ι INDUSTRY More Olin Mathieson Antifreezes

Automotive antifreeze will be formulated and pack­aged in Illinois plant being planned

JL HE AUTOMOTIVE PRODUCTS depart­ment of Olin Mathieson Chemical is planning a $1.5 million plant at Maple-ton, III. The site i s on the Illinois River, 10 miles south of Peoria.

This plant will be built on a portion of a 250-acre tract purchased from the

speed filling and packaging lines will handle drums and gallons and quart size cans.

Kiethanol and ethylene glycol are made from coal and natural gas a t the company's plants i n Morgantowrr, W. Va., and Brandenburg, Ky. They will he shipped from these plants and from the Gulf Coast to Mapleton by barge.

J. Russel Coulter, president of the Toledo, Peoria & Western Railroad, and W . Adrian King, manager of Olin Mathieson's automotive products de­partment, discuss plans for the $1.5 million antifreeze plant planned for Mapleton, on tihe Illinois River

Toledo, Peoria & Western Railroad. Ground wil l be "broken next spring, with completion of the plant scheduled for early 1958. Olin Mathieson makes Super Pyro and Permanent Pyro brands of antifreeze, a s well as a number of private-label brands.

The n e w plant for formulating and packaging antifreezes will consist of a 90,000-square-foot building, an outdoor tank farm for bulk storage of raw mate­rials, and terminal facilities for rail, truck, and water transportation.

Jet formulating equipment wiU en­able the plant t o turn out some 12 mil­lion gallons of antifreeze a year. This will make it the largest of the com­pany's formulating plants. Four high-

More Du Pont Mylar, Sodium

A major expansion in film materials is planned by Du Pont. It plans to in­stall additional cellophane facilities at its Clinton, Iowa, plant. This will in­crease its cellophane capacity by about 10 million pounds by the rnidclle of 1958. Plans are under consideration for adding another 20 million pounds a t other plants shortly. And engineering studies are being directed toward still further increases in cellophane produc­tion.

Expansion in Mylar polyester films is planned at the company's Circleville, Ohio, plant. This will increase the company's capacity b y about 509^-This project is scheduled for comple­tion early in 1958. This Circleville plant was the first commercial Mylar plant, going into operation in July 1954.

Du Pont now has four cellophane plants: Buffalo, Clinton, Richmond, and Old Hickory (Term.) It has more than doubled its cellophane capacity since 1946. However, present and fu­ture needs call for further increases in capacity.

The company is also considering building a sodium and chlorine unit as an addition to its existing plant at Mempbis. Final decision is awaiting detailed engineering studies and cost estimates. If the unit is built, it will go into operation in mid-1958.

If authorized, the new unit will rep­resent an increase of more than 50% in the company's sodium capacity. It now makes sodium at Niagara Falls.

The existing Du Pont plant at Mem­phis began producing hydrogen cyanide and sodium cyanide in 1952. With the addition of a hydrogen peroxide unit, which -went into operation in 1953, the plant's employees were increased from an initial 175 to the present 250. If the sodium expansion goes through, it will add approximately 150 additional jobs.

Ethyl in California Ethyl Corp. is now moving West in

its nationwide expansion program. Its latest plans call for an antiknock com­pound plant in the San Francisco Bay area. It says the plant will be large enougn to serve the needs of the West Coast oil industry.

At present Ethyl has plants in Baton Rouge and near Houston. Besides its

Sf arch Ss Spray Died Com Products Sales has just installed the first spray dryer to be used in the instant starcn field at its Corpus Christi plant. The stainless steel spray drying chamber is 24 feet in diameter and rises 8 8 feet above the ground. Besides the spray dryer Com Products has installed a precooling system and a separate packaging unit.

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Natura l g a s — 4 0 0 million cubic feet a day—pours into the Petro Extraction Plant from the Panhandle Eastern Tuscola compressor

station. After removal of hydrocarbons, the gas is returned to Panhandle Eastern lines for transmission as fuel gas.

Petrochemicals f r o m p ipe l ine g a s e s At the Petro plant—Tuscola, Illinois—an endless stream of natural gas is being separated into ethane, propane, butane and natural gasoline.

p r o d u c t s y o u n e e d The ethane is converted into ethylene, which is in turn converted to ethyl chloride, ethyl alcohol, ether and polyethylene. U.SJ. ammonia and sulfuric acid plants next door supply and receive raw materials.

for th e future Petro can manufacture products other than these if the demand arises—products that can be made from the many raw materials available at the plant site.

in bu lk quantity Why not add this plant to your facilities? Our engi­neers will be glad to discuss your long-term bulk requirements for chemicals from National Petro­chemicals Corporation.

NATIONAL PEflU>CHEMICAlS C O R P O R A T I O N

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proposed California plant, Ethyl bas ac­quired a site near Joliet, 111., for a. Mid­west plant. And only last month its Canadian subsidiary put a new plant at Sarnia, Ont., into operation.

The company already has a distribu­tion terminal in California ( at Wilming­ton) and one at Edge Moor, Del.

I n recent years the company bas in­vested over $125 million in plant ex­pansion and improvement. In that pe­riod it has more than doubled its manu­facturing capacity.

Hercules Expands info Food Hercules Powder is planning its first

major expansion into a field involving food products. The route it is taking is acquisition of Huron Milling. Now it i s awaiting approval by the Huron stockholders. The plan calls for an ex­change of about 100,000 shares of Her­cules common stock for the assets of Huron—one share of Hercules for tiiree of Huron.

