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Cabot Corporation

CBTManufacturingBoston, United States

Cabot Corporation operates as a specialty chemicals and performance materials company. It operates through two segments, Reinforcement Materials and Performance Chemicals. The company offers reinforcing carbons that are used in tires as a rubber reinforcing agent and performance additive, as well as in industrial products, such as hoses, belts, extruded profiles, and molded goods; and engineered elastomer composites solutions. It also provides specialty carbons for use in inks, coatings, plastics, adhesives, toners, batteries, and displays; conductive additives and fumed alumina used in lead acid and lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles; fumed silica used in adhesives, sealants, cosmetics, batteries, inks, toners, silicone elastomers, coatings, polishing slurries, and pharmaceuticals; and fumed alumina for use in various products, including inkjet media, lighting, coatings, cosmetics, and polishing slurries. In addition, it offers aerogel, a hydrophobic, silica-based particle to use in various thermal insulation and specialty chemical applications; masterbatch and conductive compound products that are used in automotive, industrial, packaging, infrastructure, agriculture, consumer products, and electronics industries; and inkjet colorants for inkjet printing applications, as well as carbon nanotubes and fumed metal oxides. The company sells its products through distributors and sales representatives in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Asia Pacific. Cabot Corporation was founded in 1882 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

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Cabot Corporation at a glance

Cabot Corporation is a manufacturing company headquartered in Boston, United States. It is publicly listed (CBT) with a market capitalisation of $3.9B. Xcout tracks 23 named people at Cabot Corporation, including Sean D. Keohane (President, Chief Executive Officer & Director). Xcout recorded 209 job postings from Cabot Corporation in the last 90 days, naming tools such as Carbon Black, SAP, Salesforce.

Industry
Manufacturing
Headquarters
Boston, United States
Market cap
$3.9B
Employees
4,064
Ticker
CBT
Job postings recorded (90 days)
209
Xcout AI Rank
3/100 ▼
Xcout Green Rank
40/100 ▲

Cabot Corporation leadership

  • Sean D. KeohanePresident, Chief Executive Officer & Director
  • Erica J. McLaughlinExecutive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer & Head of Corporate Strategy
  • Patricia HubbardSenior Vice President & Chief Technology Officer
  • Jennifer ChittickSenior VP of Safety, Health & Environment, Government Affairs and Chief Sustainability Officer
  • Lisa DumontVice President, Controller & Chief Accounting Officer
  • Jaume CampanaSVP & President of EMEA Region and EMEA Regional Business Dir of Reinforcement Materials Segment

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Hiring at Cabot Corporation

Xcout recorded 209 job postings from Cabot Corporation in the last 90 days, from a hiring record Xcout has kept since June 2026.

Tools named in Cabot Corporation's job postings

Carbon BlackSAPSalesforceWorkdayCoupaPower BISplunk

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Hiring vs the trend

Lagging in AI hiring

Based on 91 job postings in the last 8 weeks (10 Aug – 4 Oct 2026), compared with 19 basic materials companies.

This describes a hiring pattern — how often Cabot Corporation’s job postings ask for AI skills, and how that changed against the previous 8 weeks, ranked among its peers. It says nothing about the company’s products or performance.

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Cabot Corporation competitors

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Ingevity CorporationNGVT · ManufacturingNorth Charleston, United States
70% matchPublicAI 0/100Green 36/100

Ingevity Corporation (NGVT) is a global provider specializing in the production and distribution of advanced chemical solutions and activated carbon products. The company's reach extends across North America, the Asia Pacific region, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and South America. Its business operations are organized into two principal divisions: Performance Materials and Performance Chemicals. The Performance Materials segment focuses on the engineering, manufacturing, and sale of chemically activated carbon products, primarily derived from hardwood. These materials are chiefly utilized in gasoline vapor emission control systems for a wide range of vehicles, including cars, motorcycles, trucks, and boats. Beyond automotive applications, this division also supplies various activated carbon products for purification purposes in areas like food, water, beverages, and industrial chemicals. The Performance Chemicals segment covers pavement technologies, industrial specialty products, and engineered polymers. This division creates products sourced from crude tall oil and lignin, which are extracted during the kraft pulping process, as well as caprolactone monomers and their derivatives, synthesized from cyclohexanone and hydrogen peroxide. The extensive applications for these products include warm mix paving, pavement upkeep and refurbishment, and recycling; additives for oil well services, oil production, and downstream applications; alongside components for adhesives, agricultural dispersants, lubricants, printing inks, industrial intermediates, coatings, resins, elastomers, bioplastics, and medical devices. Ingevity Corporation was founded in 1964 and is headquartered in North Charleston, South Carolina.

Market cap$2.4B
Employees1,500
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日本カーボン5302 · ManufacturingTokyo, Japan
66% matchPublic

Nippon Carbon Co., Ltd. engages in the manufacture and sale of carbon products in Japan. The company provides carbon fiber products, such as molded heat insulating materials for high temperature furnaces; CARBORON, a soft felt used in heat insulators for high temperature furnaces; C/C Composite, a lightweight carbon material used in heat resistant composite structural members, high temperature furnace materials, trays, and jigs; and CARBEST, a carbon fiber packing material. It offers specialty carbon products, including isotropic graphite; high purity treatment graphite used for manufacturing device components for silicon and compound semiconductors, and optical fibers; carbon products for mechanical components comprising bearings, vane materials, seals, packaging, rings, and mechanical seals; BESCOAT, a silicon carbide coated products; and SC CARBON sliding composites. In addition, the company offers artificial graphite electrodes for use in high power electric arc furnaces; silicon carbide continuous fibers, such as Nicalon, Hi-Nicalon, and Hi-Nicalon Type S for use as composite reinforcement in ceramic, plastic, and other materials; and lithiumion secondary batteries used for cellular and smart phones, NBPC, tablet terminals, power tools, hybrid automobiles, and electric automobiles. Further, it provides impervious graphite RESBON, a corrosion resistant material; NICABEADS, which are surface coated micro bead shape materials; and NICAFILM, a flexible graphite sheet made from natural graphite. Nippon Carbon Co., Ltd. was incorporated in 1915 and is headquartered in Chuo, Japan.

Market cap$347.6M
Employees667
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