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"PRINCIPAL buildings foi· Sinclair Refining •*• Co/:s new rosrarch and development laboratory arc approaching completion on the 3S-aciv site at Harvey, 111., which is being dcwlopcd by t he Austin Co. under a %\ million contract covering; design and const ruction.

In picture be-low t h e large, E-shnped, three-story administration building with simple square entrance tower can be seen on t h e left beyond t h e parking lot and is directly connected to the U-shaped main laboratory building b y a covered passage at the ground fl< >or level.

The tall .structure with lofty shafts of vent i Lit iiiii sash in t lie foreground (just left of ci'iiter) will house six individual pilot plain un i t s whieh are .separated from each other by corrugated aluminum parti­tions. Λ network of pipe lines connects this central pilot plant building directly to the tanks and pump house, adjacent to cooling towers in the lower loft corner.

Gern ι an R epa ra lion Plan ts Are Listed

T h e Inter-Allied Reparution Agency has announced that general-purpose equip­ment designed for peacetime production from 2-1 additional German war and in­dustrial plants will be considered for allo­cation as. reparation among the Western Allied Nations i n the near future.

Several of the plants are: Electro­chemisclit1 der ive , par t plant, comprising section for production of concentrated hydrogen peroxide in Munich; I. G. Farben, part plant, comprising part of

Principal Buildings of Sinclair

sect ion for product ion of wax in (ïerstofen ; Suddeutsche Kalk-StiekstoiTwerk A.G., part plant, for production of calcium car­bide in Trostberg: Mahler, plant for pro­duction of chemical equipment in Kss­lingcn: M. Kappus, plant for production of soap products in Offenbach: Hohm Λ: Haas, part plant, comprising section for production of soap powder in Darmstadt ; and Saline Ludwigshall which is comprised of a plant for production of sodium fluo­ride, plant for the production of aluminum fluoride, and a plant for the production of synthet ic cryolite in Had Winipfen.

This announcement does not constitute an offer of sale, but any expressions of in­terest should be addressed to Chief Repara­tions Officers, Ofhce of International Trade, Department of Commerce, AYash­ington 25, D. C , so that they will be re­ceived by Feb. 27.

G E to Market Phenolic Molding Powders

The General Electric chemical depart­ment announced t h a t it has started to market, a complete line of phenolic molding powders. The new G1C line includes gen­eral purpose, high heat resistant, and im­pact resistant plastic materials.

Available in s tandard colors and mot­tles, these powders are said t o exhibit a high quality and uniformity maintained by a series of critical, tests made on every batch of material prior to shipment. Tests include specilic gravity, tensile strength, dielectric strength, flow, powder pourability, shrinkage, and Izod impact.

Refining Co. Laboratory

The boiler house and shopbuildingsof Sinclair Refining Co.9s research and development laboratory are di­rectly beyond the pilot plants, be­tween tivo large fuel oil tanks on the right. Basement walls for the engine test laboratory are in the background to the right of picture

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The company said ι he molding materials provide excellent finishes and high glosses.

Plasties LaboratoryOpened by Eastman Kodak

A new plastics laboratory for work on the development of plastic parts for photo­graphic apparat us has been opened by East ­man Kodak Co., Rochester, Ν . Υ. T h e laboratory is under the general su}jervision of Carson Meyer, chief chemist at the camera works. Gerard Delaire is engineer in charge- of the laboratory. Before the addition of the new building, the camera works section used par t of the plant 's chemical laboratory for plastics experi­ments . The actual, large scale production of Kodak's plastic par ts is done by several.

U. S. Synthetic Oil The Government probably will s ta r t

producing oil from coal by the middle of next, summer, according to .James Boyd, director of the bureau of Mines.

"We are going ahead to produce oil synthetically not because it is economi­cally feasible hut for reasons of securi ty/ ' Boyd told a reporter. "But with pe­troleum prices rising, the day when it will be economically practical to produce oil from coal is rapidly approaching."

