Key Milestones

1936	Organized as a partnership between R.I. Wishnick, Continental Oil, and Shamrock Oil & Gas. First carbon black plant is built that same year in Sunray, Texas.
1954	Second plant started production in Ponca City, Oklahoma.
1955	Pilot plant added at Sunray, Texas to develop new grades of carbon black.
1958	Ownership changes: Conoco 50%, Shamrock Oil & Gas 29%, and Witco Chemical 21%.
1960	Expanded internationally by establishing plants with JV partners in France, Holland, and Italy. Ownership changes: Conoco 80%, Witco 20%.
1969	Third plant started at Phenix City, Alabama. The only carbon black plant in the southeastern U.S.
1981	Conoco acquired by DuPont. Conoco purchases Witco's 20% interest. Equities in European and Asian plants sold to JV partners.
1984	Conoco sells Continental Carbon to Witco Chemical. Company becomes Concarb Division of Witco.
1990	Added 75 MLbs. capacity at Ponca City, Oklahoma, becoming the first grass-roots expansion in the U.S. carbon black industry since 1967.
1998	Phenix City plant doubled in size when 100 MLbs. of new capacity came on stream in December.
2000	Acquired Carbon Black Business of Oriental Carbon & Chemicals Ltd. (OCCL) in India. Establishment of Continental Carbon India, Ltd.
2004	Completion of upgrade and expansion of CCIL to 65,000 MT capacity.