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December 2015 Orion acquires Chinese entity QECC, renaming it Orion Engineered Carbons Qingdao (OECQ)
July 2014 Common shares of Orion Engineered Carbons begin trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol OEC
2013: Closing of Sines Plant in Protugal
July 29, 2011, Evonik sells its Carbon Black unit to Rhone Group, which is joined by Triton Capital in the acquisition: Orion Engineered Carbons is established
Closing of the Botlek plant in the Netherlands
Evonik acquires Algorax. Algorax is now known as Orion Engineered Carbons (Pty) Ltd.

Closing of Aransas Pass, TX, facility
Evonik acquires Full Ownership of Degussa Engineered Carbons LLC
Degussa completes construction of its Grassroots carbon black plant in Paulinia, Brazil
In US, and Degussa Engineered Carbons Inc. form the joint venture Degussa Engineered Carbons, LLC, combining the Degussa US plants with ECI's Baytown, TX, Borger, TX, and Orange, TX, facilities
Closing of Baytown plant

Degussa starts the German-Chinese joint venture in the field of Rubber and Tire Carbon Black in the form of the Qingdao Degussa Chemical Company Ltd. in Jiaozhou (now Qingdao Evonik Chemical Company (QECC)), and builds China's then-largest Carbon Black factory, which is the first entry of a Western company into China. Degussa initially held 40 percent of the stock, acquiring a majority interest in 1997
Degussa acquires the Carbon Black business of LG Chemical of South Korea consisting of two plants, at Bupyeong and Yeosu, with a combined capacity for rubber and specialty blacks of 213,000 metric tons per year

Degussa acquires the European Carbon Black works belonging to the Phillips Petroleum Company of Bartlesville, Oklahoma (USA). This gives Degussa full ownership of the carbon black plants in Ambès, France, and Botlek, Netherlands
Degussa acquires Full Ownership of carbon black factories in Malmö, Sweden, and in Ravenna, Italy
Degussa purchases the Port Elizabeth, South Africa plant of Phillips Carbon Black, forming Algorax, a joint venture with the Industrial Development Corporation of South Africa
Degussa acquires Ashland Oil Inc.'s carbon black production facilities in Aransas Pass, TX, Belpre, OH, and Ivanhoe, LA, forming Degussa Carbon Black Corporation

1938 August Wegelin AG is completely absorbed into the Degussa Group
1936 Degussa establishes the Deutsche Gasrusswerke GmbH (DGW) in Dortmund, Germany (Orion Engineered Carbons GmbH today holds 54.35% of DGW)
1932 the company acquires a majority share in the August Wegelin AG in Kalscheuren near Cologne, Germany, beginning its involvement in the production of Carbon Black. (With a capacity of 160,000 tons per year, the factory is the largest of its kind in Europe today)