Ashland (company)
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| legal form | Incorporated |
| ISIN | US0442091049 |
| founding | 1924 |
| Seat |
Covington , Kentucky ,
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| management | William A. Wulfsohn ( CEO ) |
| Number of employees | 10,500 |
| sales | 5,387,000,000 US dollars |
| Branch | chemistry |
| Website | www.ashland.com |
| As of September 30, 2015 | |
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Ashland Inc. , founded in the United States in 1924 , operates in over 100 countries worldwide. The company's headquarters are in Covington , Kentucky . Ashland makes specialty chemicals, intermediates, solvents and motor oil . The company is listed in the S&P 500 share index.
history
In August 2011, Ashland took over International Specialty Products (ISP), a successor company to GAF Corporation .
Business areas
The Specialty Ingredients division produces cellulose ethers , vinyl pyrrolidones , PVP and various adhesives.
The Performance Materials division produces a. Gelcoats , maleic anhydride , 1,4-butanediol and 2-butene-1,4-diol , tetrahydrofuran and N-methylpyrrolidone .
Valvoline
Valvoline is probably Ashland's most famous department. Founded in 1866 by John Ellis in Pennsylvania, USA and taken over by Ashland in 1950, Valvoline is now active in over 140 countries. B. also active in Germany.
Valvoline's European headquarters are in the Netherlands, more precisely in Barendrecht . The manufacture of many products for the European market, the Middle East and Africa takes place in the Valvoline plant in Dordrecht , also in the Netherlands. The company's headquarters are in Lexington, Kentucky .
Mostly known as a manufacturer of lubricants, Valvoline also offers chemical products and programs for the automotive sector, as well as rust protection products under the in-house brand Tectyl.
Handling of radioactive waste
In 2010 it was announced that the company in Martha, a Kentucky community, had sold thousands of radioactively contaminated production pipes to farmers, kindergartens, and schools without notifying them of the contamination. Up to 1100 micro-x-rays per hour were measured, so that the primary school and some residential buildings had to be evacuated immediately after the radiation was discovered.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Directors & Officers ( Memento of the original dated May 12, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b c d Annual Report 2015
- ^ Ashland to buy specialty chemical maker ISP for $ 3.2 billion , May 31, 2011
- ^ Website of Valvoline Europe
- ↑ Radioactive Residue - Oil production problems affect Kentucky residents . In: Deutschlandfunk . March 9, 2010. Retrieved March 13, 2010.
