Subsidy Tracker: Industry Summary Page
Major Industry:
chemicals
Subsidy Total:
$9,798,661,955
Number of Awards:
4,920
Time Period:
Earliest year of data: 1992. Availability of data for earlier years varies greatly from program to program. The majority of the listings for this industry are for the period since 2011.
Notes:
The dollar total above adjusts for the fact that there is an overlap between the amounts in one or more Megadeal entries and those of one or more of the other entries. The total includes only those entries matched to a parent company. The industry designation is the primary one for the parent's operations overall. Dollar totals do not include awards for which no subsidy value is disclosed.
Top 10 Parent Companies | Total Subsidy $ | Number of Awards |
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Sasol | $1,851,232,180 | 68 |
Air Products & Chemicals | $885,158,490 | 222 |
Bayer | $844,553,003 | 132 |
CF Industries | $810,715,945 | 59 |
Dow Inc. | $616,670,237 | 412 |
Shin-Etsu Chemical | $514,790,799 | 53 |
Westlake Chemical | $422,411,171 | 228 |
DuPont de Nemours | $400,824,715 | 179 |
Wacker Chemie | $371,855,523 | 24 |
BASF | $342,078,606 | 277 |
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Company | Parent | Location | Subsidy Source | Year | Subsidy Value | Loan/Bailout Value |
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Commonwealth Laminating and Coating Inc. | Eastman Chemical | Virginia | state | 2013 | $175,000 | grant | |
Celanese | Celanese | Virginia | state | 2013 | $500,000 | grant | |
Celanese Acetate LLC | Celanese | Virginia | state | 2012 | $1,500,000 | grant | |
Chemetall Foote | BASF | North Carolina | state | 2011 | $94,287 | grant | |
So.F.teR. US, Inc. | Celanese | Tennessee | state | 2013 | $750,000 | grant | |
Albemarle Corporation | Albemarle | Pennsylvania | state | $100,000 | grant | ||
Toray Plastics | Toray Industries | Rhode Island | state | 2013 | undisclosed | grant | |
Showa Denko Carbon | Showa Denko | South Carolina | state | 2011 | $2,000,000 | grant | |
WeylChem US Inc. | International Chemical Investors Group | South Carolina | state | 2014 | $400,000 | grant | |
Toray Carbon Fibers America, Inc. | Toray Industries | South Carolina | state | 2014 | $10,000,000 | grant | |
RBS USA Limited | Westlake Chemical | Tennessee | state | 2014 | $500,000 | grant | |
Eastman Performance Films | Eastman Chemical | Virginia | state | 2014 | $75,000 | grant | |
MOMENTIVE PERFORMANCE MATERIALS | Momentive Performance Materials | Ohio | state | 2014 | $124,558 | grant | |
MOMENTIVE SPECIALTY CHEMICALS INC | Momentive Performance Materials | Ohio | state | 2014 | $117,058 | grant | |
INEOS USA LLC | Ineos | Ohio | state | 2014 | $103,678 | grant | |
CONTINENTAL STRUCTURAL PLASTICS INC | Teijin | Ohio | state | 2014 | $100,000 | grant | |
SCOTTS MIRACLE GRO COMPANY | Scotts Miracle-Gro | Ohio | state | 2014 | $59,288 | grant | |
SUN CHEMICAL CORPORATION | DIC Corporation | Ohio | state | 2014 | $52,000 | grant | |
KRATON POLYMERS US LLC | Kraton Corporation | Ohio | state | 2014 | $38,082 | grant | |
POLYONE CORPORATION | Avient Corporation | Ohio | state | 2014 | $34,230 | grant | |
MULTIBASE INC | Dow Inc. | Ohio | state | 2014 | $31,609 | grant | |
TREMCO INC | RPM International | Ohio | state | 2014 | $15,300 | grant | |
ROHM AND HAAS CHEMICALS LLC | Dow Inc. | Ohio | state | 2014 | $12,038 | grant | |
