W.R. Grace was established in 1854 in Peru. It relocated its corporate headquarters to Maryland in 1999. Standard Industries, founded in 1881, has more than 15,000 employees in 80 countries.

A months-long fight against a proposed plastics recycling facility on the W.R. Grace & Co. Columbia campus continues as residents gathered Tuesday to share information and tips for the next steps ...

NEW YORK, June 16 (Reuters) - A company stuck in bankruptcy for 12 years may not seem like much of a catch, but investors have fallen in love with U.S. specialty chemical manufacturer W.R. Grace ...

W.R. Grace, the Columbia, Md.-based specialty chemical firm, emerged from Chapter 11 this week, more than 12 years after it filed for bankruptcy protection to buy it time to resolve asbestos ...

W.R. Grace & Co. has agreed to be acquired for $4.6 billion by a New York building materials company in an all-cash deal that also would fold in a North Carolina-based chemical manufacturer that ...

NEW YORK -- W.R. Grace & Co. has agreed to pay up to $140 million to settle a class-action lawsuit stemming from its use of an attic-insulating product that contained asbestos. The company will ...

Dec 23 (Reuters) - W.R ... Grace filed for Chapter 11 protection in 2001, making it one of the longest bankruptcies in the history of the United States, after an asbestos leak at one of its mines ...

When asbestos was labeled a killer 30 years ago, one company moved to cash in. W.R. Grace and other chemicalmakers had long been adding asbestos to fireproofing sprays, because the silky-white ...