Close the sale of a controlling stake in Ketjen Corporation to KPS Capital Partners
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- Announced
- 27 Oct 2025
- Due
- 30 Jun 2026
- Delivered
- 2 Mar 2026
- Deadline
- Met
- Late
- Not met
- Today
What the company said
“Both transactions are expected to close in the first half of 2026 pending regulatory approvals”
What we found
Evidence strength A What the grades mean
Albemarle completed the sale of a controlling stake in its refining catalyst solutions business (Ketjen) on March 2, 2026, which occurred within the first half of 2026.
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A Albemarle Corporation 8-K filed 2026-08-05
“the company sold a 51% stake on March 2, 2026” ✓ confirmed on the page
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A Albemarle Corporation 10-Q filed 2026-08-05
“On October 25, 2025, we signed a definitive agreement to divest the controlling ownership interest of our Refining Solutions business to ChemCat AcquisitionCo, LLC and contribute the remaining ownership interest to ChemCat Holdings, LP, a newly formed limited partnership (“Holdco”), with the sale cl” ✓ confirmed on the page
Market reaction: the shares moved +8.3% against the S&P 500 over the three sessions around the disclosure (4 Aug 2026 to 7 Aug 2026). What this measures
Checked 18 Oct 2026.
Commitment lineage
Every time the company restated this commitment. The original is never changed, and the outcome is always measured against version 1.
- Deadline drift -91 days
- 2 versions
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Version 1 · original · stated 27 Oct 2025
Deadline 30 Jun 2026 (“in the first half of 2026”) · wording expected
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Version 2 · stated 11 Feb 2026
Deadline 31 Mar 2026 (“in Q1 2026”) · wording firm
“on track to close sale of controlling stake in Ketjen in Q1 2026”
Commitment DNA
The structured record of this commitment. Fields the company did not state are left blank rather than guessed.
- Event type
- Acquisition close
- Indicative materiality
- High rules
- Action
- Close
- Deliverable
- sale of controlling stake in Ketjen
- Language
- Expected (“expects”, “plans”)
- In the company’s control
- Medium
- Specificity
- High
- Conditional
- Yes: pending regulatory approvals; customary closing conditions
- Depends on
- Regulatory, Counterparty
How this entry was checked
- Commitment recordedThe company's words were matched word for word against the filing.
- First checkAn AI model, Gemini (Google), read the company's later filings and recorded the outcome with a quoted passage.
- Second check: agreesA different AI model, Claude (Anthropic), re-read the evidence without being told the outcome and reached the same answer.
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