The first year concentrates on the development of process, project and production engineering skills and the second year focuses on enhancing business and leadership skills. The CLDP offers transition support into careers at Cytec in a variety of areas including operations, engineering, sales, research and development, supply chain and marketing.

Our sales and marketing professionals make valuable contributions to Cytec's new product stream by supplying front-line input to our applications-driven research and development program.

As part of our focus on the customer, we're also product stewards. All Cytec employees are accountable for the responsible and ethical management of the health, safety, and environmental aspects of a product. In the field, we're involved with how Cytec products are used by customers.

Few companies can match our record of successful new products, most of which were developed to help customers improve the performance of their own products and processes.

Cytec's participation in over a dozen diverse and growing markets presents a wide range of opportunities for new employees. We are a leader in flocculant technologies for water and waste treatment. We're an established leader in specialized mineral processing chemicals. We are the global, integrated leader in melamine-based crosslinkers for coatings and tire manufacture.

Cytec is an important supplier of polymer additives used for UV light stabilization in plastics and coatings. Our Company is a solid competitor in niche surfactants and specialty monomer markets such as emulsion polymerization. We lead in phosphines derivatives technology and aerospace adhesives, and we are one of the two leading products of aerospace composites.

Cytec is also a major manufacturer of building block chemicals, such as ammonia, acrylonitrile, acrylamide, and melamine, many of which are used as raw materials for the Company's specialty chemicals.

Cytec's field representatives are members of one of the most highly respected sales and technical organizations in the specialty chemicals industry. Our sales and technical support personnel, representing a wide range of disciplines, create the links between the company and customers in many different markets around the world. Cytec personnel are highly attuned to customer needs across a variety of dynamic and highly competitive marketplaces.

To strengthen customer links, Cytec field personnel operate as members of cross-functional teams that focus several disciplines on customer performance or process problems. Solving these problems is at the heart of Cytec's applications-driven, new product development programs.

In-depth resources are available to all Cytec employees. These begin with training which develops your understanding of markets and trends within those markets. Sales and marketing people at Cytec quickly learn to understand customer perspectives and needs as well as how to fulfill those needs.

Cytec emphasizes leadership. Therefore, continuing training that strengthens personal and managerial skills is part of a Cytec sales and marketing career. Developing leadership skills is essential to growing sales territories and building markets that are the ultimate results of Cytec's passion for the customer.

The challenges are there in a Cytec sales and marketing career as well as the constant opportunity for self-improvement- and for more responsibility as your career develops.

We have a long and distinguished history in basic research. Cytec's research is directed toward gaining greater understanding of molecular structures, how their performance can be maximized in specific customer applications, and how to engineer processes that most efficiently manufacture these new chemistries.
Applied technology is a critical link between Cytec and its customers and is a pervasive influence throughout the Company. Cytec's central, regional, and dedicated-industry-technical service laboratories in the USA, Europe, Asia/Pacific, and Latin America network with each other to provide applications technology to customers on a local basis.

Research at Cytec often involves working closely with customers' research groups through joint technical development programs to fully understand their applications, assure that they derive maximum benefit from our technologies, and help them develop new products and enter new markets.

Process research is an important aspect of Cytec's technical program. Continuous improvement of Cytec's manufacturing methods results in high-quality, cost-effective products that are consistent with the Chemical Manufacturers Association Responsible Care program, while meeting customer needs.

Cytec maintains collaborative relationships with the scientific community and universities and exchanges knowledge and ideas throughout the Company and within its major industries.

Research and technical development people also play an important role in Cytec's company-wide continuous improvement programs as well as in the analysis of raw materials. Technical professionals work in cross-functional teams with other Cytec departments, such as manufacturing and marketing, to review customers' process requirements and to commercialize promising new chemistries.

Manufacturing is a strategic focus at Cytec and is quality-driven. Our goals are to continuously improve product consistency, operating efficiency, and safety through stringent quality assurance processes and sound engineering and training.
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Cytec is continually investing to expand capacity, introduce new products, improve quality, and enhance environmental systems at key manufacturing sites. Cytec's process development and engineering efforts have resulted in patented processes that contribute significantly to performance and the successful introduction of new products.

Continuous Improvement and Total Quality Management (TQM) are global corporate mandates. Statistical Process Control (SPC) is utilized at all Cytec plants. The majority of our facilities are ISO 9000-certified, and we are on track with the balance of our certification programs. Cytec quality standards have earned us standing as a preferred supplier with many customers.

The range of products, processes, and businesses offer new Cytec employees substantial opportunities for personal and professional growth.

Cytec's process engineers design process control systems, process scale-ups, and start-ups. Manufacturing efficiency and cost improvements, regulatory and environmental evaluations, and safety management are all critical aspects of Cytec process management.

Cytec plant operations staffs participate in cross-functional teams to expedite the commercialization of new products and to improve the Company's operations along with service to our customers.
photo Manufacturing personnel focus on two very important customer needs: quality and dependability of supply.

To help maintain our commitment to customers, Cytec emphasizes leadership, management development, training, safety, and continuous improvement.

Cytec, whose pioneering work helped the CMA develop Emergency Response and Incident Management (ERIM) programs, is now at the industry's forefront in safety procedures. ERIM includes cooperation with the cities and towns where our plants are located and encompasses the transportation of Cytec products. We have been, and will continue to be, a good community neighbor.

Cytec is a charter member of the Chemical Manufacturers Association's (CMA) Responsible Care program. That program promotes responsible management of chemicals, especially as they relate to local communities and the environment. We have been consistently ahead of the industry in implementing responsible practices. Indeed, many of these have become Responsible Care standards.

Cytec operates over 24 manufacturing, research and development, and distribution facilities worldwide. The Company employs approximately 4,000 people in the United States and approximately 1,000 people in other countries.

Tracking of Cytec's global activities, which produce well over a billion dollars in sales annually, requires sophisticated financial analysis and state-of-the-art information management systems. Cytec's growth produces opportunities in a spectrum of important support services including accounting, financial analysis, treasury, systems engineering, and information management.

Financial Services
At Cytec, Financial Services encompasses a wide range of accounting and financial functions all dedicated to supporting our global competitive strategy in addition to the traditional activities of reporting and auditing, managing assets, establishing controls, and maintaining the integrity of financial systems.

In support of our global strategy, Financial Services manages treasury and tax functions, implements new financial systems, develops budgets, establishes cost controls, conducts performance analyses and investment recommendations, analyzes foreign exchange issues, and participates in joint venture/acquisition planning and capital projects.

Cytec financial professionals are involved with all aspects of the Company's global businesses, which are broadly diversified by market and geography. Cytec seeks professionals with expertise in external reporting, financial accounting, financial analysis, management reporting, systems development, auditing and treasury services as a means of expanding its businesses and improving performance.

Information Services
Cytec depends on advanced information processing systems to help manage its worldwide sales, manufacturing, procurement, research and customer service operations.

To manage its information systems, Cytec relies on talented personnel who can integrate and operate the latest hardware and software developments for a variety of functions. These activities ensure an accurate flow of information within Cytec and between the Company and its customers and suppliers.

Information systems activities range from managing business applications systems to optimizing communications networks. Assignments are varied and can involve supporting specific business units as a programmer/analyst, operating the Company's international communications network, enhancing the Company's local and wide area networks, developing applications for functions such as marketing and finance, or operating hardware that ranges from PCs to advanced servers.

Cytec specialists are also involved with computer-aided engineering for new plants and processes, customer services, molecular modeling, and computer graphics. Many Cytec information services professionals also support additional Company functions, including financial management, research and development, inventory control, distribution, and other administrative systems.