The average operating rate of U.S. plants that make chlorine and caustic soda rose to 85 percent in January, the highest output level in five months, a trade group said.
The industry’s average operating rate for plants that make the chemicals known as chlor-alkali rose from 79 percent in December, The Chlorine Institute, based in Arlington, Virginia, said today in an e-mail. Plants on average ran at 86 percent of capacity in August.
