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TABLE 1.11
Major Chemical Producers Based on (Net) Sales (>2,500 Million Dollars; in
Millions of U.S. Dollars; 2008)
United States
Dow 57,500 ExxonMobile 38,400
Dupont 30,500 PPG 15,900
Chevron Phillips 12,600 Monsanto 11,400
Praxair 10,800 Air Products 10,400
Huntsman 10,100 Rhom and Haas 9,500
Celanese 6,800 Eastman Chemical 6,700
Hexion Specialty 6,100 Mosaic 5,700 *
Lubrizol 5,000 Dow Corning 4,900 *
Honeywell 4,900 * Occidental Petroleum 4,700 *
Nalco 4,200 Chemtura 3,600
Cytec Ind. 3,600 Solutia 3,500 *
Westlake 3,200 * W.R. Grace 3,300
Cabot 3,200 FMC 3,100
Georgia Gulf 2,900 Terra 2,900
Sunoco 2,800 * CF 2,800 *
Rockwood Specialities 2,700 * Polyone 2,700
Momentive 2,500 *
Europe
BASF (Germany) 79,500 Ineos Group (UK) 47,000
Bayer (Germany) 44,400 Lyondell-Basell (Netherlands) 38,400
Linde (Germany) 16,900 Air Liquide (France) 16,300
Akzo Nobel (Netherlands) 14,000 Solvay (Belgium) 13,100
DSM (Netherlands) 12,200 Merck (Germany) 9,700
Lanxess (Germany) 9,100 Arkema (France) 7,800
Syngenta (Switzerland) 7,700 Clariant (Switzerland) 7,100
Rhodia (France) 7,000 Ciba (Switzerland) 5,400
Wacker (Germany) 5,200 Kemira (Finland) 3,900
Givaudan (Switzerland) 3,400
Japan
Mitshuishi Chem. Inds. 20,200 Sumitomo Chemical 17,300
Asahi Kasei 15,000 Mitsui Chem. 14,400
Toray Inds. 14,200 Shin-Etsu 11,600
Showa Denko 9,700 Teijin 9,100
DIC 9,000 Taiyo Nippon Sanso 4,800
Kaneka 4,300 JSR Corp. 3,400
Canada
Agrium 10,300 Potash Corp. 9,400
Nova Corp. 7,400
Other
SABIC (Saudi Arabia) 34,400 Sinopec (China) 33,800
Formosa Plastics Group (Formosa) 27,500 PetroChina (China) 16,000

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