15 Facts About Union Carbide

Union Carbide Corporation is an American chemical corporation wholly owned by Dow Chemical Company.

Union Carbide produces chemicals and polymers that undergo one or more further conversions by customers before reaching consumers.

Union Carbide is a former component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average.

Union Carbide divested consumer products businesses Eveready and Energizer batteries, Glad bags and wraps, Simoniz car wax and Prestone antifreeze.

Union Carbide divested other businesses before being acquired by Dow including electronic chemicals, polyurethane intermediates, industrial gases and carbon products.

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Union Carbide continued to acquire related chemical producers, including the Bakelite Corporation in 1939.

Union Carbide changed its name to "Union Carbide Corporation" in 1957 and was often referred to as Carbide.

Union Carbide sold the mine to its employees under the name KCAC in the 1980s, but it only operated for a few more years.

Union Carbide insisted the accident was an act of sabotage by a rogue worker.

Union Carbide was sued by the Government of India and agreed to an out-of-court settlement of US$470 million in 1989.

Union Carbide blamed the leak of aldicarb oxime, the main ingredient in the popular farm pesticide Temik, on a valve failure after a buildup of pressure in a storage tank containing 500 pounds of the chemical.

Union Carbide commenced the production of bisphenol A in 1960 and phenol formaldehyde resins in 1964.

Union Carbide reclaimed land on neighboring properties by depositing spent lime and ash into the adjacent marshes in Homebush Bay.

Union Carbide relocated its headquarters to Danbury, Connecticut in 1982, to a newly-built complex known as the Union Carbide Corporate Center.

At 700 feet tall, the Union Carbide Building would be the tallest building in the world ever voluntarily demolished, as well as the third-tallest ever to be destroyed, after the World Trade Center Twin Towers.