Boyd said the Louisiana, Mo., plant will function only on a demonstration basis, producing 200 to -100 hbl. of oil a day in each of its two units.

McCarthy Cliemical Co. Releases Additional Facts on Winnie, Tex., Plant

The McCarthy Chemical Co . has re­cently released additional facts concerning the construction of its chemical plant a t Winnie, Tex. (C&EX, Sept. 28, 1947), for the processing of hydrocarbons obtained from natural gas produced by the parent-company, the McCarthy Oil & Cas. Corp. The initial portion of the project is sched­uled for completion by late spring and will produce formaldehyde, acetaldehyde, and methanol. The formaldehyde produced in this plant, locaicde20 miles west of Beau­mont, will be shipped in tank car and barge lots in both inhibited and methanol-free forms.

The McCarthy plants are closely inte­grated with the production of natural gas from distillate fields and the pipe line transmission of gas to both domestic and industrial consumers in the southeast Texas area. While both chemical plant operation and gas distribution are tied together, there can be complete independ­ence of operation in the event occasion demands. Particular interest is centered on the modified Linde-Frankl oxygen plant which is incorporated in the process.

A catalytic reforming unit is now being completed as an addit ion to the present absorption plant. This unit, licensed by

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the Phillips Petroleum Co., is said t o be the first of its type to be installed in a nat­ural gasoline plant .

Glenn H. McCar thy is president of the new company, Frank Champion is vice president and treasurer, and G. M. Mc-Granahan is vice president and general manager. Offices of the company are lo­cated in the Shell Bldg., Houston, Tex .

Penrtsalt to Build Plant near Paducah, Ky.

The Pennsylvania Salt Mfg. Co. an­nounced tha t it will build a new fluorine chemicals plant near Paducah, Ky.

Construction will be started in the near future and the first uni t of the plant is ex­pected to be completed by February 1949. The first phase of operations will be devoted to production of hy­drofluoric acid. The plant, embody­ing the latest in engineering designs, will include single and multistory buildings. T h e operation will oc­cupy approximately 10 acres of a 500­acre t rac t . New plant superintendent will be James Mc-Whirter, former superintendent of Pennsal t ' s Na t rona , Pa. , plant .

Ammonia Institute Urged by W. C. Fernelius

Establishment of a cooperative indus­trial inst i tute to seek new uses for liquid ammonia, the substance long employed as a freezing agent in ice and cold storage plants, was urged recently b y W. Conard Fernelius, chairman of t he de­par tment of chemistry a t Syracuse Uni­versity, in an address to the Erie Section of the AMERICAN C H E M I C A L SOCIETY, a t Allegheny College.

Explaining t h a t the nation's capacity for producing ammonia , riecded to make nitric acid for explosives, was enormously expanded during AVorld War I I , Dr. Fernelius said the available supply is now so great that an intensive search should be undertaken for new peacetime applications to supplement the prewar market, most of which was provided by the fertilizer in­dustry.

New uses for ammonia as a solvent which may be developed through current research will not create an adequate de­mand for the product, Prof. Fernelius said, because the ammonia can be recovered when employed in this way.

An insti tute of the type of the American Petroleum Inst i tu te could conduct, broad investigations for the ammonia industry as a whole and publish the data for the benefit of all, i t was pointed out.

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Newest Addition, to Southwest Chemical Industry

Southern Alkali dorp.'s large liquid chlorine and caustic soda producingplant at Lake Charles^ La., which reached capacity production last month. Electricity is supplied by a 60,000 kiv. generating plant located on the plant property. Cooling and process water pumped from the Calcasieu Flivver is supplied to the operation at the rate of 165,000 gal. per minute

Or. Fernelius declared, in its ability to rance, Calif., to Columbia Steel Co. for dissolve without chemical reaction the al­ S4.2 million. kal i metals—sodium, potassium, lithium, Columbia, a U. S. Steel Corp. subsidi­rubidium, and cesium—and the alkaline ary, plans to house a rolling mill on the earth metals—calcium, strontium, and property. barium. The sale must still get Justice Depart­

ment approval. This may not be too Columbia Steel Buys quick in coming, since the department

now is appealing to the Supreme Court a W^AA Aluminum Plant suit in which it is attempting to block

The War Assets Administration an­ Columbia's plans to purchase Consolidated nounced it has approved the sale of a sur­ Steel Corp., another West Coast steel plus aluminum reduction plant at Tor­ producer.

