Industrial Minerals


Kerr-McGee EMD plant to be idled


28  May  2003
Kerr-McGee Chemical LLC, a wholly owned affiliate of Kerr-McGee Corp., will place its electrolytic manganese dioxide (EMD) manufacturing operations in Henderson, Nevada on standby during the third quarter of 2003 for an indefinite period.

Some 95% of Kerr-McGee's EMD is sold in the USA, and has been...