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Revenue from Contracts with Customers (Tables)

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Revenue from Contracts with Customers (Tables)
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2018
Revenue from Contracts with Customers [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 table disaggregates the Company’s sales, by segment and end use, for the year ended December 31, 2018:
 
 
Environmental Catalysts & Services
 
Performance Materials & Chemicals
 
Total
Industrial & process chemicals
 
$
77,952

 
$
279,678

 
$
357,630

Fuels & emission control(1)
 
246,452

 

 
246,452

Packaging & engineered plastics
 
131,181

 
130,996

 
262,177

Highway safety & construction(1)
 

 
320,134

 
320,134

Consumer products
 

 
272,576

 
272,576

Natural resources
 
72,076

 
80,432

 
152,508

Total segment sales
 
527,661

 
1,083,816

 
1,611,477

Inter-segment sales eliminations
 
(3,323
)
 

 
(3,323
)
Total
 
$
524,338

 
$
1,083,816

 
$
1,608,154

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
(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.