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Cabot Corp. manufactures and supplies organic chemicals. It operates through the following segments: Reinforcement Materials, Performance Materials, Purification Solutions, and Specialty Fluids. The Reinforcement Materials segment produces rubber blacks that are used on tires, hoses, belts, and molded goods. The Performance Materials segment sells specialty additives that enable performance in: plastics, wire and cable, toners, coatings, adhesives and sealants, electronics, batteries, inks, inkjet printing, composites, silicones, building construction materials, and industrial insulation. The Purification Solutions segment manufactures activated carbon for purification of: air and water, food and beverages, pharmaceuticals, and catalysts. The Specialty Fluids segment formulates advanced cesium products for use in: oil and gas well drilling and completion fluids; catalysts; titanium dioxide; glass; and automotive brazing fluids. The company was founded by Godfrey Lowell Cabot in 1882 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Cabot Corporation operates as a specialty chemicals and performance materials company. The company offers carbon black, a form of elemental carbon used to enhance the physical properties of the systems and applications in which it is incorporated; and rubber blacks for use as a rubber reinforcing agent and performance additive in tires, hoses, belts, extruded profiles, and molded goods. It also provides compounds of carbon black and rubber primarily for tire applications; and cesium formate, a drilling and completion fluid for use in high pressure and high temperature oil and gas well construction. In addition, the company offers specialty grades of carbon black used in inks, coatings, plastics, adhesives, toners, batteries, and displays applications; masterbatch and conductive compound products for use in automotive, industrial, packaging, consumer products, and electronics industries; inkjet colorants used in the inkjet printing applications; and fumed silica, fumed alumina, and dispersions for automotive, construction, microelectronics, batteries, and consumer products industries, as well as aerogel, a hydrophobic, silica-based particle for use in various thermal insulation and specialty chemical applications. Further, it provides activated carbon products used for the purification of water, air, food and beverages, pharmaceuticals, and other liquids and gases; as a chemical carrier; and as a colorant or a decolorizing agent. The company sells its products primarily 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.