Aug 23, 2011 (SmarTrend(R) News Watch via COMTEX) -- Below are the five companies in the Commodity Chemicals industry with the lowest Debt-to-Capital ratio. The debt-to-capital ratio is an important measure of how a company is financing its operations along with some insight into its financial strength, relative to other companies in its industry.

Calgon Carbon (CCC) ranks lowest with Debt-to-Capital ratio of 6.35%; NL Industries (NL) ranks next with Debt-to-Capital ratio of 13.01%; and Zagg (ZAGG) ranks next lowest with Debt-to-Capital ratio of 21.50%.

Fuwei Films Holdings (FFHL) follows with Debt-to-Capital ratio of 23.99% and Cereplast (CERP) rounds out the group with Debt-to-Capital ratio of 24.60%.

SmarTrend currently has shares of Cereplast in an Downtrend and issued the Downtrend alert on June 27, 2011 at $4.27. The stock has fallen 27.2% since the Downtrend alert was issued.