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Innospec Inc. and Kronos Worldwide, Inc.

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Innospec Inc.

Innospec Inc. develops, manufactures, blends, markets, and supplies specialty chemicals in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia-Pacific. It operates through three segments: Performance Chemicals, Fuel Specialties, and Oilfield Services. The company offers specialty chemical products used as additives in diesel, jet, marine, fuel oil and other fuels used in the operation of commercial trucking, marine and aviation engines, power station generators, heating oil, and other industrial machinery applications. It also provides innovative technology-based solutions for customers' processes or products in personal care, home care, agrochemical, construction, mining, and other industrial markets. In addition, the company develops and markets chemical solutions for drilling, completion, production, DRA, and oil and gas applications. It serves large multinational companies, manufacturers of personal care and home care products and global mining, agriculture and building products, and other industrial companies; national and multinational oil companies, fuel marketers and retailers, fuel terminals, marine lines, coating and plastics producers, and other heavy industrial end-users; and multinational public, and independent exploration and production, and oilfield services companies. The company was formerly known as Octel Corp. and changed its name to Innospec Inc. in January 2006. Innospec Inc. was founded in 1938 and is headquartered in Englewood, Colorado.

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Kronos Worldwide, Inc.

Kronos Worldwide, Inc. produces and markets titanium dioxide pigments (TiO2) in Europe, North America, the Asia Pacific, and internationally. The company offers TiO2 in two crystalline forms comprising rutile and anatase to impart whiteness, brightness, opacity, and durability for various products, including paints, coatings, plastics, paper, fibers, and ceramics, as well as for various specialty products, such as inks, foods, cosmetics, and pharmaceuticals. It also produces ilmenite, a raw material used directly as a feedstock by sulfate-process TiO2 plants; iron-based chemicals, which are used as treatment and conditioning agents for industrial effluents and municipal wastewater, as well as in the manufacture of iron pigments, cement, and agricultural products; and specialty chemicals for use in the formulation of pearlescent pigments, and production of electroceramic capacitors for cell phones and other electronic devices, as well as for use in natural gas pipe and other specialty applications. In addition, the company provides technical services for its products. It sells its products under the KRONOS brand through agents and distributors to paint, plastics, decorative laminate, and paper manufacturers. The company was founded in 1916 and is headquartered in Dallas, Texas. Kronos Worldwide, Inc. is a subsidiary of Valhi, Inc.

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