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The Justice Depart mont contends the purchase of Consolidated by the U. S. Steel Corp- subsidiary would "eliminate substantial competition in the sale of both fabricated and rolled steel products.''

Carbon, Black Plant Sold Columbia Carbon Co. has purchased a

government-owned carbon black plant in Seagraves, Tex., for $1,420,000, the War Assets Administration announced.

The plant, which had been under lease to Columbia Carbon, cost $2,226.179 and has an appraised value of $1,779,679. I t is on a site of 236 acres which holds 180 burner houses for carbon black, 17 process­ing buildings, and 19 four-room frame homes.

Luminous Compound Corporation Is Formed

Announcement was made of the forma­tion of Luminous Industries, Inc., manufac­turers and distributors of luminous com­pounds and related products, with Erwin Schapira, formerly assistant district at­torney of New York County as president and treasurer. The new corporation, which will maintain offices, laboratory, and manufacturing facilities at 43 West 16th St., New York City, also announced the other principals as being Paul A. Tu­markin, who will serve as vice president and director of research and Boris Z. Gor­lin who will serve as vice president and di­rector of engineering and manufacturing.

Osbom Co, Opens Research Laboratory

The C. J. Osborn Co. of New York City announces the opening of its new research laboratory and technical offices in Lin­den, N. J., on the site of the company's synthetic resin plant. This will effect a complete centralization of technical and production facilities. Main offices will remain a t 132 Nassau St., New York City.

The new laboratory, under the adminis­tration of C. F . Silleck, technical director, will be equipped for research, evaluation, and technical service in connection with the company's resins and pigments for the protective coating industry. Frank Faff is plant supervisor.

Aluminum Cheaper Than Before the War

Even though the composite price of other metals has risen more than 100% since 1939, the base price of aluminum has decreased 30% Reynolds Metals Co., Louisville, Ky., reports. Aluminum is the only basic material that is cheaper today than before the war.

Total output of Reynolds aluminum for

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1947, according to the report, is estimated to be 400 million lb. Of this some 355 million lb. is primary, and the other 45 million lb. secondary (from wrecked air­craft and miscellaneous scrap). This compares with a total of 325 million lb. for 1946 and the 1939 sole producer's output of 327 million lb.

The Krishell Laboratories have re­cently moved from Corvallis, Ore., to larger quarters at 1735 S.E. Powell Blvd., Portland, Ore., where they have estab­lished a chemical and laboratory supplies sales department together with consulting sales.

Formation of a new affiliate, the Mill-

Net earnings of Dresser Industries, Inc., for the fiscal year ended Oct. 31, amounted to $4,439,189. This is equivalent to $3.85 per share on the common stock outstand­ing.

Net earnings of Freeport Sulphur Co., New York, Ν. Υ., for the year 1947 amounted to $3,110,710, or $3.89 a share

Shell Oil Co. Industrial School

The Shell Oil Co., Inc., N. Y., con­ducted an industrial school for selected marketing personnel at the Berkeley Car­teret Hotel in Asbury Park, N. J. J. M. Lendway, assistant to the manager of Shell's head office lubricants department, directed the lubricants portion of the school. B. W. Conn, assistant to the manager of the special products depart­ment, was in charge of the special products program and was assisted by B. J. Davis, chief discussion leader.

Shell also is conducting training courses for sales supervisor}' personnel at Katonah, Ν. Υ.

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laboratories in this country and Canada met for a week's conference with members of the company's general research labora­tory. There was an attendance of about 120, and 40 research papers were read and discussed.

