Exhibit 21 AMCOL INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION SUBSIDIARY LISTING - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- COMPANY NAME COUNTRY STATE OWNERSHIP % - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- AMCOL Europe Limited England 100 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- AMCOL Health & Beauty Solutions, Inc. USA DE 100 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- AMCOL Holdings B.V. Netherlands 100 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- AMCOL (Holdings) Ltd. England 100 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- AMCOL Holdings Canada Ltd. Canada Ontario 100 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- AMCOL Specialties Holdings, Inc. USA DE 100 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- American Colloid Company USA DE 100 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ameri-Co Carriers, Inc. USA NE 100 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ameri-Co Logistics, Inc. USA NE 100 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ashapura Minechem Ltd. India 20 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ashapura Volclay Private Limited India 50 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Baker Sillavan Limited England 50 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CETCO (Europe) Limited England 100 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CETCO Australia Pty. Ltd. Australia 100 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CETCO Holdings B.V. Netherlands 100 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CETCO Korea Ltd. Korea 100 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CETCO Oilfield Services Company USA DE 100 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CETCO-POLAND Sp. z o. o Poland 100 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CETCO Technologies (Suzhou) Co. Ltd. China 100 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Colin Stewart Minchem Limited England 100 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Colloid Environmental Technologies Company USA DE 100 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Egypt Bentonite & Derivatives Company Egypt 25 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Egypt Mining & Drilling Chemicals Company Egypt 25 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lafayette Well Testing, Inc. USA LA 100 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Montana Minerals Development Company USA MT 100 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nanocor, Inc. USA DE 100 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nanocor, Ltd. England 100 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nissho Iwai Bentonite Co., Ltd. Japan 19 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Silgel Packaging Limited England 100 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Volclay de Mexico, S.A. de C.V. Mexico 49 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Volclay Dongming Industrial Minerals Co., Ltd. China 96 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Volclay Holdings B.V. Netherlands 100 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Volclay International Corporation USA DE 100 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Volclay Korea Ltd. Korea 100 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Volclay MinChem Co. Ltd. China 100 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Volclay Pty. Ltd. Australia 100 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Volclay Siam Ltd. Thailand 100 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 60