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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. 

BATON ROUGE, La. , Jan. 26, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Albemarle Corporation (NYSE: ALB) announced today Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Scott A. Tozier will be on a temporary medical leave of absence, effective immediately.  It is anticipated that he will return to his normal duties in the near future.

Conference call to be held on February 18, 2016 at 9:00 am ET BATON ROUGE, La. , Jan. 8, 2016 /PRNewswire/ --  Albemarle Corporation (NYSE: ALB), a leader in the global specialty chemicals industry, announced today that it will release its fourth quarter 2015 earnings after the NYSE closes on Wednesday, February 17, 2016.

BATON ROUGE, La. , Jan. 4, 2016 /PRNewswire/ --  Albemarle Corporation (NYSE: ALB) today announced the successful completion of the previously announced sale of its Tribotecc metal sulfides business to Treibacher Industrie AG .  The transaction included sites in Vienna and Arnoldstein, Austria and Tribotecc's proprietary sulfide synthesis process. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.