Albemarle

Albemarle Corporation is a Louisiana-based chemical company, formerly based in Richmond, Va. with sales of approximately $2 billion per year. (Its acronym for the New York Stock Exchange is ALB).

It's products are primarily polymer additives, catalysts and fine chemicals which are sold to the electronics, refining, pharmaceuticals, agriculture, petrochemicals, construction, automotive and packaging industries. [1]

History

Albebarle Paper Co. purchased Ethyl Corp. from Standard Oil of NJ (Exxon) and General Motors in 1962. Ethyl's primary produced was tetraethyl lead for Leaded Gasoline. With the phase-out of leaded gasoline for public health reasons, in 1994, Ethyl spun off its chemical business to create an independent, publicly traded company named Albemarle Corporation. (In 2004, Ethyl Corp. changed its name to New Market Corporation.

Political contributions

The Open Secrets database lists Albemarle as having contributed $75,000 in the 2000 election cycle and $50,000 in the 1998 election cycle to the Republican Party. [2] It made no contributions in the 2000 cycle.

The company also has the Albermarle Corporation Political Action Committee. According to the Open Secrets database in:

• the 2002 election spent $10,319 (15% to Democrats, 85% to Republicans); [3]
• 2004 election spent $28,000 (22% to Democrats, 78% to Republicans) [4]
• for the 2006 election has so far(as of June 30) spent only $1,000 to Republic Senate candidate Rick Santorum

Albermarle lobbyists and issues

Lobbyists.info lists Albermarle's registered staff lobbyist as being:

• Barbara A. Little, Vice President, Government Relations

The company's two registered external lobbying firms are:

• Covington & Burling to work on "Chemicals/Chemical Industry" issues. C&B staff on the account are:
  • Stuart E. Eizenstat
  • Candido Garcia Molyneux
  • Brian D. Smith
  • Henriette Tielemans

• Hunton & Williams LLP who work on "Issues: Environmental/Superfund" and are represented by
  • Elizabeth C. Shaw (also known as "Nena")
  • Joseph C. Stanko Jr. [5] (Sub req'd).

Products

Flame Retardants

From the company's website under "Fire Safety Solutions:"

• GreenArmor®
• GreenCrest™
• MAGNIFIN H-10
• MAGNIFIN H-10 A
• MAGNIFIN H-10 C
• MAGNIFIN H-10 IV
• MAGNIFIN H-10 MV
• MAGNIFIN H-5
• MAGNIFIN H-5 A
• MAGNIFIN H-5 GV
• MAGNIFIN H-5 HV
• MAGNIFIN H-5 IV
• MAGNIFIN H-5 MV
• MAGNIFIN H-7
• MAGNIFIN H-7 C
• MAGNIFIN H-7 C2
• MAGNIFIN H-7 C3
• MARTINAL OL-104 C
• MARTINAL OL-104 GO
• MARTINAL OL-104 IO
• MARTINAL OL-104 LEO
• MARTINAL OL-104 RO
• MARTINAL OL-104 ZO
• MARTINAL OL-107 C
• MARTINAL OL-107 IO
• MARTINAL OL-107 LEO
• MARTINAL OL-107 ZO
• MARTINAL OL-111 LE
• MARTINAL ON-310
• MARTINAL ON-313
• MARTINAL ON-320
• MARTINAL ON-4608
• MARTINAL ON-904
• MARTINAL ON-906
• MARTINAL ON-908
• MARTINAL ON-914
• MARTINAL ON-921
• MARTINAL ON-935
• NcendX P-30
• SAYTEX 102E
• SAYTEX 621
• SAYTEX 8010
• SAYTEX 8010ZD
• SAYTEX BT-93
• SAYTEX BT-93W
• SAYTEX CP-2000
• SAYTEX HP-3010
• SAYTEX HP-7010G
• SAYTEX HP-7010P
• SAYTEX HP-900G
• SAYTEX HP-900P
• SAYTEX RB-49
• SAYTEX RB-7001
• SAYTEX RB-79
• SAYTEX RB-7950
• SAYTEX RB-7980
• SAYTEX RB-9170

Personnel

Senior management

• Mark C. Rohr, President & Chief Executive Officer
• George A. Newbill, Senior Vice President, Manufacturing Operations
• John M. Steitz Senior Vice President, Business Operations
• Luther C. Kissam, IV, Vice President, General Counsel & Secretary
• Richard J Diemer, Jr. Senior Vice President & CFO
• Jack P. Harsh, Vice President, Human Resources
• Ronald C. Zumstein, Vice President, Health, Safety & Environment

Board of Directors

• J. Alfred Broaddus, Jr.
• Floyd D. Gottwald, Jr.
• John D. Gottwald
• William M. Gottwald
• Richard L. Morrill
• Seymour S. Preston, III
• Mark C. Rohr
• Charles E. Stewart
• Anne M. Whittemore
• John Sherman, Jr.

Contact details

Albemarle Corporation
330 South Fourth Street
Richmond, Virginia 23219
Phone: 804-788-6096
Fax: 804-788-5104
Web:http://www.albemarle.com/

External links

• Rita Beamish, "U.S. drags its feet in phasing out banned pesticide", Seattle Times, November 28, 2005. (This is an Associated Press article).