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1962 |
Stauffer Chemical opens Big Island Mine and Refinery in Green River, WY and produces soda ash from the mined trona. |
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1985 |
Chesebrough Ponds acquires Stauffer Chemical. |
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1986 |
Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI) buys Stauffer Chemical from Chesebrough Ponds, which had been taken over by Unilever. |
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1987 |
ICI sells Stauffer's industrial chemicals section (soda ash business) to Rhone Poulenc. |
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1996 |
Rhone Poulenc sells its interest in soda ash to OCI Company, Ltd. The new North American subsidiary is named OCI Chemical. |
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1998 |
OCI Chemical Europe N.V. is established in Antwerp, Belgium. |
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2001 |
OCI Chemical starts up new sodium percarbonate plant in Decatur, AL. |
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2006 |
OCI and Eka Chemical Inc. form a joint venture, EkO, to produce and sell hydrogen peroxide in Columbus, MS. |
