Huntington, Ind. — Helena Chemical Co. staged a grand opening headlined by Indiana Lt. Gov. Becky Skillman Tuesday, April 17, for a new $15 million-plus high-capacity fertilizer terminal and distribution center strategically located in an industrial park east of Huntington. Helena officials say the new facility will service the company’s retail locations in Indiana, Ohio, and Michigan, and also act as a distribution center for Helena products. Fertilizer products that will be run through the facility include potash, ammonium sulfate, pelletized lime, MAP, and DAP, along with distribution of Helena products such as CoRoN, Hydra-Hume, and the TraFix line. Doug Goff, Helena division manager in Carmel, Ind., explained, “To serve our customers better with the products they need to grow profitable, productive crops, we needed a centralized, easily accessible location within a day’s drive of our branches in Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio. This site also has a rail siding (Norfolk Southern) that can deliver bulk fertilizer and easy access to state Highway 24 for our distribution network. The terminal can store up to 70,000 tons of product, and the Park 24 industrial park has plenty of room to expand as our business grows.” Goff’s division is part of Helena’s northern business unit, which is one of four such units in the U.S. For starters, the plant will have nine employees, with the potential for 15 in the future. Helena, Collierville, Tenn., was formed in 1957, and is one of the country’s largest national distributors of crop production inputs and services.
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