Company Overview

CP&P is owned by Jack and Greg Ploss. We treat employees as family and have built a cohesive team. Now over 30 years old, stability is our hallmark.

Over the years, we’ve added many top industry minds to our team. CP&P retains our employees because they appreciate having a voice in the company and knowing that every employee is an integral part of the team.  

We’ve been very pragmatic in our lead times. We create contracts on a sliding scale to maintain balance and bills are paid as soon as we receive an invoice. CP&P understands that reputation goes a long way.

Our future looks bright. Larry Smith, holder of 77 patents, is helping us to patent our hydrodesulfurization process. We already have two prospects interested in the pilot reactions. One company is looking for a plant to be built by the end of 2010, mid-2011 at the latest. A shining example of our resourcefulness and R&D, this provides us with a new competitive advantage that we will continue to use to expand the business in years to come.

Mission

Chemical Process and Production seeks to provide customers with high-performance solutions for their co-product and bi-product streams in a cost-effective, safe, and environmentally friendly manner. To do so we take as good care of our employees, plant, and community as we do the customer. And we strive to find the proper balance that enables the company to continue to grow reasonably and responsibly.

History

CP&P actually began as a trucking company, owned by Jack Ploss, that hauled various waste chemicals to different plants. At one point, FMC had a glycerin stream that needed to be hauled, which led Jack to research the market for recovered glycerin.

When Ed Jones, one of the “founding 5”, heard of the glycerin deal, he told Jack there could be a better opportunity with Petrotex. They needed a recovery project which may be more substantive. So Jack called Petrotex who introduced him to Larry Smith - their research chemist at the time. Jack told Ed that if he wanted to design the plant, and Larry helped them get through the start-up, that they would share in the company.

So in 1972, CP&P was founded via the recovery of dichlorobutene . From there they became very successful marketing diisobutylene in 1979. In fact, CP&P had half the domestic market (40MM lbs) for it.

During the lean times of the 80’s CP&P held on working with a variety of streams and in 1994, Jack sold the trucking company. Then he and Greg Ploss invested themselves into the plant full time and started aggressively pursuing streams.

They distilled a stream (PIB -polyisobutylene) and sold the overhead into gas, and the bottom into marine diesel oil, which is how they got into what is now a major part of their business.

Plant Overview

CP&P runs a highly reliable, efficient, and safe facility.

It’s a perfect combination of the latest technology and proven practices.  We automate where it makes sense but only if what we do is simple and maintains safety.

By keeping an eye on the market, talking to our customers, and listening to our employees on the floor, we believe that we’ve created a plant that does the job efficiently and effectively.

The plant is fail-safe. Unlike a traditional refinery, there isn’t a lot of integration between units so if one unit goes down, the others can still operate.

We’re leveraging the recent advances in networking and communications. For example, our power quality monitoring system allows us to understand if power problems come from inside or outside the plant and will text message key personnel when a power disturbance occurs.

All told, CP&P is a straightforward business with straightforward processes which is exactly how we’ve constructed and run our plant.