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Charlotte-area pool and hot tub owners may have a hard time finding chlorine tablets to sanitize their swimming pools because of a nationwide shortage.
Last summer, a large fire broke out at a swimming pool chemical plant in Louisiana operated by Bio-Lab Inc., one of the country’s largest producers of pool products. It forced the plant to shut down with a projected reopening date of May 2022, The Advocate
Demand for chlorine tablets has increased with the summer weather and because more people have built pools during the pandemic. In a
report, the research firm IBISWorld attributed the growth in pool construction to “social-distancing guidelines and fears over the virus.”