May 11, 2009 Fire at Columbus Chemical
On Monday, May 11, Columbus Chemical Industries experienced a fire in one of our five buildings at our Wisconsin facility.
Currently access to the facility is not available while we are working with local, state and federal officials to address this issue. CCI intends to resume limited operations as soon as we are able. We appreciate the support and concern from the community, our suppliers and especially our customers.
To keep the public and our business partners informed, we will update our web site as soon as new information is available. Thank you for your support as we work to overcome these events.

May 27, 2009 Exactly 14 days after our devastating fire, we are back in production
We missed our goal by 7 days! We knew that if we ever had a serious first-responder call, we’d lose control. We honestly thought we’d lose control to the regulators, of whom there are many! We didn’t know that we’d lose control to a group who would investigate the origin and cause of our fire! Little did we know that the need for these folks to protect evidence, folks who legitimately act on our behalf, actually would stand in the way of our ability to resume production in facilities unaffected by the fire.
Because we can’t work while the hazmat response teams are remediating our site, we work from 8pm to 8am. And, we did that on Memorial Day with a group of volunteers who packaged, labeled and organized work stations. On Tuesday, from sites located across town (InfoSys Consulting) and in Phoenix, AZ, we shipped product!
Tuesday night will be better than Monday night and Wednesday night will be better than Tuesday. Day by day we are making progress. We thank all our neighbors, friends, colleagues and customers who have helped us achieve these remarkable results. We will emerge stronger and better equipped to serve the needs of a thriving growing economy.

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