The Formative Years
In the 1990’s, CP&C’s primary focus was on organic growth of its commodity chemicals fueled by automated, low cost production facilities built at a newly acquired 110 acre chemical production facility located on the Houston Ship Channel. The Greens Bayou Chemical Complex (GBCC) included automatic blending systems for custom formulated coagulants and flocculants, a continuous production unit for sodium hypochlorite (bleach), packaging of elemental chlorine into 2,000 and 150 pound cylinders, blending, and reaction chemistry units for phosphate, hydrogen peroxide, and other flammable organics. A chlorine transfer unit from rail tank cars to tank trucks and a barge terminal to receive aluminum sulfate, sodium hydroxide (caustic soda) and sulfuric acid were added, along with a truck terminal facility equipped with full service bays and offices to house logistics and transportation teams.
 
 
In 1999, a sodium hypochlorite and elemental chlorine packaging facility was built on the Mississippi River in St. Gabriel, Louisiana to service regional markets. The St. Gabriel production plant takes advantage of a direct pipeline supply of raw materials making it the most cost effective facility in North America.

A New Name
CP&C officially changed its name to ALTIVIA in October 1999 to facilitate the company’s expansion beyond the U.S. Gulf Coast. The familiar blue logo was adopted to symbolize technology and clean, flowing water in communities across the country.

Rapid Expansion
In 2002 ALTIVIA acquired the drinking water business from Vulcan Chemicals, its national sales force, and the technical and manufacturing team responsible for chlorine dioxide generator technology. The combination of Vulcan’s and ALTIVIA’s chlorine dioxide business units became the leading technical team and supplier supporting North America’s municipal and industrial chlorine dioxide market. As part of this acquisition ALTIVIA gained exclusive rights to the patented Millennium III automatic generator, the benchmark in state of the art chlorine dioxide generation technology. In 2003 ALTIVIA completed the acquisition of Vulcan Chemicals’ Odor and Corrosion Control business, the largest supplier of products, feeding equipment and services to municipal markets in the U.S. This acquisition included sales and manufacturing offices in Florida and California, the technology and development team associated with V-Tracks telemetry systems, as well as the businesses’ national sales and technical team.

A Focus on Value
ALTIVIA’s strategy is a simple one, to lower water treatment costs while improving water quality for millions of people. To implement this strategy, ALTIVIA focuses on the following drivers; scale, low cost manufacturing and distribution, technology, product offering, and people.

Scale
ALTIVIA is the largest supplier of water treatment chemicals and associated services to the municipal industry in North America. ALTIVIA currently services over 600 municipalities with its technical personnel stationed throughout North America. Although size is not always required to achieve high performance, ALTIVIA’s scale brings a great deal of technical expertise from its national experience with different waters and products. Scale also results in lower delivered product costs to customers driven by the large volumes ALTIVIA channels to market, its purchasing power, and efficient logistics and distribution.

Manufacturing & Distribution
ALTIVIA’s network of manufacturing facilities are among the most efficient in the country, its product line is unmatched, and its distribution network gets the products and services to customers timely and cost effectively. ALTIVIA’s principal production facilities are located in Houston Texas at its Greens Bayou Chemical Complex, in St. Gabriel Louisiana at its St. Gabriel Production Plant and in Nashville Tennessee at its Nashville Production Plant. ALTIVIA also operates a number of other facilities in North America used for blending and conducting limited reaction chemistry and for distribution purposes to reduce transportation costs to end users. ALTIVIA’s facilities are interconnected via dedicated networks into a central ERP in Houston, Texas, to control quality, scheduling and product deliveries.

Technology
ALTIVIA utilizes state of the art chemical formulation and application technologies acquired through experience in thousands of water treatment facilities and supported by a team with hundreds of years of collective treatment experience. Since the principal cost of chemical treatment in water plants is the delivered cost of the chemical, using the most cost effective product and process is critical to lowering costs. ALTIVIA achieves this goal through extensive treatment experience, sustained research and development programs, and thorough training of plant operations personnel.

Products
ALTIVIA’s complete line of products and processes utilized for water treatment provides customers an objective assessment of cost performance metrics for their specific application. From traditional aluminum chemistry based coagulants and polyelectrolyte blends, commodity disinfectants like Chlorine and Sodium Hypochlorite, to sophisticated disinfection chemistries including onsite generation of Chlorine Dioxide, as well as Nitrate and Nitrite Odor and corrosion control chemistries, ALTIVIA’s technical service personnel support the most elaborate water treatment process requirements in industry. Additionally, our FLEXTREAT™ comprehensive water management program can consolidate your chemical purchases into a fixed price per volume of water treated. Visit our Products section.

People
People implement strategies and our people make ALTIVIA the premier products and service provider to the water treatment industry. Our people are experienced in water treatment, motivated to solve problems, and technically proficient in their specific field of expertise. No other organization has the experience level that ALTIVIA does in the treatment of water. Thousands of water treatment facilities have been served by our professionals, often we develop products tailored only for one treatment plant in order to address a specific problem or attain the highest cost performance or water quality. When it comes to addressing a specific treatment problem, obtaining the lowest treatment program cost, or reaching new standards in water quality, it is ALTIVIA’s technical team who makes it happen. Meet the ALTIVIA team.