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''Chemtura Corporation'' is a global corporation headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with its other principal executive office in Middlebury, Connecticut. The company focuses on specialty chemicals for various industrial sectors, and these are transportation (including automotive), energy, and electronics. Chemtura operates 24 manufacturing plants in 12 countries. Its primary markets are industrial manufacturing customers. The corporation employs approximately 2700 people for research, manufacturing, logistics, sales and administration.〔 Operations are located in North America, Latin America, Europe and Asia. In addition, the company has significant joint ventures primarily in the United States.〔 〕 For the year ended December 31, 2014, the company's global net sales were $2.2 billion.〔 〕 As of December 31, 2014, Chemtura's global total assets were $2.7 billion.〔 〕 The chief executive officer is Craig A. Rogerson who is also the president and chairman of the board of Chemtura Corporation.〔〔 〕〔 〕〔 〕〔 〕 ==History== Chemtura Corporation is the successor to Crompton & Knowles Corporation, which was incorporated in Massachusetts in 1900 and engaged in the manufacture and sale of specialty chemicals beginning in 1954. Crompton & Knowles traces its roots to Crompton Loom Works incorporated in the 1840s.〔〔 In the late 1800s, Worcester, Massachusetts was a leading manufacturing center that attracted inventors and manufacturers. Both William Crompton and Lucius J. Knowles made the city their home and opened their respective loom companies there. Both were the top loom manufacturers in the world. However each company based the method of weaving on a different premise. The companies later merged (in 1879), becoming one entity known as "Crompton & Knowles Loom Works". Still supplying the world market, the new company now applied both theories of weaving.〔〔 〕〔 〕 Meanwhile, in 1843 Charles Goodyear formed the Goodyear Metallic Rubber Shoe Company, Connecticut. A year later he patented the vulcanization of rubber. Goodyear's company then became one of nine companies that formed the founding of the United States Rubber Company in 1892 by Charles R. Flint also in Naugatuck, Connecticut. The rubber company manufactured a large array of products through two world wars, the Cold War, and became the Uniroyal company (Uniroyal Incorporated) in 1961. In 1986, Uniroyal Chemical Company was formed as a subsidiary of Avery Inc. Then, in 1989, Uniroyal Chemical Company Investors Holding bought Uniroyal Chemical Company from Avery and became Uniroyal Chemical Corporation. In 1996, Uniroyal Chemical Corporation went public and merged with Crompton & Knowles. In 1999, Crompton & Knowles merged with Witco to form Crompton Corporation. In 2005, Crompton acquired Great Lakes Chemical Company, Inc., of West Lafayette, Indiana, to form Chemtura Corporation.〔〔〔 (【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.chemtura.com/corporatev2/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=cfa9708b7507d210VgnVCM1000000753810aRCRD&vgnextchannel=cfa9708b7507d210VgnVCM1000000753810aRCRD&vgnextfmt=default )〕〔 〕〔 〕 Witco, another specialty chemicals company, was headquartered in Greenwich Connecticut. Witco was founded in 1920. By 1999. Witco had 5,970 employees prior to the merger in 1999. Shortly after the merger, Crompton & Knowles became simply Crompton. Additionally, Great Lakes Chemical Corporation still exists as a subsidiary company of Chemtura.〔 〕〔 〕〔 〕〔 〕 By January 2014 the company had manufactured and marketed a new brominated polymer flame retardant, replacing the traditional hexabromocyclododecane (HBCD) flame retardant.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Chemtura」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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