From: December 21, 2020
Belle Chemical Company is releasing the following update regarding the status of the Belle Chemical Company plant following the incident at the Chemours site located in Belle, West Virginia. Although the incident was not related to Belle Chemical Company or its operations, the incident resulted in an emergency shutdown of all Belle Chemical Company plant operations.
Statement regarding resuming Belle Chemical Company plant operations following incident at Chemours site
Over this past weekend, Belle Chemical Company successfully restarted its operating units and quickly reached on-spec production. Despite the temporary shutdown of Belle Chemical Company’s operations due to the Optima incident at the Chemours site, Belle Chemical Company has fulfilled all of its orders and has full ability to move products by any mode unrestricted. Belle Chemical Company continues to focus on rebuilding its inventories to provide the greatest assurance of high customer service levels.
As always, Belle Chemical Company remains focused on the safety of its employees, the community and the environment in which it operates. With the Belle Chemical Company plant back up and running, this will be the final status update on this incident.