Revenue from Contracts with Customers Revenue from Contracts with Customers (Tables)

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2020

Revenue from Contract with Customer [Abstract]

The Company’s portfolio of products are integrated into a variety of end uses, which are described in the table below.


Key End Uses			Key Products
Industrial & process chemicals			• Silicate precursors for the tire industry
			• Glass beads, or microspheres, for metal finishing end uses
Fuels & emission control			• Refinery catalysts
			• Emission control catalysts
			• Catalyst recycling services
			• Silicate for catalyst manufacturing
Packaging & engineered plastics			• Catalysts for high-density polyethlene and chemicals syntheses
			• Antiblocks for film packaging
			• Solid and hollow microspheres for composite plastics
			• Sulfur derivatives for nylon production
Highway safety & construction			• Reflective markings for roadways and airports
			• Silica gels for surface coatings
Consumer products			• Silica gels for edible oil and beer clarification
			• Precipitated silicas, silicates and zeolites for the dentifrice and
			dishwasher and laundry detergent applications
Natural resources			• Silicates for drilling muds
			• Hollow glass beads, or microspheres, for oil well cements
			• Silicates and alum for water treatment mining
			• Bleaching aids for paper

The following tables disaggregate the Company’s sales, by segment and end use, for the three months ended March 31, 2020 and 2019:














	Three months ended March 31, 2020
	Refining Services		Catalysts		Performance Materials		Performance Chemicals		Total
Industrial & process chemicals	$	19,359	$	47	$	12,123	$	59,833	$	91,362
Fuels & emission control ⁽¹⁾	55,710		—		40		—		55,750
Packaging & engineered plastics	10,734		24,817		17,471		14,275		67,297
Highway safety & construction ⁽¹⁾	—		—		32,643		20,190		52,833
Consumer products	—		—		—		64,026		64,026
Natural resources	14,887		—		3,292		15,955		34,134
Total segment sales	100,690		24,864		65,569		174,279		365,402
Eliminations	(925)		(47)		(54)		(2,778)		(3,804)
Total	$	99,765	$	24,817	$	65,515	$	171,501	$	361,598














	Three months ended March 31, 2019
	Refining Services		Catalysts		Performance Materials		Performance Chemicals		Total
Industrial & process chemicals	$	18,402	$	276	$	13,028	$	59,652	$	91,358
Fuels & emission control ⁽¹⁾	57,690		—		—		—		57,690
Packaging & engineered plastics	12,689		15,590		17,382		14,730		60,391
Highway safety & construction ⁽¹⁾	—		—		27,360		21,938		49,298
Consumer products	—		—		—		68,509		68,509
Natural resources	17,063		—		3,319		15,633		36,015
Total segment sales	105,844		15,866		61,089		180,462		363,261
Eliminations	(887)		(276)		(48)		(2,829)		(4,040)
Total	$	104,957	$	15,590	$	61,041	$	177,633	$	359,221

⁽¹⁾ As described in Note 1, the Company experiences seasonal sales fluctuations to customers in the fuels & emission control and highway safety & construction end uses.