Southern States Chemical’s new Wilbara facility graces the Spring/Summer 2011 cover of trade journal, Sulfuric Acid Today. In her feature article, Kathy Heyward editorializes on our newly launched, state of the art acid manufacturing facility. From resurrecting and retrofitting an old army ammunitions plant, to integrating our highly sophisticated automation system, Heyward introduces her readers [...]

After six years of site searching, negotiations, engineering, and permitting the Wilmington Facility finally became a reality in 2009. The September 10th Groundbreaking ceremony marked the beginning of a new era of service, reliability, and environmental stewardship for SSC. The new 525TPD Wilmington plant will produce 2/3 less emissions and use less water than the [...]

“This project is a natural progression for SSC as we currently operate a sulfur import terminal, sulfuric acid terminal, and sulfuric acid plant on our Savannah River based site” says Key Compton, President of SSC. SeaGate Handling will manage and operate the project which will include sulfur prill storage space, an additional molten sulfur tank, [...]

The new location, yet to be announced, will solidify Southern States Chemicals position as the largest industrial producer/supplier of Sulfuric Acid on the East Coast. The plant is expected to be operational in 2009. “The decision to build this new state of the art sulfur burning acid plant in Wilmington where we already have two [...]

By Gordon Graff, Purchasing Vigorous demand, a static supply and declining imports have combined to drive up U.S. sulfuric acid prices for much of this year. And market watchers say these conditions are likely to continue for at least another year. Not only is sulfuric acid supply tight, but there is a scarcity of railcars [...]

Rail deliveries from SSC production sources, or approved alternative sources, are transloaded to full and partial truck load quantities for prompt delivery to locations in middle VA, western and middle sections of both NC and SC. This partnership has been an effective addition to our total supply design.

Southern States Chemical, Savannah, GA, September, 2006- Southern States Chemical, Inc., a manufacturer and marketer of sulfuric acid, is pleased to announce the completion of the ISO 9001:2000 Re-Certification process. Bryan Beyer states, “The Recertification audit is complete and all our hard work resulted in another 3 years of ISO certification. I want to thank [...]

Southern States Chemical, Savannah, GA, December 17, 2003 – Southern States Chemical, Inc., a manufacturer and marketer of sulfuric acid, is pleased to announce the completion of the ISO 9001:2000 Certification process. Southern States Chemical is one of a few companies to meet the new ISO 9001:2000 certification requirements. By achieving ISO 9001:2000 certification, Southern [...]

Southern States Chemical, Inc., a manufacturer and marketer of Sulfuric acid based in Savannah, GA, has acquired Koch’s Wilmington, N.C. Sulfuric Acid facility. Southern States Chemical now operates four sulfur burning sulfuric acid plants and two 15,000 ton import tanks on the east coast. The added flexibility that is achieved through multiple production and shipping [...]