Albemarle
Albemarle (NYSE: ALB) is a publicly traded Critical Minerals & Mining Tech company founded in 1887 and based in Charlotte, USA.
Albemarle traces its history to the Albemarle Paper Manufacturing Company, founded in Richmond, Virginia, in 1887, and has been headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, since its 2015 acquisition of Rockwood Holdings. It trades on the NYSE as ALB. Its Energy Storage segment sources lithium from the Greenbushes mine in Australia through its 49% stake in Windfield Holdings, from the Wodgina mine through the 50%-owned MARBL joint venture, and from brine at Chile's Salar de Atacama and Silver Peak, Nevada, then converts it into battery-grade carbonate and hydroxide in Australia, Chile, China and North Carolina. Its Specialties segment sells bromine and specialized lithium products. On March 2, 2026 it sold a 51% stake in Ketjen's refining catalyst business. Albemarle reported 2025 net sales of $5.14 billion and had about 7,800 employees at year-end. In the second quarter of 2026 net sales rose 31.1% to $1.74 billion, and it ended June 30, 2026 with about $3.2 billion of liquidity, including $1.6 billion in cash.
Albemarle is the incumbent lithium producer that extraction and refining startups such as Lilac Solutions, Mangrove Lithium and EnergyX sell against. In the second quarter of 2026 its Energy Storage segment sold 65,000 metric tons of lithium carbonate equivalent at an average realized price of $19.53 per kilogram, up 60.5% from a year earlier, and its adjusted EBITDA rose 229.3% to $723.5 million. For 2026 it guided Energy Storage volume of 225,000 to 235,000 tons and capital spending of about $500 million, down 15% from 2025.
At a glance
Total raised
Undisclosed
Headcount
5k-10k
Headquarters
Charlotte
Founded
1887
Status
Public
Subsector
Critical Minerals & Mining Tech
Materials Science, ranked
Top 25 Materials Science companies →Funding history
Total raised
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Rounds tracked
0
No dated funding rounds on file. This company is privately held and may be raising or operating on undisclosed capital.