Cabot Corporation is a specialty chemicals and performance materials company. It operates in four segments: the Carbon Black Business, the Metal Oxides Business, the Supermetals Business, and the Specialty Fluids Business. The Carbon Black Business segment offers rubber blacks, performance products, and inkjet colorants serving various markets, such as automotive, building materials, agricultural, coatings, toners, inkjet printing, and electronics markets. The Metal Oxides Business segment provides fumed metal oxides, including fumed silica and fumed alumina, and dispersions; and aerogel product lines. It serves automotive, construction, microelectronics, and consumer products industries. The Supermetals Business segment produces tantalum, niobium, and their alloys. Its tantalum products are used for the manufacture of tantalum sputtering targets used in thin film applications, including semiconductors, optics, magnetics, and flat panel displays. The Specialty Fluids Business segment engages in the production and marketing of cesium formate as a drilling and completion fluid for use in oil and gas well operations. The company primarily offers products in North America, South America, Europe, Asia Pacific, and China. Cabot was founded in 1882 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.