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Tuscola, Illinois, USA
For more than 65 years, our manufacturing facility has been committed to maintaining the highest standards in safety, health and environmental (SH&E) performance while positively impacting the community in which we operate.
Our first fumed silica plant was built at Tuscola, Illinois, in 1958. Currently, our site has 9 manufacturing units that produces hydrophobic fumed silica and the site also packages hydrophilic fumed silica. These products serve all types of applications, including adhesives and sealants, coatings, personal care, pharmaceuticals, silicones, thermoset composites and electrophotographic printing.
More than 110 employees are based at Tuscola. We are committed to delivering contributions that make a positive difference in the local community. The Tuscola team is active, involved, and volunteering within the many communities they represent helping to meet the needs of its citizens and programs. The donations and volunteering helps with advancing our sustainability pillars of Caring for Our People and Communities, Acting Responsibly for the Planet, and Building a Better Future Together.
Life at Cabot
Gold Puppy Sponsor
Our team at Tuscola became a Gold Puppy Sponsor of the Freedom Paws Service Dogs Foundation, which provides trained post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) service dogs to Veterans without charging a fee.
Through this effort, we sponsored a dog as well as assisted with its veterinary bills, medication, food, and other necessary items. We named the puppy, Obie, after fallen police officer, Christopher Oberheim.
Operation Honor Guard
The Day of Giving is a day our community shows an outpouring of appreciation and support to Honor Guards, which is a group of Veteran volunteers that stand guard and perform military rites at funerals.
This year, we donated $1,500 to support local American Legions and VFW Posts that outfit Honor Guards in Central Illinois with proper uniforms and equipment for Veteran's funerals. Operation Honor Guard was started in 2013 by Rich Darby, a funeral director in Danville, IL who saw the need to help Honor Guards in his hometown replace mismatched and worn uniforms.
Scholarships for LIFT
Tuscola is proud to be the first business to offer tuition scholarships for LIFT, which stands for Leadership Innovating for Tomorrow. We're honored to donate $6,000 in scholarships to juniors and seniors in high school, providing them with various pathways to learn and train for their future careers.
At LIFT, the pathways are childcare, information technology, HVAC/Green Energy, manufacturing & contraction trades, leadership, and culinary arts.
Promoting STEM in the Classroom
Employees in Tuscola recently joined forces with local schools and visited third through eighth grade classrooms to facilitate STEM demonstrations.
Some of the projects included building protective egg baskets, building rockets and creating a human energy circuit. In addition, employees participated in a collection drive for supplies that could be used for science experiments within the classrooms. With their help, every item on the wish lists of STEM supplies was collected and provided to local schools.
