Cabot Corp. (CBT)

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Cabot Corp.
Two Seaport Lane
Suite 1300
Boston, MA 02210-2019
United States - Map
Phone: 617-345-0100
Fax: 617-342-6103
Web Site: Cabot Corporation

DETAILS
Index Membership: S&P 400 MidCap
S&P 1500 Super Comp
Sector: Basic Materials
Industry: Specialty Chemicals
Full Time Employees: 4,300


BUSINESS SUMMARY
Cabot Corporation provides specialty chemicals and performance materials worldwide. Its product lines include carbon black, metal oxides, supermetals, and specialty fluids. The carbon black product line comprises rubber blacks, performance products, and inkjet colorants. The company offers these products for various markets, such as automotive, building materials, agricultural, coatings, toners, plastics, inkjet printing, and electronics market. The metal oxides product line consists of fumed metal oxides, including fumed silica and fumed alumina, and dispersions; and aerogel products for the automotive, construction, microelectronics, and consumer products industries. The supermetals product line includes tantalum, niobium, and their alloys. The company’s tantalum powder is used to make capacitors for computers, networking devices, wireless phones, and electronics for automobiles and other devices; superalloys and chemical process equipment are used for various other industrial and aerospace applications; finished tantalum sputtering is used for film applications, such as semiconductors, inkjet heads, magnetics, and flat panel displays. The specialty fluids product line comprises cesium formate, a drilling and completion fluid, for use in high pressure and high temperature oil and gas well operations. The company was founded in 1882 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.
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