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Owner Southern States Chemical
SeaPoint Deepwater Industrial Terminal Complex

 

Location 1 Kerr-McGee Road
Savannah, Georgia
USA  31401
Background Formerly
- American Cyanamid
1985 - Kemira Oyj purchases plant
2000 - Kerr-McGee Pigments (Savannah), Inc. purchases plant from Kemira
2006 - Tronox spun off from Kerr-McGee
2017 - Tronox Pigments (Savannah), Inc. www.tronox.com
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Website www.dulanyind.com
Plant Savannah Plant 
Coordinates* 32° 4' 59" N,  81° 1' 36" W
Type of Plant Sulphur Burning
Gas Source Elemental Sulphur
Plant Capacity 40 ton/h (permitted)
350,400 ton/a
SA/DA DA
Emissions SO2: 4 lb/ton
Acid Mist: 0.15 lb/ton
Opacity: < 10%
Status Operating
Year Built 1975
Technology Monsanto (MECS)
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Remarks -
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General Tronox Incorporated, the world’s third-largest producer and marketer of titanium dioxide pigment, holds a 12% market share and serves customers in 100 countriesThe Savannah facility was acquired in 2000 to serve customers in the Americas and worldwide. The facility is located on a 1,600-acre site and includes a titanium dioxide pigment plant that uses the company's proprietary chloride process. The site also includes a sulfuric acid plant.
Reference Georgia Air Permit No. 2816-051-0008-V-03-0
News Dulany Industries Unveils “One-of-a-kind” SeaPoint Deepwater Industrial Terminal Complex in Savannah, Ga.  
Innovative 755-acre deepwater industrial site on Savannah River shipping channel offers a one-of-a-kind location with significant in-place infrastructure for manufacturers and logistics companies


On October 12, 2017, Georgia Governor Nathan Deal, Dulany Industries, and Greenfield Environmental Trust unveiled SeaPoint Industrial Terminal Complex.This landmark site features a mile-long private deepwater frontage along the main Savannah River shipping channel as well as class I rail service on-site and easy access to the Georgia Ports Authority and major interstates like I-95 and I-16. The site is build-ready and has heavy-duty utility infrastructure in place, including a 1000 TPD operating sulfuric acid plant, a 60,000-square-foot Research & Development building, 30-45MW electricity, natural gas, steam, water treatment, fire protection and water, roads, and many other assets. It is the synergies created by the combination of these core assets which sets this site apart and makes it unlike anything else on the East Coast.

Designed with a focus on unparalleled cost savings for manufacturers and logistics companies operating on the site and a commitment to environmental responsibility as a core value, SeaPoint has been hailed as one of the finest cross-utilized industrial developments in the United States.

Dulany Industries, the owner of SeaPoint, has a longstanding commitment to environmental remediation and the development of synergistic co-located industrial sites.“Any company that locates at SeaPoint will enjoy significant advantages over their competition due to all of the in-place assets that this site offers,” said Reed Dulany, III, President and CEO of Dulany Industries, Inc. “There is nothing like it on the East coast.”At its peak in the early 2000s, the SeaPoint site was home to the largest electrical consumer in Chatham County and employed more than 1,000 individuals with high-wage jobs 

“SeaPoint has the opportunity to bring this type of success back for our state, and our region,” Dulany explained, “but in the most environmentally responsible manner possible.

Located on the site of the former Kemira plant in Savannah, Ga., SeaPoint Industrial Terminal Complex is the premier industrial deepwater site in the Southeast, offering significant co-location infrastructure savings, which can save companies up to 30 percent in build-out costs due to existing in-place assets as well as large ongoing operational savings through synergistic services. Shared services include use of an existing office complex, warehousing, security, rail, deep water terminal operations, sulfuric acid, by-product steam, logistical services, maintenance services and more.

In addition, an operating 1000 TPD sulfuric acid plant is already located on-site, which can provide companies with competitively priced key raw ingredients and low-cost steam which is a byproduct that can be priced at a discount to natural gas prices -- products that are often essential to manufacturing. The mile-long deepwater frontage directly on the Savannah river opens up the opportunity for a myriad of logistical uses not to mention the existing bulk/break bulk dock and miles of railway on-site. The presence of these systems minimizes plant investment, working capital and transportation costs while ensuring a reliable supply of high-quality industrial raw materials.
  

“Manufacturers and logistical companies will have direct access to a comprehensive network of infrastructure services and unique assets not found anywhere else,” Dulany said. “Logistics companies can gain direct access to significant deepwater assets while manufacturing companies can benefit from these same logistical synergies as well as enjoy tremendous savings and ease of operations, allowing them to focus on their core business objectives.”

The creation of SeaPoint is the result of a highly collaborative effort between Dulany Industries, Greenfield Environmental Trust Group and the Trust’s beneficiaries, of which Georgia Environmental Protection Division acts as the lead agency. Greenfield Environmental Trust Group, a nationally recognized brownfield redevelopment company, took over the site after the Tronox bankruptcy in 2009 and has successfully shepherded it through a maze of issues to its ultimate goal of cleaning up the site and putting it back to productive use.
 

At the closing of the SeaPoint sale, Dulany Industries and Greenfield Environmental Trust Group also deeded 728 acres of tidal marshland to the State of Georgia, including 26 acres of upland property surrounding Old Fort Jackson that will provide a buffer for the historic nineteenth-century fort in perpetuity. SeaPoint’s plans also include a solar farm on-site, which is already under construction and directly ties into the company’s focus on environmental stewardship.

