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Companies

Chem.com Chemical Industry Directories

A selection of chemistry industry directories covering producers, suppliers, equipment, and supply vendors.  Searchable equipment and product catalogs are also available.

Chemcyclopedia

    A comprehensive directory of chemical producers, suppliers and vendors.  Searchable by company, keyword, or CAS number.  Information provided includes contact information, products, and services.

ChemEXPO Exhibitors

    A virtual `exhibit hall´ of chemical manufacturers and suppliers.  Displays services provided and chemicals manufactured as well as contact information and subsidiaries. Searchable by company name, service provided or chemical manufactured.

Chem Sources Online

    This database contains information on over 8,000 chemical companies and over 25,000 trade names.  Searchable by company name, CAS number, and trade name.

Reference USA
(*Mgmt & Econ Library Only)

    Listings of 11 million U.S. Companies. Data includes contact information, number of employees, type of business, headquarter/branch identifiers and more. Encompasses American Business Directory, American Big Business Directory, and American Manufacturers Directory.

Thomas Register of American Manufacturers
(*Free Registration is required)

    Contact information on 168,000 companies in the United States and Canada. 13,541 January 14, 2005 catalogs are available for a numerous companies.

Statistics

ChemExpo: Chemical Profiles

    Full-text profiles on over 200 chemical products.  Information provided includes Production, Demand, Growth, Prices, Uses, Strengths, Weaknesses, and Outlook.

NetAdvantage: Industry Surveys

    Extensive detailed Industry Surveys on the Chemicals-Basic and Chemicals-Specialty industries.  Information includes current situation, national and international overview, outlook, and major player comparisons.  Select Industry Surveys then Lookup to select from a menu.

TableBase

    TableBase is an international database that specializes exclusively in tabular data dealing with companies, industries, products and demographics. Tables cover market share, rankings,forecasts, shipments, output, consumption, users, exports, imports, capacity and more.  Full-text is available for many of the articles.

USA Trade Online

    Provides access to specific U.S. export and import information on more than 18,000 commodities world wide. Data is available back to 1997.  Older data is available in the Mgmt & Econ Library in our US Import & Export CDs located on workstation #2.

US Business Reporter: Chemicals Industry Overview

    A full-text overview of the chemicals industry including statistics, major trends, and industry characteristics.

News

Chemical & Industry Online
(Subscription necessary for full-text access)

    The publication of the Society of Chemical Industry it is possible to browse the contents and abstracts of the 2 most recent years´ issues. C&I covers the intersection of science industry and commerce.

Chemicals Technology: Industry Project Reports

    Full-text reports on recent projects, plants and chemical facilities.

Promt

    Multi-industry database providing international coverage of companies, products, markets, and technologies. PROMT includes over 1,000 trade and business journals; industry newsletters; business articles from local, regional, national, and international newspapers and business journals, market research studies, government publications, corporate news releases, and abstracts of Investext reports. Full-text includes Chemical Week, Chemical Market Reporter, Asian Chemical News European Chemical News and more.

 

Last update: March 10, 2008

Prepared by: Hal P. Kirkwood Jr. kirkwood@purdue.edu