Ingevity Corporation

Ingevity Corporation manufactures and sells specialty chemicals and activated carbon materials in North America the Asia Pacific Europe the Middle East Africa and South America. It operates through two segments Performance Materials and Performance Chemicals. The Performance Materials segment engineers manufactures and sells hardwood-based and chemically activated carbon products primarily for use in gasoline vapor emission control systems in cars motorcycles trucks and boats. This segment also produces other activated carbon products for use in various applications including food water beverage and chemical purification. The Performance Chemicals segment comprises of pavement technologies industrial specialties and engineered polymers. It manufactures products derived from crude tall oil and lignin extracted from the kraft pulping process as well as caprolactone monomers and derivatives derived from cyclohexanone and hydrogen peroxide. This segment's products are used in various applications comprising warm mix paving pavement preservation pavement reconstruction and recycling road striping oil well service additives oil production and downstream applications; and adhesives agrochemical dispersants lubricants printing inks industrial intermediates and oilfield coatings resins elastomers bioplastics and medical devices. The company was founded in 1964 and is headquartered in North Charleston South Carolina.