USALCO is a leading manufacturer of sodium aluminate and aluminum sulfate to industrial and municipal markets.  We primarily serve the catalyst, titanium dioxide, pulp and paper, water treatment, and wastewater treatment industries.

Lawrence Askew, USALCO’s founder, had a brilliant idea that revolutionized the aluminum-based chemical marketplace. His idea was a better process for creating Sodium Aluminate. He built a business that was distinct in two ways:

• A customer-dedicated facility for a former captive-use manufacturer, long before people talked about outsourcing.
• A  process that utilized 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.

The atmosphere around these early innovations and a family that jumped in when needed sparked the creative, customer-driven culture that best characterizes USALCO today.

While liquid sodium aluminate and alum remain the core of the company’s business, USALCO manufactures and distributes a variety of chemical products to the industrial and municipal marketplace.

We are committed to providing high quality cost-effective products coupled with superior customer service, technical expertise and superior logistics management. The company has grown to one of the leading chemical manufacturers in North America with 38 employees across six facilities. Our company is headquarted in Baltimore, Maryland with manufacturing locations in Ashtabula, Ohio; Cincinnati, Ohio; Gahanna, Ohio; Michigan City, Indiana; and Port Allen, Louisiana.