions recognized for their ability to improve processing efficiencies, deliver outstanding technical performance and enhance environmental safety. Headquartered in the United States of America, our name Emery Oleochemicals has its roots in a rich history that began over 180 years ago in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA, when Thomas Emery Sr. began making candles from tallow. This started a sustainable business model that today, involves making high-performance specialty chemicals predominantly derived from natural oils and fats. Using pioneering and proprietary technology, in-depth market insights and superior technical knowledge, we are able to customize our products to specific application needs in many high-growth sectors such as plastics, automotive, industrial lubricants, electronics, building and construction, food and beverage, furniture and bedding, appliances, coatings and adhesives, home and personal care, oilfield, packaging, agriculture and more. Supported by our regional Technical Development Centers of Excellence, Emery Oleochemicals is positioned to support both exclusive and joint solution development efforts with our customers, leveraging our expertise covering four specialty business platforms – Agro Green, Bio-Lubricants, Eco-Friendly Polyols, and Green Polymer Additives – while building upon the foundation of our mainstay OleoBasics business. Driven by our core values of Competitive Advantage, Innovation, Trust and Partnership, we strive to continuously innovate in order to deliver sustainable solutions that meet performance, environmental and societal needs.

Pilot Chemical Company is a privately owned and independent global specialty chemical company providing high quality products and services to the disinfecting, sanitizing and cleaning; metalworking and lubricants; oil field and emulsion polymerization industries. Its proprietary core technologies involve alkylation, sulfonation, sulfation and a number of other specialty operations, including the production of biocidal quats, tertiary amine derivatives, polymers, and organometallic fuel additives. Pilot, an industry leader in chemical innovation and safety, owns the most state-of-the-art continuous sulfation process in North America, is a leader in quaternary ammonium compounds, and is the world’s largest manufacturer of disulfonates. Pilot is certified under the American Chemistry Council’s Responsible Care® program. Contact Pilot Chemical by emailing: [email protected] or call 1-800-70-PILOT (74568)

Michelman is a global developer and manufacturer of environmentally friendly advanced materials for industry, offering solutions for the coatings, printing & packaging and industrial manufacturing markets. The company’s surface additives and polymeric binders are used by leading manufacturers around the world to enhance performance attributes and add value in applications including wood and floor care products, metal and industrial coatings, paints, varnishes, inks, fibers and composites. Michelman is also well-known as an innovator in the development of barrier and functional coatings, as well as digital printing-press primers that are used in the production of consumer and industrial packaging, paper products, labels, and commercially printed materials. Michelman serves its customers with production facilities in North America, Europe and Asia, product development and technical service centers in several major global markets, and a worldwide team of highly trained business development personnel.

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Premier Magnesia, LLC is a global market leader in magnesia based products and solutions for agricultural, industrial and water treatment markets. We are one of the world's principal suppliers of high purity calcined magnesium oxide and magnesium hydroxide products. For over 50 years, the Company and its predecessors has owned and operated a magnesia mine and processing plant located in Gabbs, Nevada that will continue to offer the only domestically mined source of magnesia ore in the United States well into the future. Our Giles Chemical Division is the largest producer of magnesium sulfate, commonly known as Epsom Salt, in North America. Premier Magnesia and Giles Chemical are your essential magnesia mineral source, assuring competitive pricing, consistent quality and long term reliable supply. Product lines: AmphoMag, AquaMag, EnviroBlend, MAGOX, and THIOGUARD. Industries: Animal Nutrition and Health. Fertilizers/Soil Amendments, Power Generation, Abrasives Production, Metal Plating and Finishing, Potable Water Treatment , Soil Remediation, Rubber and Plastics, Hydrogen Sulfide Control, Pulp and Paper, Building Products, Fire Proofing, Epsom Salts, Air Pollution Control, Boiler and Cooling Water Treatment, HazMat Spill Response, Oil Field Production, Wastewater Treatment, Copper, Gold and Uranium Mining, Sewer Odor and Corrosion Control, and Flue Gas Desulferization. (610)828-6929 http://www.premiermagnesia.com/

The ChemStation System offers custom-formulated, environmentally friendly industrial cleaning and process chemicals, delivered to refillable containers. Each year ChemStation’s unique system of REFILL...NOT LANDFILL prevents hundreds of thousands of empty drums and totes from going to our already overfilled landfills. Creating environmentally friendly products and delivering them to refillable containers makes life safer and healthier for everyone. Whether you're scrubbing floors, cleaning vehicles, eliminating landfill odors, washing parts, or foam cleaning a poultry plant, our system is your solution.

Forge, a member of Ajinomoto Bio-Pharma Services, is a gene therapy development engine, focused on enabling access to life changing gene therapies and helping bring them from idea into reality. We partner with innovators in the gene therapy community: scientists, physicians, biotech/pharma companies, and patient groups. We bring expertise in gene therapy manufacturing and therapeutics development to the table, helping champion teams that are navigating the long road from the lab bench to the bedside. With a patients-first approach, we are forging new models for working together to better accelerate these transformative medicines to reach those who need them most.

A leading herbal brand in North America, Gaia Herbs cultivates health and wellbeing by stewarding sustainable relationships between plants and people. Our unparalleled dedication to purity, integrity and potency is meticulously proven by science. We use organic methods from seed to shelf and pioneered the industry’s first transparency program, MeetYourHerbs®. We are proudly based in the beautiful mountains of Western North Carolina.

As the leading private label manufacturer of cosmetic pencils and products worldwide we provide the right cosmetic pencil for every purpose, for every market and for every trend. Schwan Cosmetics USA, Inc. is part of Schwan STABILO Cosmetics which is a full service private label supplier with a strong heritage of developing and introducing innovative, market driven color cosmetics and counts internationally renowned cosmetics companies among its customers. We are a family owned company with more than 3,000 global employees; with our corporate headquarters, Schwan Cosmetics in Heroldsberg, Germany. In addition to producing high quality cosmetics, the Schwan-STABILO group is also the leader in stationery writing instruments and special order outdoor equipment.

Manufacturing of bar soap was established by Procter & Gamble at the Ivorydale facility in 1890, with the facility being divested in 2003 to an independent company that was able to consolidate the contract manufacturing of bar soap for a number of leading brand-owners into this high capacity, efficient facility. St Bernard Soap Co. is North America's leading manufacturer of bar soap, with the capacity to manufacture more than 4 million standard sized bars of soap a day. Our products include: glycerin recovered premium tallow bars and all-in-glycerin alternative, synthetic and semi synthetic soap utilizing either tallow or vegetable soap bases, plus our unique freezer bar technology to produce pure, low cost soap for budget conscious consumers. St Bernard Soap Co. expertise includes the formulation & development of new base soap, plus esthetic finishes utilizing the latest mixing and press technology. The site is FDA approved for the manufacturer of products containing active ingredients. St Bernard Soap Co. manufactures many of the leading brands of soap sold in the USA & Canada, in addition to exporting base soap noodles Internationally for local finishing and packing. The company does not sell any finished products under its own name.