Abstract
Just as the northern hemisphere is gearing up for summer, a shortage of the water treatment chemical trichloroisocyanuric acid threatens to rain on the pool parties. Trichlor, as the sanitizer is commonly known, is a popular choice for backyard pools because it is easy to use. But a fire last summer at a BioLab trichlor factory in Westlake, Louisiana, is already causing shortages and price hikes, and the problem is likely to get worse in the coming months. US homeowners will build about 110,000 pools in 2021, according to the pool supply company Pool Corp. That’s an increase of more than 20% from construction last year. The BioLab plant normally makes the majority of North America’s trichlor supply, according to a report by Goldman Sachs, but was destroyed when Hurricane Laura hit the US Gulf Coast in August. KIK Consumer Products, which owns BioLab, says it is rebuilding the facility
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