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Albemarle Corporation and Innospec Inc.

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Albemarle Corporation

Albemarle Corporation provides energy storage solutions worldwide. It operates through three segments: Energy Storage, Specialties, and Ketjen. The Energy Storage segment offers lithium compounds, including lithium carbonate, lithium hydroxide, and lithium chloride for use in lithium batteries used in consumer electronics and electric vehicles, power grids and solar panels, high performance greases, specialty glass used in consumer appliances and electronics, organic synthesis processes in the areas of steroid chemistry and vitamins, and various life science applications, as well as intermediates in the pharmaceutical industry; technical services, including handling and use of reactive lithium products; and recycling services for lithium-containing by-products. The Specialties segment provides bromine and highly specialized lithium solutions for various industries, such as energy, mobility, connectivity, and health comprising fire safety compounds; bromine-based specialty chemicals products, including elemental bromine, alkyl bromides, inorganic bromides, brominated powdered activated carbon, and various bromine fine chemicals; lithium specialties, such as butyllithium and lithium aluminum hydride; cesium products for the chemical and pharmaceutical industries; and zirconium, barium, and titanium products for pyrotechnical applications that include airbag initiators. The Ketjen segment offers clean fuels technologies, including hydroprocessing catalysts together with isomerization and akylation catalysts; fluidized catalytic cracking catalysts and additives; and performance catalyst solutions comprising organometallics and curatives. It serves grid storage, automotive, aerospace, conventional energy, electronics, construction, agriculture and food, pharmaceuticals and medical device industries. Albemarle Corporation was founded in 1887 and is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina.

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Innospec Inc.

Innospec Inc. develops, manufactures, blends, markets, and supplies specialty chemicals in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia-Pacific. It operates through three segments: Performance Chemicals, Fuel Specialties, and Oilfield Services. The company offers specialty chemical products used as additives in diesel, jet, marine, fuel oil and other fuels used in the operation of commercial trucking, marine and aviation engines, power station generators, heating oil, and other industrial machinery applications. It also provides innovative technology-based solutions for customers' processes or products in personal care, home care, agrochemical, construction, mining, and other industrial markets. In addition, the company develops and markets chemical solutions for drilling, completion, production, DRA, and oil and gas applications. It serves large multinational companies, manufacturers of personal care and home care products and global mining, agriculture and building products, and other industrial companies; national and multinational oil companies, fuel marketers and retailers, fuel terminals, marine lines, coating and plastics producers, and other heavy industrial end-users; and multinational public, and independent exploration and production, and oilfield services companies. The company was formerly known as Octel Corp. and changed its name to Innospec Inc. in January 2006. Innospec Inc. was founded in 1938 and is headquartered in Englewood, Colorado.

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