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Freeport began as the original location of Dow’s U.S. Gulf Coast presence in the 1940s. The site was selected because of its strategic proximity to seawater, natural gas reserves and salt domes, and access to a large harbor that provides waterway loading and procurement capability. Chlor alkali production began at the site in 1944, with brine mining and hydrocarbon operations at nearby Stratton Ridge commencing in 1948. Today, Freeport is Olin’s largest chlor alkali vinyl site.

The chlor alkali vinyl assets with the Freeport complex are composed of four chlor alkali facilities, five ethylene dichloride facilities, one vinyl chloride monomer facility, and a number of other supporting site assets.

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