Cabot Corporation

Cabot Corporation operates as a specialty chemicals and performance materials company. The company operates through two segments Reinforcement Materials and Performance Chemicals. It offers reinforcing carbons that are used in tires as a rubber reinforcing agent and performance additive as well as in industrial products such as hoses belts extruded profiles and molded goods; and engineered elastomer composites solutions. The company also provides specialty carbons for use in inks coatings cables plastics adhesives toners batteries and displays applications; conductive carbon additives and fumed alumina used in lead acid and lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles; fumed silica used in adhesives sealants cosmetics batteries inks toners silicone elastomers coatings polishing slurries and pharmaceuticals; and fumed alumina for use in various products including inkjet media lighting coatings cosmetics and polishing slurries. In addition it offers aerogel a hydrophobic silica-based particle to use in various thermal insulation and specialty chemical applications; masterbatch and conductive compound products that are used in automotive industrial packaging infrastructure agriculture consumer products and electronics industries; and inkjet colorants for inkjet printing applications. The company sells its products through distributors and sales representatives in the Americas Europe the Middle East Africa and the Asia Pacific. Cabot Corporation was founded in 1882 and is headquartered in Boston Massachusetts.