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Revenue from Contracts with Customers (Tables)

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Revenue from Contracts with Customers (Tables)
6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2018
Revenue from Contract with Customer [Abstract]  
Disaggregation of Revenue
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 months ended June 30, 2018:
 
 
Three months ended June 30, 2018
 
 
Environmental Catalysts & Services
 
Performance Materials & Chemicals
 
Total
Industrial & process chemicals
 
$
17,335

 
$
75,811

 
$
93,146

Fuels & emission control (1)
 
60,212

 

 
60,212

Packaging & engineered plastics
 
33,919

 
33,966

 
67,885

Highway safety & construction (1)
 

 
110,746

 
110,746

Consumer products
 

 
65,388

 
65,388

Natural resources
 
17,952

 
20,250

 
38,202

Total
 
129,418

 
306,161

 
435,579

Inter-segment sales eliminations
 
(866
)
 

 
(866
)
Total segment sales
 
$
128,552

 
$
306,161

 
$
434,713

 
 
Six months ended June 30, 2018
 
 
Environmental Catalysts & Services
 
Performance Materials & Chemicals
 
Total
Industrial & process chemicals
 
$
34,374

 
$
151,082

 
$
185,456

Fuels & emission control (1)
 
116,209

 

 
116,209

Packaging & engineered plastics
 
62,162

 
65,774

 
127,936

Highway safety & construction (1)
 

 
157,891

 
157,891

Consumer products
 

 
142,118

 
142,118

Natural resources
 
33,860

 
39,118

 
72,978

Total
 
246,605

 
555,983

 
802,588

Inter-segment sales eliminations
 
(1,678
)
 

 
(1,678
)
Total segment sales
 
$
244,927

 
$
555,983

 
$
800,910

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
(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.