At the Bayer CropScience Institute Site, several different companies conduct
manufacturing operations. Among these are Bayer CropScience, Adisseo, the Dow
Chemical Company, Catalyst Refiners, Bayer Polymers, Praxair Corporation, and
Reagent Chemicals.
Bayer CropScience manufacturing units are
responsible for producing carbamate-based technical-grade ingredients for
various crop-protection pesticides. These products are used on crops such as
cotton, corn, fruit and potatoes as well as in many specialty agricultural
markets worldwide to prevent crop damage due to insect infestation.
The principal Bayer CropScience products include:
SEVIN® brand carbaryl
TEMIK® brand aldicarb
LARVIN® brand thiodicarb
SEVIN® controls over 565 pests: beetles,
citrus root weevil, leafhoppers, fleas, ticks, fruitworms, etc.
SEVIN® is registered in more than 70 countries around the
world. SEVIN® has a very broad
usage range with registration for use on over 100 crops: tomatoes, corn,
apples, citrus, ornamental flowers and trees, etc. SEVIN®
is sold and widely used in the "Home and Garden" markets, as well as
in commercial farming worldwide.
TEMIK®, more than any other pesticide,
controls a greater diversity of crop pests. Insects (aphids, whiteflies,
beetles), Mites (red mites, two spotted mites), Nematodes (microscopic
worm-like pests that attack the roots and prevent crops from maturing
properly.) TEMIK® increases crop
yields for farmers throughout the world. It is registered on more than 20 crops
in more than 50 countries worldwide. The major crops that
TEMIK® helps grow are: cotton, citrus, potatoes, coffee,
sugar, beets, and peanuts.
LARVIN® controls budworms, ballworms,
armyworms, etc. LARVIN® is
registered in more than 50 countries worldwide on more than 25 crops.
LARVIN® kills the eggs of these damaging pests on contact. It
also kills eggs that are newly laid on spray residue.
LARVIN® also delivers powerful control of hatching larvae.
Farmers use it primarily to protect these crops: cotton, corn, soybeans fruits
and vegetables and grain.
In addition to these products, Bayer CropScience also toll-produces other
active-ingredient crop-protection products specifically for such companies as
DuPont and FMC using equipment that they own, but we operate and maintain at
the Bayer Institute Site.
Adisseo has a single manufacturing unit
that was built in 1992 to support their animal feed additive business.
RHODIMETTM AT-88 is produced at
the Bayer Institute Site for Adisseo. RHODIMETTM
is a nutritional feed additive used to enhance the nutritive value of chicken
and hog feeds, while helping to reduce their production cost. AT-88 is the
liquid analogue of an amino acid, Methionine. Methionine is essential for
proper growth and development of chickens, turkeys, and other fowl. Virtually
all poultry feeds are fortified with a small amount of Methionine.
The Dow Chemical Company owns several
manufacturing plants on the Bayer Institute Site, many of which are based on
their Ethylene Oxide technology. Bayer personnel provide essential operating,
maintenance, and distribution services to these plants, in addition to the
infrastructure provided to all of the other tenants. Products manufactured at
the Dow facilities include the following:
CELLOSIZE®HEC
water-soluble polymers are widely used in industrial and consumer products as
thickening agents. The compound is hydroxyethylcellulose and is produced by
reacting EO with cotton. These valuable products are found in a variety of
products, including adhesives, shampoos, and paints.
POLYOX® water-soluble polymers are another
specialty product line produced from EO. These materials are found in denture
adhesives, carpet and other foam padding, and the lubricating-coating strips on
razors.
The CARBOWAX®PEG series of
specialty EO adducts are found in products ranging from crayons and pucks to
shampoos, gel toothpastes and pharmaceuticals. These and their sister products,
TERGITOL® and TRITON®
surfactants, are produced in the Allethrin plant at the Bayer Institute Site,
along with GLUTARALDEHYDE, a
biocide used in leather tanning and pharmaceuticals.
ENB or Ethylidene Norbornene is a rubber
product additive used in garden hoses, and automotive and industrial
applications, such as radiator hoses and tire sidewalls.
ACETONE and other
KETONES are used in various consumer and industrial
applications, including paints and coatings, and fingernail polish remover.
Additionally, Antifrreze-grade ETHYLENE GLYCOL
is produced at the site from spent glycol recovered from polyesters
manufacturing.
TONE®POLYOLS
are EO and PO adducts produced for use in various protective coatings and
elastomers.
Union Carbide had developed a proprietary EO manufacturing process, which is
used throughout the world and utilizes a CATALYST
produced solely at the Bayer Institute Site.
Associated with this catalyst production facility is a plant built by
CATALYST REFINERS for recovering silver from spent catalyst
returned to the Bayer Institute Site for reprocessing. This facility also
reprocesses silver for customers other than Dow.
BAYER CORPORATION
owns a manufacturing plant associated with their Polyurethanes business
unit. As with the Dow facilities, Bayer personnel provide essential operating,
maintenance, and distribution services to Bayer, in addition to the
infrastructure provided to all of the other tenants. This facility provides key
PO-adduct intermediates to a sister facility at the Dow South Charleston Plant.
The products are used in flexible foams, primarily as automotive seat cushions.
PRAXAIR CORPORATION operates a SynGas
Production plant that produces Industrial and Technical Grade
CARBON MONOXIDE that is consumed by Bayer CropScience at the
Bayer Institute Site and also shipped via tube trailers to customers throughout
the region. HYDROGEN is also
produced at this facility and is consumed by tenants at the site. Additionally,
Praxair operates industrial gas units at the facility producing
NITROGEN and OXYGEN
for use within the Bayer Institute Site.
REAGENT CHEMICALS reprocesses spent acid at
their Bayer Institute Site location. This is in support of other tenant
operations at the site.
KEY INTERMEDIATES AND RAW MATERIALS potentially
available at the Bayer Institute Site to tenants include many of the most
sought after within the chemical industry. Among these are:
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CHLORINE
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PHOSGENE
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HYDROGEN
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CARBON MONOXIDE
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METHANE
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METHYL ISOCYANATE
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HYDROGEN CYANIDE
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ETHYLENE OXIDE
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PROPYLENE OXIDE
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ACETONE
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MIBK, and other KETONES
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OXYGEN
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NITROGEN
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CAUSTIC SODA
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For comments, suggestions, or more information,
please contact: Hal
Turley
Bayer CropScience
For Internal Use Only
