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

6 Months Ended

Jun. 30, 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 and six months ended June 30, 2020 and 2019:


	Three months ended June 30, 2020
	Refining Services		Catalysts		Performance Materials		Performance Chemicals		Total
Industrial & process chemicals	$	16,713	$	2	$	9,314	$	43,747	$	69,776
Fuels & emission control⁽¹⁾	50,681		—		42		—		50,723
Packaging & engineered plastics	7,473		25,206		13,645		9,552		55,876
Highway safety & construction⁽¹⁾	—		—		78,340		18,312		96,652
Consumer products	—		—		—		59,907		59,907
Natural resources	15,565		—		2,862		11,123		29,550
Total segment sales	90,432		25,208		104,203		142,641		362,484
Eliminations	(780)		(2)		(54)		(2,123)		(2,959)
Total	$	89,652	$	25,206	$	104,149	$	140,518	$	359,525

	Three months ended June 30, 2019
	Refining Services		Catalysts		Performance Materials		Performance Chemicals		Total
Industrial & process chemicals	$	21,903	$	—	$	12,783	$	60,662	$	95,348
Fuels & emission control⁽¹⁾	63,505		—		—		—		63,505
Packaging & engineered plastics	14,067		20,857		17,595		14,344		66,863
Highway safety & construction⁽¹⁾	—		—		85,257		22,297		107,554
Consumer products	—		—		—		65,440		65,440
Natural resources	17,815		—		3,237		15,085		36,137
Total segment sales	117,290		20,857		118,872		177,828		434,847
Eliminations	(895)		214		(104)		(2,387)		(3,172)
Total	$	116,395	$	21,071	$	118,768	$	175,441	$	431,675


	Six months ended June 30, 2020
	Refining Services		Catalysts		Performance Materials		Performance Chemicals		Total
Industrial & process chemicals	$	36,071	$	49	$	21,438	$	103,581	$	161,139
Fuels & emission control⁽¹⁾	106,393		—		81		—		106,474
Packaging & engineered plastics	18,207		50,023		31,115		23,827		123,172
Highway safety & construction⁽¹⁾	—		—		110,983		38,501		149,484
Consumer products	—		—		—		123,933		123,933
Natural resources	30,452		—		6,155		27,078		63,685
Total segment sales	191,123		50,072		169,772		316,920		727,887
Eliminations	(1,705)		(49)		(109)		(4,901)		(6,764)
Total	$	189,418	$	50,023	$	169,663	$	312,019	$	721,123

	Six months ended June 30, 2019
	Refining Services		Catalysts		Performance Materials		Performance Chemicals		Total
Industrial & process chemicals	$	40,305	$	62	$	25,812	$	120,313	$	186,492
Fuels & emission control⁽¹⁾	121,195		—		—		—		121,195
Packaging & engineered plastics	26,756		36,661		34,977		29,073		127,467
Highway safety & construction⁽¹⁾	—		—		112,617		44,236		156,853
Consumer products	—		—		—		133,949		133,949
Natural resources	34,878		—		6,555		30,719		72,152
Total segment sales	223,134		36,723		179,961		358,290		798,108
Eliminations	(1,782)		(62)		(152)		(5,216)		(7,212)
Total	$	221,352	$	36,661	$	179,809	$	353,074	$	790,896

⁽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.