Ascend Performance Materials makes high-performance materials for everyday essentials and new technologies.
Our focus is on improving quality of life and inspiring a better tomorrow through innovation. Based in Houston, Texas, and with regional offices in Shanghai, Brussels and Detroit, we are a fully integrated material solutions provider with global manufacturing facilities in North America, Europe and Asia. Our global workforce makes the materials used to make safer vehicles, cleaner energy, better medical devices, smarter appliances and longer-lasting apparel and consumer goods. We are committed to safety, sustainability and the success of our customers and our communities.
Our values
We create performance materials that improve the quality of life today and inspire a better tomorrow. We achieve that through living our five Ascend values.
Our facilities have been been production sites and centers of innovation for nylon 6,6 and its intermediate chemicals since Chemstrand was chartered in 1949.
We believe it is possible to operate with zero incidents – zero personal injuries, zero process safety incidents and environmental releases. We embrace this Commitment to Zero in every activity we do.
Ascend Cares is led by Ascend employees and supports Ascend families in their time of need, provides inspiring opportunities for community engagement and facilitates community leadership.