Rockwood Holdings, Inc.
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Rockwood Holdings, Inc. Company Profile

Rockwood Holdings, which operates as Rockwood Specialties, manages a portfolio of world-class specialty chemicals and advanced materials businesses. Its specialty chemicals segment (which the company restructured in 2012), includes lithium compounds, metal treatments, and performance additives such as wood preservation chemicals and iron oxide pigments. Other products include titanium dioxide, advanced ceramics, an perfromance additives. A leader in most of its niches, Rockwood serves the construction, paper, and water treatment industries. The specialty chemicals segment accounts for the company's highest revenue generation and sales to Germany outpace those to any other region, including the US.