Chemical and Process Industries

Chemical processing is a method of altering a compound. Chemical processing is done to change the chemical structure of raw (bulk) materials in order to obtain products that are valuable to other industries/daily life.

Chemical process industry is where raw (bulk) materials are chemically transformed in the process of being processed into finished products or products of value to other industries.

The chemical processing industry includes manufacturing facilities whose products are derived from

• Organic or inorganic materials or chemical reactions between the two
• The separation or purification of natural products, extraction, with or without the aid of chemical reactions
• Preparation of mixtures of materials of a particular formulation, whether natural or synthetic