Successful companies share several important traits. Among them are product quality, superior customer service, innovative thinking and an ongoing commitment to improvement.

For more than a decade, CARBO Ceramics has practiced those traits as the leading supplier of ceramic proppants to the oil and gas industry, while its products have increased the productivity of new and existing wells around the globe. Today, CARBO Ceramics Inc. is one of the world's leading manufacturers of environmentally friendly ceramic media. In addition to the oil and gas industry, markets for ceramic media now include foundry metal casting and industrial mineral grinding. CARBO's three manufacturing plants, located in New Iberia, La.; Eufaula, Ala. and McIntyre, Ga. keep pace with this expanding marketplace.

But manufacturing capacity is only part of the story. CARBO Ceramics' distribution and storage network is unsurpassed in delivering product around the world, whenever and wherever it is needed. Five distribution centers in North America are complemented by storage facilities strategically located in Europe, South America and China.