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EL Dorado Chemical
Manufacturing Facilities:
In 1983 LSB industries
acquired the El Dorado, Arkansas manufacturing facility from the
Monsanto Company as well as related sales and distribution
centers for agricultural and industrial markets. The
site produces low-density and high-density ammonium nitrate prills, ammonium nitrate solution, nitric acid and sulfuric
acid.
In 1996, El Dorado Chemical
began operation of the Mixed Acid Plant in Wilmington, North
Carolina. The plant supplies a wide
range of nitric acid/sulfuric acid mixtures.
In 1998 El Dorado Nitrogen LP
began nitric acid
operations in new state-of-the-art facilities in Baytown, Texas.
The plant supplies 65% nitric
acid for Bayer Corporation and other industrial customers.
In October 2000, LSB
Industries acquired the Cherokee, Alabama site from LaRoche
Industries. The Cherokee, Alabama facility is named Cherokee
Nitrogen and manufactures ammonia (commercial and refrigeration
grades), nitric acid, high-density ammonium nitrate solution and
prill, urea, urea-ammonium nitrate solution, specialty
ammonia-ammonium nitrate solutions and gaseous carbon dioxide.
In January 2001 LSB acquired
the former Wil-Gro Fertilizer facility in Pryor, Oklahoma and
renamed the site Pryor Plant Chemical Company. The manufacturing
facilities include four ammonia plants, a carbon dioxide
liquefaction plant, three nitric acid plants, ammonium nitrate
solution and granular plants, two urea plants and a
urea-ammonium nitrate blending facility. The Pryor facilities
are currently "mothballed".
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