Chemical manufacturers in Iowa
Iowa has 143 chemical makers in EPA records, facilities that list codes for basic, organic and specialty chemicals, resins and rubber. The most are in Des Moines, Clinton and Eddyville. That is 2% of the 8,779 such facilities nationwide, and Iowa ranks #19 of 51 states.
- Product
- Chemical manufacturers
- Facilities
- 143
- State rank
- #19
- NAICS
- 325110 and 15 related codes
- Revised
- November 1, 2026
Facilities in Iowa
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Equistar Chemicals | Clinton | Petrochemical Manufacturing |
| Bayer Cropscience LP | Muscatine | All Other Basic Organic Chemical Manufacturing |
| Homeland Energy Solutions, LLC | Lawler | Ethyl Alcohol Manufacturing |
| Poet Biorefining - Emmetsburg | Emmetsburg | Ethyl Alcohol Manufacturing |
| Poet Biorefining - Shell Rock Ethanol | Shell Rock | Ethyl Alcohol Manufacturing |
| Absolute Energy LLC | St Ansgar | Ethyl Alcohol Manufacturing |
| Big River Resources | West Burlington | Ethyl Alcohol Manufacturing |
| Green Plains Lakota, LLC | Lakota | Ethyl Alcohol Manufacturing |
| Lincolnway Energy LLC | Nevada | Ethyl Alcohol Manufacturing |
| Poet Biorefining - Ashton LLC | Ashton | Ethyl Alcohol Manufacturing |
| Poet Biorefining - Hanlontown | Hanlontown | Ethyl Alcohol Manufacturing |
| Poet Biorefining - Jewell LLC | Jewell | Ethyl Alcohol Manufacturing |
| Poet Biorefining - Menlo | Menlo | Ethyl Alcohol Manufacturing |
| Poet Biorefining Fairbank LLC | Fairbank | Ethyl Alcohol Manufacturing |
| Poet Biorefining- Iowa Falls, LLC | Iowa Falls | Ethyl Alcohol Manufacturing |
| Big River United Energy, LLC | Dyersville | Ethyl Alcohol Manufacturing |
| Elite Octane | Atlantic | Ethyl Alcohol Manufacturing |
| Golden Grain Energy, LLC | Mason City | Ethyl Alcohol Manufacturing |
| Green Plains Superior LLC | Superior | Ethyl Alcohol Manufacturing |
| Poet Biorefining - Corning, LLC | Corning | Ethyl Alcohol Manufacturing |
| Poet Biorefining- Arthur, LLC | Arthur | Ethyl Alcohol Manufacturing |
| Roquette America, Inc | Keokuk | All Other Miscellaneous Chemical Product and Preparation Manufacturing |
| Ajinomoto Health And Nutrition, Inc | Eddyville | All Other Basic Organic Chemical Manufacturing |
| Green Valley Chemical Corp | Creston | Industrial Gas Manufacturing |
| Great Plains Renewable Energy, Inc | Shenandoah | Ethyl Alcohol Manufacturing |
| Southwest Iowa Renewable Energy | Council Bluffs | Ethyl Alcohol Manufacturing |
| Cargill Inc | Eddyville | Ethyl Alcohol Manufacturing |
| Scott Area Sanitary Landfill | Davenport | Industrial Gas Manufacturing |
| Siegwerk USA Co Corp Facility | Des Moines | Printing Ink Manufacturing |
| The Andersons Denison Ethanol, LLC | Denison | Ethyl Alcohol Manufacturing |
| Valero Fort Dodge Ethanol | Fort Dodge | Ethyl Alcohol Manufacturing |
| Valero Renewable Fuels Co, LLC - Hartley | Hartley | Ethyl Alcohol Manufacturing |
| AG Processing, Inc. Algona Methyl Ester Processing | Algona | Ethyl Alcohol Manufacturing |
| Cambrex Charles City, Inc | Charles City | Petrochemical Manufacturing |
| Continental Carbonic Products, Inc. | Denison | Industrial Gas Manufacturing |
| Corn, LP | Goldfield | Ethyl Alcohol Manufacturing |
| Little Sioux Corn Processors, LLC | Marcus | Ethyl Alcohol Manufacturing |
| Penford Products | Cedar Rapids | Ethyl Alcohol Manufacturing |
| Pine Lake Corn Processors, LP | Steamboat Rock | Petrochemical Manufacturing |
| Valero - Charles City Ethanol Plant | Charles City | Ethyl Alcohol 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
- Des Moines: 8
- Clinton: 5
- Eddyville: 5
- Cedar Rapids: 4
- Nevada: 3
- Mason City: 3
By product code
- Ethyl Alcohol Manufacturing (NAICS 325193): 30 of those shown
- Petrochemical Manufacturing (NAICS 325110): 3 of those shown
- Industrial Gas Manufacturing (NAICS 325120): 3 of those shown
- All Other Basic Organic Chemical Manufacturing (NAICS 325199): 2 of those shown
- Printing Ink Manufacturing (NAICS 325910): 1 of those shown
- All Other Miscellaneous Chemical Product and Preparation Manufacturing (NAICS 325998): 1 of those shown
All chemicals manufacturing in Iowa: 247 facilities and Census job counts.