World Top Basic Materials Companies List by Market Cap as on Jan 1st, 2020

BHP Billiton is Metals, Mining, Petroeum Company with headquarters in Australia. BHP Billiton is trading in London Stock Exchange and Australia Stock Exchange. BHP Group has 80,000 employees as on June 2020.

RIO TINTO GROUP is UK and Australia based Metals and Mining Company. Company producing major products are aluminum, copper, diamonds, gold, industrial minerals (borates, titanium dioxide and salt), iron ore, and uranium. Rio Tinto had around 46,007 employees around 35 countries as on 2019.

They are strongly represented in Australia and North America, and also have significant businesses in Asia, Europe, Africa and South America.

LINDE AG is Chemical and Engineering Company with business related to supplying specialty industrial gases with headquarters in Germany.

SABIC IS PetroChemicals, Chemicals, Fertilzers manufacturing company with headquarters in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. As on 2018, the company has operations in over 50 countries with a global workforce of over 33,000 talented individuals. SABIC is composed of four strategic business units – Petrochemicals, Specialties, Agri-Nutrients, and Metals.

L'AIR LIQUIDE Supplies Gases to Industries and Health Sector Companies. Headquarters is in Paris, France.

BASF SE is one of largest Chemical Producing and Marketing company with headquarters in Germany. Manufactures Paints as well.

VALE is Brazil based Metals and Mining Company having operations in 30 countries. Vale is one of the world’s largest producer of iron ore and nickel. They also produce iron ore pellets, manganese ore, ferroalloys, metallurgical and thermal coal, copper, platinum group metals (PGMs), gold, silver and cobalt

In addition to mining, Vale work with logistics like railways, ports, terminals and state-of-the-art infrastructure like energy, and steel making. Headquarters is in Brazil.

Company has 71,149 employees as on 2019.

Ecolab develop solutions and help to make the world cleaner, safer and healthier by delivering comprehensive solutions and on-site service to promote safe food, maintain clean environments, optimise water and energy use, and improve operational efficiencies. They do have customers at nearly three million locations in more than 170 countries. As on 2019, ECOLAB has 50,200 employees.

SHERWIN-WILLIAMS COMPANY is Painting, Coating and Building Materials manufacturing company with headquarters in Ohio, USA.

AIR PRODUCTS AND CHEMICALS is chemical sector company with business in producing and selling gases needs for several types of industries. Headquarters in USA.