Global Top 50 chemical producers

(based on the chart showing chemical sales in C&EN  July 28, 2008)
 

Rank			Member of the UNIFAC consortium	Company
2007	2006	2005
1	1	2		BASF (Germany)
2	2	1		Dow Chemical (U.S.)
3	3	3		Shell (Netherlands/U.K.)
4	5	17		Ineos Group (U.K.)
5	4	4		ExxonMobil (U.S.)
6	7	7		China Petroleum & Chemical (China)
7	11	10		SABIC (Saudi Arabia)
8	6	6		DuPont (U.S.)
9	8	5		Total (France)
10	9	11		Formosa Plastics (Taiwan)
11	10	8		Bayer (Germany)
12	13	13		Mitsubishi Chemical (Japan)
13	16	24		Basell (Netherlands)
14	12	12		Lyondell (U.S.)
15	15	14		Evonik/Degussa (Germany)
16	14	15		Mitsui Chemicals (Japan)
17	17	18		Akzo Nobel (Netherlands)
18	19	20		Air Liquide (France)
19	18	19		Sumitomo Chemical (Japan)
20	25	-		Petrochina (China)
21	27	39		Reliance Industries (India)
22	36	-		Linde (Germany)
23	20	22		Chevron Phillips (U.S.)
24	24	26		DSM (Netherlands)
25	21	21		Toray Industries (Japan)
26	22	25		Shin-Etsu (Japan)
27	30	30		PPG Industries (U.S.)
28	26	50		LG Chem (South Korea)
29	38	36		Yara (Norway)
30	29	23		ICI (U.K.)
31	23	16		Huntsman Corp.(U.S.)
32	28	32		Solvay (Belgium)
33	33	33		ENI (Italy)
34	35	35		Praxair (U.S.)
35	31	27		Dainippon Ink & Chemicals (Japan)
36	50	-		Braskern (Brazil)
37	32	28		Lanxess (Germany)
38	37	34		Air Products & Chemical Corp. (U.S.)
39	42	46		Borealis (Austria)
40	34	31		Asahi Kasei (Japan)
41	43	42		Sasol (South Africa)
42	40	37		Rohm and Haas (U.S.)
43	41	-		Arkema (France)
44	48	44		Syngenta (Switzerland)
45	47	41		Clariant (Switzerland)
46	49	43		Rhodia (France)
47	39	38		Eastman Chemical (U.S.)
48	46	48		Nova Chemicals (Canada)
49	-	-		Showa Denko (Japan)
50	45	45		Celanese (U.S.)