Chemical

The chemical industry is crucial to modern world economies and works to convert raw
materials such as oil, natural gas, air, water, metals, and minerals into more than 70,000
different products. These base products are then used to make consumer products in
addition to manufacturing, service, construction, agriculture, and other industries.  

Over three-fourths of the chemical industry’s output worldwide is polymers and plastics.
Chemicals are used to make a wide variety of consumer goods, as well as thousands of
products that are inputs to the agriculture, manufacturing, construction, and service
industries. The chemical industry itself consumes about a quarter of its own output. Major
industrial customers include rubber and plastic products, textiles, apparel, petroleum
refining, pulp and paper, and primary metals.

Chemical companies:
BASF, Bayer, Braskem, Celanese, Dow, DuPont, Eastman

Consumer Products
Consumer products companies make consumer products for everyday use, such as soaps,
detergents, cleaning products, plastic goods, and cosmetics.

Consumer products companies:

PPG Industries, DuPont, Mitsubishi Chemical, Johnson & Johnson

Petroleum
The petroleum industry includes the global processes of exploration, extraction, refining,
transporting, and marketing petroleum products. The largest volume products of the
industry are fuel oil and gasoline. Petroleum is also the raw material for many chemical
products, including pharmaceuticals, solvents, fertilizers, pesticides, and plastics. The
industry is usually divided into three major components: upstream (exploration and
production), midstream (transportation), and downstream (refining crude oil, processing and
purifying natural gas, creating petrochemicals).

Petroleum companies:
ExxonMobil, Shell Chemicals, Chevron Phillips Chemial Company, BP

Pharmaceutical
The pharmaceutical industry develops, produces, and markets drugs licensed for use as
medications for humans or animals. Some pharmaceutical companies deal in brand-name
(i.e., has a trade name and can be produced and sold only by the company holding the
patent) and/or generic (i.e., chemically equivalent, lower-cost version of a brand-name drug)
medications and medical devices (agents that act on diseases without chemical interaction
with the body). Pharmaceuticals (brand name and generic) and medical devices are subject
to a large number of country-specific laws and regulations regarding patenting, testing,
safety assurance, efficacy, monitoring, and marketing.

Pharmaceuticals companies:
Pfizer, Novartis, Merck, Bayer, GlaxoSmithKline, Johnson & Johnson, Sanofi, Hoffman-
LaRoche, AstraZeneca, and Abbott Laboratories.