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recommendation nor assurance of solvency or utility is to be inferred from a
listing herein.
Business depends on a product. Products can range from the value-added
product, such as marketing and reselling, to the physical essentials of
production and manufacturing. This page covers that sector of business which
is engaged in the creation of tangible goods.
See also The Energy Page for listings of companies
primarily producing petroleum products as fuels
.
Foundries & Refineries (non-petroleum) | Processors & Refineries
(petrochemical and organic precursor chemicals)
Foundries & Refineries (non-petrochemical)
Ceramics, Glass and Glass-Fiber -
- Brown-Forman. Parent company of
Lenox and of Gorham, which offer fine ceramic (fine China) and crystal glass
products.
- Corning Incorporated. Glass,
glass fibers, fiber optics.
- Owens-Corning. Building
materials and advanced glass composites.
- Reynolds Metals Company. Primarily
aluminum, carbon, some plastics (primarily packaging for foodservice and
medical).
Processors & Refineries
(petrochemical and organic precursor chemicals)
- AlliedSignal Engineered
Materials. Quite an impressive list, everything from basic reagents
through intermediate chemicals to finished fibers, refrigerants, electronics
materials, amorphous metals & specialty films. A major source for
hydrogen flouride products.
- Hoechst Celanese. A huge producer of
acetic acid, acetates, vinyl acetate monomers, polyesters, polyethelynes,
superabsorbent polymers, liquid crystal polymers. Also has a large agricultural unit,
AgrEvo.
- Lubrizol. World's largest
independent supplier of additives for fuels, lubricants and fluids.
Mechanical Components & Sub-Assemblies
- Fisher Con-Tek Valves makes
specialty valves and fitting for industries that consume steam.
- Falk a subsidiary of
Sundstrand, is big into couplings, gears,
shafts and shaft drives, hydraulic couplings, steel castings.
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