HYPONEX CORPORATION | Scotts Miracle-Gro | Ohio | state | 2014 | $7,411 | grant | |
EG SYSTEMS INC | Scotts Miracle-Gro | Ohio | state | 2014 | $7,411 | grant | |
FMC Corporation | FMC Corp. | Pennsylvania | state | $3,000,000 | grant | ||
P Q Corporation | PQ Group Holdings | Kansas | state | 2014 | $94,766 | grant | |
Syngenta Biotechnology, Inc. | ChemChina | North Carolina | state | 2013 | $2,983,500 | grant | |
Bayer (Miles Labs) | Bayer | North Carolina | state | 1994 | $150,000 | grant | |
Syngenta(Novartis Crop. Protec. Inc. | ChemChina | North Carolina | state | 2003 | $350,000 | grant | |
E.I.duPontdeNemours & Company | DuPont de Nemours | North Carolina | state | 2006 | $50,000 | grant | |
E.I.duPontdeNemours & Company | DuPont de Nemours | North Carolina | state | 2009 | $31,818 | grant | |
Celgard | Asahi Kasei | North Carolina | state | 2011 | $324,606 | grant | |
Celgard | Asahi Kasei | North Carolina | state | 2011 | $390,468 | grant | |
LANXESS Corporation | Lanxess | North Carolina | state | 2014 | $195,000 | grant | |
PRYOR CHEMICAL COMPANY | LSB Industries | Oklahoma | state | 2014 | $116,926 | grant | |
PRYOR CHEMICAL COMPANY | LSB Industries | Oklahoma | state | 2014 | $115,176 | grant | |
PRYOR CHEMICAL COMPANY | LSB Industries | Oklahoma | state | 2014 | $103,732 | grant | |
PRYOR CHEMICAL COMPANY | LSB Industries | Oklahoma | state | 2014 | $98,111 | grant | |
PRYOR CHEMICAL COMPANY | LSB Industries | Oklahoma | state | 2014 | $86,908 | grant | |
Eastman Chemical Company | Eastman Chemical | Tennessee | state | 2014 | $20,000,000 | grant | |
Rockwood Pigments NA, Inc | Huntsman Corp. | Georgia | state | 2013 | $400,000 | grant | |
Iowa Fertilizer Company LLC | OCI N.V. | Iowa | state | 2012 | $84,110,000 | grant | |
Wacker Chemical Corporation | Wacker Chemie | Iowa | state | 2011 | $494,047 | grant | |
Dow Chemical | Dow Inc. | Texas | state | 2013 | $1,500,000 | grant | |
POLYONE CORPORATION | Avient Corporation | Ohio | state | 2015 | $94,142 | grant | |
SCOTTS MIRACLE GRO COMPANY | Scotts Miracle-Gro | Ohio | state | 2015 | $52,050 | grant | |
EG SYSTEMS INC | Scotts Miracle-Gro | Ohio | state | 2015 | $8,150 | grant | |
HYPONEX CORPORATION | Scotts Miracle-Gro | Ohio | state | 2015 | $16,550 | grant | |
PRYOR CHEMICAL COMPANY | LSB Industries | Oklahoma | state | 2015 | $119,057 | grant | |
PRYOR CHEMICAL COMPANY | LSB Industries | Oklahoma | state | 2015 | $98,078 | grant | |
Metokote Corporation | PPG Industries | Tennessee | state | 2015 | $25,000 | grant | |
Ashland Inc. | Ashland Global Holdings | Virginia | state | 2015 | $700,000 | grant | |
Solvay USA Inc. f/k/a Rhodia, Inc. | Solvay | Illinois | state | 2013 | $52,250 | grant | |
HYPONEX CORPORATION | Scotts Miracle-Gro | Ohio | state | 2016 | $100,000 | grant | |
EG SYSTEMS INC | Scotts Miracle-Gro | Ohio | state | 2016 | $100,000 | grant | |
BASF | BASF | Texas | state | 2015 | $2,400,000 | grant | |
Evonik Goldschmidt | Evonik Industries | Virginia | state | 2015 | $500,000 | grant | |
BleachTech, LLC | BleachTech | Virginia | state | 2013 | $40,000 | grant | |
Commonwealth Laminating and Coating, Inc. | Eastman Chemical | Virginia | state | 2013 | $325,000 | grant | |
Commonwealth Laminating and Coating Inc. | Eastman Chemical | Virginia | state | 2012 | $320,000 | grant | |
Ashland, Inc. | Ashland Global Holdings | Virginia | state | 2011 | $250,000 | grant | |