February 17, 2011
- A bankruptcy court has approved a plan for Oklahoma City-based chemical company Tronox to exit bankruptcy, although the Savannah facility is not part of that plan, the company said.  Instead, the Savannah plant has been transferred to a trustee appointed by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court until a buyer can be found, according to Tronox corporate spokesman Robert Gibney.  The majority of the 30 workers still at the former titanium dioxide facility and still-active sulfuric acid plant located off East President Street are expected to remain employees of the trust until a buyer can be found, Gibney said.  While a number of former Tronox facilities are being transferred to a trust to oversee environmental clean-up operations, the Savannah plant is different in that it still has ongoing operations, albeit on a much smaller scale, Gibney said. In 2007, the Savannah facility - which included both titanium dioxide pigment and sulfuric acid plants - had 270 employees, generated $25 million in annual payroll and was the largest single customer of Georgia Power in Savannah.  In 2008, demand for titanium dioxide - a whitener/brightener used in paint, plastics, paper and hundreds of other applications - began to drop as the worldwide economy foundered. In December of that year, the company furloughed 35 local employees and, in early 2009, Tronox filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. By March 2009, the company had furloughed more than half its remaining work force because of what it called "a sudden and unprecedented drop in global demand for our product." Tronox emerges from the two-year bankruptcy a much smaller company, with three titanium dioxide plants - in Mississippi, Australia and the Netherlands - and one plant in Henderson, Nev., that produces electrolytic, battery-active manganese dioxide, primarily intended for use in alkaline batteries, Gibney said.  The Savannah plant has survived several incarnations over the years. Tronox was spun off in 2006 from Kerr-McGee, which purchased the plant in 2000 from Kemira Pigments, which bought the plant from American Cynamide in 1985.  http://savannahnow.com

January 22, 2011 - Tronox Pigments Inc. is expected to emerge from bankruptcy within the next few weeks - but without its Savannah facility, which will be transferred to a trustee appointed by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court.  The majority of the 30 workers still at the former titanium dioxide facility and still-active sulfuric acid plant located off East President Street are expected to remain employees of the trust until a buyer can be found, Tronox corporate spokesman Robert Gibney said Friday.  While a number of former Tronox facilities are being transferred to a trust to oversee environmental cleanup operations, the Savannah plant is different in that it still has ongoing operations, albeit on a much smaller scale, Gibney said.  In 2007, the Savannah facility - which included both titanium dioxide pigment and sulfuric acid plants - had 270 employees, generated $25 million in annual payroll and was the largest single customer of Georgia Power in Savannah.  In 2008, demand for titanium dioxide began to drop as the worldwide economy foundered. In December of that year, the company furloughed 35 local employees and, in early 2009, Tronox filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.  By March 2009, the company had furloughed more than half its remaining work force because of what it called "a sudden and unprecedented drop in global demand for our product."  That product is titanium dioxide, a whitener/brightener used in paint, plastics, paper and hundreds of other applications.  Tronox will emerge from the two-year bankruptcy a much smaller company, with three titanium dioxide plants - in Mississippi, Australia and the Netherlands - and one plant in Henderson, Nev., that produces electrolytic, battery-active manganese dioxide, primarily intended for use in alkaline batteries, Gibney said.  The Savannah plant has survived several incarnations over the years. Tronox was spun off in 2006 from Kerr-McGee, which purchased the plant in 2000 from Kemira Pigments, which bought the plant from American Cynamide in 1985.

March 4, 2009 - Citing an "unprecedented sudden and dramatic downturn in projected sales," Tronox Pigments Inc. has put its more than 200 local employees on notice that "significant permanent layoffs may become necessary" at the company's Savannah plant as early as June.  In an internal memo obtained by the Savannah Morning News, the company also indicated that additional temporary layoffs may become necessary in the near term.   Tronox, the world's third-largest producer and marketer of titanium dioxide pigment, furloughed some 35 Savannah employees in December, less than a month before the company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

January 13, 2009 - Tronox Inc. (OTC: TROXA, TROXB) announced Monday that it is seeking bankruptcy protection. Tronox, the world's third-largest maker of the whitening pigment titanium dioxide, has a facility in Savannah.  "After careful evaluation of all strategic alternatives, we have concluded that a Chapter 11 filing is the best way to address the company's debt, in particular its legacy liabilities," said Dennis Wanlass, Tronox chairman and chief executive officer.  When Tronox spun off from Kerr McGee in 2006, it inherited environmental remediation and litigation costs that it was required to assume at the time of the spinoff. These liabilities are an obstacle to Tronox's financial stability and success.  "We want to assure customers, suppliers and employees that our operations are continuing without interruption, and during the restructuring period, we will remain focused on continuing to provide customers with quality products and unsurpassed service."  The company has taken steps to ensure the continued supply of goods and services to its customers, with a commitment for up to $125 million in new debtor-in-possession financing from its existing lending group led by Credit Suisse.   The company said it is using those funds to continue its restructuring plan and to pay vendors. It has also requested court approval to continue to pay employees in the same manner as before the filing with no disruption, and it expects the request to be granted as part of the court's "first day" orders.  The Savannah site has 214 active employees and 35 who were put on furlough in December. Tronox employs 1,800 people companywide and doesn't anticipate any layoffs.  The bankruptcy filing doesn't include Tronox's operations outside of the U.S., which are based in Australia, Germany and the Netherlands.

MTPD - Metric Tonne per Day           STPD - Short Ton per Day
MTPA - Metric Tonne per Annum      STPA - Short Ton per Annum
SA - Single Absorption
DA - Double Absorption
 

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