Grace provides innovative products, technologies, and services that improve the products and processes of its customers. It strives to be a premier specialty chemical and materials company by providing innovative technologies and value-added products and services through its industry-leading business segments—Catalysts Technologies and Materials Technologies. It produces and sells chemicals and silica-based materials used in refining, pharma, chemical manufacturing, coating, and various chemical process applications. William Grace founded the Columbia, Maryland-located company in 1854.