Chemical manufacturers in Kentucky
Kentucky has 114 chemical makers in EPA records, facilities that list codes for basic, organic and specialty chemicals, resins and rubber. The most are in Louisville, Calvert City and Henderson. That is 1% of the 8,779 such facilities nationwide, and Kentucky ranks #23 of 51 states.
- Product
- Chemical manufacturers
- Facilities
- 114
- State rank
- #23
- NAICS
- 325110 and 15 related codes
- Revised
- November 1, 2026
Facilities in Kentucky
These are active facilities in EPA's ECHO database that list a code for basic, organic and specialty chemicals, resins and rubber. The 40 shown first are the ones with the most EPA program records, which usually means the larger sites.
| Facility | City | What EPA lists |
|---|---|---|
| Arkema Inc | Calvert City | Industrial Gas Manufacturing |
| Bakelite Synthetics | Louisville | Petrochemical Manufacturing |
| Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant | Paducah | Other Basic Inorganic Chemical Manufacturing |
| Dow Silicones Corporation | Carrollton | Petrochemical Manufacturing |
| Monument Chemical Kentucky LLC | Brandenburg | Petrochemical Manufacturing |
| Air Products and Chemicals Inc | Calvert City | Industrial Gas Manufacturing |
| Chemours Co | Louisville | Petrochemical Manufacturing |
| Michelin North America, Inc - Asrc | Louisville | Synthetic Rubber Manufacturing |
| Carbide Industries LLC | Louisville | Petrochemical Manufacturing |
| Ingevity Virginia Corporation - Carbon Plant | Wickliffe | All Other Basic Organic Chemical Manufacturing |
| Westlake Vinyls Inc | Calvert City | Petrochemical Manufacturing |
| Pmc Organometallix Inc | Carrollton | Petrochemical Manufacturing |
| Calgon Carbon Coporation - Big Sandy Plt | Catlettsburg | All Other Miscellaneous Chemical Product and Preparation Manufacturing |
| Nexpera LLC - Wurtland Plant | Wurtland | Other Basic Inorganic Chemical Manufacturing |
| Vanderbilt Chemicals LLC | Murray | Petrochemical Manufacturing |
| Carbide Industries LLC Calvert City | Calvert City | Industrial Gas Manufacturing |
| Celanese Ltd | Calvert City | All Other Basic Organic Chemical Manufacturing |
| Superior Composites Co LLC | Vanceburg | Plastics Material and Resin Manufacturing |
| Wacker Chemical Corp - Polymers Div | Calvert City | All Other Basic Organic Chemical Manufacturing |
| Zeon Chemicals LP | Louisville | Plastics Material and Resin Manufacturing |
| Dart Polymers Inc | Owensboro | Plastics Material and Resin Manufacturing |
| Lubrizol Advanced Materials | Louisville | Plastics Material and Resin Manufacturing |
| Oil Spill - Summer Shade Plant | Summer Shade | Cyclic Crude, Intermediate, and Gum and Wood Chemical Manufacturing |
| Dupont Performance Elastomers (Dpe) Louisville | Louisville | Industrial Gas Manufacturing |
| Kingsford Manufacturing Co | Burnside | Cyclic Crude, Intermediate, and Gum and Wood Chemical Manufacturing |
| Sherwin Williams Auto Finishes | Richmond | Plastics Material and Resin Manufacturing |
| Air Products & Chemicals Inc - Catlettsburg Hydrogen Plant | Catlettsburg | Industrial Gas Manufacturing |
| Akzo Nobel Resins | Louisville | Plastics Material and Resin Manufacturing |
| Clariant Corporation, Louisville South Plant | Louisville | Other Basic Inorganic Chemical Manufacturing |
| Sud-Chemie Chemical Plant | Louisville | Other Basic Inorganic Chemical Manufacturing |
| Rohm And Haas - Louisville Plant | Louisville | Plastics Material and Resin Manufacturing |
| US Enrichment Corp Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant | Paducah | Other Basic Inorganic Chemical Manufacturing |
| A O Smith Corp | Florence | All Other Miscellaneous Chemical Product and Preparation Manufacturing |
| Isp Chemicals LLC | Calvert City | All Other Basic Organic Chemical Manufacturing |
| Recast Energy Louisville, LLC | Louisville | Plastics Material and Resin Manufacturing |
| Westlake Vinyls Inc - Pvc Plant | Calvert City | Plastics Material and Resin Manufacturing |
| Berry Film Products Company Inc. | Augusta | Plastics Material and Resin Manufacturing |
| Ensign Bickford Aerospace & Defense | Graham | Explosives Manufacturing |
| Estron Chemical Inc | Calvert City | Petrochemical Manufacturing |
| Owensboro Specialty Polymers | Owensboro | Plastics Material and Resin Manufacturing |
Industry codes are reported by facilities to EPA programs and are not checked here. A few listings may be repair shops, distributors or recyclers. How these records work.
Where they are
- Louisville: 29
- Calvert City: 16
- Henderson: 6
- Carrollton: 5
- Hopkinsville: 4
- Elizabethtown: 4
By product code
- Plastics Material and Resin Manufacturing (NAICS 325211): 11 of those shown
- Petrochemical Manufacturing (NAICS 325110): 9 of those shown
- Industrial Gas Manufacturing (NAICS 325120): 5 of those shown
- Other Basic Inorganic Chemical Manufacturing (NAICS 325180): 5 of those shown
- All Other Basic Organic Chemical Manufacturing (NAICS 325199): 4 of those shown
- Cyclic Crude, Intermediate, and Gum and Wood Chemical Manufacturing (NAICS 325194): 2 of those shown
- All Other Miscellaneous Chemical Product and Preparation Manufacturing (NAICS 325998): 2 of those shown
- Synthetic Rubber Manufacturing (NAICS 325212): 1 of those shown
- Explosives Manufacturing (NAICS 325920): 1 of those shown
All chemicals manufacturing in Kentucky: 172 facilities and Census job counts.