Business and Industry
El Dorado has a diverse assortment of companies that contribute to its economic base, including oil refiners, financial institutions, timber industries, chemical companies, food processing plants, service industries, retailers and governmental agencies.
Although best known for oil, timber and chemical industries, El Dorado also has a solid manufacturing base. The county’s total employment base in manufacturing is 31 percent, well above the U.S. average of 19 percent. Raw materials and affordable skilled labor are just some of the reasons businesses choose to locate to El Dorado.
El Dorado is also a retail trade center for a large portion of South Arkansas and North Louisiana. Seventeen percent of the county’s workforce is in the retail and service trades, displaying a vibrant consumer economy within the region.
Fortune 500 Murphy Oil Corporation is a worldwide oil and gas company with its international headquarters in downtown El Dorado. A $4.5-billion company, Murphy operates refining and marketing facilities in the U.S. and Great Britain.Opening in late 2009 will be the addition of TETRA Technology Inc., a new calcium chloride plant, which will be located near Parkers Chapel. The $100 million plant will employ 50 permanent workers and bring as many as 400 short-term construction jobs to the area.
Major Companies in El Dorado
• Great Lakes Chemical Company, part of the Chemtura Corporation who made $3.7 billion in 2007 revenues, produces bromine and brominated products in El Dorado, the company’s largest manufacturing site.
• For more than 80 years, Lion Oil Company has been refining oil in El Dorado. Currently, Lion Oil processes approximately 55,000 barrels of crude oil each day into gasoline, diesel fuel and asphalt products.
• Deltic Timber Corporation is a natural resources company focused on the ownership and management of timberland. With current ownership around 438,600 acres of timberland, Deltic Timber also operates two sawmills, and is engaged in real estate development in Central Arkansas. Deltic also owns a 50-percent interest in Del-Tin Fiber, the world’s largest medium density fiber board plant.
• Anthony Forest Products is a completely integrated forest products company which began in 1916. The company owns approximately 92,000 acres of timberland in Arkansas, Louisiana and Texas as well as wood chip mills in Louisiana and Texas and a laminating plant in El Dorado. In El Dorado, AFC employs over 180 people and contributes more than $7 million to the local economy each year.
• Pilgrim’s Pride, the largest poultry corporation in the United States, has a major processing facility located in El Dorado.
• El Dorado is home to Union Power Station – Entegra PowerGroup LLC, the country’s largest merchant power plant.
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