Kampen gobbled up smaller specialty chemical outfits using the ample cash generated by Octel Associates, a British gasoline lead-additive business.

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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.

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The Great Lakes chemical corporation, formerly known as Octel, has been in the town for 50 years, and is one of the world's leading producer of certain speciality chemicals for applications like water treatment.

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