Founded in 1920 in Kingsport, Eastman is a global specialty chemical company that produces a broad range of advanced materials, additives and functional products, specialty chemicals, fiber found in products used by people in their day today life. Eastman is focused on discovering and developing innovative, practical solutions that meet the emerging needs of a changing world and address global macro trends. Eastman manufactures a variety of functional excipients that are used to improve the efficacy of the active agent.