General Info

Georgia Gulf Corporation is one of the leading North American manufacturers and international marketers of two integrated chemical product lines, chlorovinyls and aromatics. The corporation includes Georgia Gulf Chemicals & Vinyls and Georgia Gulf Lake Charles. In the chlorovinyls business, the company is the third-largest North American producer of vinyl chloride monomer; the third-largest North American producer of vinyl suspension resins; and the second-largest North American producer of vinyl compounds. In its aromatics business, Georgia Gulf is the second-largest producer of cumene throughout the world and one of the largest North American merchant marketers of phenol and acetone. Its corporate headquarters is in Atlanta. In addition, Georgia Gulf Corporation has a facility located in Plaquemine, La., where it employs nearly 500 people.