Since its formation in 1980, USALCO has grown from a single, customer-dedicated facility into a multi-faceted international enterprise.

Larry Askew, USALCO's founder, revolutionized the aluminum-based chemical marketplace in two distinct ways:

1. As the first sodium aluminate manufacturer to build a customer-dedicated facility for a former captive-use manufacturer.

2. As the first aluminum-based chemical company to utilize alumina tri-hydrate wet filter cake, a more economical raw material than dry alumina tri-hydrate.

The use of alumina tri-hydrate wet filter cake in the manufacture of sodium aluminate truly revolutionized the international market and demand for this product. Today, this material is used to manufacture the majority of the products in the aluminum-based chemistry family. It was the atmosphere around these early innovations that sparked the creative, customer-driven culture that best characterizes USALCO today.

While liquid sodium aluminate remains the core of the company's business, USALCO currently manufactures and distributes a wide range of chemical products to the industrial and municipal markets.

As a privately owned manufacturer of aluminum-based chemicals, USALCO serves customers in the titanium dioxide, catalyst, zeolite, pulp and paper, water and wastewater treatment, construction additive, antacid, detergent, and enzyme industries.