Ingevity Corp. engages in the manufacture of specialty chemicals and carbon materials. The company is headquartered in North Charleston, South Carolina and currently employs 2,050 full-time employees. The company went IPO on 2016-05-02. The firm operates through two segments: Performance Materials and Performance Chemicals. The Performance Materials segment engineers, manufactures, and sells hardwood-based, chemically activated carbon products, which are produced through a technical and specialized process primarily for use in gasoline vapor emission control systems in cars, trucks, motorcycles, and boats. The firm also produces several other activated carbon products for food, water, beverage, and chemical purification applications. The Performance Chemicals segment is comprised of three product lines: pavement technologies, industrial specialties, and engineered polymers. Its products are utilized in warm mix paving, pavement preservation, pavement reconstruction and recycling, road striping, adhesives, agrochemical dispersants, lubricants, printing inks, coatings, resins, and elastomers.