Mile 200.1 - LBD - Industrial Complex including Taminco Inc., Syngenta, and Olin Chlor Alkali

200.1 LBD - Industrial Complex including Taminco Inc., Syngenta, and Olin Chlor Alkali

The largest facility in the complex is Syngenta Crop Protection LLC which produces atrazine, herbicides, some insecticides, and seed safeners which are shipped to agricultural operations in 90 countries. Many of the trucks leaving the facility bring containers of finished products to the Port of New Orleans for loading onto container ships which bring the products to Latin American countries.

On the downriver side of Syngenta is Olin Chlor Alkali Products (formerly Pioneer Americas) which produces chlorine, caustic soda, sulfuric acid, and hydrogen for area industry.

Toxic Releases (TRI) for 2013 in pounds:

Syngenta:
Air: 282,563
Water: 1,210,060

Taminco:
Air: 19,042
Water: 426,813

Mexichem Fluor:
Air: 25,382
Water: 27

Olin Chlor Alkali:
Air: 158
Water: 7