OxyChem’s new chlor-alkali facility will be designed to produce up to 182,500 short tons of liquid chlorine and ... business.” The plant is expected to begin operating in 2013.

The industry’s average operating rate for plants that make the chemicals known as chlor-alkali was the same as in October, The Chlorine Institute, based in Arlington, Virginia, said today in an ...

The proposed rule would ban chrysotile asbestos, the only ongoing use of asbestos in the United States ... chlor-alkali plants in the U.S. that still use asbestos diaphragms to produce chlorine ...

The sale includes chlor-alkali plants in Geismar ... chemicals business to Kemira. The Vulcan plants have annual capacity for 815,000 tons of chlorine and 315,000 tons of ethylene dichloride ...