Momentive Performance Materials, Inc. is an American chemical company whose products include

silicones In Organosilicon chemistry, organosilicon and polymer chemistry, a silicone or polysiloxane is a polymer composed of repeating units of siloxane (, where R = Organyl group, organic group). They are typically colorless oils or elastomer, rubber ...

and

quartz Quartz is a hard, crystalline mineral composed of silica (silicon dioxide). The Atom, atoms are linked in a continuous framework of SiO4 silicon–oxygen Tetrahedral molecular geometry, tetrahedra, with each oxygen being shared between two tet ...

. As of 2024, Momentive is a fully owned

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. Headquartered in

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, it employs 9,200 employees across more than 50 locations throughout

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and

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. With $6.5 billion in sales that year, the company was ranked as the 64th largest private company in the

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in 2019. Momentive is the fourth-largest manufacturer in the Capital Region of

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employing roughly 1,000 at its Waterford plant.

History

The company traces its origins back to GE research chemist Eugene G. Rochow, who first described the

direct process The direct process, also called the direct synthesis, Rochow process, and Müller-Rochow process is the most common technology for preparing organosilicon compounds on an industrial scale. It was first reported independently by Eugene G. Rochow and ...

for synthesizing silicone compounds. Momentive Performance Materials was later formed as a result of the sale of GE Advanced Materials to

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in 2006. After bankruptcy in 2014, and a stock offering in 2017, the company is owned by a group of South Korean investors. In 2021, the company was assessed over $2 million in penalties by the

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as a result of air, water and hazardous waste law violations that had occurred at their Waterford facility since 2007. In April 2024, it was announced that Korean-based

would fully acquire Momentive Performance Materials Group. The acquisition was completed in May 2024.

Products

Momentive's products include silicones used in several markets., as well as quartz and ceramic materials. The company also produces raw materials such as siloxane polymers and various additives, including silanes, specialty fluids, and urethane additives.

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