About the Company
R.T. Vanderbilt Holding Company, Inc Background
R.T. Vanderbilt Company, Inc. first opened its doors for business on Forty-Second Street in New York City in 1916. It was started by a thirty-one year-old named Robert Thurlow Vanderbilt who had $1,000 of his own, a $24,000 family loan, and a contract to sell clay for a company in the southern United States.
Vanderbilt has grown considerably in the intervening century, and in 2013 it was reorganized to form a holding company, Known as R.T. Vanderbilt Holding Company, Inc., and a number of operating subsidiaries. These include Vanderbilt Chemicals, LLC, which operates chemical manufacturing facilities in Kentucky and Connecticut, and primarily serves the petroleum, rubber, and plastics industries; and Vanderbilt Minerals, LLC, which operates mining and milling facilities in New York, the Carolinas, Nevada, Arizona, and California; and servicing the subsidiaries Vanderbilt Global Services, LLC, a shared services organization that provides support service. These operating companies, Vanderbilt Chemicals and Vanderbilt Minerals, supply industrial chemicals and minerals within the United States and in some eighty countries around the world. In addition to supplying its own chemicals and minerals, Vanderbilt distributes the products of other distinguished companies. The above entities are registered to the ISO 9001 standard, and are certified to The American Chemistry Council’s Responsible Care® initiative.
Vanderbilt provides technical and marketing development services through its international subsidiaries: Vanderbilt Worldwide, Ltd., located in Nantwich, UK; Vanderbilt Asia Pacific, Ltd., located in Hong Kong, China; Vanderbilt (Beijing) Trading, Ltd. in China; and Vanderbilt Japan, LLC in Tokyo.
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