1941
Columbian Chemicals Co. is the first carbon black company to use the industrial electron microscope.

1938
Treated carbon black is understood and controlled.

1930
Columbian Chemicals Co. acquires L. Martin and Peerless.

1927
Columbian Chemicals Co. patents dustless carbon black and is the first to produce carbon black beads.

1922
Columbian Chemicals Co. is the first to introduce and patent Gas Furnace Process (Swartz, LA).

1921
Began marketing under Columbian Chemicals Co. after consolidating several small carbon black manufacturers.

1912
Binney and Smith receives the first million pound order.

1904
Carbon black reinforcement of rubber is discovered.

1882
Binney and Smith becomes amajor carbon black distributor.

1848
L. Martin begins production of lampblack.