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Altona Chemical Company CEO and Project Manager (son)
Founded: 1924 | Headquarters: Bismarck, North Dakota | Industry: Industrial Environmental Services | Ownership: Privately Held
Difficult Materials. Practical Solutions.
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Founded in Bismarck, North Dakota, in 1924, Altona Chemical Company began as a regional collection service for used oils, industrial fluids, and chemical byproducts generated by farms, machine shops, rail operations, and local manufacturers. What started as a practical North Dakota business soon became an essential industrial-service provider for customers who needed difficult materials removed safely, efficiently, and without disrupting their day-to-day operations.
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During the Great Depression, founder Alvin Altona expanded the company by acquiring struggling oil-recovery firms, transportation assets, storage yards, and customer contracts across the North Central United States. By the end of the 1930s, Altona had developed the regional reach and transportation capability needed to support the dramatic increase in industrial and military production that followed during World War II.
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The company’s early reputation was built on reliability, discretion, and a willingness to take on projects other contractors considered too remote or too complicated. That practical operating philosophy helped Altona establish long-standing relationships with manufacturers, agricultural businesses, transportation companies, government agencies, and defense-related customers.
In the decades following the war, Altona continued to grow alongside American industry. New regional facilities, tanker fleets, rail-served properties, processing centers, and emergency-response capabilities allowed the company to manage increasingly complex waste streams across a wider geographic area.
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Today, Altona provides industrial environmental services for customers in manufacturing, agriculture, energy, transportation, utilities, aerospace, defense, and government. Its operations support everything from routine oil recovery and chemical-waste collection to major facility closures, emergency spill response, contaminated-site logistics, and the removal of unidentified or poorly documented industrial materials.
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The company’s strength lies in its ability to coordinate an entire project from beginning to end. Altona teams manage transportation, scheduling, documentation, temporary storage, subcontractor coordination, treatment planning, and final disposition through a single accountable service structure.
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Over its century of operation, Altona has also faced changing environmental expectations, increasingly detailed regulation, and complex questions involving historic industrial practices. The company maintains that legacy waste issues must be evaluated according to the contracts, standards, ownership records, and government requirements that existed when the work was performed.
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These challenges have shaped Altona into a legally sophisticated and operationally disciplined organization. The company continues to invest in compliance systems, facility modernization, transportation safety, emergency preparedness, and employee training while defending its interests in ongoing regulatory and civil proceedings.
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Altona remains privately held and family controlled. Its leadership model combines centralized financial and legal oversight with substantial regional operating authority, allowing experienced managers to respond quickly to local customer needs.
More than one hundred years after its founding, Altona Chemical Company remains one of America’s most established industrial-waste, oil-recovery, and environmental-logistics providers.
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Industries continue to generate difficult materials. Aging facilities continue to require cleanup. Transportation incidents still demand immediate action. Remote sites still need specialized support.
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Altona continues to provide the practical systems, experienced personnel, and national resources required to keep those operations moving.
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About Altona Chemical Company
EXECUTIVES
Alvin Altona II
Altona Chemical Company CEO
Continuity Through Experience
Alvin Altona II serves as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Altona Chemical Company, overseeing one of the nation’s largest privately held industrial environmental-service organizations.
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A member of the company’s founding family, Alvin II has spent more than four decades guiding Altona through industrial change, regulatory expansion, legal challenges, and continued national growth. His leadership has focused on preserving the company’s financial stability, customer relationships, family ownership, and regional operating strength.
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Unlike company founder Alvin Altona, whose career was built through direct field operations and transportation contracting, Alvin II developed his experience through corporate administration, finance, customer management, government contracting, and executive planning.
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He assumed control of Altona following his father’s death and inherited a company with numerous facilities, subsidiaries, rail properties, transportation operations, and long-standing contracts. Rather than centralizing every decision, he retained Altona’s regional management structure and gave experienced local leaders significant authority over daily operations.
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That approach remains central to his leadership philosophy. Alvin II expects regional executives to understand their customers, manage costs, maintain service quality, and resolve operational problems without unnecessary corporate interference.
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Under his direction, Altona has expanded its transportation network, modernized major facilities, strengthened its emergency-response capabilities, and increased its participation in government and defense-related environmental programs.
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Alvin II has also overseen the company during periods of significant environmental and legal scrutiny. He has consistently maintained that responsibility for historic waste must be determined through contracts, ownership records, transportation documents, and the standards in force at the time the work was completed.
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He is known for a private, conservative, and highly controlled public style. Most of his appearances take place at company events, industrial conferences, government contracting functions, community programs, and employee-recognition ceremonies.
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Through Altona and its charitable programs, Alvin II supports rural emergency services, volunteer fire departments, agricultural safety, technical education, veterans’ organizations, and North Dakota community development.
