CABOT CORP

Cabot Corporation is a global specialty chemicals and performance materials company headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. The company, founded in 1882 and incorporated in Delaware in 1960, manufactures principal products including reinforcing and specialty carbons, specialty compounds, conductive additives, carbon nanotubes, fumed metal oxides, inkjet colorants, and aerogel. Cabot and its affiliates operate manufacturing facilities and operations in the United States and over 20 other countries. The company's products are based on technical expertise and innovation in four core competencies: making and handling very fine particles; modifying the surfaces of very fine particles to alter their functionality; designing particles to impart specific properties to a formulation; and combining particles with other ingredients to deliver a formulated performance intermediate or composite. Cabot focuses on creating particles and formulations with specific composition, morphology, and surface functionalities to support customer applications. The business is organized into two reportable segments: Reinforcement Materials and Performance Chemicals.