Kilgore, Texas-A new sulfuric acid plant under construction at Plainview, Texas, was expected to go into production in May, and will produce approximately 150,000 st of acid annually. An official with the company said the sulfuric acid will be used to create about 100,000 st of ammonium-based fertilizers such as ammonium sulfate and specialized NPK fertilizers, which will primarily distributed throughout the High Plains market in the Texas Panhandle. When the project was first announced, the projected startup date was December 2006, but was later revised to mid-May of this year. It was one of the first new sulfuric acid plants built in the past decade. The company expects to spend $25 million on the new plant.
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