Columbia Sales International, Inc.

Columbia Sales International specializes in the sales and distribution of sodium, potassium, sodium peroxide, electronic-grade chlorine, and vanadium chlorides. Columbia Sales International was formed in 1990 as a sales and marketing company to the chemical and related industries.

photo of MSSA plant
MSSA’s plant in Pomblière, France

In late 1990, Columbia Sales International became the exclusive U.S. and Canadian sales representative of Metaux Speciaux of France for sodium, potassium, sodium peroxide, electonic-grade chlorine, and vanadium chlorides. At that time, there were two producers of sodium in the U.S. In 1992, one of those producers discontinued the production of sodium, which allowed Metaux Speciaux to enter the U.S. Sodium market. Up until that time, Metaux Speciaux, now known as MSSA SAS, had some minor sales of specialty grades of sodium in the U.S. The U.S. sales of MSSA Sodium grew dramatically over the next 20 years .With the shutdown of the only U.S. sodium producer, Chemours, in late 2016, MSSA now has the major share of the U.S. and Canadian sodium market, supplying both technical and high-purity grades of sodium. Several of these grades are produced nowhere else in the world. For more details about the activities of MSSA, please go to MSSA’s website.

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