A new processing plant for the manufac­ture of milk of magnesia in Gulfport, Miss., was formally opened recently by the Chas. H. Phillips Co., division of Sterling Drug, Inc.

The tung crushing plant of the Good­year Yellow Pine Co. at Picayune, Miss., is planning to double within the near future its processing capacity of 100 tons of tung nuts per day. Process of the 1947 bumper crop, which is expected to exceed any previous year by 20 to 25%, is well under way.

The cellulose products and naval stores departments of Hercules Powder Co. (Canada), Ltd., are now located in the Metropolitan Bldg., 44 Victoria St., Toronto, Ont.

Hewitt-Robins, Inc., has leased a ware­house at 1010 Pennsylvania Ave., Charles­ton, W. Va., to step up deliveries in the in­dustrial South, particularly the mining areas of Virginia, West Virginia, Ken­tucky, and North and South Carolina.

A SI.3 million project, involving the de­sign and construction of a system to con­vey, store, dry, and ship phosphate rock has been begun by International Minerals and Chemical Corp., to serve its new Noralyn Mine at Bartow, Fla.

master Chemical Export Corp., and the on the 800,000 shares of common stock. appointment of Charles L. Westenberg as Hercules Powder Co., Wilmington, Del., executive vice president was announced by showed a net income for 1947 of $12,934,­the Millmaster Chemical Co., New York 430. This was equal to $4.75 a share on City. 2,633,420 shares outstanding.

Koreon, the one-bath chrome tan which Heyden Chemical Corp. has purchased Rohm & Haas has supplied to the tanning the minority interest of the Borden Co. for industry for the past 30 years, will in the an undisclosed sum and now owns more future be sold directly by the Mutual than 99% of the stock of American Plastics Chemical Co. of America. Corp., Bainbridge, Ν. Υ.

Net sales of International Minerals & Chemical Corp., Chicago, 111., for the six months ended Dec. 31 were $19,090,107. Bus iness and The board of directors of Sterling Drug, Financial News Inc., declared a regular quarterly dividend of 50 cents per share on the common stock, payable March 1. Sterling Drug also

The directors of Air Reduction Co., Inc., borrowed from the New York Life In­New York, Ν. Υ., declared the regular surance Co. the sum of S12 million by quarterly dividend of 25 cents per share on issuing a 3 % sinking fund note payable in the common stock. 15 years.

American Potash and Chemical Corp., West Virginia Pulp and Paper Co. Los Angeles, Calif., has announced a announced that net sales for 1947 totaled dividend of 37.5 cents per share on class A $85,989,056, as compared with $67,211,­and class Β stock. 929 in 1946.

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SINCK its introduction as a general purpose deodorant sonic fifteen years ago, XEU­TUOLEUM has been put to hundreds of interesting uses. One of these is the control of animal odors. Placed in the corners of cages, kennels or animal houses, a drop or two of this very efficient, low-cost deodorant helps to maintain a clean, fresh atmosphere about the premises of zoos, pet shops, veterinary hospitals and the like. I ts proper use, coupled with a rigid program of cleanliness, will go a long way toward removing ;. the problem of animal odors as a matter of concern for the veterinarian, zoo keeper or kennel operator.

PERHAPS WE CAN DO IT FOR YOU ! . . . Unpleasant industrial odors are a frequent source of annoyance, discomfort and ex­pense to manufacturers. AB the by-product of chemical process or manufacture, an of­fensive odor can be detrimental to personnel efficiency and morale; as residual odor in the finished goods, it can greatly retard tha t product's sale. In either case, the presence of such odor is not only costly, but un?iecessary, for as likely as not it can be modified or entirely eliminated by the use of appropriate deodorants. NEUTRO­LEUM may not be the answer, but we have dozens of other neutralizing specialties from -which to choose. And if none of these will do, our technical staff is well equipped to study the problem and work out an effective solution. Therefore, if you or your company are faced with an industrial odor problem, it will obligate you in no way to explain it to our Technical Division and find out if they can solve it for you.

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