Cabot Corp. CBT

What this company does

Cabot Corporation is a global specialty chemicals and performance materials company headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, whose principal products are reinforcing and specialty carbons, specialty compounds, conductive additives, carbon nanotubes, fumed metal oxides, inkjet colorants and aerogel. Together with its affiliates, Cabot has manufacturing facilities and operations in the United States and over 20 other countries. As of September 30, 2025, it had approximately 4,100 employees across its global network of office and manufacturing locations, with 40% located in the Americas, 33% in Asia Pacific and 27% in Europe, Middle East and Africa. Its business is organized into two reportable segments: Reinforcement Materials and Performance Chemicals. Reinforcing carbons, a class of carbon blacks manufactured by Cabot, are used to enhance the physical properties of the systems and applications in which they are incorporated, and its reinforcing carbons products are used in tires and industrial products. In its Performance Chemicals segment, Cabot designs, manufactures and sells materials for a range of customer applications across the automotive, construction, infrastructure, inkjet printing, electronics and consumer products sectors and for applications in the generation, transmission and storage of energy, combining its specialty carbons, specialty compounds, battery materials, fumed metal oxides, aerogel and inkjet product lines. Cabot's business was founded in 1882 and incorporated in the State of Delaware in 1960.

Written from the business description in CABOT CORP's annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 24 November 2025. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.