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Industrial Organic Chemicals: capital spending and supply chain

SIC 2860 · 16 companies with filed cash-flow statements

Capital spending, 12 months$3.3B
Operating cash flow$7.1B
Capex / cash flow47%
Capex / revenue5.0%
Top 3 share82%

Analysis

16 companies in Industrial Organic Chemicals (SIC 2860) spent $3.3B on capital projects over their latest twelve months, 47% of the $7.1B their operations generated; the three largest spenders — LYB, WLK, IFF — account for 82%.

Capital spending is 5.0% of the industry's $66.6B of annual revenue.

By the industry's asset mix most of it goes to equipment (44%); about $570M is imported.

The largest supplier of that spending is manufacturing structures ($945M).

Its largest supplying industries, by the input-output tables: petrochemical manufacturing ($5.8B), imports ($5.1B), petroleum refineries ($4.8B).

Charts

Industrial Organic Chemicals: capital spending by company, latest twelve monthsIndustrial Organic Chemicals: capital spending by company, latest twelve monthsLYB$1.3BWLK$832MIFF$637MSXT$137MNEU$116MREX$74.5MUnion Carbide$52.0MAMTX$51.9MGEVO$40.4MWLKP$38.6MGPRE$34.4MFF$21.1M
Filed cash-flow statements (SEC XBRL).
Industrial Organic Chemicals: what the capital spending buys (US part)Industrial Organic Chemicals: what the capital spending buys (US part)Structures$970MEquipment$1.2BSoftware$362MOther$199M
Capital spending × the industry’s asset mix (BEA fixed assets): grade C, an industry average applied to filed figures.
Industrial Organic Chemicals: the industries that build and sell what it buysIndustrial Organic Chemicals: the industries that build and sell what it buysManufacturing structures$945MSoftware publishers$203MMaterial handling equipment manuf…$153MOther industrial machinery manufa…$151MAir conditioning, refrigeration, …$142MOther general purpose machinery m…$99.8MMeasuring, dispensing, and other …$89.6MAir and gas compressor manufactur…$83.7MPlate work and fabricated structu…$75.7MCustom computer programming servi…$74.1M
BEA fixed assets: investment by asset type → supplying industry. Estimates (grade C).
Industrial Organic Chemicals: its first-tier supplying industriesIndustrial Organic Chemicals: its first-tier supplying industriesPetrochemical manufacturing$5.8BImports$5.1BPetroleum refineries$4.8BOther basic organic chemical manu…$4.5BOther nondurable goods merchant w…$3.6BGrain farming$2.4BElectric power generation, transm…$1.7BTruck transportation$1.2BOil and gas extraction$1.2BOther basic inorganic chemical ma…$1.0B
Purchased inputs × the industry’s input mix (BEA Use table), US part: grade C.
Industrial Organic Chemicals: where the industry's cash came from (+) and went (−)Industrial Organic Chemicals: where the industry's cash came from (+) and went (−)Operating cash flow$7.0BCapital spending−$3.3BOther financing (in)$2.2BDividends−$2.0BNet debt repaid−$1.6BCash added to the balance she…−$1.5BBuybacks−$811MOther investing (out)−$792MNet borrowing$682MCash drawn from the balance s…$430MPaid to partners−$366MOther financing (out)−$315MSales of assets & businesses$291MOperating cash outflow−$142M
The companies’ cash-flow statements, latest four quarters or fiscal year: every figure filed (grade A).

Capital spending by company

CompanyCapital spendingOperating cash flowCapex / OCFPeriod
LYB LyondellBasell Industries N.V.$1.3B$3.7B35%TTM to Q3 2026
WLK Westlake$832M$844M99%TTM to Q3 2026
IFF International Flavors & Fragrances$637M$1.1B56%TTM to Q3 2026
SXT Sensient Technologies$137M$120M115%TTM to Q3 2026
NEU Newmarket$116M$500M23%TTM to Q3 2026
REX REX American Resources$74.5M$143M52%TTM to Q2 FY27
Union Carbide$52.0M$48.0M108%TTM to Q3 2026
AMTX Aemetis$51.9M$15.3M339%TTM to Q3 2026
GEVO Gevo$40.4M−$16.2M—TTM to Q2 2026
WLKP Westlake Chemical Partners LP$38.6M$483M8%TTM to Q3 2026
GPRE Green Plains$34.4M$115M30%TTM to Q3 2026
FF FutureFuel$21.1M−$29.8M—TTM to Q2 2026
ALTO Alto Ingredients$17.8M$55.1M32%TTM to Q3 2026
CDXS Codexis$1.8M−$10.4M—TTM to Q2 2026
LNZA LanzaTech Global$1.1M−$32.7M—TTM to Q2 2026
TOMZ Tomi Environmental Solutions$8K−$2.0M—TTM to Q2 2026

Customers and suppliers named in annual reports

SupplierCustomerShare of supplier revenueEvidenceSource
WLKWLKP—Stated in 10-K (named, share not stated)filing
CVXALTO—Stated in 10-K (share of revenue from its products)filing

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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.