Huntsman Corporation

Latest reported revenue

$5.68BFY2025, December 31, 2025 · SEC XBRL

Reported cost proxy

$4.93BFY2025 · SEC XBRL

TRI facility leads

132024 U.S. match, unresolved

Managed listed chemicals

157.9M lb2024 U.S. TRI, aggregate

Top TRI chemical

EthyleneBy managed weight, Port Neches, TX

Public evidence, arranged around Huntsman’s physical production system rather than the corporate org chart. Huntsman is a global specialty and intermediate chemicals producer, headquartered in The Woodlands, Texas, built on three lines of business rather than one dominant product.

01 · MATERIALS IN

Petrochemical feedstocks & monomers

Not publicly disclosed at parent level in this source set beyond segment description. Directional sector family: aniline, benzene and propylene-chain feedstocks, ethylene, and specialty monomers feeding MDI, amines, surfactants, and epoxy chemistries.

02 · MAKE

Integrated petrochemical & specialty-formulation sites

Olefins and intermediate chemical production feeding downstream MDI, amines, surfactant, and epoxy-resin formulation across a global manufacturing network anchored in the U.S. Gulf Coast, Europe, and Asia.

03 · PRODUCTS OUT

3 reporting segments

Polyurethanes, Performance Products, and Advanced Materials, after the 2023 divestiture of the former Textile Effects segment to Archroma. See the Segments section for detail.

04 · WASTE OUT

Listed-chemical streams

157.9M lb managed in 2024 TRI records across 13 matched facility leads, led by ethylene at the Port Neches, TX site.

What is public now

Ticker / CIK NYSE: HUN · SEC CIK 0001307954

FY2025 revenue & cost proxy $5.68B revenue, $4.93B reported cost proxy, period ended December 31, 2025 (SEC XBRL)

Business model Specialty and intermediate chemicals across three segments: Polyurethanes (MDI-based), Performance Products (amines, surfactants, maleic anhydride), and Advanced Materials (epoxy, acrylic and polyurethane-based formulations)

Public plant signal 13 U.S. facilities matched to a Huntsman parent name in the 2024 TRI dataset; the Port Neches, TX olefins/intermediates site is the top-volume named lead

Scope note Huntsman’s MDI, amines, and epoxy businesses have distinct feedstocks, customers, and regulatory profiles; the available parent-level records do not identify a specific site-level formulation flow

What the public record tells us

Concentration signal: Huntsman is one of a small number of global producers of MDI (methylene diphenyl diisocyanate), the core input to polyurethane rigid and flexible foam. That concentration is a genuine structural fact worth naming: a material-transition conversation about polyurethane foam recyclability or bio-based polyol substitution sits on top of a market with few alternate suppliers, not a commodity swap.

Portfolio-simplification signal: Huntsman divested its Textile Effects segment (textile dyes and chemicals) to Archroma in a transaction announced in 2023, narrowing the company to three segments. Confirm current transaction status and any residual retained liabilities in Huntsman’s own filings before treating this as fully closed.

Waste signal, with a caveat: Matched 2024 TRI records show 157.9M lb of listed chemicals managed nationally, concentrated at the Port Neches, TX facility (ethylene, top-reported chemical). Component TRI management-category figures reported below do not sum exactly to the published total, a rounding and categorization artifact consistent across TRI aggregates in this dataset, not a Huntsman-specific discrepancy.

Regulatory and certification signals

Regulatory watchlist TSCA new-chemical and existing-chemical review (EPA), Clean Air Act HON/MON air-toxics rules for organic-chemical manufacturing, TRI listed-chemical reporting

Certification & reporting families Responsible Care (American Chemistry Council member programs where applicable), company sustainability/ESG reporting

How to use this view Full detail sits in the Regulatory section: connect each requirement to a named site before treating it as applicable

Innovation and recovery signals

Material innovation Bio-based and lower-carbon-intensity polyol and surfactant R&D across Performance Products and Polyurethanes; MDI-based rigid foam is itself a building-efficiency material

Recovery pathways Polyurethane foam mechanical and chemical recycling is an active industry-wide R&D area; Huntsman-specific commercialized recycling volumes are not confirmed in this source set

Evidence boundary The three reporting segments serve different end markets, so material and formulation signals are presented by segment rather than treated as one uniform production system

Huntsman’s public segment structure is the clearest lens on where a material-transition conversation should start. Each segment has its own customers, feedstocks, and substitution economics; treating Huntsman as one undifferentiated “chemicals company” loses the detail a real decision needs.

