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St. Charles Operations is an integrated petrochemical manufacturing complex, converting petroleum-based raw materials into a variety of basic building-block and intermediate chemicals. Products from our facilities wind up in thousands of everyday household, business and consumer items — products that improve our quality of life.

Employees working at St. Charles Operations share a common purpose — to constantly improve what is essential to human progress by mastering science and technology. Together we try to balance our Sustainable Development through goals for economic success, environmental performance, and meeting the needs of society.

Fast Facts:

• Started operations in 1966 as Union Carbide Corporation
• Union Carbide acquired as a wholly-owned subsidiary of The Dow Chemical Company in February 2001
• 2000-acre site just upriver from Hahnville and 40-acre site in Norco
• Invested more than $1 billion in expansions, new process units and infrastructure in the 1990s
• Integrated production with own steam and power generation
• Approximately 10 billion pounds of production capacity per year
• Multiple intermediate products are found in a variety of consumer goods such as: plastics, insecticides, films and fabrics, antifreeze, jet fuel, brake fluid, paints and adhesives, textiles, lubricants, pharmaceuticals, medical supplies, personal care products, toothpaste, shampoos, soaps, cleaning agents, detergents, fabric softeners, animal feed supplements and more.