JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – May 12, 2022 – CSX Corp. (NASDAQ: CSX) presented 65 customers with the company’s annual Chemical Safety Excellence Award for their outstanding contribution to the safe transportation of hazardous materials in 2021.
The Chemical Safety Excellence Awards were presented to customers who shipped at least 600 carloads of hazardous materials with CSX during the year without a release due to controllable factors. The winners, representing a wide range of industry segments, shipped over 185,000 carloads of hazard materials on the CSX network in 2021.
CSX gave special recognition to the global chemical company Kemira, which led all hazard materials shippers with 21 consecutive years as a CSX award winner. Also receiving special recognition were ExxonMobil Chemical Company and Messer North America, which reached their 10-consecutive-year milestone as award winners; and Americas Styrenics, Ascend Performance Materials, and Shintech, which reached five consecutive years without a non-accidental release.
“CSX understands the commitment required by customers to achieve the Chemical Safety Excellence Award standard, which is why we publicly recognize those who contribute so effectively toward protecting communities and our employees,” said Kevin Boone, executive vice president of Sales and Marketing. “As an industry safety leader, CSX seeks to promote safety excellence not just within our company, but with all of our business partners and in all of our communities.”
2021 CSX Chemical Safety Excellence Award Winners:
Advansix Afton Chemical Altivia Chemicals Americas Styrenics Arkema Ascend Performance Materials Ashta Chemicals BASF Corporation BP Products North America Cargill Cenovus Energy Centennial Energy CFF Industries Chemtrade Logistics CHHS Citgo Petroleum ConocoPhillips Cornerstone Chemical Crestwood Services Dow Chemical Environmental Protection & Improvement Evonik Corporation ExxonMobil Chemical Gibson Energy Gunvor USA H.J. Baker Heritage Environmental Services Ice Service Group Indorama Ventures Ineos Olefins & Polymers Ineos Phenol Ineos Styrolution Inv Nylon Chemicals |
Irving Oil Jones-Hamilton Kemira Koch Methanol Koppers Industries Markwest Hydrocarbon Messer North America Methanex Methanol Nan Ya Plastics Norfalco Nucor Nutrien Occidental Chemical Olin PBF Holding Phillips 66 Poet Biorefining Reagent Chemical & Research Renewable Products Marketing Group Rohm & Haas Sabic Sasol Chemicals USA Shintech Southern Chemical Suncor Energy Targa Resources The Andersons United Refining Univar Solutions Valero Marketing and Supply Vantage Corn Processors Westlake Chemical |
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