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Article: Chemical profile: caustic potash.(Brief Article)
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- Chemical Market Reporter
- Article date:
- July 15, 2002
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Chemical Profile
CAUSTIC POTASH
July 15, 2002
PRODUCER CAPACITY *
Ashta Chemicals,
Ashtabula, Ohio 70
OxyChem, Delaware City, Del. 115
OxyChem, Mobile, Ala. 75
OxyChem, Muscle Shoals, Ala. 240
Vulcan Materials,
Port Edwards, Wis.80
Total580
* Thousands of short tons per year of caustic potash (potassium
hydroxide, KOH). Commercial production is usually by electrolysis of
potash (potassium chloride) using mercury or membrane cells. Caustic
soda may be made in the same cells.
In 2000, Occidental Chemical and Olin merged their ...