2022 leading U.S. chemical companies based on revenue

Dow's revenue amounted to approximately 55 billion U.S. dollars in 2021. Thus Dow was ranked as the leading chemical company in the United States based on revenue as of 2021. The ranking of the leading U.S. chemical companies based on revenue includes LyondellBasell Industries, PPG Industries, and DuPont following Dow to make up the four leading companies in this list.

Chemical companies worldwide

Several of the leading U.S. chemical companies also had spots among the 2021 top global chemical companies ranking based on revenue. Dow was not only the leading chemical company based on revenue in the U.S., it was the second leading chemical company worldwide based on this metric. Other chemical companies that made up the top five worldwide by revenue included German company BASF (in first place), Japan’s Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings, and LG Chem of South Korea.

Dow and DuPont

The U.S. enterprise, known as DowDuPont until the company was spun-off in June 2019, was formed by the merger between Dow Chemical and E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company that was completed in September 2017. As a result of the merger, the company’s employee count almost doubled between 2016 and 2017. The multinational corporation was active in about 90 countries worldwide but generated about a third of its total revenue in the United States.