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143.6 LBD - Nalco Garyville and Evonik Stockhausen Nalco first opened a production facility in Garyville in 1970. Today, the Garyville complex comprises more than 220-acres and produces industrial water treatment products, such as corrosion and scale inhibitors, used in boilers and cooling towers; wastewater treatment products; and process
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145.4 LBD - Noranda Alumina Gramercy The orange facility just downriver from Rain CII is the Noranda Alumina refinery. The orange color comes from bauxite (aluminum ore). Construction on the alumina refinery began in 1957 with the first shipment of alumina occurring two years later. Ocean going freighters supply
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145.6 LBD - Rain CII Gramercy Calciner Commissioned in 1972 by Kaiser Aluminum; the plant was built to calcine (heat in rotary kilns) petroleum coke in order to produce carbon that is made into aluminum smelter anodes (electrodes). It has one rotary kiln with 230,000 ton/yr capacity.
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146.2 LBD - Louisiana Sugar Refining (LSR) Founded in 1895 by a group of financiers from Gramercy Park, New York on a site called "Faubourg Lapin". First operated as a sugar mill to process sugar cane from Golden Grove Plantation. A refinery was built in 1902 to
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150.4 LBD - ADM Growmark St. Elmo ADM Growmark’s St. Elmo grain terminal is just upriver from Paulina, LA. It has a 2,000,000 bushel capacity
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160.4 - Mosaic Uncle Sam Mosaic’s Uncle Sam plant brings in phosphate rock from Florida and Peru. The phosphate rock is then combined with sulfuric acid to produce phosphoric acid which is shipped to Mosaic’s Faustina plant just up the river. The Uncle Sam facility sits on
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160.9 - SunCoke Energy Convent Marine Terminal SunCoke Energy just bought this coal export terminal from Raven Energy. The terminal has a unique oval shaped rail spur that surrounds the facility allowing coal trains to simply pull through to unload and end up going out back the way they
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161.5 LBD - Occidental Chemical Convent This Occidental Chemical (Oxy) plant produces Chlorine, Sodium Hydroxide, Potassium Hydroxide and Ethylene Dichloride. Toxic Releases (TRI) for 2013 in pounds: Occidental Chemical Convent: Air: 15,319 Water: 4
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160.7 RBD thru 158 RBD - St James Petroleum Terminals It’s difficult to see it from a canoe or kayak but for almost 3 miles along the West Bank (RBD) are a continuous series of petroleum terminals making up one of the nations most important crude oil hubs.
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163 LBD - Nucor Steel Nucor Steel, today the largest producer of steel in the United States, recently built this direct reduced iron plant making it one of the newest in the industrial corridor. Nucor plans to produce 2,500,000 tons of iron at the plant. Iron ore is
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163.8 LBD - Zen-Noh Grain ZEN-NOH (?? Zenn??), National Federation of Agricultural Co-operative Associations (??????????? Zenkoku N?gy? Ky?d? Kumiai Reng?kai?), is a federation of agricultural cooperatives in Japan formed in 1972. ZEN-NOH consists of 1,173 agricultural cooperatives and federations that in 2004 had a combined revenue of
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167 RBD - Mosaic Faustina and American Styrenics The Mosaic Company’s Faustina plant sits on a 2,850-acre site and was owned by Gulf Oil Corp. between 1967 and 1972, the Williams Co. between 1972 and 1986, Freeport-McMoran Corp. from 1986 to 1983, IMC Global from 1993 to 2004,