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Now approximately seventy years old, he remains actively involved in executive decision-making while gradually transferring greater project and corporate responsibility to his son, Alvin Altona III.
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“Our customers do not call us because a project is easy. They call us because it has to be completed.”
Alvin Altona III
Corporate Project Manager (Successor)
Building Altona’s Next Century
Alvin Altona III serves as Corporate Project Manager for Altona Chemical Company and is widely regarded as the likely next-generation leader of the family enterprise.
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In his current role, Alvin III works across the company’s regional divisions and executive departments. He supports major customer accounts, facility projects, transportation programs, acquisitions, government contracts, emergency-response assignments, and other initiatives requiring direct corporate involvement.
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His position is intentionally broad. Rather than working within one permanent department, he is assigned to projects that allow him to build experience across Altona’s operations and establish working relationships with facility managers, customers, vendors, public officials, and industry partners.
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Alvin III grew up within the Altona organization and was exposed from an early age to the company’s role in North Dakota business, transportation, industry, and regional development. He later studied business, project management, and corporate finance before completing rotational assignments throughout the company.
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His professional experience has included work in transportation planning, facility development, customer relations, government contracting, emergency-response coordination, financial operations, and industrial property acquisition.
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Where his father emphasizes continuity and stability, Alvin III brings a more visible, aggressive, and modern business style. He is comfortable with public appearances, industry conferences, corporate receptions, customer presentations, and large-scale negotiations.
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He frequently represents Altona at trade shows, government contracting events, charity functions, political fundraisers, and business-development meetings. His public role has helped introduce the company to a new generation of customers and decision-makers.
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Alvin III has also promoted modernization initiatives involving digital waste tracking, fleet technology, advanced logistics, data-based project management, emergency-response readiness, and public-private industrial partnerships.
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Within the company, he is known as decisive, competitive, and strongly focused on results. His involvement in a project often signals that the executive office considers the work financially important, politically sensitive, or strategically valuable.
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Although no formal succession date has been announced, Alvin III is increasingly positioned as the future leader of Altona Chemical Company.
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“Altona’s next century will be built by combining experience, technology, and the ability to act when others hesitate.”
COMPANY HQ & LOCATIONS
A National Industrial-Service Network
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Altona Chemical Company operates a coordinated network of corporate offices, processing centers, transportation terminals, emergency-response hubs, rail-served properties, and temporary recovery sites across the United States.
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The company’s headquarters remains in Bismarck, North Dakota, where executive leadership, legal services, finance, government relations, national customer support, and regional operating coordination are managed.
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Altona’s strongest concentration of facilities is located throughout the Great Plains, Midwest, and northern United States, reflecting the company’s historic roots in agriculture, manufacturing, rail transportation, energy, and defense-related industry.
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Major regional processing centers provide waste consolidation, oil recovery, bulk-liquid handling, product identification, temporary storage, treatment coordination, and material transfer services. These facilities are supported by specialized equipment, containment systems, laboratory services, and trained hazardous-material personnel.
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Transportation and transfer terminals serve as the operational backbone of Altona’s network. They coordinate tanker fleets, contract carriers, rail movements, scheduling, documentation, load verification, and customer pickups across multiple states.
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Rail-served storage and recovery properties allow Altona to manage large-volume industrial materials, aging tank cars, facility closures, and projects involving long-distance transportation. These sites are especially important for customers dealing with legacy materials or remote industrial locations.
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The company also maintains several emergency-response hubs equipped to support chemical spills, transportation accidents, industrial fires, leaking tanks, damaged railcars, and other hazardous-material incidents.
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Altona response teams can deploy specialized vehicles, containment equipment, decontamination systems, transfer pumps, protective equipment, and technical personnel to customer sites throughout the region.
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The company’s primary operational corridors connect North Dakota with major industrial markets including Minnesota, South Dakota, Montana, Nebraska, Iowa, Missouri, Wisconsin, Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, New York, Colorado, and other strategic transportation regions.
Through this network, Altona can coordinate projects requiring multiple facilities, transportation methods, subcontractors, and regulatory jurisdictions while maintaining a single corporate point of contact.
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Whether supporting a local manufacturing plant, a remote agricultural operation, a government facility, or a multi-state industrial cleanup, Altona’s facilities are designed to provide dependable access to the equipment, personnel, and logistics needed to complete difficult environmental-service projects.
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Facilities at a Glance
Corporate headquarters in Bismarck, North Dakota
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8 major regional processing centers
14 transportation and transfer terminals
5 emergency-response hubs
Multiple rail-served storage and recovery locations
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National tanker and contract-carrier network
Specialized hazardous-material response teams
Regional environmental, engineering, and compliance support
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One network. One standard. One accountable partner.
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