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The company headquarters of Gaylord Chemical Company LLC are located in the New Orleans suburb of Slidell, Louisiana, USA. Gaylord's original manufacturing facility located in Bogalusa, Louisiana was shut down and demolished in 2010, when the company relocated its operations to Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA.〔Rupinski, P. "Gaylord Chemical relocates to Tuscaloosa", Tuscaloosa News, 6 February 2011.〕 The company has manufactured dimethyl sulfoxide and dimethyl sulfide continuously since the early 1960s. Prior to its acquisition by its management team in 2007 Gaylord operated as a wholly owned subsidiary of Temple-Inland Inc. (NYSE: TIN). After the ownership transition was complete it continued to operate from its Slidell office, which had been established in the late 1980s. Gaylord announced expanded DMSO production capacity in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, which came on-line in 2010.〔Walker, J.H. "The Sunday News" 129 February 17, 2008 (Local Newspaper for Bogalusa, LA)〕 Prior to being a subsidiary of Temple-Inland, Gaylord Chemical was a division of Gaylord Container Corporation, the successor (1986–2002) of the brown paper division of Crown Zellerbach (1928–86). ==Origin as part of Crown Zellerbach's Chemical Product Division== Crown Zellerbach, the San Francisco-based forest products company, developed the DMS / DMSO manufacturing technology in use by Gaylord today; CZ built the original DMSO plant in the 1960s at the site where Gaylord Chemical operated until mid-year 2010. Crown Zellerbach's research and development facility was located in Camas, Washington. A focus of the Chemical Products Division was to develop chemicals derived from paper industry by-products, to complement the company's established pulp and paper business. The oxidation technology used by Gaylord Chemical to make DMSO was developed at the Camas R&D lab by David Goheen and coworkers〔Goheen, D.; Hearon, W.; Kamlet, J. US 2,925,442, granted 16 February 1960.〕 Crown Zellerbach was the object of a hostile takeover by James Goldsmith in mid-1985, which split up the corporation in May 1986. The majority of its manufacturing assets (fine paper mills) were acquired by the James River Corporation of Richmond, Virginia (which became Fort James in 1997, acquired in 2000 by Georgia-Pacific).〔(New York Times - GP to acquire Ft. James, 2000-07-18 ) - accessed 2009-06-06〕 The remaining CZ assets were divided between timber holdings (primarily in Canada), and the brown paper division, which became Gaylord Container Corporation in November 1986, and relocated its headquarters to Deerfield, Illinois, a Chicago suburb. After less than 16 years as a company, Gaylord was acquired by rival Temple-Inland in 2002. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gaylord Chemical Corporation」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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