2 Seaport Ln.
Boston, MA, 02210 United States
(617) 345-0100
http://www.cabot-corp.com
S&P 400 (March 31, 2013)
#648 in
FORTUNE 1000 (May 2012)
Cabot may be an investor's dream -- it's always in the black. The global specialty chemicals and performance materials company ranks among the world's top producers of carbon black, a reinforcing and pigmenting agent used in tires, inks, cables, and coatings. Cabot also holds its own as a maker of fumed metal oxides such as fumed silica and fumed alumina, used as anti-caking, thickening, and reinforcing agents in adhesives and coatings. Other products include inkjet colorants, aerogels (a synthetic material derived from a gel), and a specialty fluid (cesium formate) for oil and gas drilling. It also makes thermoplastic concentrates and compounds (masterbatch products) used by the plastics industry.