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POSCO Chemical (Pohang, South Korea). 2024 revenue ~KRW4T. Needle coke, coal tar pitch for steelmaking. Battery materials: artificial graphite anode, NCM cathode. Carbon materials. Part of POSCO Holdings.
The Chemours Company (Wilmington, DE). 2024 revenue ~$6B. Spun from DuPont (2015). Ti-Pure TiO2 (#2 globally), Opteon refrigerants (HFOs), Viton fluoropolymers, Freon legacy. 28K employees. PFAS remediation.
Imerys Talc (Toulouse, France). 2024 revenue ~€800M. World's #1 talc producer. Luzenac talc for plastics, paints, paper, cosmetics. Steatite, chlorite, pyrophyllite. 1K+ employees. 50+ mines worldwide.
The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. (New York, NY). 2024 revenue ~$15.6B. Prestige beauty chemistry: peptide complexes, hyaluronic acid, niacinamide, retinoids. Clinical skincare: Advanced Night Repair. 60K+ employees.
Merck & Co., Inc. (Rahway, NJ), known as MSD outside US/Canada. 2024 revenue ~$64B. Keytruda (pembrolizumab) — world's top-selling drug (~$25B). Gardasil, Januvia, Welireg. Animal health division. Spun from German Merck in 1917.
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