Cabot Corporation

After graduating from Harvard University, Godfrey and his brother Samuel Cabot buy the McCue well near Worthington, Pennsylvania, USA and open their first carbon black plant.

We have been innovating since 1882.

Godfrey forms his first legal entity when “Godfrey L. Cabot, Inc.” is incorporated.

We open a carbon black facility in Ville Platte, Louisiana, USA, which is our first carbon black plant in the southern United States.

We enter the European market for the first time as Cabot Carbon Limited and begin production at a new plant in Stanlow, United Kingdom.

Cabot Carbon of Canada, Ltd. is formed and construction on a new carbon black plant begins in Sarnia, Ontario. We also begin construction on a new plant in Franklin, Louisiana, USA.

The Cabot Corporation Foundation, Inc. is established to support our community outreach activities.

We open our first fumed silica facility in Tuscola, Illinois, USA.

Construction begins on a new carbon black facility in Ravenna, Italy. This plant still operates today and is an important part of our manufacturing footprint in Europe.

We elect to merge Godfrey L. Cabot, Inc. and numerous subsidiaries into "Cabot Corporation," which remains our official name today.

We enter the South American market for the first time as we open a carbon black facility in Campana, Argentina.

For the first time ever, Cabot stock is made available to the public as 12% of shares are sold on the New York Stock Exchange.

We open a carbon black facility in Maua, Brazil.

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Samuel W. Bodman is named president and chief executive officer. Our Awards for Excellence, the highest achievement within the organization, is named after him. We open our Asia Pacific Area Rubber Blacks division in Tokyo, Japan.

We are one of the first United States-based companies to operate in China. We establish a joint venture with Shanghai Coking & Chemical Corporation to build a new carbon black facility in Shanghai.

Our world headquarters move to Boston, Massachusetts, USA, and today we remain the oldest Boston-based manufacturer.

We acquire 100% ownership of Tantalum Mining Corporation (TANCO) in Lac du Bonnet, Manitoba, Canada.

We apply our expertise in carbon black surface modification to develop inkjet colorants and quickly become an industry leader with this new business. We also complete the construction of our fine cesium chemicals plant in Canada and establish our first cesium formate brine plant in Houston, Texas, USA.

We establish bulk cesium formate brine handling facilities in Aberdeen, Scotland, United Kingdom.

Our presence in Colombia expands as we acquire full ownership of a joint venture carbon black facility in Cartagena. We open a new fumed silica manufacturing facility in Midland, Michigan, USA and we expand our existing operations in Barry, Wales and Tuscola, Illinois, USA. We also establish a base in Bergen, Norway for our cesium formate brine operations.

Kennett F. Burnes becomes president and chief executive officer.

We solidify our leadership position in China as we expand our carbon black facility in Shanghai and begin construction of a fumed silica facility in Jiangxi Province. Our first commercial sale of Cabot Elastomer is recorded. This new class of material dramatically improves elastomer durability and delivers transformational performance improvements in wear resistance and vibration isolation applications.

We open a new aerogel manufacturing facility in Frankfurt, Germany, allowing us to deliver solutions to customers around the world.

We enter into a fumed metal oxide joint venture in Jiangxi, China with China National Bluestar (Group) Corporation.

Patrick M. Prevost becomes president and chief executive officer.

We issue our first Sustainability Report, detailing our safety, health and environmental performance over the past three years. We also join the American Chemistry Council, the Electronics Industry Citizenship Coalition and the Carbon Disclosure Project.

ENOVA® aerogel and LUMIRA® aerogel products are launched, providing solutions for architectural daylighting, subsea pipelines, coatings, building insulation, personal care products and more. We add graphene technology to our portfolio through an intellectual property licensing agreement with XG Sciences, Inc. Our Tianjin, China facility is the first plant in the world to fully integrate masterbatch and carbon black production.

Capacity expansion in Barry, Wales, United Kingdom strengthens our long-term partnership with Dow Corning and helps us meet the rising global demand for silicones. We expand our pigment dispersion production capacity for inkjet colorants in Haverhill, Massachusetts, USA. CAB-O-SIL® ULTRABOND 4740 fumed silica, a technical solution for the bonding paste market, sets new industry benchmarks for performance, ease of use and manufacturing efficiency. We become a world leader in activated carbon through our acquisition of Norit N.V., supporting the ongoing transformation of our portfolio to a higher margin, less cyclical, specialty chemicals-focused company.

Our LITX® 200 conductive additive is designed to solve the challenge of getting the most power from a lithium-ion battery without compromising energy density or increasing cost, and LITX G700 conductive additive is our first graphene-based additive to improve energy density of lithium-ion batteries. We introduce a new corporate brand and our carbon black footprint expands in North America through our acquisition of NHUMO, the leading carbon black producer in Mexico. ATLAS™ silica composite particles are designed to greatly improve the image quality and consistency of modern, energy-efficient toner in laser printers and multifunctional devices.

We open a new carbon black manufacturing facility using state-of-the-art technology in Xingtai, China through a joint venture with Risun Group. Additionally, we open a new business service center in Riga, Latvia to help us serve our customers in the European, Middle East and African region.

A new LP series of low polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) carbon black products is launched to help customers meet stringent performance specifications while ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements and quality certifications.

Sean D. Keohane becomes president and chief executive officer.

We acquire Tech Blend, a leading North American producer of black masterbatches, to extend our global footprint in

We divest our Specialty Fluids business to Sinomine (Hong Kong) Rare Metals Resources Co. Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Sinomine Resource Group Co., Ltd., a joint stock public company based in China.

Expanding our position in the Chinese fumed metal oxides market, we announce the grand opening of our fumed silica manufacturing facility, located in Wuhai, Inner Mongolia, China.

We celebrate 50 years on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE).

We begin operations at our Carrollton, Kentucky, USA fumed silica plant.

We strengthen our formulations capabilities and position in the battery market through the acquisition of Shenzhen Sanshun Nano New Materials Co., Ltd (SUSN), a leading carbon nanotube (CNT) producer.

Enabled by propriety process technology that mixes reinforcing carbons into elastomers, we launch our Engineered Elastomer Composites (E2C) solutions to help tire manufacturers unlock superior performance sustainability and economically.

Furthering our commitment to sustainability, we announce our ambition of achieving net zero carbon emissions globally by 2050.

We divest our Purification Solutions business to One Equity Partners, a private equity firm.

We acquire Tokai Carbon (Tianjin) Co., Ltd from Tokai Carbon Group to expand our manufacturing capacity to support the growth of our Battery Materials product line, while continuing to serve existing carbon black customers.

We establish Münster Technology Center, a state-of-the-art battery technology center in Münster, Germany.

We launch our EVOLVE Sustainable Solutions technology platform designed to deliver products and process technologies that offer sustainable content with reliable performance at industrial scale.

We launch our first-ever International Sustainability & Carbon Certification (ISCC PLUS) certified solutions.

We launch our new REPLASBLAK® universal circular black masterbatches with certified sustainable material, the industry’s first-ever universal circular black masterbatches with ISCC PLUS certified content.

Our Board of Directors is named 2025 “Public Company Board of the Year” by the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) New England Chapter.

To support the global battery energy storage systems (BESS) market, we launch our new LITX® 95F conductive carbon engineered for use in lithium-ion batteries for BESS.

We unveil our 2030 Sustainability Goals, which target six priority topics identified as most material.

We acquire Mexico Carbon Manufacturing S.A. de C.V. (MXCB) from Bridgestone Corporation, strengthening our position as a leading provider of reinforcing carbons.