Industrial Inorganic Chemicals: capital spending and supply chain
SIC 2810 · 7 companies with filed cash-flow statements
Capital spending, 12 months$6.1B
Operating cash flow$11.5B
Capex / cash flow53%
Capex / revenue10.2%
Top 3 share97%
Analysis
7 companies in Industrial Inorganic Chemicals (SIC 2810) spent $6.1B on capital projects over their latest twelve months, 53% of the $11.5B their operations generated; the three largest spenders — LIN, TROX, MTX — account for 97%.
Capital spending is 10.2% of the industry's $60.0B of annual revenue.
By the industry's asset mix most of it goes to equipment (44%); about $1.9B is imported.
The largest supplier of that spending is manufacturing structures ($3.2B).
Its largest supplying industries, by the input-output tables: imports ($3.5B), management of companies and enterprises ($2.2B), other basic inorganic chemical manufacturing ($2.1B).
Charts
Filed cash-flow statements (SEC XBRL).Capital spending × the industry’s asset mix (BEA fixed assets): grade C, an industry average applied to filed figures.BEA fixed assets: investment by asset type → supplying industry. Estimates (grade C).Purchased inputs × the industry’s input mix (BEA Use table), US part: grade C.The companies’ cash-flow statements, latest four quarters or fiscal year: every figure filed (grade A).
Evidence grades: A filed figure · B computed from filed figures · C industry average (BEA input-output and fixed-asset tables) applied to filed figures. Estimates are not the companies’ own records. Not investment advice.