| Disaggregation of Revenue |
The Company’s portfolio of products are integrated into a variety of end uses, which are described in the table below.
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Key End Uses |
Key Products |
Industrial & process chemicals |
• Silicate precursors for the tire industry |
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• Glass beads, or microspheres, for metal finishing end uses |
Fuels & emission control |
• Refinery catalysts |
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• Emission control catalysts |
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• Catalyst recycling services |
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• Silicate for catalyst manufacturing |
Packaging & engineered plastics |
• Catalysts for high-density polyethlene and chemicals syntheses |
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• Antiblocks for film packaging |
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• Solid and hollow microspheres for composite plastics |
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• Sulfur derivatives for nylon production |
Highway safety & construction |
• Reflective markings for roadways and airports |
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• Silica gels for surface coatings |
Consumer products |
• Silica gels for edible oil and beer clarification |
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• Precipitated silicas, silicates and zeolites for the dentifrice and |
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dishwasher and laundry detergent applications |
Natural resources |
• Silicates for drilling muds |
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• Hollow glass beads, or microspheres, for oil well cements |
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• Silicates and alum for water treatment mining |
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• Bleaching aids for paper |
The following table disaggregates the Company’s sales, by segment and end use, for the year ended December 31, 2018:
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Environmental Catalysts & Services |
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Performance Materials & Chemicals |
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Total |
Industrial & process chemicals |
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$ |
77,952 |
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$ |
279,678 |
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$ |
357,630 |
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Fuels & emission control(1)
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246,452 |
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— |
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246,452 |
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Packaging & engineered plastics |
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131,181 |
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130,996 |
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262,177 |
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Highway safety & construction(1)
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— |
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320,134 |
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320,134 |
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Consumer products |
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— |
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272,576 |
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272,576 |
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Natural resources |
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72,076 |
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80,432 |
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152,508 |
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Total segment sales |
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527,661 |
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1,083,816 |
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1,611,477 |
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Inter-segment sales eliminations |
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(3,323 |
) |
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— |
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(3,323 |
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Total |
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$ |
524,338 |
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$ |
1,083,816 |
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$ |
1,608,154 |
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(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.
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