Top 10: The largest petrochemical industries in the world

1. BASF SE is the largest chemical manufacturer in the world and is headquartered in Ludwigshafen, BASF Germany.The Group has subsidiaries and joint ventures in more than 80 countries and operates six integrated production and other 390 production centers in Europe, Asia, Australia, America and Africa.





2. The Dow Chemical Co., commonly known as Dow, is an American multinational chemical company headquartered in Midland, Michigan, United Unidos.Es the second largest chemical manufacturer in the world by revenue (after BASF)



3. Exxon Mobil Corp., or ExxonMobil, is an organization of American multinational oil and gas company based in Irving, Texas, United States. It is a direct descendant of the Standard Oil Company of John D. Rockefeller, was formed on November 30, 1999, by the merger of Exxon and Mobil (formerly Standard Oil of New Jersey and Standard Oil of New York). It is affiliated with Imperial Oil which operates in Canada.



4. LyondellBasell Industries NV (NYSE: LYB) is a public multinational chemical company with American and European roots, which is incorporated in the Netherlands, with operating headquarters in Houston, Texas, and London, UK. It was formed in December 2007 by the acquisition of Lyondell Chemical Company by Basell Polyolefins.



5. Ineos Group Limited (known as INEOS) is an international privately owned chemical company based in Rolle, Switzerland, established in Lyndhurst, UK. It is located within the top ten companies manufacturing chemicals.



6. SABIC (Saudi Basic Industries Corporation) is a diversified manufacturing company, active in chemicals and intermediates, industrial polymers, fertilizers and metals. It is the largest public company in Saudi Arabia. It was the fourth largest chemical manufacturer in the world in 2013. Today it is the second largest ethylene producer globally.



7. Formosa Plastics Corporation is a Taiwan company based in Taiwan which mainly produces polyvinyl chloride (PVC) resins and other plastics intermediates.



8. Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd. is a major Japanese chemical company. The company is listed on the first section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange. It was founded in 1913 as a manufacturing plant fertilizer.



9. DuPont (short for EI du Pont de Nemours and Co.) is a multinational American company, mainly dedicated to various industries of chemistry. It is famous for having developed materials such as Vespel, neoprene, nylon, lycra, plexiglass, Teflon, Kevlar, Nomex, Tyvek, Sontara or Corian.



10. Chevron Phillips is a chemical manufacturer jointly owned by Chevron Corporation and Phillips. The company was formed on July 1, 2000 through the merger of the operations of chemicals, both Chevron Corporation and Phillips Petroleum Company. It is a major producer of ethylene, propylene, polyethylene, polypropylene, K-Resin (R) SBC, Ryton Polyphenylene sulfide (PPS), alpha olefins, polyalphaolefins, aromatics and a wide range of specialty chemicals.