FORTUNE 500
Our annual ranking of America's largest corporations
Industry: Chemicals
REVENUES PROFITS
1 Dow Chemical 40 49,124 6 3,724 -18
2 DuPont 74 28,982 2 3,148 53
3 Lyondell Chemical 106 22,228 19 186 -65
4 Huntsman 184 13,148 1 230 N.A.
5 PPG Industries 226 11,037 8 711 19
6 Ashland 248 10,007 1 407 -80
7 Air Products & Chem. 275 9,159 12 723 2
8 Praxair 291 8,324 9 988 36
9 Rohm & Haas 292 8,308 4 735 15
10 Sherwin-Williams 309 7,810 9 576 24
11 Eastman Chemical 321 7,450 6 409 -27
12 Monsanto 323 7,344 14 689 170
13 Celanese 346 6,668 10 406 47
14 Avery Dennison 412 5,583 2 367 62
15 Mosaic 427 5,306 21 -121 -173
16 Hexion Specialty Chemicals 433 5,233 17 -109 N.A.
17 Ecolab 457 4,896 8 369 15
18 Lubrizol 512 4,185 2 106 -44
19 Chemtura 555 3,723 19 -206 N.A.
20 Nalco Holding 566 3,603 9 99 107
21 Rockwood Holdings 598 3,331 7 103 8
22 Cytec Industries 599 3,330 11 195 230
23 RPM International 652 3,008 18 -76 -173
24 Valspar 653 2,978 10 175 19
25 Solutia 659 2,947 4 11 38
26 W.R. Grace 677 2,827 10 18 -73
27 UAP Holding 690 2,728 9 66 130
28 Scotts Miracle-Gro 696 2,697 14 133 32
29 PolyOne 713 2,632 2 123 163
30 Cabot 732 2,543 20 88 N.A.
31 Westlake Chemical 747 2,484 2 195 -14
32 Georgia Gulf 754 2,452 8 49 -49
33 Albemarle 774 2,369 12 143 24
34 FMC 781 2,347 9 132 13
35 Intl. Flavors & Frag. 832 2,095 5 227 17
36 Ferro 844 2,042 8 20 23
37 Hercules 849 2,038 -1 239 N.A.
38 CF Industries 872 1,949 2 33 N.A.
39 Terra Industries 908 1,837 -5 4 -81
40 Sigma-Aldrich 924 1,798 8 277 7
41 Schulman (A.) 981 1,616 13 33 2
42 Valhi 999 1,571 8 142 173,848
From the April 30th, 2007 issue
Footnote:
Due to slight differences in rounding, industry data online may not exactly match the FORTUNE 500 magazine version.
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