Texas Business Profile -  Industrial Base

The region is home to many Fortune 500 companies and most have been here for decades. The giants of the chemical and petrochemical industries are prevalent in the Beaumont/ Port Arthur /Orange area. The pulp and paper companies chose the wooded areas on the northern perimeter of the region. Service and support companies that complement these industries are also prevalent. The broad abundance of natural resources has also attracted oil production, ship building and tourism. Growth sectors include food processing, research and development, apparel, aircraft and metals. The following list illustrates the diversity of the region's industrial base and the commitment made by many prestigious companies.

Each year many new companies choose Southeast Texas for the site for new facilities. Some of these are expansions of existing facilities and others are relocations from other parts of the country. Below is a partial list of the companies that have announced or completed new projects during the last three years.

Industrial Base

Beaumont-Port Arthur-Orange Area

AIR LIQUIDE AMERICA CORP.
Products: liquid argon, liquid and gaseous nitrogen and oxygen

AMERICAN VALVE & HYDRANT
Employment: 190
Products: hydrants

ARCH CHEMICALS
Products: sulfuric acid, ammonium sulfite-bisulfite

ATOFINA/BASF
Employment: 150
Products: ethylene, propylene

TOTAL PETROCHEMICALS
Employment: 510
Products: benzene, sulfur, toluene, xylene, carbon black feed, #6 fuel oil, gasolines, furnace oil, diesel fuel, jet fuel

BASF
Products: grass and weed herbicides

BAYER CORP.
Employment: 490
Products: synthetic rubber

BEAUMONT METHANE/BETZ LABORATORIES, INC.
Products: chemicals and chemical preparations

CALABRIAN CHEMICALS CORP.
Products: sodium tiosulfate pentahydrate, sulfur derivatives, sodium metabisulfite, potassium, bisulfite, solium bisulfite blends, cuprous chloride, sodium sulfite, sulfur dioxide, sodium thiosulfate

CAROTEX, INC.
Products: fuel oils refined from used oils

CENTANA ENERGY
Products: liquified petroleum gas mixtures

CHEMAX CORP.
Products: industrail cleaning preparaion, including degreasing solvents

CHEVRON /PHILLIPS
Employment: 770
Products: high-low and high-density polyethylene, ethylene, benzene, propylene, toluene, hodrogen, cyclohexane, cumene

CLOEREN CO.
Products: tools and dies for the plastics industry

DUPONT DE NEMOURS, E I, & CO. - Beaumont Works
Employment: 200
Products: acetonitrile, acrylonitrile, ammonia, aniline, carbon dioxide, hydrogen cyanide

DUPONT de NEMOURS, E I, & CO - Sabine River Works
Employment: 850
Products: hexasmethylene diamine, adipic acid, ammonia, ethylene, ionomer resins, vinyl resins, acid resins,

ELF ATOCHEM NORTH AMERICA, INC.
Products: diethyl sulfide, dimethyl sulfide, ethyl mercaptan, methyl mercaptan

ENGINEERED CARBONS
Products: carbon black concentrates

EXXONMOBIL OIL CORP.
Employment: 2200
Products: polyethylene, paraxylene, benzene, ethylene, propylene, butadiene, butane, armonatic distillates, cresylic acid, carbon black feedstock, distillate fuel, diesel fuel, furnace oil, furfural polymer, marine gasoline, aviation gasoline, motor gasoline, hydrogen sulfide, heavy alkylate, kerosene, jet fuels, petroleum coke, lubricating oils, sodium cresylate, propane, propylene mix, aromatic tars, ethane, sulfur, was, isobutane

FIRESTONE SYNTHETIC RUBBER & LATEX CO.
Products: synthetic rubber

GOODYEAR TIRE & RUBBER COMPANY
Employment: 375
Products: antioxidants, hot melt resins, synthetic rubber, isoprene monomer

OXBOW
Products: calcined petroleum coke

HELENA LABORATORIES
Employment: 400+
Products: medical equipment

HONEYWELL
Products: polyethylene homopolymers and copolymers

HUNTSMAN CORP.
Employment: 1840
Products: ethylene, hudrogen, propylene, fuel oil, cyclohexane, pyrolysis gasoline, propylene glycol, diethylene glycol, surfactants, nonylphenol, ethylene, mtbe, butadiene, morpholine, ethanolamines, thiethylene glycol, ethylene glycol, propylene oxide

INVISTA
Employment: 470
Products: textiles and integrated fibers

ISP
Employment: 210
Products: emulsion polybutadiene, styrene butadiene rubber, crumb rubber for adhesives, carbon black masterbatch, high styrene masterbatch

LATEX SUPLLY, INC.
Products: detergents, industrial degreasing solvents

MARTIN GAS
Products: sulfur

MEADWESTVACO
Employment: 700
Products: paper products

MOTIVA ENTERPRISES
Employment: 975
Products: diesel fuels, furnace oil, motor gasoline, lubricating oil, petroleum coke, fuel oils, aviation gasoline, jet fuel, petrochecmical feedstocks, sulfur

