Plastic Materials, Synth Resins & Nonvulcan Elastomers: capital spending and supply chain
SIC 2821 · 10 companies with filed cash-flow statements
Capital spending, 12 months$1.7B
Operating cash flow$8.8B
Capex / cash flow19%
Capex / revenue5.1%
Top 3 share68%
Analysis
10 companies in Plastic Materials, Synth Resins & Nonvulcan Elastomers (SIC 2821) spent $1.7B on capital projects over their latest twelve months, 19% of the $8.8B their operations generated; the three largest spenders — EMN, ALB, DD — account for 68%.
Capital spending is 5.1% of the industry's $33.2B of annual revenue.
By the industry's asset mix most of it goes to equipment (44%); about $277M is imported.
The largest supplier of that spending is manufacturing structures ($456M).
Its largest supplying industries, by the input-output tables: other basic organic chemical manufacturing ($4.2B), imports ($2.9B), plastics material and resin manufacturing ($2.6B).
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.