Active Minerals International Plants Are Fully Operational After Hurricane Michael
SPARKS, MD — Active Minerals International (AMI), a supplier of gel-grade attapulgite and air-floated kaolins, had all three manufacturing plants — located over a 300-mile area spanning Florida, Georgia and South Carolina — in the path of the biggest hurricane to hit the Florida Panhandle in the last 150 years.
The kaolin plants in Gordon, Georgia, and Aiken, South Carolina, have resumed full plant operations to meet the supply and service needs of its customers. The full force of the Category 4 storm hit the Quincy, Florida, and Climax, Georgia, attapulgite operations, the largest producers of high-quality gel grade attapulgite products. There was no material damage to the plants, and they stand ready to resume full production once power is restored and employees are able to mobilize, which is contingent on basic services reestablished in local communities and roadways are cleared. Active Minerals’ strategic planning combined with Michael’s weakening strength as it traveled across all of AMI’s mining and mineral processing operations, contributed to AMI’s prompt return to full functionality once public utilities restored electric power.