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Revenue from Contracts with Customers (Tables)

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Revenue from Contracts with Customers (Tables)
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2019
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 months ended March 31, 2019 and 2018:
 
Three months ended March 31, 2019
 
Refining
Services
 
Catalysts
 
Performance Materials
 
Performance Chemicals
 
Total
Industrial & process chemicals
$
18,402

 
$
276

 
$
13,028

 
$
59,652

 
$
91,358

Fuels & emission control (1)
57,690

 

 

 

 
57,690

Packaging & engineered plastics
12,689

 
15,590

 
17,382

 
14,730

 
60,391

Highway safety & construction (1)

 

 
27,360

 
21,938

 
49,298

Consumer products

 

 

 
68,509

 
68,509

Natural resources
17,063

 

 
3,319

 
15,633

 
36,015

Total segment sales
105,844

 
15,866

 
61,089

 
180,462

 
363,261

Eliminations
(887
)
 
(276
)
 
(48
)
 
(2,829
)
 
(4,040
)
Total
$
104,957

 
$
15,590

 
$
61,041

 
$
177,633

 
$
359,221

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Three months ended March 31, 2018
 
Refining
Services
 
Catalysts
 
Performance Materials
 
Performance Chemicals
 
Total
Industrial & process chemicals
$
17,039

 
$

 
$
12,518

 
$
65,636

 
$
95,193

Fuels & emission control (1)
55,997

 

 

 

 
55,997

Packaging & engineered plastics
11,770

 
16,473

 
19,892

 
11,916

 
60,051

Highway safety & construction (1)

 

 
26,659

 
20,486

 
47,145

Consumer products

 

 

 
76,730

 
76,730

Natural resources
15,908

 

 
3,673

 
15,195

 
34,776

Total segment sales
100,714

 
16,473

 
62,742

 
189,963

 
369,892

Eliminations
(812
)
 

 
(72
)
 
(2,811
)
 
(3,695
)
Total
$
99,902

 
$
16,473

 
$
62,670

 
$
187,152

 
$
366,197

 
(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.