Major categories of chemical industry

Classification chemical industry

Today, we are going to talk about the major categories of the chemical industry.
The chemical industry comprises the companies that produce industrial chemicals. Based on their specialities their raw materials could be oil, natural gases, air, water, material or minerals which they convert into products that are directly or indirectly useful to them or other companies as raw materials or they can sell them for domestic use.

This all begins I.e production of different chemical on a large scale at the time of the industrial revolution.
Talking about the chemical product we can picture out some major class such as plastics or polymers, petroleum or petrochemical, other inorganic chemicals including dyes, rubber, various salts and also fertilizer industries, the pharmaceutical industry etc.

Polymer Industry

Polymers are the largest revenue segmented includes all categories of plastic and man-made fibres. They include large production of polyethylene, used in various packaging, carry bags and also other domestic uses.
Polyvinyl chloride PVC, is also a large volume market, principally used to make piping, toys and other domestic plastic delicates.
Polypropylene, similarly in volume to PVC used in packaging, appliances, clothing etc.

Other man-made fibres include polyesters,  nylon, acrylics with an application such as home furnishing and other industrial and domestic uses.

Petroleum and Petrochemical industry

Chemical in bulk petroleum and petrochemicals intermediate is made from crude oil or natural gas as there key material.
There are large markets on volume products like ethylene, propylene, toluene other alcohols which are majorly used as solvents or basic commodity.

Fertilizer industry

The fertilizer industry has also a small share in the chemical market as India is an agricultural country and most of the revenue is generated by farming and agricultural sector.
Fertilizer companies use natural and artificial methods to enhance the nutrition demands of plants and crops. The basic element that are included in artificial fertilizer are Nitrogen, phosphate and potash chemical.

Speciality chemicals can be categorized based on their demands and product markets. Product is sold for what they can do rather than for what chemical they contain or what process they are made up from.

Chemical products include chemical, electrical physiochemical treatment, decides their price including manpower and utilities used.

From the perspective of chemical engineers the chemical industries involving the use of chemical processes such as chemical reaction, refining methods to produce a wide variety of solid, liquid or gaseous products.

Pharmaceutical industry.

Although the pharmaceutical industry is often considered a chemical industry. They include special chemicals or special elements or their groups whose therapeutic action can be used to produce a drug which is capable to cure the same sort of disease the following elements or chemicals can target to.

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