Hopewell, Va.-Honeywell’s Hopewell, Va., production facility was slowly returning to normal operations last week after sustaining an outage caused by a Mid-Atlantic storm system at mid-month. After the remnants of Hurricane Ida hammered the East Coast on Nov. 10-13, Honeywell alerted customers on Nov. 16 that it was not taking new rail orders for ammonium sulfate due to “an unexpected outage” caused by the storm. A notice to customers on Nov. 23 said water line repairs required tearing up much of the track in the facility’s rail loading area, resulting in very limited rail loading last week as the company made on-site repairs. The Nov. 23 notice said Honeywell most likely would not be taking new granular ammonium sulfate rail orders for another two weeks, although mid-grade ammonium sulfate cars were reportedly being loaded and shipped last week. Honeywell’s earlier notice said orders for granular and mid-grade ammonium sulfate at Honeywell warehouses would be taken as long as current inventory allows. “We will attempt to increase rail loading in December to catch up on some of the lost shipments in November,” the Nov. 23 notice said.
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