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CAMCO CHEMICALS
8150 HOLTON DR.
FLORENCE, KY
41042-3010
TEL: 859-727-3200
1-800-354-1001
FAX: 859-727-1508
ALL IMAGES AND TEXT WITHIN COPYRIGHT CAMCO 1996-2002


Camco Chemicals: Text-based Tour  

General Facts About the Facility


  •   319,000 square foot plant
  •   Situated on 12-acre site
  •   Located two miles off I-75 North/ South corridor
  •   Minutes away from I-71, I-74, I-65, and Greater Cincinnati/ Northern Kentucky Airport
  •   Served by Norfolk Southern Rail (with bermed siding)
  •   5 million pounds of bulk storage capacity
  •   ISO-900 and ISO-14001

    Powder Packaging of All Types

  •   Vertical form fill and seal bags (PVA and HDPE)
  •   High-speed carton filling line
  •   Two high speed form fill and seal lines
  •   Narow and wide-mouth bottles (8 oz. to 8 lbs.)
  •   Supersacks Drums, pails and cartons
  •   Heat sealed bags

    Full Range of Liquid Packaging

  •   Packing bulk trucks/rail cars down to four ounce bottles
  •   High speed in line filling - both positive displacement and overflow types
  •   In line labeling - both round and two sided
  •   In line shrink film wrapping available
  •   Capable of packing both high viscosity and foam products

    Blending Capacity

  •   Inside Bulk powder storage of 2 million pounds in 10 silos
  •   Inside Bulk liquid srtorage of 4 million pounds
  •   Load cell addition control for powder and liquid mixers
  •   Receiving and shipping of raws and finished blends
  •   Granular blending with up to 50 percent liquid content
  •   Load Cell-controlled liquid blending
  •   Heated and cooled mixing vessels
  •   Nitrogen blanketing capability

    Laboratory Services

  •   Fully staffed Quality Control laboratory
  •   Currently conducting over 250 tests and variants
  •   Custom result reporting available
  •   Materials Control/ Traceability System in place and available as required
  •   Full retain program (raws and finished goods) with 1 year standard

    Liquid Mixers

  •   1 Ross High Speed Disperser (1,000 gallon capacity)
  •   18 conventional liquid mixers
  •   All mixers mounted on electronic load cells
  •   4 Reinforced fibreglass mixers
  •   16 stainless steel with high efficiency agitation
  •   All mixers equipped with heating and cooling coils
    Powder Mixing
  •   4 Nauta mixers @ 175 cu. ft.
  •   1 Nauta mixer @ 100 cu. ft.
  •   Nauta mixers fed by load cell hopper system
  •   Liquid to powder blending addititions
  •   Liquid additions load cell-controlled
  •   Heated storage for "waxy" ambient temperature surfactants

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