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The Union Carbide and Carbon Corporation was formed on November 1, 1917, from the merger of the Union Carbide Company founded in 1898, the National Carbon Company founded in 1886, Linde Air Products Company, a maker of liquid oxygen at Buffalo confiscated from Gesellschaft für Linde's Eismaschinen AG under the Trading with the Enemy Act of 1917, and the Prest-O-Lite company, manufacturer of ...
Union Carbide was reorganized in 1989, with the Carbon Products Division renamed as the UCAR Carbon Company. [3] In 1990, the company introduced first 30-inch diameter graphite electrodes for UHP DC arc furnaces. [2] In 1995, the company developed new graphite for the US Advanced Battery Consortium for a lithium-ion battery in electric vehicles ...
At the beginning of August 1999, Dow agreed to purchase Union Carbide Corp. (UCC) for $9.3 billion in stock. [48] At the time, the combined company was the second largest chemical company, behind DuPont. [49] This led to protests from some stockholders, who feared that Dow did not disclose potential liabilities related to the Bhopal disaster. [50]
The Dow Jones Industrial Average, an American stock index composed of 30 large companies, has changed its components 59 times since its inception, on May 26, 1896. [1] As this is a historical listing, the names here are the full legal name of the corporation on that date, with abbreviations and punctuation according to the corporation's own usage.
In August 1988 Union Carbide Corporation and AlliedSignal formed a joint venture combining the latter's wholly owned subsidiary, UOP Inc., and the Catalyst, Adsorbents and Process Systems (CAPS) business of Union Carbide. AlliedSignal acquired Honeywell in 1999 and assumed the latter's name. In 2005, what was now known as Honeywell acquired ...
In 1920, the company was acquired by Union Carbide. [3] In 1922, the company invented its first alloy under the Hastelloy brand, derived from the words "Haynes Stellite Alloy". [3] In 1927, Charles Lindbergh's aircraft, the Spirit of St. Louis, which included hard-surfaced engine valves manufactured by Haynes, crossed the Atlantic Ocean. [3]
In 1999, reports emerged that the U.S. industrial gases company Praxair, which in 1992 spun off from Linde's U.S. division, 'Union Carbide Industrial Gases', [3] were in possible merger discussions with BOC. [4] Following the breakup of the talks, France's Air Liquide and Air Products & Chemicals made a series of cash offers to acquire the ...
1941: Union Batteries merges with Eveready Company and the name is changed to National Carbon Company. 1951: Renamed as Union Carbide India Ltd, a subsidiary of worldwide multinational, Union Carbide Corporation. 1958: Company set its torch manufacturing plant in Lucknow, one of the largest in South Asia.