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ENTITY · element_solutions

Element SolutionsESI

United States·packaging materials·major·$11.2B mkt cap

Specialty chemicals for electronics assembly and advanced packaging.

CLEAR · 0–39
30/100 illustrative
Underwriting Thesis

CLEAR — Element Solutions: sole-source / single-point-of-failure dominance compounded by criticality to DoD-exposed downstream programs in packaging materials. A chokepoint underwriting concern at this tier.

Factor Breakdown
Foreign-Origin Concentration3
Sole-Source Dependence67
Sanctions Exposure0
Downstream Criticality60
Sanctions Exposure

Entity not present on tracked screening lists (CSL).

DoD Exposure

No matched DoD semiconductor awards (USASpending) for this entity.

Segments
packaging materialsphotoresists chemicals
Shortest paths → DoD-exposed firms
  • GlobalFoundries · 1 hop · $1.05B
    Element Solutions → GlobalFoundries
  • Marvell Technology · 2 hops · $184.3M
    Element Solutions → TSMC → Marvell Technology
  • Valens Semiconductor · 2 hops · $28.3M
    Element Solutions → TSMC → Valens Semiconductor
  • Scale AI · 3 hops · $105.6M
    Element Solutions → TSMC → NVIDIA → Scale AI
Chokepoint Relationships

Key Suppliers · upstream · 0

No mapped upstream suppliers.

Key Customers · downstream · 7

Data Provenance· generated 2026-08-10 01:06:49Z
  • Consolidated Screening List (CSL) [LIVE] https://data.trade.gov/downloadable_consolidated_screening_list/v1/consolidated.json @ 2026-08-10T01:06:49.039Z
  • USASpending.gov — DoD award search [LIVE] https://api.usaspending.gov/api/v2/search/spending_by_award/ @ 2026-08-10T01:06:49.377Z
  • Curated ownership aggregation [FALLBACK] @ 2026-08-10T01:06:49.378Z
  • Curated China-ecosystem + Nexperia edges (Phase B, CSET ETO + TechInsights + TrendForce + SCMP + BIS Entity List + Nexperia press release) [FALLBACK] @ 2026-08-10T01:06:49.378Z

Firm/commodity-level signals from public data — not component-level BOM. Scores are an analytic underwriting heuristic, not legal or procurement advice.