Clarivate Analytics Stock Company Profile

Description

Calgon Carbon Corporation provides services and solutions for purifying water and air, food, beverage, and industrial process streams primarily in the United States, Europe, and Japan. It operates in three segments: Activated Carbon and Service, Equipment, and Consumer. The Activated Carbon and Service segment manufactures and markets granular and powdered activated carbon to remove organic compounds from water, air, and other liquids and gases. It also offers services related to activated carbon, including reactivation of spent carbon; and leasing, monitoring, and maintenance of carbon fills, as well as the ion exchange technologies for treatment of groundwater and process streams. The Equipment segment offers adsorption systems that are used to control volatile organic compound emissions, off gases from air strippers, and landfill gas production; and liquid phase equipment systems for use in water treatment, process purification, wastewater treatment, groundwater remediation, and de-chlorination applications. This segment also provides UV oxidation equipment for taste and odor removal in municipal drinking water and for water reuse; Ionic Separator used for the purification, separation, and recovery of products in the food, pharmaceutical, mining, chemical, and biotechnology industries; UV disinfection systems to inactivate cryptosporidium, giardia, and other pathogens in surface water; and a water management solution. The Consumer segment offers carbon cloth that is activated carbon in cloth form for medical, military, and specialty markets. The company sells its products and services through a direct sales force and sales offices, as well as through a network of agents and distributors to potable water, industrial process, environmental water, environmental air, food, and specialty markets. It also operates in Africa, Canada, India, Latin America, and other parts of Asia. The company was founded in 1942 and is headquartered in Moon Township, Pennsylvania.