NYSE, GRA - W.R. Grace & Company
W. R. Grace and Co. is engaged in the production and sale of specialty chemicals
and specialty materials on a global basis through its two operating segments,
Grace Davison and Grace Construction Products. We entered the specialty
chemicals industry in 1954, when we acquired both the Dewey and Almy Chemical
Company and the Davison Chemical Company. During the 1980s and 1990s, we
divested a substantial number of businesses that were not consistent with our
business strategy. Grace is the successor to a company that originated in 1854
and originally became a public company in 1953.
Grace, along with 61 of its United States subsidiaries and affiliates, has filed
voluntary petitions for reorganization under Chapter 11 of the United States
Bankruptcy Code and, since 2001, has been subject to the jurisdiction of the
United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware. ...
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