113,000 CXY, Bruderheim, Alberta 75,000 CXY, Nanaimo, B.C. 20,000 Eka Nobel Canada, Magog, Que. 165,000 Eka Nobel Canada, Valleyfield, Que. St. Anne Chemical, Nackawic, N.B. 11,000 Sterling Pulp Chemicals, Buckingham, Que. 132,000 Sterling Pulp Chemicals, Grand Prairie, Alberta 55,000 Sterling Pulp Chemicals, North Vancouver, B.C. 101,000 Sterling Pulp Chemicals, Saskatoon, Sask. 55,000 Sterling Pulp Chemicals, Thunder Bay, Ont.
Commercial production is by electrolysis of a sodium chloride solution.
Albchem added 22,000 short tons of capacity to its Bruderheim plant in mid-1998. Elf Atochem closed its 25,000-ton plant at Tacoma, Wash., in September 1997. Huron Tech Corporation's new 90,000-ton plant at Eastover, S.C., is scheduled to come on line in March. The company entered negotiations in January 1998 to sell its electrolytic and specialty chemicals business, including its chlorate plants at Henderson and Hamilton, Miss., to Finnish Chemicals, but the companies could not reach an agreement. Sterling Pulp Chemicals added 110,000 tons of capacity to its US total by bringing on a new plant at Valdosta, Ga., in 1997.