BATON ROUGE , La . , March 3 / PRNewswire-FirstCall / -- Albemarle Corporation ( NYSE : ALB ) announced today that Richard J. Diemer Jr . , Chief Financial Office and Senior Vice President , will be speaking to investors at the Davenport Basic Industries Conference at the Omni Berkshire , in New York , New York , on Thursday , March 5th , 2009 at 7 : 45 a.m.