Tetra Technologies, Lake Charles, La. 156,000 Tetra Technologies, Norco, La. 90,000 Tetra Technologies, Parkersburg, W.Va.
Different producers have different productmixes, and capacities are variable.
Ambar has acquired Akzo Nobel's saltevaporation facility in Manistee, Mich., and plans to convert the site intoa calcium chloride plant using feedstock supplies by Martin MariettaMagnesia Specialties. Magnesium Corporation of America does not sell on themerchant market. Hill Brothers buys calcium chloride from Cargill, MagnesiumCorporation of America and National Chloride and processes it into finishedproduct at Salt Lake City, Utah, and Amboy, Calif., but Hill mothballed itsAmboy plant in August 1995. Tetra's capacities on a 100 percent basis. Thecompany's capacities are all for liquid material, except at its Lake Charlessite, which has a nameplate of 36,000 tons of liquid and 120,000 tons of drymaterial.