Key facts
- Company type
- Subsidiary
- Traded as
- NYSE : UCC (until 2001) DJIA component (until 1999) S&P 500 component (until 2001)
- Industry
- Chemicals
- Founded
- 1917 ; 109 years ago ( 1917 )
- Founder
- John Motley Morehead III
- Headquarters
- Seadrift, Texas , U.S.
- Key people
- Richard Wells ( CEO & president )
- Products
- Bulk chemicals Ethylene Ethylene derivatives
- Revenue
- US$ 4.377 billion (2019)
- Operating income
- US$691 million (2019)
- Net income
- US$523 million (2019)
- Total assets
- US$5.278 billion (2019)
- Total equity
- US$0.925 billion (2019)
- Parent
- Dow Chemical Company
- Website
- unioncarbide.com
via Wikipedia infobox
Research organization · ROR
- Type
- Company
- Founded
- 1917
- Location
- Seadrift, United States
- Also known as
- Union Carbide, Union Carbide and Carbon Corporation
- Status
- Active
ISNI 0000 0000 8859 7171
Official website
Union Carbide Corporation
Union Carbide Corporation delivers advanced chemical and polymer solutions for industries worldwide. Explore our products, technologies, and history of innovation.
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Encyclopedic overview
A 1922 advertisement for Union Carbide gas lighting. Electric lighting was not yet common in many rural areas of the United States.
Union Carbide Corporation (UCC) is an American chemical company headquartered in Seadrift, Texas. It has been a wholly owned subsidiary of Dow Chemical Company since 2001. Union Carbide produces chemicals and polymers that undergo one or more further conversions by customers before reaching consumers. Some are high-volume commodities and others are specialty products. Markets served include paints and coatings, packaging, wire and cable, household products, personal care, pharmaceuticals, automotive, textiles, agriculture, and oil and gas. The company is a former component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
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