Talk:W. R. Grace and Company/Archives/2013

W.R.Grace & Co

One major branch in which W.R.Grace took actively part up to 1930´s was the locomotive sales from makers to the customers in Central and South America. Strange, not a word mentioned of this kind of profitable business in the main article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.115.118.82 (talk) 12:28, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

Hi, my name is Silva Yousefian and I work in the Communications Department at W. R. Grace & Co. I was recently reading the Wikipedia page on the company. It’s an interesting description and we appreciate everyone’s efforts to develop the content.

I noticed that some of the information is outdated or incorrect and I wanted to request a few changes to keep the page current. Most of the changes are minor, such as updating our financial results. The suggested changes are:

Company Name: The official name of the company is spelled as: W. R. Grace & Co. (Please note that the words “and” and “Company” should not be spelled out.) Grace is just fine on the second reference as most people know us by that name.

Headcount: We have 6,000 employees. (The headcount is currently listed as 6,400 and 6,500 on the page.)

Financial Results: Our revenues for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2011 were more than $2.675 billion (not $2.5 billion as currently listed.)

Company Structure and Products: The page currently lists former operating segments and products. A more accurate listing would be:

The company has two operating segments, Grace Davison and Grace Construction Products. Grace Davison makes chemical catalysts, refining catalysts, packaging materials and silica-based products Grace Construction Products produces and sells specialty construction chemicals and specialty building materials such as, cement and concrete additives and fire protection materials. Their customers include those in the energy and refining industry, consumer, industrial and packaging industries, petrochemical and biochemical industries and the pharmaceutical and life sciences industries.

Subsidiaries and some of their products include:

Grace Davison

       •Refining Technologies such as, catalysts
       •Material Technologies such as silica-based and silica-aluminum based materials 
        used in industrial applications, consumer applications, coatings and print media  
        applications and packing materials.
       •Specialty Technologies such as catalysts and catalysts supports, adsorbents, and 
        silica-based Separation Media.

Grace Construction Products

       •Concrete admixtures and fibers 
       •Additives used in cement processing
       •Building materials 
       •Fire protection materials

The information listed above can be found in our Form 10-K filing on our website at: http://phx.corporate-ir.net/External.File?item=UGFyZW50SUQ9ODg4NjZ8Q2hpbGRJRD0tMXxUeXBlPTM=&t=1

Medical Program: The number of enrollees for the Libby medical program is not current. It should be 1,100 (not 900). More information can be found at: http://www.libbymedicalprogram.com/lmp_news.html

Company Logo: We have made changes to our branding so the logo used on the page is not up-to-date. Our new logo (in a variety of formats) can be downloaded at: http://www.grace.com/Media/MediaKit/Logo.aspx. Feel free to use whichever format is most appropriate.

Just let me know if you have any questions about this information.

Thanks!

Silva Silvay1 (talk) 19:34, 23 June 2011 (UTC)

Lawsuits

I have removed the uncited and vague reference to a 1998 SEC lawsuit. The lawsuit in question (info at http://www.cfo.com/article.cfm/2989877?f=search) was about a relatively small accounting irregularity, and was rapidly settled with no admission of wrongdoing. Compared with the various environmental contamination lawsuits and an unmentioned late-90s severance package/sexual harassment scandal, this lawsuit seems insignificant enough to not bother with absent a more extensive litigation section in the article. 151.199.33.241 (talk) 03:14, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

Contamination/Asbestos

Dropped this graf:

The company has a history of environmental crimes, which were summarized in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer on 18 November 1999, headlining "The History of W.R. Grace & Co." These crimes were the basis for the bestselling non-fiction book and popular motion picture, A Civil Action, which concerned the pollution-destruction of neighborhoods in Massachusetts by W.R. Grace & Co.

Because 1) it doesn't seem to have anything to do with asbestos 2) the Woburn case is mentioned in the head graf for the section and 3) there's no linking ref to the Seattle P-I article. If it can be re-integrated into the article per guidelines, go for it!. Ellsworth (talk) 23:05, 29 August 2012 (UTC)