Old World Industries LLC

Founded in 1914, Chicago Tube & Iron is one of the largest steel service centers in the United States. The company designs, manufactures and markets a wide range of steel products, including tubing, pipe, bar, valves, fittings and flanges, and boiler and condenser tubes and tools. In addition, the company has a line of specialty products that includes steam traps, Y-strainers, gaskets, bolts, valve parts, acuation products, hanger materials, and gauges and thermometers. Chicago Tube & Iron s services include cutting, chamfering, deburring, coiling, grooving, beveling, threading and bending. Chicago Tube & Iron maintains its headquarters in Romeoville, Ill., and operates additional facilities in Wisconsin, Indiana, Minnesota and North Carolina.

Color Communications is one of the leading manufacturers of inorganic pigments and colors in the United States. The company s Institute for Color Research division provides expertise in color consultation, training and specification procedures. It deals in various research activities, designing of color systems, merchandise packaging, documentation, production, and quality control solutions. Color Communications is affiliated with the American Society of Interior Designers, Detroit Color Council, International Interior Design Association, Color Marketing Group, and Inter Society Color Council. The company offers a wide variety of color products, such as architectural paint and stain, automotive, paper and textile and specialty markets colors, and merchandising tools. It also offers watercolors, Aquafilm, coating materials, specialty interior colors for plastics, vinyls and leathers, grout, wood, granite, cosmetic, pharmaceutical and consumer colors.

Akzo Nobel is a Global Fortune 500 company that is listed on the Euronext Amsterdam and NASDAQ stock exchanges. The company is also listed on the Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes. Akzo Nobel, based in the Netherlands, is a multinational organization that serves customers throughout the world with human and animal health care products, coatings and chemicals. An employer of more than 61,000, it is divided in 13 business units and maintains operating subsidiaries in more than 80 countries. As one of the world s leading chemical producers, its chemicals division specializes in pulp and paper, polymer, surfactants, functional and base chemicals. Akzo Nobel has a portfolio of more than 2,000 different chemical products that are used as raw and intermediate materials for the manufacture of everyday items. Akzo Nobel maintains a location in Chicago.