C&EN’s Global Top 50 chemical firms for 2025

25 September 2025 - 10:24

C&EN’s Global Top 50 chemical firms for 2025

Call it stalling out. Call it bumping along the bottom of the business cycle amid an industry downturn driven by oversupply and meager demand. But the global chemical industry hasn't been going anywhere recently, at least according to the data from C&EN's Global Top 50 survey.

The 50 companies in the ranking combined for $1.014 trillion in chemical sales in 2024, the year on which the ranking is based. This is a 0.07% decline from their total the year before. It is remarkable that the total sales of the world's 50 largest chemical companies could be nearly identical 2 years in a row.

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