Polyurethanes: the MDI franchise

Huntsman’s largest segment by revenue produces MDI (methylene diphenyl diisocyanate) and polyols, the core chemistry behind rigid and flexible polyurethane foam. MDI-based rigid foam insulation, spray foam, and composite wood panels are genuine building-efficiency and lightweighting materials in their own right; flexible foam serves furniture, bedding, and automotive seating. Huntsman is one of a small number of global MDI producers, a genuine market-concentration fact, not a hypothesis, that should shape how a substitution or recycled-content conversation is framed: this is closer to a supply-security and process-chemistry conversation than a commodity-swap conversation.

Performance Products: amines, surfactants & maleic anhydride

This segment supplies specialty amines (used in coatings, oilfield chemicals, and epoxy curing agents), surfactants (personal care, agriculture, and industrial applications), and maleic anhydride (unsaturated polyester resins, lubricant additives). It is the segment most directly adjacent to formulation-level substitution work: bio-based surfactant chemistry and lower-toxicity amine curing agents are active, publicly discussed industry R&D directions.

Advanced Materials: epoxy & high-performance formulations

Epoxy, acrylic, and polyurethane-based resin systems for aerospace composites, wind-turbine blades, electronics encapsulation, and industrial coatings and adhesives. This is Huntsman’s highest-specification, lowest-volume segment, and the one most likely to already run under customer-qualified, spec-driven substitution processes rather than open-market commodity purchasing.

Textile Effects divestiture

Huntsman announced the sale of its Textile Effects segment (textile dyes, chemicals, and digital inks) to Switzerland-based Archroma in 2023, narrowing the company’s reporting structure to the three segments above. This brief treats Textile Effects as divested and out of scope; confirm final closing terms, timing, and any retained environmental liabilities in Huntsman’s own current filings before relying on this for a live conversation.

Huntsman does not publicly itemize feedstock volumes by segment or site in this source set. The table below maps directional material families to each segment’s known chemistry, using TRI and segment disclosure as the anchor points.

Financial scale context

$5.68B FY2025 revenue and a $4.93B reported cost proxy (period ended December 31, 2025, SEC XBRL) provide scale context for Huntsman’s total raw-material and operating cost base. Neither figure is broken out by feedstock, segment, or site, and Huntsman does not publicly itemize aniline, benzene, or olefin purchase volumes in this source set.

Material transition focus

The practical entry point is segment-specific: bio-based polyol content or foam-recycling infrastructure for Polyurethanes, safer or bio-based surfactant and amine chemistry for Performance Products, and recycled-content or lower-embodied-carbon resin systems for Advanced Materials, each evaluated at the named site and product-line level.

Publicly described product families across Huntsman’s three segments. MDI-based foam is the volume anchor; Performance Products and Advanced Materials are lower-volume, higher-specification businesses.

MDI (polymeric & monomeric)

Core Polyurethanes-segment product; input to rigid and flexible foam, adhesives, and elastomers.

Construction insulation, appliances, automotive, furniture

Polyols

Reacted with MDI to form polyurethane foam systems; formulated for specific density, flexibility, and fire-performance targets.

Rigid and flexible foam manufacturers

Specialty amines

Curing agents, oilfield chemicals, and intermediates.

Coatings, epoxy curing, oil & gas

Surfactants

Performance Products surfactant lines for personal care, agriculture, and industrial formulations.

Personal care, agrochemical, industrial

Maleic anhydride

Feedstock for unsaturated polyester resins and lubricant additives.

Composites, coatings, lubricants

Epoxy & advanced resin systems

High-performance formulations for structural and electronic applications.

Aerospace composites, wind blades, electronics

Product and application signal

Segment and product-family descriptions are public. Plant-level output volume by product line and customer-specific specification are not publicly disclosed. Treat any specific tonnage or grade claim as directional unless sourced to a named Huntsman filing or technical data sheet.

2024 TRI data gives a facility-level, U.S.-only view of Huntsman’s listed-chemical reporting, concentrated at the Port Neches, TX olefins and intermediates site.

Top named U.S. TRI facility lead (parent-name match, unresolved)

This facility is a candidate match in the cited 2024 U.S. TRI records. The sources reviewed here do not verify Huntsman’s ownership or operating control of the site.

