Albemarle Corp.
Baton Rouge Tower
451 Florida Street
Baton Rouge,
LA 70801
Phone: 225-388-8011
Fax: 225-388-7686
Web Site: http://www.albemarle.com
| REUTERS ABRIDGED BUSINESS SUMMARY | |
| Albemarle Corporation engages in the development, manufacture, and marketing of engineered specialty chemicals. It operates in three segments: Polymer Additives, Catalysts, and Fine Chemicals. The Polymer Additives segment offers brominated, mineral, and phosphorus flame retardants that are used in plastic enclosures for consumer electronics, printed circuit boards, wire and cable, electrical connectors, textiles, foam insulation, and foam seating in furniture and automobiles. This segment also produces plastic and other additives, such as curatives, antioxidants, and stabilizers. The Catalysts segment provides refinery catalysts, such as hydroprocessing catalysts, fluidized catalytic cracking catalysts, and additives; and polyolefin catalysts comprising aluminum and magnesium-alkyls, which are used as co-catalysts, as well as metallocene/single-site catalysts that aid in the development and production of new polymers. The Fine Chemicals segment offers performance chemicals, including elemental bromine, alkyl bromides, inorganic bromides, and various bromine fine chemicals, which are used in various industrial applications; and tertiary amines for surfactants, biocides, disinfectants, and sanitizers; potassium and chlorine-based products that are used in industrial applications; alkenyl succinic anhydride for paper-sizing formulations; and aluminum oxides that are used in various refractory, ceramic, and polishing applications. This segment also engages in fine chemistry services business, which offers custom manufacturing, research, and chemical scale-up services for companies. The company provides its products and services to manufacturers of consumer electronics, building and construction materials, automotive parts, packaging, pharmaceuticals and agrichemicals, and petroleum refiners primarily in the United States. It has a strategic alliance with MeadWestvaco Specialty Chemicals. Albemarle Corporation was founded in 1993 and is based in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. |
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| | Pay | Exercised | Mr. Mark C. Rohr , 58
Chairman, Chief Exec. Officer and Pres |
$
1.62M |
$
0 | Mr. Richard J. Diemer Jr., 51
Chief Financial Officer, Principal Accounting Officer and Sr. VP |
$
625.00K |
$
0 | Mr. John M. Steitz , 51
Chief Operating Officer and Exec. VP |
$
780.00K |
$
0 | Mr. Luther C. Kissam IV, 45
Exec. VP and Sec. |
$
625.00K |
$
0 | Mr. John J. Nicols , 45
VP of Catalysts |
$
505.00K |
$
0 |
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Dollar amounts are as of
31-Dec-08
and compensation values are for the last fiscal
year ending on that date. "Pay" is salary, bonuses, etc. "Exercised" is the value of
options exercised during the fiscal year.
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