Olin Corporation’s Two Plants Will End Mercury Use - Oceana

Victory | December 10, 2010

Olin Corporation’s Two Plants Will End Mercury Use

The Olin Corporation announced that it will convert its mercury-based chlor-alkali manufacturing plant in Charleston, TN to modern, mercury free technology and eliminate mercury from its plant operation in Augusta, GA.  Oceana has been pushing for these actions since 2005. Olin’s plant in Tennessee is the largest remaining mercury-based chlorine plant of the four plants in the U.S. that had refused to make the switch to safer, more efficient technology.