Gaylord Chemical Corporation
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. The company has manufactured dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) and dimethyl sulfide (DMS) 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. 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