On Oct. 30, the company announced that is was jacking up prices on its bromine-based chemicals.
's plastic additives division, which brought on some phosphate-based flame retardants to diversify away from bromine.
There is one major problem over which Bulriss has little control: Bromine pricing stinks.
One-third of its sales come from bromine-based products, especially the flame retardants that keep DVD players from catching fire.
The pollutants that the scientists focused on were compounds containing carbon and halogens - fluorine, chlorine, bromine or iodine.
Great Lakes produces bromine-based flame retardants for plastic resins, polymer additives, fine chemicals for drug production and swimming pool chemicals.
He somehow manages to contain his excitement over this development long enough to explain the captivating new thing at Chemtura (bromine brines).
And, after a few weeks on the job, Bulriss caught wind that some employees were engaged in price-fixing discussions with competitors in the bromine business.
Management say the factory cannot compete with Israeli and Jordanian businesses, which can extract bromine more cheaply from sea water than can be done on Anglesey.
The Great Lakes site has a long industrial history, previously being used to produce bromine from sea water by the company Associated Octel and then Great Lakes Chemicals.
Depletion of ozone is caused by extreme cold temperatures at high altitude and the presence of ozone-destroying gases, such as chlorine and bromine, in the atmosphere, the ESA said.
And archrival Albemarle Corp. just opened a 15, 000-metric-ton-a-year bromine plant in Magnolia, Ark. that it claims gives it the low-cost position in the U.S. Prices don't look to improve anytime soon.
The Industrial Products segment produces flame retardants (FR) and a variety of bromine compounds as well as other chemicals based primarily on rich mineral resources found in the Dead Sea, and the Performance Products segment is a phosphate powerhouse that produces a number of downstream products for food and industrial applications, offering solutions for the food, cleaning products, fire safety, coatings and electronics industries.
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