Wacker Chemical Corporation

Dart Container started in 1937 as a small machine shop in Mason, Michigan. The company s experimentation with expandable polystyrene in the late 1950s led to a line of high quality insulated foam cups, and Dart Container Corporation was born. Consumers immediately recognized the benefits of foam cups over the then-popular paper hot cups. The benefits include superior insulation, strength, and durability all provided at a lower cost due to Dart's unrivaled proprietary technical innovations. Providing its customers with service and products of high quality further fueled dart s early success in the foam cup market. Today, Dart is a global enterprise, manufacturing a broad range of quality single-use products for the foodservice, retail, and food packaging industries, and is the world's largest manufacturer of foam cups. In order to ensure that the company provides its customers with consistent product quality and a dependable source of supply, Dart manufactures most of its own production equipment and raw materials. It then turns those raw materials into finished products and uses Dart trucks to deliver them to points across the globe.

Operational for more than 50 years, Spartan Chemical Company is a manufacturer of chemical specialty maintenance products, such as industrial degreasers, aerosols, automatic and wick type deodorants, bulk restroom cleaners, concrete coatings and disinfectants. The company also offers carpet and floor care products, hand cleaner accessories, dispensing systems, disposable floor mats, and floor finishes, waxes and seal. It serves clients in the hospitality, entertainment, retail, food processing, education, health care and government sectors. Spartan Chemical Company manufactures Green Seal-certified products. The company additionally provides laundry programs for nursing homes, hospitals, correctional facilities and schools. It sells products through a network of more than 550 distributors and associates throughout the world.

Chem-Trend is a global organization with a singular focus of formulating and manufacturing premier release agents for use in the general rubber, tire, polyurethane, composites, thermoplastics and die casting industries. For more than 40 years, the company has built a history in developing products designed to give manufacturers quality molded and cast parts while maximizing productivity. Its brands include Safety-Lube, Power-Lube, Pura, Mono-Coat, Perma-Mold, Mono-Lube, Chemlease and Lusin. The acquisition of Chem-Trend by the Germany-based Freudenberg Group has resulted in the gaining of the Kl ber lubrication die casting brands Klubertec, Duofix, Wolfrakote, Tungstesyn and Metalstar. The company has ISO-9001:2000 and ISO-14001 certifications. It maintains a location in Howell, Mich.