National TRI footprint (2024, aggregate across 13 matched facilities)

Facilities matched to Huntsman parent name 13

Total listed chemicals reported (aggregate) 157,884,491 lb

Recycled on- or off-site (aggregate) 1,590,067 lb

Treated (aggregate) 24,191,703 lb

Energy recovery (aggregate) 123,067,469 lb

On-site release (aggregate) 7,522,186 lb

Off-site transfer (aggregate) 1,566,910 lb

PFAS-listed forms reported 0

Components (1.59M + 24.19M + 123.07M + 7.52M + 1.57M lb ≈ 157.94M lb) run slightly above the published 157.88M lb total, an EPA rounding and categorization artifact seen across every TRI aggregate in this dataset, not evidence of an error specific to Huntsman. Energy recovery is the dominant management category by weight, consistent with a large-volume organic-chemical intermediates site.

Process-chemistry signal

Energy recovery dominating the 2024 TRI aggregate is consistent with a petrochemical intermediates site combusting process off-gas and waste organics for heat recovery, a common practice at large olefins and MDI-chain facilities. This is a directional read of the aggregate shape, not a site-specific process confirmation.

PFAS & hazardous-air-pollutant context

Zero PFAS-listed forms are reported in the matched 2024 TRI records. Huntsman’s organic-chemical manufacturing sites remain subject to Clean Air Act HON/MON hazardous-air-pollutant standards independent of PFAS status; see the Regulatory section.

Scope limitation

TRI parent-name matching only reaches U.S. facilities filed under a Huntsman corporate name and only covers the specific listed chemicals tracked in this source set. It is not a complete emissions or waste inventory for Huntsman’s full global footprint, and it says nothing about operations outside the United States, where the majority of Huntsman’s Advanced Materials and a meaningful share of Polyurethanes capacity sits.

Each hypothesis connects a public TRI, segment, or feedstock signal to a specific transition pathway, ranked by fit given Huntsman’s three-segment specialty-chemicals model.

Bio-based & recycled-content polyol substitution

Polyurethanes is Huntsman’s largest segment; bio-based or recycled-content polyol formulations for rigid and flexible foam are a genuine, customer-facing sustainability lever without displacing the core MDI chemistry.

• Named foam-system product line
• Bio-based or recycled-content polyol specification
• Fire-performance and mechanical-property equivalence data

Polyurethane foam-to-foam recycling offtake

Chemical and mechanical polyurethane recycling technologies are an active, publicly discussed industry R&D area. A named commercialized Huntsman recycling volume is not confirmed in this source set, making this a build-from-zero opportunity rather than a scale-up.

• Named recycling technology partner
• Feedstock foam-waste stream and volume
• Product-quality specification for recycled-content MDI/polyol output

Safer & bio-based surfactant chemistry

Performance Products’ surfactant lines serve personal care and agriculture end markets where bio-based and lower-toxicity formulation trends are commercially active.

• Named surfactant product line
• Bio-based precursor supplier qualification
• Regulatory and label-claim fit

Lower-embodied-carbon epoxy & resin systems

Advanced Materials’ aerospace and wind-energy customers increasingly specify lower-embodied-carbon resin systems; this is a spec-driven, longer-cycle opportunity distinct from the other two segments’ faster-moving formulation work.

• Named resin system and end customer
• Lower-carbon precursor qualification
• Aerospace or turbine-blade specification fit

Priority opportunity

Huntsman’s dominant U.S. regulatory throughline is TSCA chemical review and Clean Air Act air-toxics control for organic-chemical manufacturing, alongside TRI listed-chemical reporting; REACH is the parallel European framework given Huntsman’s global footprint.

Regulatory applicability has not been adjudicated per site here. This is a watchlist, not a legal conclusion.

Certification & reporting families in play

Certificate scope and current status are not verified here. Certification-family relevance does not prove an active, in-scope certificate at any named site.

Innovation & capacity signals

MDI market position One of a small number of global MDI producers, a genuine structural fact shaping substitution and supply-security conversations

Portfolio simplification 2023-announced divestiture of Textile Effects to Archroma, narrowing the company to three segments

Foam recycling R&D Industry-wide chemical and mechanical polyurethane recycling technologies are active; Huntsman-specific commercialized volumes are not confirmed in this source set

This brief separates the disclosed record from the evidence still needed. Bring the relevant specification, facility or product-family evidence into the review.