The Canexus product line includes chemicals used by our customers to manufacture many consumer goods such as paper, steel, oil and plastic. Our chemicals are found in products that you touch and products that touch your life. They are a part of the building materials and furnishings found in our homes. Our products also enhance your life through necessities such as disinfected drinking water. And they help protect our environment by reducing the impact of other industries.

Canexus is defining a better way to bring chemicals to markets and change lives for the better. Chemicals are essential to many of the products that improve and enhance the quality of our modern lifestyle. It's easy to lose sight of the important role that chemicals play in many aspects of our lives. We'd like to take this chance to illustrate how Canexus products improve the standard of living for us all. Did you know that:

• About 85 percent of all pharmaceuticals - prescription and over-the-counter - contain or are manufactured using chlorine.
• Today some 25 percent of all medical equipment is made from polyvinyl chloride -- a chlorine-based plastic.
• Safe, chlorinated water has played a key role in the virtual elimination of cholera, typhoid fever, dysentery and gastroenteritis, as well as many other waterborne diseases that once killed tens of thousands of people.
• Pulp bleaching based on sodium chlorate has virtually eliminated the discharge of dioxins from pulp and paper effluents.
• The paper you read and write on everyday is produced and bleached using caustic soda and sodium chlorate.
Source: Chlorine Chemistry Council, Canexus