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Revenue from Contracts with Customers (Tables)

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Revenue from Contracts with Customers (Tables)
9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2018
Revenue from Contract with Customer [Abstract]  
Disaggregation of Revenue
The Company’s portfolio of products are integrated into a variety of end uses, which are described in the table below.
Key End Uses
Key Products
Industrial & process chemicals
• Silicate precursors for the tire industry
 
• Glass beads, or microspheres, for metal finishing end uses
Fuels & emission control
• Refinery catalysts
 
• Emission control catalysts
 
• Catalyst recycling services
 
• Silicate for catalyst manufacturing
Packaging & engineered plastics
• Catalysts for high-density polyethlene and chemicals syntheses
 
• Antiblocks for film packaging
 
• Solid and hollow microspheres for composite plastics
 
• Sulfur derivatives for nylon production
Highway safety & construction
• Reflective markings for roadways and airports
 
• Silica gels for surface coatings
Consumer products
• Silica gels for edible oil and beer clarification
 
• Precipitated silicas, silicates and zeolites for the dentifrice and
 
  dishwasher and laundry detergent applications
Natural resources
• Silicates for drilling muds
 
• Hollow glass beads, or microspheres, for oil well cements
 
• Silicates and alum for water treatment mining
 
• Bleaching aids for paper
 
 
The following tables disaggregate the Company’s sales, by segment and end use, for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2018:
 
 
Three months ended September 30, 2018
 
 
Environmental Catalysts & Services
 
Performance Materials & Chemicals
 
Total
Industrial & process chemicals
 
$
21,027

 
$
65,070

 
$
86,097

Fuels & emission control (1)
 
66,095

 

 
66,095

Packaging & engineered plastics
 
32,983

 
31,848

 
64,831

Highway safety & construction (1)
 

 
105,204

 
105,204

Consumer products
 

 
67,138

 
67,138

Natural resources
 
19,611

 
19,059

 
38,670

Total
 
139,716

 
288,319

 
428,035

Inter-segment sales eliminations
 
(832
)
 

 
(832
)
Total segment sales
 
$
138,884

 
$
288,319

 
$
427,203

 
 
Nine months ended September 30, 2018
 
 
Environmental Catalysts & Services
 
Performance Materials & Chemicals
 
Total
Industrial & process chemicals
 
$
55,401

 
$
216,152

 
$
271,553

Fuels & emission control (1)
 
182,304

 

 
182,304

Packaging & engineered plastics
 
95,145

 
97,622

 
192,767

Highway safety & construction (1)
 

 
263,095

 
263,095

Consumer products
 

 
209,256

 
209,256

Natural resources
 
53,471

 
58,177

 
111,648

Total
 
386,321

 
844,302

 
1,230,623

Inter-segment sales eliminations
 
(2,510
)
 

 
(2,510
)
Total segment sales
 
$
383,811

 
$
844,302

 
$
1,228,113

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
(1)
As described in Note 1, the Company experiences seasonal sales fluctuations to customers in the fuels & emission control and highway safety & construction end uses.