Hoffinan-LaRoche

The 1995 Canadian and United States sugar alcohol (polyol) production is shown in Table 2. The market share of each is also given. Liquids comprise 48% crystalline product comprises 39% and mannitol comprises 13% of the polyol market. An estimate of total U.S. sorbitol capacity for 1995 on a 70% solution basis was 498,000 t. ADM, Decatur, HI., produced 68,200 t Ethichem, Easton, Pa., 13,600 t Lonza, Mapleton, HI., 45,400 t Roquette America, Gumee, HI., 68,200 t and SPI Polyols, New Casde, Del., 75,000 t (204). Hoffinan-LaRoche, which produces sorbitol for captive usage in the manufacture of Vitamin C (see Vitamins), produced about 27,300 tin 1995. 

Italy, a reactor exploded at one of Givaudan-Hoffinan-Laroche s production plants releasing a highly toxic chemical, a dioxin known by its initials TCDD. Thirty-seven thousand people were exposed to this TCDD and 1,800 hectares of this area of Lombardy were contaminated. 

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