List of largest chemical producers
Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN) is a weekly trade magazine published by the American Chemical Society, providing professional and technical information in the fields of chemistry and chemical engineering. It includes information on recent news and research in these fields, career and employment information, business and industry news, government and policy news, funding in these fields, and special reports. The magazine is available to all members of the American Chemical Society. In addition, the front part of the magazine is available online for free for anyone to view, but a subscription is required to see further content.Chemical & Engineering News publishes an annual list of the world's largest chemical producers by sales, excluding formulated products such as pharmaceutical drugs and coatings. In 2014, sales of the top fifty companies amounted to US$961,300,000,000, a decrease of 0.4% compared to the top fifty producers of 2013. The American Chemistry Council estimated that global chemical sales in 2014 rose by 3.7% to US$5,389,000,000,000.
BASF was the world's largest chemical producer for the ninth year in a row. More than half of the companies on the list were headquartered in the United States (twelve), Japan (eight) or Germany (six); eighteen countries in total were represented.
Forty-four of the companies on the list disclosed chemical profits, which totaled US$82,700,000,000, an increase of 3.8% from 2013. The average profit margin for these companies was 9.6%.
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2 Sinopec
3 Dow Chemical
5 ExxonMobil
4 SABIC
6 Formosa Plastics
7 LyondellBasell
8 DuPont
9 Ineos
10 Bayer
11 Mitsubishi Chemical
12 Royal Dutch Shell
13 LG Chem
14 Braskem
15 Air Liquide
16 AkzoNobel
17 The Linde Group
18 Sumitomo Chemical
19 Mitsui Chemicals
20 Evonik Industries
21 Toray Industries
22 Reliance Industries
23 Yara International
24 PPG Industries
25 Solvay
26 Lotte Chemical
27 Chevron Phillips Chemical
28 DSM
29 Praxair
30 SK Innovation
31 Shin-Etsu Chemical
32 Huntsman
33 Syngenta
34 Borealis
35 Lanxess
36 Asahi Kasei
37 Sasol
38 Air Products & Chemicals
39 Eastman Chemical
40 PTT Global Chemical
41 Mosaic
42 DIC
43 Arkema
44 Tosoh
45 Hanwha Chemical
46 SCG
47 Indorama Ventures
48 BP
49 Ecolab
50 Johnson Matthey
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