World Top 100 Basic Materials Companies List by Market Cap as of August 2026

Glencore is Commodity Trading and Metals and Mining Company.

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

As on 2021, SHERWIN-WILLIAMS COMPANY had 4,549 Sherwin-Williams paint stores in the United States, Canada and the Caribbean, and 310 in Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Mexico and Uruguay. Dedicated dealers, home centers, distributors and hardware stores in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Mexico and Uruguay. Licensee in El Salvador serves Central America

Ecolab develops 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 2022, ECOLAB has 47,000 employees.

Chemicals manufacturing company with headquarters is in Tokyo, Japan.

Barrick Gold Corporation is Gold mining company with headquarters is in Toronto, Canada. Barrick has mining operations and projects in 15 countries, including Argentina, Australia, Canada, Chile, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Dominican Republic, Mali, Papua New Guinea, Peru, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, United States, and Zambia.

AIR PRODUCTS AND CHEMICALS is chemical sector company with business in producing and selling gases needs for several types of industries. Headquarters is in USA. Air Products and NEOM incorporated, the NEOM Green Hydrogen Company is establishing the world’s largest green-hydrogen-based ammonia production facility run on renewable energy. This mega-plant will produce up to 600 tons per day of carbon-free hydrogen in the form of green-ammonia as a cost-effective solution for transportation globally.

Ma'aden is a Mining and metals company with headquarters is in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Mining primarily related to gold, zinc, phosphate, aluminum, and industrial minerals.

MMC NORILSK NICKEL is Mining and Metals company with headquarters is in Russia and producing nickel, pelladium, copper, platinum.

Norlsk Nickel is the second biggest producer of Nickel in the World.

CRH is a global diversified building materials group employing over 80,000 people at 3,600 locations worldwide with headquarters is in Dublin, Ireland.

Steel and Steel Products manufacturing company with headquarters is in USA.

As on 2022, NUCOR CORPORATION has 31,400 employees.

NUCOR CORPORATION annual revenue generated for period ending Dec-2022 was 41,512 million USD.

NUCOR CORPORATION annual net income generated for period ending Dec-2022 was 7,607 million USD.