Ashland Inc.

Ashland Inc. is a global additives and specialty ingredients company that provides solutions for consumer and industrial markets. Headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware, the company was founded in 1924 and has evolved through strategic transformations from its origins as an oil refiner into a focused specialty chemicals provider.

It operates through four primary segments: Life Sciences, offering pharmaceutical solutions including controlled release polymers, disintegrants, tablet coatings, thickeners, solubilizers, and binders, along with nutrition and nutraceutical products; Personal Care, supplying biofunctionals, preservatives, and ingredients for skin care, sun care, oral care, hair care, and household applications; Specialty Additives, delivering rheology modifiers and performance additives for architectural coatings, construction, energy, automotive, and industrial uses; and Intermediates, producing 1,4-butanediol and derivatives such as n-methylpyrrolidone for chemical intermediates and solvents.

Ashland serves customers in more than 100 countries with approximately 2,900 employees. It is publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol ASH. Following portfolio optimizations, divestitures including the separation of Valvoline, and a 2022 name change from Ashland Global Holdings Inc., the company emphasizes sustainability, innovation, and growth in high-value areas such as life sciences and personal care within the specialty chemicals industry.