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Chemical substance industry includes people industries required in the production of petrochemicals, agrochemicals, pharmaceuticals, polymers, paints, oleochemicals etc. Chemical processes are utilized, including chemical reactions to form new substances, separations according to properties like solubility or ionic charge, and distillations, in addition to transformations by heating & more methods.
Chemical substance industries require a processing of, or even vary within, raw materials found by mining, and agriculture among more supply sources, into materials & substances that come utile around their have, or even in other industries. The food-processing industries come typically non involved in the term "chemical industry".
Companies
A large corporations around chemical substance industry olympian games (business volume around billion Euros)
Badische Anilin- und Soda-Fabrik (BASF)(D) 28 (once IG-Farben)
Dow Chemical (USA) 27
DuPont (USA) 24
Bayer (D) 20 (at one time IG-Farben)
Exxon Mobil Chemicals (USA) Twenty (once Standard Oil)
Atofina (F) 20
British Petroleum (BP) Chemicals (GB) 13
Mitsubishi Chemicals (J) 12
Deutsche Gold- und Silber-Scheide-Anstalt (DEGUSSA)(D) 11(at one time IG-Farben)
Royal Dutch Shell Chemicals (NL/GB) 11
ar:صناعة كيميائية
de:Chemische_Industrie
ja:化学工業
pt:Indústria química
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