GenTek is a manufacturer of industrial components and performance chemicals sold into numerous markets for a wide variety of end-uses.

Our products enhance the performance of our customers' end products or operations. We operate over 55 manufacturing facilities and technical centers in the U.S., Canada and Mexico.

We operate through two business segments: Manufacturing and Performance Products.

Manufacturing: Our Manufacturing Segment supplies a broad range of engineered, precision components and related services to the following markets:

• Automotive: Precision-engineered components for valve-train systems that improve engine efficiency by reducing friction and component mass; computer-aided and mechanical testing services; pre-production dies and tooling for prototype and short production runs by customers; fluid-handling equipment for automotive service applications.
• Industrial: Wire and cable for industrial markets, the commercial and residential construction industries and a wide variety of end market uses by original equipment manufacturers (OEM's).

Among our Manufacturing Segment customers are: Bombardier, Bosch, DaimlerChrysler, Delphi, Eaton, Ford, Frigidaire, General Electric, General Motors, ITT, Johnson Controls, Lear, Celestica, Fantom, Freidrich, Alcoa, Bridgeport, Cincinnati Milicron, Lyall, Makino, Mori Seiki and Woods.

Performance Products: Our Performance Products Segment provides a broad range of value-added performance chemicals, and related services and products to four principal markets:

• Pharmaceutical and Personal Care: Active chemical ingredients in the over-the-counter antiperspirants, prescription pharmaceuticals, nutritional supplements, nutraceuticals, and veterinary health products such as vaccines. Among our major customers are Bristol-Myers Squibb, Carter-Wallace, Church & Dwight, Colgate-Palmolive, Hoechst Marion Roussel, Hoffman-LaRoche, Pfizer, Schering Plough and Unilever. 
• Environmental Services: Water treatment products and services, agrochemicals for enhancing poultry productivity and sanitation and controlling phosphorus runoff, sulfuric acid regeneration and sulfur recovery, pollution abatement services, and chemicals for the prodution of catalysts used in making cleaner burning gasoline. Major customers include municipal water treatment facilities, GE/Betz, Chevron, and Shell.
• Technology: Ultra-high-purity electronic-grade chemicals for the semiconductor and disk-drive industries. Major electronic chemical customers include IBM, National Semiconductor and SEH America.
• Chemical Processing: An array of sulfur, sodium and aluminum-based chemical intermediates for the production of paper, rubber, dyes and pigments, synthetic fibers, fertilizers, and for food preservation. Major customers include AlliedSignal, DSM, Georgia Pacific, International Paper, Chemtura, PPG Industries, Olin, Westvaco and W. R. Grace.