Great Lakes Chemical Corporation

QO Tetrahjdrofurfury I Alcohol, Bulletin 206, QO Chemicals, part of Great Lakes Chemical Corporation, West Lafayette, Ind. 

Facilities for manufactuting bromine are primarily located near sources of natural brines or bitterns containing usable levels of bromine. In 1990, the United States had seven bromine plants owned by four companies. Six of the plants are in southern Arkansas and are operated by two U.S. producers Great Lakes Chemical Corporation and Ethyl Corporation. 

A premium antiscalent product in this group is Flocon 100 from Great Lakes Chemical Corporation (originally the brand was owned by Pfizer, then Ciba-Geigy, then FMC). Flocon 100 is a 35% w/w, 2,000 MW acrylic acid polymer. An alternate and much more concentrated product is Good-Rite K-752, a 62.5% w/w, 2,100 MW acrylic acid polymer from Noveon, Inc. (formerly BF Goodrich Company). 

A premium antiscalent product in this group is Belros 285 from Great Lakes Chemical Corporation (originally the brand was owned by Ciba-Geigy, then FMC). Belros 285 is a 35% w/w, neutralized PMA-based product. 

Great Lakes Chemical Corporation. Products for Industrial Water Treatment. Various technical/promotional literature. (Formerly FMC Corporation [UK] Ltd. and prior to that the Process Additives Division of Ciba-Geigy), UK, 1983-1995. 

Generally, flame retardants for engineering PET compositions are based on bromine-containing compounds (such as brominated polycarbonate, decabro-modiphenyl oxide, brominated acrylic, brominated polystyrene, etc.). Such compounds are available commercially (such as from the Ethyl Chemical Corporation, Great Lakes Chemical Corporation, Dead Sea Bromine Company, etc.) In addition, the flame-retardant package generally contains a synergist, typically sodium antimonate. PET may also be flame-retarded with diarylphosphonate, melamine cyanurate or red phosphorus. 

Bromomethane is produced by reaction of methanol with hydrobromic acid, followed by distillation of the product (HSDB 1989 lARC 1986 Windholz 1983). Table 4-1 summarizes information on U.S. companies that reported the manufacture or use of bromomethane in 1987 (TRI 1989). The quality of the TRI data must be viewed with caution since the 1987 data represent first-time, incomplete reporting by these facilities. Not all facilities that should have reported have done so. Of the companies that did report, only two facilities produced bromomethane for sale and distribution the Ethyl Corporation production facility in Magnolia, Arkansas, and the Great Lakes Chemical Corporation production facility in El Dorado, Arkansas (HSDB 1989 SRI 1987, 1988, 1989 TRI 1989). The current combined production volume of these two facilities is approximately 19,500 metric tons (43 million pounds) (HSDB 1989 lARC 1986). This is nearly a two-fold increase over the production volume of 11,200 metric tons (25 million pounds) reported for 1972 (lARC 1986). 

Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers. In the United States, Albemarle Corporation and Great Lakes Chemical Corporation market mixtures of PBDEs under trade names (e.g., Bromkal 70-5DE, DE-71, Tardex 50, Tardex 50 L, and Saytex 115 for pentaBDE mixtures DE-79, FR-1208, and Saytex 111 for octaBDE mixtures and DE 83, FR-300 BA, and Saytex 102 for decaBDE mixtures). The are also several trade names used by producers from Europe and Japan for the BDE mixtures. The chemical identities of commercial mixtures of pentaBDE, octaBDE, and decaBDE are listed in Table 4-3 (WHO 1994a). 

Great Lakes Chemical Corporation. 2001. Initial submission Letter from Great Lakes Chemical Corporation to U.S. EPA summarizing 90-day inhalation toxicity study of octabromodiphenyl oxide in albino rats, dated 05/25/01. Submitted to U.S. EPA under TSCA Section 8E, Fiche no. OTS0574171. 

NOTE Trichlor and Dichlor are trademarks of the Occidental Chemical Corporation and Monsanto Company. Tower Pro Tablets and Super Ox II are trademarks of the Great Lakes Chemical Corporation. 

The primary chemical form employed is l-bromo-3-chloro-5,5-dimethylhydantoin (BCDMH). This is available as Bromicide tablets from Great Lakes Chemical Corporation and as Halogene from Dead Sea Bromine Group (Clearon Corporation in the United States). 

Great Lakes Chemical Corporation Bromicide tablets... 

The product needs to be stored in cool well-ventilated conditions, well away from direct sunlight. It can be effective in relatively simple clean cooling systems but is of limited benefit in hard-working industrial systems, where dust and dirt and high alkalinity conditions may prevail. An example of peracetic acid is Bellacide 375 from Great Lakes Chemical Corporation. 

DSBG, Dead Sea Bromine Group GLCC, Great Lakes Chemical Corporation. 

Great Lakes Chemical Corporation (1987) Toxicity data of octabrorno-diphenyloxide (DE-79). West Lafayette, Indiana, Great Lakes Chemical Corporation (Unpublished data, submitted to WHO by BFRIP)... 

BDE-47 was a component of many commonly used flame retardants, including PeBDE, DE-71, Bromkal 70-5DE, and other popular mixtures. DE-71 was sold by Great Lakes Chemical Corporation as a flame retardant for unsaturated polyester, rigid and flexible polyurethane foams, epoxies, laminates, adhesives, and coatings. This material was phased out at the end of 2004. It typically contained somewhere between 20-50% BDE-47. 

Great Lakes Chemical Corporation Technical Bulletin (2-Methyl-THF). 

Great Lakes Chemical Corporation Defining a Basie Niehe Strategy... 

In 1960, on the advice of Earl T. McBee, a professor of industrial chemistry at Purdue University, Great Lakes resolved to withdraw from the oil business and expand in bromine. Besides changing its name to Great Lakes Chemical Corporation, the company acquired several bromine-rich wells in Arkansas. Its next step was to obtain a contract from Du Pont to supply bromide for a plant it was building in Canada. To fulfill that contract, the company s president Charles Hale apparently convinced Dow s managers, who were then conquering the world in petrochemicals, to turn over much of its bromide business to its small neighbor. 

For Great Lakes Chemical Corporation, see Derdak, ed.. International Directory,... 

See US EPA description of the decision by Great Lakes Chemical Corporation http //www.epa.gov/oppt/ pbde/pubs/qanda.htm (accessed August 3,2006). 

Inhalation studies of commercial octaBDE dust in rats showed no histopathological changes in the thyroids, parathyroids, adrenals, or pituitary following chamber exposure to 174 mg/ m3 as powdered dust for 8 hours/day for 14 consecutive days (Great Lakes Chemical Corporation... 

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