Issuer Ranking: North American Chemical Companies, Strongest To Weakest Apr 11
Standard & Poors, April 2011
Abstract
Credit quality in the North American chemicals sector held steady through the first quarter of 2011. Operating results remained strong and capital market access supported financing plans and liquidity. Overall, the gradual improvement in economic activity is supporting a favorable outlook for credit quality. We believe that the vast majority of chemical companies we rate have financial profiles that are healthy relative to our rating expectations. The following list ranks all the rated companies in this industry from strongest to weakest based on rating and outlook. Companies with the same rating and outlook are further ranked by our opinion of credit quality based primarily on business risks for investment-grade companies and primarily on financial risks for speculative-grade companies. Ratings are...
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- Air Products and Chemicals Inc.
- Ashland Inc.
- Momentive Specialty Chemicals Inc.
- Cabot Corp.
- The Dow Chemical Co.
- DuPont (E.I.) De Nemours & Co.
- NewMarket Corp.
- FMC Corp.
- Ferro Corp.
- Hercules Inc.
- The Lubrizol Corp.
- Olin Corp.
- PPG Industries Inc.
- Rohm and Haas Co.
- Sherwin-Williams Co.
- Union Carbide Corp.
- Ecolab Inc.
- Valhi Inc.
- Axiall Corp.
- Praxair Inc.
- RPM International Inc.
- Methanex Corp.
- Eastman Chemical Co.
- Koppers Inc.
- Cytec Industries Inc.
- Polymer Group Inc.
- NOVA Chemicals Corp.
- Westlake Chemical Corp.
- Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan Inc.
- Airgas Inc.
- Agrium Inc.
- Solutia Inc.
- American Pacific Corp.
- MacDermid Inc.
- INVISTA B.V.
- GenTek Inc.
- Valspar Corp.
- OMNOVA Solutions Inc.
- Chemtura Corp.
- OM Group Inc.
- Huntsman Corp.
- Chevron Phillips Chemical Co. LLC
- PolyOne Corp.
- Monsanto Co.
- Kraton Polymers LLC
- ISP Chemco LLC
- Rockwood Specialties Group Inc.
- Albemarle Corp.
- Sigma-Aldrich Corp.
- Fuller (H.B.) Co.
- Houghton International Inc.
- Diversey Holdings Inc.
- Nalco Co.
- Celanese US Holdings LLC
- Innophos Inc.
- The Mosaic Co.
- PQ Corp.
- CF Industries Inc.
- AGY Holding Corp.
- Vertellus Specialties Inc.
- Reichhold Industries Inc.
- Momentive Performance Materials Inc.
- AZ Chem US Inc.
- Millennium Inorganic Chemicals
- Univar Inc.
- LyondellBasell Industries N.V.
- Trinseo Materials Operating S.C.A.
- Avantor Performance Materials Holdings S.A.
- TPC Group LLC
- Nexeo Solutions LLC
- Indigold Carbon B.V.
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