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The Eldorado product line is acquired from PPG to expand aviation product offerings.

Met-L-Chek^® is acquired to expand aviation product offerings to include Non-Destructive Testing.

Cee-Bee^® Aviation Materials in Xiamen, China opens to support Chinese Aviation market growth.

McGean-Rohco Singapore expands warehouse, laboratory, and office facilities to support rapid expansion of the Asian aviation market.

McGean^® sells worldwide electroplating, metal finishing, and electronic chemicals business to Atotech (USA/Germany). The sale establishes a strategic focus on Cee-Bee^® Aviation Products, McGean^® Specialty Chemicals, and McGean^® Custom Chemical Manufacturing.

McGean^® establishes joint venture in India for promotion of electroplating and metal finishing chemistry.

McGean^® establishes a joint venture company in Wuxi, China for promotion of electroplating and metal finishing chemistry.

McGean^® acquires the Electronic Circuit Board Chemistry business from E.I. DuPont.

McGean^® establishes McGean-Rohco Singapore as a platform for growth in the Asian aviation and specialty chemicals markets.

McGean^® enters the Custom Manufacturing business.

McGean^® acquires Specialty Polymers business from MacDermid to increase its portfolio of metal finishing intermediates and adds additional custom manufacturing capacity.

McGean^® sells Antimony Products business to Cookson Group (England) to focus on metal finishing, aviation, and specialty chemicals.

McGean^® acquires the R. O. Hull Company (Est. 1944) from Lubrizol Corporation and becomes McGean-Rohco, Inc.  The acquisition establishes McGean’s expertise in electroplating and metal finishing technology.

Production operations expand to England, Mexico, Australia and Canada.

McGean^® acquires Specialty Chrome Chemicals business from Diamond Shamrock, Inc. becoming a leader in trivalent chrome technology and products.

McGean^® re-emerges as an independent private company with three business divisions: McGean^® – Inorganic Chemicals, Cee-Bee^® – Aviation Products, and Northwest – Industrial Surface Treatments.

Cee-Bee^® expands to England to supply the European aviation market.

McGean^® Chemical Company sold to Chemetron Corporation.

Cee-Bee^® enters their first international Cee-Bee^® license with C. Itoh & Company of Japan.

Cee-Bee^® laboratories develop a line of formulated products for the aviation market.

McGean^® acquires New Jersey Antimony Company to become a major supplier of antimony oxide. Over the next 20 years, McGean expands its product offerings to include electroplating additives, metallic naphthenates, chrome oxide, and catalyst-grade nickel, enabling McGean to act as a key supplier of nickel technology for the Manhattan Project.

Frank “C“hampion and Dewey “B“arber establish Cee-Bee Laboratories Ltd. to manufacture industrial cleaners.

John A. McGean and five partners incorporate McGean Chemical Company to produce inorganic and cast nickel anodes.