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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-26-012994"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CBT"
cik: "0000016040"
company_name: "CABOT CORP"
filed_at: "2026-01-14T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-16T10:25:01.036562+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.1
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.1
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Cabot Corp reclasses board: Vanlancker term shift, Enriquez/Kirby departing

## Summary
- Directors Juan Enriquez and William C. Kirby terms expire at 2026 Annual Meeting; they are not re-nominated.
- Director Thierry Vanlancker nominated for a new term expiring 2029; his current term would have ended 2028.
- Vanlancker submitted a conditional resignation to rebalance three board classes to equal size, effective pre-Annual Meeting.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-26-012994
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CBT
- cik: 0000016040
- company_name: CABOT CORP
- filed_at: 2026-01-14T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.1
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.1
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/16040/000119312526012994/0001193125-26-012994-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/16040/000119312526012994/cbt-20260108.htm

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