Mile 120.0 - RBD - Monsanto, OxyChem, and Air Products

120 RBD - Monsanto, OxyChem, and Air Products

Monsanto produces the herbicides glyphosate and dicamba at it’s luling plant, including glyphosate based Roundup. Dicamba is a selective herbicide in the chlorophenoxy family of chemicals. Glyphosate is a broad-spectrum systemic herbicide used to kill weeds, especially annual broadleaf weeds and grasses known to compete with commercial crops. It was discovered to be a herbicide by Monsanto chemist John E. Franz in 1970. Monsanto brought it to market in the 1970s under the trade name Roundup.

In 1992 Occidental Chemical purchased Monsanto’s isocyanurate plant. The OxyChem Luling Monsanto Production Plant produces chlorinated isocyanurate and cyanic acid. It is operated by Monsanto for OxyChem.

Air Products has a 100,000,000 cubic feet per day hydrogen plant which supplies hydrogen to Monsanto.

Momentive Specialty Chemicals, owned by Hexion, is building a formaldehyde plant in Monsanto’s facility to supply Monsanto with formaldehyde.

Toxic Releases (TRI) for 2013 in pounds:

Monsanto Luling:
Air: 43,189
Water: 109,940

OxyChem Luling Monsanto Production Plant:
Air: 94,168

Air Products Luling:
Air: 3,392

120 LBD - Bunge Destrehan

Bunge grain terminal with 8 loading spouts and a 3,900,000 bushel capacity.