Companies in this industry manufacture chemicals, which are usually separate chemical elements or separate chemically defined compounds, using basic processes such as thermal cracking and distillation. Major companies include BASF (Germany), Dow (USA), Formosa...
Companies in this sector operate as wholesalers of plastic materials and a variety of other chemicals. Major companies include Tricon Energy and Univar Solutions (both US-based), Brenntag and HELM AG (both based in Germany), ITOCHU (Japan) and Sinochem (China). Most...
Companies in this sector manufacture acrylics, amino resins, epoxies and other thermosets, as well as thermoplastics such as polyethylene (PE), polypropylene (PP), polyvinyl chloride (PVC) and polystyrene (PS). The major companies include Celanese, Chevron Phillips...
