News

Conference call to be held on May 11, 2016 at 9:00 am ET BATON ROUGE, La. , April 7, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Albemarle Corporation (NYSE: ALB), a leader in the global specialty chemicals industry, announced today that it will release its first quarter 2016 earnings after the NYSE closes on Tuesday, May 10, 2016.

BATON ROUGE, La. , March 11, 2016 /PRNewswire/ --  Albemarle Corporation (NYSE: ALB) announced today that Luke Kissam , president and chief executive officer; Matt Juneau , senior vice president, Corporate Strategy and Investor Relations; and Sharon McGee , vice president, Corporate Development, Albemarle Corporation to attend Barclay's Global Cross-Asset Class Materials Conference on March 29, 2016

BATON ROUGE, La. , March 10, 2016 /PRNewswire/ --  Albemarle Corporation (NYSE: ALB) announced today that Matt Juneau , senior vice president, Corporate Strategy and Investor Relations; Sharon McGee , vice president, Corporate Development; and Raphael Crawford, president, Bromine Solutions, will attend the BB&T Capital Markets Commercial & Industrial Investor Conference on March 23, 2016 in Coral Gables, Florida.

BATON ROUGE, La. , March 9, 2016 /PRNewswire/ --  Albemarle Corporation (NYSE: ALB) announced today that Matt Juneau , senior vice president, Corporate Strategy and Investor Relations, will present at the Goldman Sachs Houston Chemical Intensity Days Conference in Houston, Texas on March 15, 2016 at 9:00 am CT.

BATON ROUGE, La., March 3, 2016 /PRNewswire/ --  Albemarle Corporation (NYSE: ALB) announced today that Matt Juneau, senior vice president, Corporate Strategy and Investor Relations, and John Mitchell, president, Lithium, and Advanced Materials, will attend the Seaport Global Chemicals and Industrials Conference on March 7, 2016, in San Francisco, California.

BATON ROUGE, La. , Feb. 26, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- The board of directors of Albemarle Corporation (NYSE: ALB) declared today a quarterly dividend of $0.305 per share, an increase of 5% over the previous quarterly dividend of $0.29 .  The dividend, which has a new annualized rate of $1.22 , is payable April 1, 2016, to shareholders of record at the close of business as of March 16, 2016.

BATON ROUGE, La. , Feb. 25, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Albemarle Corporation (NYSE: ALB) announced today that Luke Kissam, president, and CEO of Albemarle will present at the Bank of America Merrill Lynch Global Agriculture and Chemicals Conference on March 2, 2016, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

BATON ROUGE, La. , Feb. 24, 2016 /PRNewswire/ --  Albemarle Corporation (NYSE: ALB), a leader in the development, manufacture and marketing of flame retardants, and ICL (NYSE & TASE: ICL), a leading specialty chemicals company in bromine and bromine derivatives, announced today that they have entered into a long-term agreement for the supply of a polymeric flame retardant.

BATON ROUGE, La. , Feb. 17, 2016 /PRNewswire/ --   Fourth quarter 2015 highlights: Full year and fourth quarter earnings of $3.00 and $1.55 per diluted share, respectively; full year adjusted diluted earnings $3.94 per share; fourth quarter 2015 adjusted diluted earnings of $1.03 per share...

BATON ROUGE, La. , Feb. 8, 2016 /PRNewswire/ --  Albemarle Corporation (NYSE: ALB), a global leader in the refinery catalysts industry, announced today that it will increase prices of its fluid catalytic cracking catalysts by 10 percent, effective March 15, 2016 , or as contracts allow.

BATON ROUGE, La. , Feb. 1, 2016 /PRNewswire/ --  Albemarle Corporation (NYSE: ALB), a premier specialty chemicals company and leader in the production of lithium and lithium derivatives, announced today that it has been granted approval by the Environmental Assessment Commission (CEA) of the Antofagasta Region to increase its currently authorized lithium brine extraction rate at the company's facility in the Salar de Atacama, Chile. The increase will enable the company to meet the accelerating demand for lithium, especially high purity lithium compounds required for the production of lithium batteries.

BATON ROUGE, La. , Feb. 1, 2016 /PRNewswire/ --  Albemarle Corporation (NYSE: ALB) today announced the successful completion of the previously announced sale of its Minerals business, which includes both Mineral Flame Retardants and Specialty Chemicals, to Huber Engineered Materials.