SIGNIFICANT SUBSIDIARIES JURISDICTION IN NAME WHICH ORGANIZED PARENT OR INVESTOR LINE OF BUSINESS - -------------------------------- --------------- --------------------------------- ------------------------ Millennium Overseas Holdings United Kingdom Millennium Chemicals Inc. Chemical company Limited Delaware Millennium Overseas Holdings Chemical company Millennium America Holdings Inc. Limited Millennium America Inc. Delaware Millennium America Holdings Inc. Chemical company Millennium Holdings Inc. Delaware Millennium America Inc. Chemical company Quantum Chemical Corporation Virginia Millennium Holdings Inc. Chemical company SCM Chemicals Inc. Delaware Millennium Holdings Inc. Chemical company HMB Holdings Inc. Delaware SCM Chemicals Inc. Holding company MHC Inc.(1) Delaware HMB Holdings Inc. Discontinued operations UNNAMED WHOLLY-OWNED SUBSIDIARIES OF NAMED SUBSIDIARIES CARRYING ON THE SAME LINE OF BUSINESS -------------------------------------------- NAME DOMESTIC FOREIGN - -------------------------------- -------------------- -------------------- Millennium Overseas Holdings 8 Limited Millennium America Holdings Inc. Millennium America Inc. Millennium Holdings Inc. 3 Quantum Chemical Corporation 11 6 SCM Chemicals Inc. 2 HMB Holdings Inc. MHC Inc.(1) 46 27 - ------------ (1) The discontinued operations held by MHC Inc. include subsidiaries which, if considered in the aggregate as a single subsidiary, would not constitute a significant subsidiary as of the end of the year covered by this report.