Monstanto Company | Bayer | Texas | local | 2016 | $1,920,000 | grant | |
Celgard | Asahi Kasei | North Carolina | local | 2010 | $1,279,540 | grant | |
Albemarle Foundation | Albemarle | North Carolina | local | 2015 | $232,220 | grant | |
Ecolab Inc. | Ecolab | Florida | local | 2014 | $214,000 | grant | |
Albemarle Corp. | Albemarle | North Carolina | local | 2015 | $204,722 | grant | |
Albemarle Foundation | Albemarle | North Carolina | local | 2015 | $136,280 | grant | |
Albemarle Corporation | Albemarle | North Carolina | local | 2015 | $129,011 | grant | |
Albemarle Corporation | Albemarle | North Carolina | local | 2015 | $75,711 | grant | |
Clariant | Clariant | North Carolina | local | 2010 | $46,533 | grant | |
Chemetall Foote Corporation | BASF | North Carolina | local | 2011 | undisclosed | grant | |
Albermarle Corporation | Albemarle | North Carolina | state | 2015 | $2,720,000 | grant | |
Trelleborg Coated Systems US, Inc. | Trelleborg | North Carolina | state | 2016 | $220,000 | grant | |
Trelleborg Coated Systems US, Inc. | Trelleborg | North Carolina | state | 2016 | $220,000 | grant | |
FMC Corporation | FMC Corp. | Pennsylvania | state | 2014 | $3,000,000 | grant | |
PPG Industries, Inc. | PPG Industries | Pennsylvania | state | 2015 | $1,089,198 | grant | |
PPG Industries, Inc. | PPG Industries | Pennsylvania | state | 2016 | $1,089,198 | grant | |
Eastman Performance Films | Eastman Chemical | Virginia | state | 2014 | $75,000 | grant | |
Evonik Goldschmidt | Evonik Industries | Virginia | state | 2015 | $500,000 | grant | |
Ashland Inc. | Ashland Global Holdings | Virginia | state | 2015 | $700,000 | grant | |
POLYONE CORPORATION | Avient Corporation | Ohio | state | 2017 | $74,999 | grant | |
Solvay USA Inc | Solvay | Ohio | state | 2019 | $10,000 | grant | |
KmX Chemical Corporation | KMX Chemical | Virginia | state | 2016 | $40,000 | grant | |
Eastman Chemical Corporation | Eastman Chemical | Virginia | state | 2017 | $50,000 | grant | |
PQ Corporation | PQ Group Holdings | Kansas | state | 2016 | undisclosed | grant | |
PQ Corporation | PQ Group Holdings | Kansas | state | 2017 | undisclosed | grant | |
PQ Corporation | PQ Group Holdings | Kansas | state | 2018 | undisclosed | grant | |
Albemarle Corporation II | Albemarle | North Carolina | state | 2017 | $4,313,700 | grant | |
PQ Corporation | PQ Group Holdings | Kansas | state | 2019 | undisclosed | grant | |
Nufarm Americas Inc. | Nufarm | Mississippi | state | 2018 | $350,000 | grant | |
Calgon Carbon Corp | Kuraray | Mississippi | state | 2019 | $1,250,000 | grant | |
Nufarm Americas Inc. | Nufarm | Mississippi | state | 2018 | undisclosed | grant | |
Nufarm Americas, LLC | Nufarm | Mississippi | state | 2018 | undisclosed | grant | |
EG SYSTEMS INC | Scotts Miracle-Gro | Ohio | state | 2016 | $100,000 | grant | |
POLYONE CORPORATION | Avient Corporation | Ohio | state | 2017 | $74,999 | grant | |
HYPONEX CORPORATION | Scotts Miracle-Gro | Ohio | state | 2016 | $100,000 | grant | |
PPG Industries Inc. | PPG Industries | Delaware | state | 2018 | $3,690 | grant | |
FMC Corporation | FMC Corp. | Delaware | state | 2019 | $1,642,500 | grant | |
BASF Corporation | BASF | United States | federal | 2009 | $80,000,000 | federal tax-exempt bond | |
Air Products and Chemicals | Air Products & Chemicals | United States | federal | 2006 | $25,000,000 | federal tax-exempt bond |
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