North America

In North Carolina, Albemarle operates two sites. Albemarle’s Corporate Headquarters office is located in Charlotte, North Carolina. Housed here, are members of the Albemarle Leadership Team and several support function groups, such as Business Administration, Sales, Marketing, Finance, and Human Resources. Our office in Kings Mountain serves as the headquarters for the North American lithium operations.

Albemarle's Magnolia manufacturing plants are two of the world's largest suppliers of bromine and bromine chemicals. Our two plants in Columbia County produce different chemical ingredients used in the manufacturing of a wide range of products. Albemarle now employs several hundred people in Columbia County and operates around the clock, seven days a week. Our sites in Magnolia also house an artificial marsh, which acts as a unique wastewater treatment facility and demonstrates our commitment to the local environment.

Silver Peak is an Albemarle production site for our Lithium business. It is recognized as the only producing lithium mine in North America. In the 1960s, Foote pioneered the production of lithium carbonate from brine with the opening of the Silver Peak, NV plant. In 1984, the world’s richest commercial brine deposit went on stream at Salar de Atacama in the desert of northern Chile. Today, the Silver Peak and Salar de Atacama plants combine to produce in excess of 60 m mt of lithium carbonate equivalents per year. In addition to lithium carbonate, Albemarle produces in Silver Peak special lithium hydroxide grades. Products developed here are most notably used in the application of lithium batteries to create a sustainable and affordable energy storage technology that reduces greenhouse gases, enables life-saving portable medical devices, and diversifies the world's energy position.