USALCO is a leading manufacturer of aluminum-based chemicals, such as sodium aluminate and aluminum sulfate. We primarily serve the catalyst, titanium dioxide, pulp and paper, water and wastewater treatment industries.
Our Alumer™ brand of enhanced coagulants is designed specifically for the water and wastewater treatment industry. Alumer™ allows the customer to meet the ever-increasing demand for improved water quality at reduced overall cost.
We are committed to providing high quality cost-effective products coupled with superior customer service, technical expertise and superior logistics management. Our company is headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland with manufacturing locations in Ashtabula, Ohio; Gahanna, Ohio; Fairfield, Ohio; Michigan City, Indiana, and Port Allen, Louisiana.
Our focus is on delivering high quality aluminum-based chemicals as cost-effectively as possible. Lean and efficient manufacturing facilities, industry innovations, and our ability to source raw materials on a large-scale, world-wide basis, make USALCO a very cost-effective supplier.
Our history of innovation began when Lawrence Askew, USALCO’s Founder, revolutionized the aluminum-based chemical marketplace in two distinct ways:
- As the first sodium aluminate manufacturer to build a customer-dedicated facility for a former captive-use manufacturer.
- As the first aluminum-based chemical company to utilize alumina tri-hydrate wet filter cake, a more economical raw material than dry alumina tri-hydrate.
The use of alumina tri-hydrate wet filter cake in the manufacture of sodium aluminate truly revolutionized the international market and demand for this product. Today, this material is used to manufacture the majority of the products in the aluminum-based chemistry family. It was the atmosphere around these early innovations that sparked the creative, customer-driven culture that best characterizes USALCO today.
While liquid sodium aluminate remains the core of the company’s business, USALCO currently manufactures and distributes a variety of chemical products to the industrial and municipal marketplace.
At USALCO, we cultivate partnerships with our suppliers as well as with our customers. These partnerships guarantee supply continuity in dynamic raw material markets and ensure advantageous purchasing economics both locally and globally – regardless of market conditions. And while product pricing is often the deciding factor in your purchasing decision, total supply economics can frequently be influenced by a combination of intangible services.
Utilizing USALCO’s technical and operational expertise allows your company to focus its valuable time and capital on greater value-added activities, such as research and development, product manufacturing, and customer service. In some cases, total customer dedication means constructing facilities devoted to servicing your requirements.
This type of dedication results in increased raw material quality, consistency, and supply reliability, and is often the most cost-effective means of obtaining your corporate objectives. From our genesis as a single plant servicing a single customer, USALCO has enjoyed steady growth by expanding on the merits of our philosophy of total customer dedication.
