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Participating companies include: Air Products and Chemicals Inc.; Arch Chemicals, Inc.; Arkema Inc., BASF Corp.; Ciba Specialty Chemicals; Church & Dwight Co., Inc.; Croda; Cytec Industries Inc.; Elemica; EMD Chemicals Inc.; Evonik Industries; General Chemical; Hercules Inc. - Aqualon Division; Honeywell; Innospec Inc.; ISP; Johnson Matthey; National Starch & Chemical; PQ Corporation; Rhodia Inc.; Sika Corp. and Sunoco.

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