In the top ten, little is happening: BASF remains at the forefront of the global chemical companies in terms of chemical sales. Dow Chemicals and DuPont merged and founded DowDuPont in August. DowDuPont is second in the list. DowDuPont's Chemical Sales only considers those of Dow till August and Dow's and DuPont's starting in September. Therefore, DowDuPont did not overtake BASF. DuPont alone is ranked 13th with $ 17.3 billion with only 8 months. In 2019, DowDuPont is to be split into three companies.
(with amount of chemical sales in USD)
All data taken from:
[1] Alexander H. Tullo, C&EN’s Global Top 50, C&EN 2018, 96 (31), 36–41. Link
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