GLOBAL TOP 50

摘要

In chemical & engineering news's rankings of the Global Top 50 companies in 2002, the lineup at the top remains a solid 1-2-3: Dow Chemical, DuPont, and BASF. Those three, in fact, make up what is clearly a super league of producers, each with chemical sales of more than $25 billion. The rest of the top 10 all have sales below $20 billion, with some shuffling of positions and one newcomer. The newcomer, at number 10, is Akzo Nobel, which has nudged ICI out of the grouping. Among the other companies in the top 10, Total―through its chemicals unit Atofina―continued its gradual move up the rankings to advance one rung to number four, pushing Bayer into the fifth slot. Petrochemicals giants ExxonMobil and Royal Dutch/Shell retained sixth and seventh places, respectively, and BP moved up one to eighth. The ninth slot is held by De-gussa, down one.