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Albemarle Announces the Unveil of Ketjen Corporation

Albemarle | February 01, 2023 | Read time : 02:00 min

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Albemarle Corporation, a global leader in the specialty chemicals industry, recently announced the official brand launch of its wholly-owned subsidiary Ketjen. Ketjen develops advanced catalyst solutions for specialty chemicals, refining, and petrochemical industries.

After declaring plans to manage the business as a subsidiary, the corporation revealed the new name of its catalysts division in November 2022. As an individual brand, Ketjen will continue to help customers on their individual energy transition journeys, ranging from fluidized catalytic cracking to hydro-processing to clean fuels to organometallics and curatives.

Raphael Crawford, President at Ketjen, said, "As the industry responds to global market dynamics, our customers need innovative solutions to help them navigate their changing landscapes." He also added, "Ketjen will continue to provide its portfolio of advanced catalyst and specialty chemicals solutions, which are unique to each customer's needs, to increase production performance and business value."

(Source – Cision PR Newswire)

Ketjen is a multi-divisional company headquartered in Houston, Texas, that provides Fluidized Catalytic Cracking (FCC), Clean Fuels and Performance Catalyst & Curative and Hydroprocessing Catalysts (HPC) Solutions to customers in the petrochemical, refining, and specialty chemical industries (PCS). Operations at Ketjen will be managed by Albemarle's existing advanced catalyst solutions division.

Kent Masters, CEO at Albemarle, "The launch of Ketjen continues our legacy as a partner-of-choice for industry leaders." He further mentioned, "Establishing Ketjen under this separate structure will allow the business even greater focus and continued development of custom, high-impact catalyst products."

(Source – Cision PR Newswire)

The team of experienced professionals at Ketjen takes a versatile, hands-on approach to customer operations, advising and leading on crucial tasks. Ketjen will be the market leader in advanced catalyst solutions thanks to its extensive involvement in the sector and its continuing long-term partnerships with big enterprises.

About Albemarle

Albemarle Corporation is a worldwide specialty chemicals corporation that thinks outside of the box to help companies in many of the world's biggest and most important industries, such as energy, transportation, and electronics, reach their full potential. The company works hard to find a way to manage its diverse geographic reach of world-class resources in a way that is sustainable.

Together with its highly skilled and experienced global teams, deep-rooted values, and close relationships with the customers, Albemarle creates solutions with added value and better performance that make the future safer and more sustainable.

 

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