Eastman Chemical Co. EMN

What this company does

Eastman Chemical Company is a global specialty materials company that produces a broad range of products found in items people use every day. Eastman has 36 manufacturing facilities and has equity interests in four manufacturing joint ventures in 12 countries that supply products to customers throughout the world. Eastman's businesses are managed and reported in four operating segments: Advanced Materials, Additives & Functional Products, Chemical Intermediates, and Fibers. In the AM segment, the company produces and markets polymers, films, and plastics with differentiated performance properties for value-added end-uses in transportation, durables and electronics, building and construction, medical and pharma, and consumables end-markets. In the AFP segment, the company manufactures materials for products in the food, feed, and agriculture, transportation, water treatment and energy, personal care and wellness, building and construction, consumables, and durables and electronics end-markets. The CI segment sells excess intermediates beyond the company's internal specialty needs into end-markets such as industrial chemicals and processing, building and construction, health and wellness, and food and feed. In the Fibers segment, Eastman manufactures and sells acetate tow and triacetin plasticizers for use in filtration media, primarily cigarette filters, cellulosic filament yarn and staple fibers for use in apparel under the brand Naia, home furnishings, and industrial fabrics, nonwoven media for use in filtration and friction applications, and cellulose acetate flake and acetyl raw materials for other acetate fiber producers. Eastman began business in 1920 for the purpose of producing chemicals for Eastman Kodak Company's photographic business and became a public company, incorporated in Delaware, on December 31, 1993.

Written from the business description in EASTMAN CHEMICAL CO's annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 13 February 2026. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.