Albemarle Corp.

History

Year	Detail
1887	Albemarle Paper Manufacturing Company opened to produce Kraft and blotting paper.
1921	The antiknock properties of tetraethyl lead (TEL) as a gasoline additive have been discovered.
1937	TEL production began in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, for Ethyl Gasoline Corp.
1953	Ethyl acquired an Orangeburg.
1962	Albemarle Paper Manufacturing Company purchased Ethyl Corporation.
1976	Ethyl opened a chemical plant in Feluy, Belgium.
1987	Ethyl acquired Dow Chemical’s bromine chemicals business and its Magnolia, Arkansas plant.
1996	Albemarle acquired Asano Corp.
1998	Albemarle Corporation forms a joint venture with Jordan Dead Sea Industries Company.
2000	Albemarle and Jinhai Chemical and Industry Company, a Chinese company, announced the establishment of a joint venture company.
2001	Albemarle acquired Martinswerk GmbH in Bergheim, Germany.
2002	Albemarle acquired Taerim International Corporation (Taerim) and formed Albemarle Korea Corp.
2008	Albemarle acquired full-service power plant mercury-control provider Sorbent Technologies Corp.
2010	Opened Albemarle's Center of Excellence (ACE).
2015	Albemarle acquired Rockwood Holdings.
2022	Albemarle announces new global business alignment for its Bromine and Lithium businesses into Albemarle Specialties and Energy Storage.