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Top 25 Industrial chemical manufacturers based in Germany
RevenueBase identified 344 industrial chemical manufacturers headquartered in Germany as of September 2026 and tracks 28,923 professional contacts across them, including 12,696 with verified work emails. Hamburg is the largest hub.
This list covers industrial chemical manufacturers headquartered in Germany, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 17, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest industrial chemical manufacturers based in Germany
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 9,954 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Brenntag is the global market leader in chemicals and ingredients distribution and holds a central role in connecting customers and suppliers of the chemical industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 7,843 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “LANXESS is a leading specialty chemicals company with sales of EUR 5.7 billion in 2025.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 821 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “SMART CHEMISTRY WITH CHARACTER.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 785 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “BYK is a leading global supplier of specialty chemicals.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 767 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “That's us: Leaders in Chemicals!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 535 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The OQEMA Group, formerly Overlack, is one of the five largest chemical distributors in Germany and one of the top ten in Europe.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 423 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Süd-Chemie is a highly-innovative, listed, specialty chemicals company headquartered in Munich.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 313 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “A leading multinational chemical distribution company with subsidiaries in Europe, Asia and North America, Nordmann distributes natural and chemical raw materials, additives and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 306 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “ALTANA is a global leader in true specialty chemicals.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 243 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “YNCORIS ist als einer der führenden Industriedienstleister der ideale Partner für Chemie-Unternehmen.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 235 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “As a leading manufacturer for PVC and an important partner for caustic soda, Westlake Vinnolit offers individual solutions for customers from a wide range of industries, such as…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 231 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “HSH Chemie is the No.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 227 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “SurTec develops, manufactures and supplies chemical specialities for surface finishing.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 197 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “PETROFER is an internationally operating industrial company with headquarters in Hildesheim, Germany.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 164 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “ABOUT US STOCKMEIER Chemie is a company of the STOCKMEIER Group.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 160 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Cognis is a worldwide supplier of specialty chemicals and nutritional ingredients, with a particular focus on the areas of wellness and sustainability.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 154 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The TUNAP GROUP, with it´s headquartered in Wolfratshausen near Munich, is one of the largest European manufacturers of aerosols, lubricants and cleaning solutions and is an…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 134 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Innovations in foundry chemistry support the key industries of our economy.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 130 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Chemische Werke Kluthe GmbH is a chemicals company based out of 12Gottlieb-Daimler-Straße, Heidelberg, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 122 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Bio-Circle optimise industrial part cleaning processes especially in terms of safety and efficiency.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 117 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Kandelium leads the field in barium carbonate, strontium carbonate and sodium percarbonate compounds.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 111 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Daikin - world leader in air conditioning and fluorochemical products Daikin Chemical Europe GmbH is a subsidiary of Daikin Industries Ltd.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 104 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “KRAHN Chemie GmbH is a chemical distribution company with a history spanning over 100 years.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 104 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Join resources, build solutions" Connect Chemicals is a global producer, custom manufacturer, and traditional distributor of a wide range of specialty chemicals.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 92 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Als größter Harnstoff- und Ammoniakproduzent Deutschlands umfasst unser Produktportfolio heute eine breite Palette von Spezialitäten der Agro- und Industriechemie.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: industrial chemical manufacturers. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names industrial chemical manufacturers.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of industrial chemical manufacturers, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name industrial chemical manufacturers. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Industrial chemical manufacturers based in Germany at a glance
As of Sep 17, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for Germany, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Germany, over 344 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among industrial chemical manufacturers, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in Germany whose own description of what they do matches “industrial chemical manufacturers”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names industrial chemical manufacturers), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among industrial chemical manufacturers, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Germany are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 12,696 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 17, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Industrial chemical manufacturers by metro
- Industrial chemical manufacturers in Hamburg33
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names industrial chemical manufacturers, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many industrial chemical manufacturers are there based in Germany?
RevenueBase identified 344 industrial chemical manufacturers headquartered in Germany as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Brenntag, headquartered in Essen, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most industrial chemical manufacturers?
Hamburg leads with 33 headquartered companies, followed by Dusseldorf (12) and Essen (7).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 12,696 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 344 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 17, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.
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