Birla Carbon Ulysses Plant
Large load · 3500 SOUTH ROAD S, Ulysses, KS
Birla Carbon USA, Inc. owns and operates a carbon black manufacturing facility at 3500 S. Road S in Ulysses, Grant County, Kansas. The plant is covered by a Class I air operating permit and a federal consent decree on air emissions.
Overview
Birla Carbon USA, Inc. owns and operates a Carbon Black Manufacturing Facility at 3500 S. Road S, Ulysses, Grant County, KS. Birla Carbon's location list shows Ulysses, Kansas as a manufacturing unit. A Kansas Department of Commerce project brief records construction of a new rail spur and two additional storage tracks at the Ulysses facility, with a total project budget of $1,256,698. The brief gives the project period as April 2023 to June 2025.
Profile
- Ownership
- EPA's greenhouse gas reporting lists Birla Carbon USA Inc as parent company with a 100 percent ownership interest. In 2011 Aditya Birla Group acquired Columbian Chemicals Co. and became the largest carbon black company globally under the corporate brand Birla Carbon.
- Permits and environmental controls
- Birla Carbon USA, Inc. has applied for a significant permit modification of the facility's Class I operating permit. A 2021 proposed air construction permit incorporates the requirements of a June 11, 2018 consent decree with the Kansas Department of Health and Environment and EPA. A proposed permit modification would increase the industrial landfill's permitted disposal area from 10 acres to 16.72 acres, and its disposal capacity from 77,582 cubic yards to 256,318 cubic yards. The 2021 consent decree amendment requires a Low NOx Combustion System at the Hickok facility. Birla Carbon committed to install advanced control technologies at a cost of approximately $95 million.
Facility
- Activity
- carbon black manufacturing
- Industry
- Industrial
- Site type
- Facility
- Operating status
- Operating
Reported Sep 19, 2024
Permits and agreements
- Permit
- Class I operating permit significant modification application
Related records
Timeline
- Jun 11, 2018
- Consent decree with KDHE and EPA entered, later incorporated in the facility air construction permit.
Issue 16 - 04-22-2021 | Department of Health and Environment | Notice Concerning Proposed Air Quality Construction Permit - 49062