BATON ROUGE, La., May 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Albemarle Corporation (NYSE: ALB) www.albemarle.com, a global leader in providing innovative specialty chemicals to the food service industry, has named Ivy Natural Solutions, a subsidiary of Elanco, as its new North American marketing partner for Albemarle's portfolio of food-safety products.
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Albemarle's food-safety product line is recognized for its effectiveness as an antimicrobial in the food-safety market. In addition, the company continues to aggressively pursue new opportunities in this market to meet the high quality standards of food safety. Albemarle's latest research and development efforts have resulted in an innovative antimicrobial for pathogen reduction in a variety of food-safety markets.
'We are pleased to welcome Ivy Natural Solutions to the Albemarle team,' said Tina Craft, Albemarle product manager of industrial water treatment. Ivy is a great complement to our sales and marketing efforts, as they share our commitment to superior customer service and our focus on providing value-added solutions to our clients. We look forward to working with Ivy to offer our quality food-safety products to the marketplace.'
Tom Nicholson, vice president of Ivy Natural Solutions, added, 'Ivy Natural Solutions is very excited about this partnership and the opportunity it provides us to deliver food-safety interventions to food-animal packers and processors. We look forward to leveraging Ivy's strong relationships in the food chain as we market Albemarle's high-quality, science-based products. It's an ideal business relationship that will ultimately benefit consumers around the world.'
About Albemarle Corporation
Albemarle Corporation, headquartered in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, is a leading global developer, manufacturer and marketer of highly engineered specialty chemicals for consumer electronics; petroleum and petrochemical process; transportation and industrial products; pharmaceuticals; agricultural products; and construction and packaging materials. The company operates in three business segments -- Polymer Additives, Catalysts and Fine Chemicals -- and serves customers in approximately 100 countries. Learn more about Albemarle at www.albemarle.com.
About Ivy Natural Solutions
Ivy Natural Solutions is wholly owned subsidiary of Elanco. Ivy Natural Solutions' food-safety technologies are unique, science-based and plate-friendly, helping food-animal packers and processors deliver high-quality, safe and affordable food to consumers. Ivy Natural Solutions will provide multiple pre- and post-harvest technologies and Food Safety Knowledge Solutions(TM) for a total pathogen-control system. Learn more about Ivy Natural Solutions at www.ivynaturalsolutions.com/food-safety.
'Safe Harbor' Statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995: Statements in this press release regarding Albemarle Corporation's business which are not historical facts are 'forward-looking statements' that involve risks and uncertainties. For a discussion of such risks and uncertainties, which could cause actual results to differ from those contained in the forward-looking statements, see 'Risk Factors' in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K.
SOURCE Albemarle Corporation
