Cabot Corporation to Announce Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2008 Operating Results

October 3, 2008

BOSTON, Oct. 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Cabot Corporation (NYSE: CBT) announced today that it will release operating results for the fourth quarter and full year of fiscal 2008 on Wednesday, October 29, 2008 after the market closes. The Company will host a conference call and live webcast to review the fourth quarter and full year results beginning at 2:00 pm (ET) on Thursday, October 30, 2008.

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The call is being webcast by Thomson/CCBN and may be accessed at Cabot's web site at http://investor.cabot-corp.com. The webcast is also being distributed through the Thomson StreetEvents Network. Institutional investors may access the call via Thomson StreetEvents (http://www.streetevents.com), a password-protected event management site.

If you are unable to participate during the live webcast, the call and accompanying slide presentation will be archived on the Company's website at http://investor.cabot-corp.com.

About Cabot Corporation

Cabot Corporation is a global performance materials company headquartered in Boston, MA. Cabot's major products are carbon black, fumed silica, inkjet colorants, capacitor materials, and cesium formate drilling fluids.

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