GERDAU AMERISTEEL
Employment: 550
Products: steel mill products, including rebar and rods

LYONDELL
Products: diethylene glycol, ethylene glycol, triethylene glycol

PRAXAIR, INC.
Products: liquid argon, gaseous nitrogen, gaseous oxygen, hydrogen

VALERO
Employment: 800
Products: motor gasoline, carbon black feedstock, ultra low sulfur diesel, butane, diesel fuel, sulfur, jet fuels, alkylate, fuel oil, reformate, petroleum coke, propane, propane/propylene mix

REAGENT CHEMICAL AND RESEARCH INC.
Products: hydrochloric acid

SABINA PETROCHEMICALS
Product: Batadiene

SOUTH HAMPTON REFINING CO.
Products: normal pentane, iso-pentane, cyclo-pentane, iso-hexane, petroleum ether, hexane, benzene concentrate

TEMPLE-INLAND
Employment: 367
Products: paper, paper board, lumber

TEXAS BRINE CORP.
Products: oil well drilling and work over chemicals, sodium chloride brine

Industrial Base

THE WOODLANDS

AMERICAN BIOMED, INC.
Products: catheters, including toposcopic, cardiac asssist pump, & atherectomy catheters

AQUAPRO OF TEXAS
Products: water treatment skids

BEST CONCEPTS
Products: strip machine, automation systems and special machinery for converting and packaging companies

CENTRIFIX CORP.
Products: industrial pump floats, steam, gas vapor, and air separators, skimmers for oil spill pickup

GENOSYS BIOTECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Products: synthetic DNA and peptides, molecular biology kits, antibodies

HUGHES-CHRISTENSEN
Products: oil well drilling tools

HYDRAULICS TECHNOLOGY
Products: hydraulic bolt tensioners, high-pressure hydraulic pumps

MOLECULAR STRUCTURE CORP.
Products: low temperature devices for cryogenic cooling of crystallographic materials, crystallographic analyzer components, precision synchrotron beam line components, cryogenic crystallography system components, crystal X-ray analysis equipment

SURGIMEDICS
Employment: 175
Products: cardio-vascular disposable devices

TEXAS PUP, INC.
Products: oil field equipment

TORQUE SYSTEMS INTL, INC.
Products: torque lin wrenches, tube extractor systems, pneumatic nut spinners, heat-exchanger tube buncle extracting units

WINGO EQUIPMENT CO.
Products: industrial process control instruments

Industrial Base

CONROE

APPLIED RUBBER TECHNOLOGY
Product: molded rubber products

BALL METAL CONTAINER CORP. Employment: 120
Products: metal cans and glass containers

CROWN CORK & SEAL COMPANY
Employment: 150
Products: metal cans

DRILLING SPECIALTIES CO.
Product:drilling mud additives

DURAQUEST
Product: molded rubber and plastic products

EXXON
Product: liquefied petroleum gases, natural gasoline

FLUID CONTAINMENT, INC.
Employment: 100

Products: fiberglass-reinforced plastic manholes and underground storage tanks

HUNTSMAN CORP.
Employment: 300
Products: industrial organic chemicals

LINCOLN LUMBER CO.
Product: wood pallets and skids, wood fencing

MAVERICK TUBE CORP.
Product: oil well casing and tubing, line pipe

NATIONAL ELECTRONIC DEVICES
Product: communications equipment

ODEM TRAILER, MFG
Product: trailers

R&M ENERGY
Product: oil well productions and well head equipment

REPO TECHNOLOGY
Product: blue paint, machine and laminating equipment.

SAWYER CRYSTAL
Product: crystalline quartz disks and bars for the manufacture of resonators

SPARKLER FILTERS, INC.
Product: pressure and vacuum vertical & horizontal plate liquid filters, trap filters, pilot plant filters

STITT SPARK PLUG CO.
Product: ceramic spark plug insulators, screw machines products, ignition terminals, spark plugs for natural gas-fueled industrial engines

TEXAS DIAMOND TOOLS, INC.
Product: diamond saw blades, concrete coring diamond core bits

TEXAS OIL TOOLS, INC.
Product: oil field equipment, including wire line & work over blowout preventers

TISDALE COMPANY
Product: air conditioning and refrigeration equipment

TUBULAR PERFORATING MFG., INC.
Product: steel tubes

TVI-FLO
Products: fluid processing equipment

Industrial Base

HUNTSVILLE

BOWLING MACHINES AND FABRICATION
Products: pipe jack stands

CHAMPION INTERNATIONAL
Employment: 192
Products: forest products

GARDNER GLASS PRODUCTS
Products: mirrors

Industrial Base

LIBERTY

LIBERTY FORGE, INC.
Products: steel forgings

Industrial Base

DAYTON

HUNTSMAN
Employment: 65
Products: Surfactants and Performance Chemicals

INSTEEL WIRE PRODUCTS
Products: steel wire drawing, welded wire mesh fabric sheet and rolls

SUNBELT WORKS, INC.
Products: steel merchant bars, reinforcing bars

Industrial Base

LIVINGSTON

ALSTON MFG. CO.
Products: ratchet pipe

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