AVX Corporation produces electronic capacitors for various clients in the electronics industry. The facility was issued a Title V Operating Renewal Permit to continue to operate as a major source under the “Title V Operating Permit Program”. For more information please contact: Fatina Ann Washburn Clark BAQ Engineering Services Division, by phone at (803) 898-4072 or by e-mail at clarkfaw@dhec.sc.gov.

Klausner Holdings USA, Inc. (Klausner) is a lumber production facility. The facility will operate up to 8,760 hours per year and full scale operations will have a maximum annual production of 700 million board-feet per year. For more information please contact: Jo Anna Cunningham, BAQ Engineering Services Division, by phone at (803) 898-3248 or by e-mail.

Showa Denko Carbon, Inc. (Showa Denko) operates a graphite electrode manufacturing facility. The facility will be increasing production from 45,000 to 85,000 metric tons per year. For more information please contact: Sheila Watts, BAQ Engineering Services Division, by phone at (803) 898-1161 or by e-mail.

Roseburg Forest Products, South, L.P. (Holly Hill MDF) manufactures fiberboard panels from green wood chips and plywood trim. The facility was issued a Title V Operating Renewal Permit to continue to operate as a major source under the "Title V Operating Permit Program". For more information please contact: Hetal Patel, BAQ Engineering Services Division, by phone at (803) 898-3850 or by e-mail.

PyraMax Ceramics, LLC (PyraMax) is a ceramic proppant bead manufacturing facility with clay being the major raw material. The clay will be mixed with chemicals then fired in a kiln process to produce ceramic beads. These beads will be used in the oil and natural gas industry. For more information please contact: George Robinson, BAQ Engineering Services Division, by phone at (803) 898-4135 or e-mail.

Southeast Renewable Energy Allendale, LLC (SRE) is a greenfield facility for the production of electricity in Allendale, SC. The facility will produce 17.5 MW of electricity using a wood-fired boiler and plans to sell the electricity to Santee Cooper. The 275 million BTU/hr. boiler design shall be a stoker boiler and will be fueled by a mixture of clean, untreated wood waste. Additional equipment includes: a wood chip storage pile and handling system, an electric powered wood chipper, ash storage silos, trona or hydrated lime storage silos, an emergency generator, an emergency fire pump, a urea or aqueous ammonia storage tank, and cooling towers. For more information please contact: Fatina Ann Washburn Clark, BAQ Engineering Services Division, by phone at (803) 898-4072 or e-mail.

Southeast Renewable Energy Kershaw, LLC (SRE) is a greenfield facility for the production of electricity in Camden, SC. The facility will produce 17.5 MW of electricity using a wood-fired boiler and plans to sell the electricity to Santee Cooper. The 275 million BTU/hr. boiler design shall be a stoker boiler and will be fueled by a mixture of clean, untreated wood waste. Additional equipment includes: a wood chip storage pile and handling system, an electric powered wood chipper, ash storage silos, trona or hydrated lime storage silos, an emergency generator, an emergency fire pump, a urea or aqueous ammonia storage tank, and cooling towers. For more information please contact: Tawanna Reid, BAQ Engineering Services Division, by phone at (803) 898-8718 or e-mail.

Southeast Renewable Energy Dorchester, LLC (SRE) is a greenfield facility for the production of electricity in Camden, SC. The facility will produce 17.5 MW of electricity using a wood-fired boiler and plans to sell the electricity to Santee Cooper. The 275 million BTU/hr. boiler design shall be a stoker boiler and will be fueled by a mixture of clean, untreated wood waste. Additional equipment includes: a wood chip storage pile and handling system, an electric powered wood chipper, ash storage silos, trona or hydrated lime storage silos, an emergency generator, an emergency fire pump, a urea or aqueous ammonia storage tank, and cooling towers. For more information please contact: Fatina Ann Washburn Clark, BAQ Engineering Services Division, by phone at (803) 898-4072 or e-mail.

The Department's Bureau of Air Quality received, on May 18, 2009, an air permit application from Marvin W. and Barbara Brown d/b/a Custom Works Plating and Polishing (Custom Works) to relocate to 4511 S. Pine Street, Spartanburg, and to permit the plating operations. The processes that Custom Works proposes to construct and operate are subject to both state and federal air regulations.

Starbucks Coffee Company is a coffee roasting facility that will produce roasted coffee, either ground or whole. The facility requested federally enforceable emission limits of less than 250 tons per year (TPY) of Volatile Organic Compounds that will be imposed into this permit, thereby enabling the facility to remain below Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD) major source thresholds. Additionally, federally enforceable emission limits of less than 250 tons per year (TPY) of particulate matter (PM), and less than 10 TPY of any single HAP, will also be imposed into this permit, thereby enabling the facility to remain below Title V & Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD) major source thresholds. For more information please contact: Samuel Zammarrelli, BAQ, Engineering Services Division, by phone at (803) 898-4291 or e-mail.

Grant Allendale Inc. operates an oriented strandboard (OSB) production facility. The facility requested a Prevention of Significant Deterioration Construction Permit No. 0160-0020-CB to remove the synthetic minor limits previously established for Particulate Matter (PM)/PM less than 10 Microns in Diameter (PM₁₀), Sulfur Dioxide (SO₂), Nitrogen Oxides (NO_X), Carbon Monoxide (CO), and Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC) on the existing facility and increase facility production from 147 thousand square feet/hour (MSF/hr) to 175MSF/hr. For more information please contact: Anna Mooney, BAQ, Engineering Services Division, by phone at (803) 898-4304 or e-mail.