Pharmaceutical and chemical companies also acknowledge the need for a public database.

"It's just not a great chemical company, to put it politely," he said.

Food and chemical companies are expected to oppose it in court.

"We'd rather not in many cases, but this is one of the things we would like chemical companies to be responsible for."

Some of the company's former manufacturing plants are still in operation, run by other chemical companies.

But chemical companies will not be required to act until July.

Among big beneficiaries of last week's tariff agreement may be chemical companies.

Shares of other chemical companies rose after the Quantum announcement.

And chemical companies are more focused on the issue than oil companies.

By the end of 1943, 14 chemical companies had shipped out after having been trained and equipped.