David J. D'Antoni

Ashland LLC engages in the manufacture and distribution of specialty chemical solutions. It operates through the following segment: Specialty Ingredients, Composites, and Intermediates and Solvents. The Specialty Ingredients segment offers cellulose ethers, vinyl pyrrolidones, and bifunctional. The Composites segment includes unsaturated polyester resins, vinyl ester resins, and gelcoats. The Intermediates and Solvents segment produces butanediol (BDO) and related derivatives, including tetrahydrofuran and n-methylpyrrolidone. The company was founded by Paul G. Blazer in 1924 and is headquartered in Covington, KY.

OMNOVA Solutions, Inc. develops, manufactures, and markets emulsion polymers, specialty chemicals, and decorative products. It provides engineered surfaces for various commercial, industrial, and residential end uses. The company operates through the Specialty Solutions and Performance Materials segments. The Specialty Solutions segment develops, designs, produces, and markets a broad line of specialty products for use in coatings, adhesives, sealants, elastomers, laminates, films, nonwovens, and oil & gas products. The Performance Materials segment serves mature markets including plastics, paper, carpet and coated fabrics with a broad range of polymers based primarily on styrene butadiene (SB), styrene butadiene acrylonitrile (SBA), styrene butadiene vinyl pyridine, high styrene pigments, polyvinyl acetate, acrylic, styrene acrylic, calcium stearate, glyoxal, and bio-based chemistries. The company was founded on October 1, 1999 and is headquartered in Beachwood, OH.

APAC Holdings, Inc. provides commercial and heavy construction services as well as excavation & grading services. It also supplies the materials to make roads including asphalt, ready-mix concrete and crushed stone. The company operates 36 quarries, 93 production facilities, 31 ready-mix concrete plants, 226 hot-mix asphalt plants and a fleet of mobile equipment. It is headquartered in Atlanta, GA.

Part of Ashland, Inc., Ashland Chemical Co. is a private company that manufactures chemical specialty and performance products. The company is based in Omaha, NE.

Ashland Specialty Chemical Co. supplies specialty chemicals. The firm provides products to industries including adhesives, automotive, composites, metal casting, merchant marine, paint, paper, plastics, watercraft and water treatment. The company is headquartered in Dublin, OH.

APAC, Inc. provides highway construction services. The firm also supplies the materials to make roads, including asphalt, ready-mix concrete and crushed stone. APAC operates quarries, aggregate production facilities, ready-mix concrete plants and hot-mix asphalt plants. The company was founded in 1879 and is located in Atlanta, GA.