The Quinn Group gradually expanded, supplying other building products, glass and plastics, and eventually moved into insurance, hotels and property development.
It powers manufacturing as well as food and commodities production, it fuels transportation, and it is a building block for industries like plastics and electronics.
These use an electrical process to transform salt and water into chlorine and caustic soda (a.k.a. lye), which are the building blocks of everything from plastics to soap.