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Chemical Companies Of The World

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Novellis Systems

Actelion. ALLERGAN BotoX For Multi Therapy. Bristol Myers. GlaxoSmithKline. GILEAD H.I.V. SINOCHEM IPO 2011. LIQUOR. Eli Lilly. MAKHTESHIM Pesticides China. KOCH Industies. ABBOT Pharma & Med Products. SANOFI. Johnson Matthey = GOLD BULLION = YesYes. SOLVAY. YARA International. HUNTSMAN. ASAHI KASEI. BASELL. OIL. APACHE. BP British Petrolium. MITSUI CHEMICAL. EVONIK DEGUSSA. AIR LIQUIDE. SUMITOMO. AKZO NOBEL. MITSIBUSHI CHEMICAL. Chemicals Technology. LYONDELL. SABIC. TOTAL. SINOPEC. INEOS. SHELL @ CITYBANK. BAYER. EXXONMOBIL.

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HEXION - Momentive Speciality Chemicals. LUBRIZOL. CELANESE. ECOLAB. Avery Dennison. Eastman Chemical. MOSAIC. Sherin-Williams. ASHLAND. Air Products And Chemicals. HUNTSMAN. DuPont. PRAXAIR. PPG Industries. Fortune 500 2011: Industry: Chemicals. Fortune 500 Data. DOW ChemicalZ. Fortune 500 2011: Top 500 American Companies - Dow Chemical - DOW - FORTUNE on CNNMoney.com. Degussa Corporation - Parsippany, New Jersey (NJ) | www.degussa.com. Chemical industry - Wiki. Oil refinery in Louisiana - an example of chemical industry The chemical industry comprises the companies that produce industrial chemicals.

Central to the modern world economy, it converts raw materials (oil, natural gas, air, water, metals, and minerals) into more than 70,000 different products. History[edit] Although chemicals were made and used throughout history, the birth of the heavy chemical industry (production of chemicals in large quantities for a variety of uses) coincided with the beginnings of the Industrial Revolution in general. Industrial Revolution[edit] One of the first chemicals to be produced in large amounts through industrial process, was sulphuric acid. Charles Tennant's St.Rollox Chemical Works in 1831, then the biggest chemical enterprise in the world. Soda ash was used since ancient times in the production of glass, textile, soap, and paper and the source of the potash had traditionally been wood ashes in Western Europe.

Expansion and maturation[edit] Products[edit] Top 100 global chemical companies.