Orangeburg, South Carolina

Albemarle’s Orangeburg Plant sits on a 300-acre site along the world’s longest free-flowing blackwater river, the Edisto, in Orangeburg, SC and employs more than 330 people.

The Orangeburg Plant is a fully commercial specialty chemical facility serving markets and customers for Albemarle’s Fine Chemicals, Polymer Additives and Catalysts divisions. The facility’s supply chain and production scale ranges from a bulk active pharmaceutical product delivered in 5-gallon bottles to rail car quantities of raw materials and products. The site has strategic access to warehousing and shipping from the United States’ fourth largest container port in Charleston, South Carolina, just 80 miles from the plant.

Albemarle’s Orangeburg Plant has been manufacturing Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (API’s) for over 25 years. This experience makes the site well versed in current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMP). In 2005, we are constructing an expansion to one of our cGMP production units that adds equipment necessary to accommodate lower volume API’s and Pharmaceutical intermediates. The expansion, which will be operational by year’s end, demonstrates Albemarle’s commitment to the Pharmaceutical market served by our Fine Chemicals Division.

Awards and Recognition

• Albemarle’s Presidents Award for Safety, 2004
• Albemarle’s Operating Discipline Championship Cup, 2004
• SOCMA Achievement Award, 2004
• South Carolina Manufacturer of the Year Finalist, 2004
• NPRA Award for Meritorious Safety Performance, 2004
• NPRA Gold Award for Safety, 2004
• Relay for Life Top Gun Award, 2004