Albemarle Corporation

Albemarle Corporation is one of the world’s leading specialty chemical companies, dedicated to providing innovation to customers across diverse industries. Founded in 1887, Albemarle provides specialty chemicals and services to customers in industries such as energy storage, petroleum refining, consumer electronics, construction, automotive, lubricants, pharmaceuticals and crop protection. Over the years, Albemarle has grown and expanded its capabilities, creating three distinct business segments: Lithium, Bromine, and Catalysts.

The company’s Lithium segment offers lithium compounds, including lithium carbonate, lithium hydroxide, lithium chloride, and lithium specialties, along with reagents such as butyllithium and lithium aluminum hydride. These products are used primarily in lithium batteries for consumer electronics and electric vehicles, high-performance greases, thermoplastic elastomers for tires, rubber soles, and more. The segment also supplies cesium products for chemical and pharmaceutical industries, zirconium, barium and titanium products, and technical services and by-product recycling services.

Albemarle’s Bromine segment offers bromine-based fire safety solutions and elemental bromine, alkyl and inorganic bromides, brominated powdered activated carbon, and other bromine-based products. These are used in chemical synthesis, oil and gas drilling and completion fluids, mercury control, water purification, food processing, and other applications. The segment also provides specialty chemicals such as tertiary amines for surfactants, biocides, and disinfectants and sanitizers.

Albemarle’s Catalysts segment provides hydroprocessing, isomerization and alkylation catalysts, fluidized catalytic cracking catalysts and additives, and organometallics and curatives. These products are used in a variety of refining and production processes.

Today, Albemarle Corporation has over 7,000 employees and is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, with a network of production facilities, customer support centers, research & development, and sales offices located in more than 30 countries around the world. The company is listed on the New York Stock Exchange and achieved $3 billion in sales in 2019, with net income of $351 million. Albemarle Corporation is continuously building on its strong history and is committed to delivering innovative products and services to its customers, as well as broadening its world-class portfolio in dynamic markets.