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Vulcans Chemicals segment is a significant producer of basic industrial and specialty chemicals. Through its Chloralkali Business Unit, it produces chlorine, caustic soda, hydrochloric acid, potassium chemicals and chlorinated organic chemicals. Through its Performance Systems Business Unit, it provides process aids for the pulp and paper and textile industries, chemicals and services to the municipal, industrial and environmental water management markets, and the custom manufacture of a variety of specialty chemicals.
Chloralkali Plants and
Performance Systems FacilitiesChloralkali Business Unit
The Chloralkali Business Unit produces chlorine, caustic soda, hydrochloric acid, potassium chemicals and chlorinated organic chemicals. Vulcan is a technology leader in chlorine chemistry and its application to modern healthy living, from pharmaceuticals to plastics to water treatment.
Vulcans chloralkali manufacturing facilities are located at Wichita, Kansas, Geismar, Louisiana, and Port Edwards, Wisconsin. Principal markets for Vulcans chloralkali chemicals include chemical processing, dry cleaning, energy, environmental services, fluorocarbons, food and pharmaceuticals, metal cleaning, pulp and paper, silicones, soap and cleaning chemicals, textiles, and water management. Sales to the chemical processing industry serve companies that produce organic and inorganic chemical intermediates and finished products ranging from clay-based catalysts to agricultural herbicides. Products sold to this market include hydrochloric acid, chlorine and caustic soda. Vulcan is also an important supplier of perchloroethylene, chloroform, methylene chloride and methyl chloroform for use as raw materials for the fluorocarbons market. The Chloralkali Unit markets potassium chemicals to the agricultural, de-icing and television and computer screen glass industries. Methyl chloride is primarily sold into the silicones and agricultural markets.
Vulcan markets perchloroethylene to the dry cleaning industry. Hydrochloric acid and caustic soda are used by the energy industry for oil well stimulation and gas extraction. Caustic soda also is used to demineralize water for steam production at electrical energy facilities and to remove sulfur from gas and coal. The food and pharmaceuticals markets continue to provide stable long-term demand for hydrochloric acid, methylene chloride, caustic soda and caustic potash. In the papermaking industry, chlorine is used for pulp and paper bleaching, while caustic soda is used primarily in the pulping process. Chlorine also is used for water and sewage treatment while caustic soda and caustic potash also are used in the production of soaps and detergents.
Customers are served by the Chloralkali Business Units manufacturing plants and network of distribution terminals from which products are shipped by rail, barge, truck and ocean-going vessels. Vulcan owns a fleet of dedicated railcars and operates one of the largest private chemical trucking fleets in the nation.
The Chloralkali Business Unit continued its successful program of emissions reductions at its manufacturing plants. Emissions to the environment as reported under federal right-to-know laws have been reduced by more than 98% since 1988.
Performance Systems Business Unit The Performance Systems Business Unit offers a unique blend of products, services, technologies and manufacturing capabilities for a variety of customer needs in the pulp and paper, textile, water management, and food processing industries. Performance Systems includes Callaway Chemical Company, Vulcan Chemical Technologies, Inc. (formerly Vulcan Oxidation Systems), and Vulcans sodium chlorite business.
Callaway is a leading manufacturer of specialty and custom chemicals for the pulp and paper, textile, and water management industries. In addition, Callaway custom manufactures a variety of specialty chemicals for other companies. Callaway operates manufacturing plants in Columbus, Smyrna and Dalton, Georgia, Shreveport, Louisiana, and in Vancouver, British Columbia. Callaways research and development facilities, and its headquarters, are located in Columbus, Georgia. Callaway also markets sodium hydrosulfite produced at Vulcans Port Edwards, Wisconsin manufacturing complex. Sodium hydrosulfite is used primarily for paper bleaching.
Vulcan Chemical Technologies, Inc. ("VCT") provides customers with oxidation and other chemicals, equipment and services. The nations largest supplier of chlorine dioxide and related equipment to municipal water management, paper and industrial, and food and beverage markets, VCT also supplies hydrogen peroxide and related equipment to municipal water treatment markets for odor and corrosion control, and uses mobile equipment to deliver chlorine dioxide to industrial users for cooling tower cleaning. Established in June 1996. VCT includes the former Rio Linda Chemical Co. and Miller Aldridge Chemicals Inc., the odor and corrosion control business that was previously part of Vulcan Peroxidation Systems, and the municipal water treatment and food businesses acquired from the Drew Industrial Division of Ashland Chemical Company and Savolite Inc., respectively.
Vulcan manufactures sodium chlorite at a world class manufacturing facility at the Companys Wichita, Kansas chemical complex. Vulcan is the largest North American producer of sodium chlorite and the worlds second largest. Sodium chlorite is used in a variety of applications including drinking and industrial water treatment, air scrubbing, and paper, textile and electronics manufacturing.
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