One of Huron's major activities is the processing of wheat flour into pro­teins for food supplements, and wheat starch, natural food flavorings, includ­ing monosodium glutamate. Tbe flour proteins are used to make amino acids.

As a co-product o f its manufacture of proteins, starch is produced by Huron both in edible grades for use in cake mixes and other bakery goods, and in a nonedible form for use as laundry starch and in adhesives.

Hercules plans to operate Huron as a part of its Virginia Cellulose Depart­ment.

Growth Goes West Commitments for industrial expan­

sion in the San Francisco Bay area dur­ing the first six months of this year were 76% greater than for -the whole of 1955. In fact, this year's record first-half commitments -were 50 % greater than the last January—June all time high in 1953.

The San Francisco Chamber of Com­merce says that 300 industrial projects —new plants and expansions—planned during the first half will cost $253.4 million. For the six-month period, transportation equipment added the largest share to the figures, $105.2 million. Food was next with $33.4 million and electrical machinery third with $23.2 million.

Chemicals and allied products were well down the line, but still major con­tributors. Among cbemical firms them­selves, 11 new projects and 2 3 expan­sions will add $12.3 million. Five petroleum expansions will add $4.2 mil­lion; two rubber expansions "will add

Atom Power Takes Shape This sodium reactor experiment being built by Atomics International, a division of North American Aviation, is well under way; it is expected to b e in operation early next year. The reactor, located in the building shown in right background, will supply heat to he converted into electricity by generators being installed by Southern California Edison. The reactor is in the Santa Susana Mountains north­west of Los Angeles.

$361,000. One new plant and five expansions in scientific instruments total $13.9 million. The paper industry plans two new plants and six expan­sions for a total of $14.9 million.

• Shell Chemical's synthetic rubber plant at Torrance, Calif., will have a new unit to produce a special latex for the manufacture of foam rubber prod­ucts. This unit will b e completed in the fall. Other parts of the plant's general expansion program include ex­tensions to the butadiene facilities and modernization of the copolymer unit.

• Garfield Chemical & Mfg., a jointly owned company of American Smelting & Refining and Kennecott Copper, is expanding production of sulfuric acid to 1100 tons a day by constructing its fifth contact process sulfuric acid plant at Garfield, Utah. It uses as raw mate­rial sulfur dioxide produced by Ameri­can Smelting's copper converter operation.

Expansions · · . • Foote Mineral i s spending more than $600,000 on improvements at its Kings

Mountain plant. About $350,000 of this has been ear-marked for additional processing equipment, while the re­mainder will provide for enlarged office, lab, and shop facilities.

V American Aniline Products, a wholly owned subsidiary of Koppers, will build a new sales ofBce, lab, and warehouse at Paterson, N . J. When a 50,000-square foot building is completed on the 3-acre site next spring, American Aniline will move its Manhattan opera­tions from the site it now occupies at University Place. About 600O of the 50,000 square feet of floor space will b e devoted to lab facilities for testing dyes and chemicals used b y the dyeing industry.

Completions · . · • Monsanto has started operation of new equipment at i ts Springfield, Mass., plant which triples the companies ca­pacity to produce vinyl chloride paste resin. This vinyl stir-in paste resin, Opalon 410, may b e compounded into plastisols for fabric coating, slush mold­ing, dipping, film casting, and produc­tion of vinyl foams.

• Lea Mfg. now is operating a new

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VaviAon

Davison pioneered in the development o f the first commercially useful silica gel more than three decades ago, and for years has been America's

leading producer. Silica gel, with its porous amorphous physical structure providing a surface area of 90,000 square feet per cubic inch, is a unique compound of

continuing importance and increasing application. Silica gel's most important properties are its ability to condense and retain condensable gases in

the porous structure and its regenerable nature through the application o f heat or other elutriation methods. A wide variety o f particle sizes, densities and adsorptive

capacities are available, each having been developed to meet specific application demands. Investigate Davison Silica Gel, now.

See your Davison Field Service Engineer or write for technical literature.

D A V I S O N CHEMICAL C O M P A N Y Division of W. R. Grace & Co.

Baltimore 3, Maryland Sales Offices: Baltimore, Md.; Chicago, III.; Columbus, Ohio;

Houston, Texas; New York, Ν. Υ. Producers of: Catalysts, Inorganic Acids, Superphosphates, Triple Superphosphates.

Phosphate Rock, Silica Gels, Stlicofluorides: Sole producers of DAVCO® Granulated Fertilizer.

ask for.

Davison Silica Gel for the dehydra­tion of air and gas.

Syloid® 308 . . . lacquer f latt ing agent.

Syloid® AL-1 . . . prevents gas build­up in metallic paint.

Protek-Sorb® 121 . . . for Method II de­hydrated packaging.

Syloid® 162 . . . alkyd-urea varnish flatting agent.

Syloid® 2 4 4 . . . superior I atting agent in clear j

a l k y d f in ishes and oleoresinous varnish.

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φ Fabricator of Isotopes Budd Co.'s Nuclear System division has just opened in Philadelphia the first com­mercial facility in the U. S. to be able to fabricate radioisotopes in strengths up to 10,000 curies. It will fabricate isotope materials—wafers, pellets, and rods— of cobalt, cesium, thulium, iridium, and others for use in deep therapy and for research studies under AEC license. Its radioisotope handling facility consists of a heavily shielded "hot" cell, a master-slave manipulator, a shielding window of more than 36 inches of high-density glass, closed-circuit television, and mis­cellaneous equipment.

DMF Powerful Solvent Inspires New Way ±o Solve Old Problems DMF (DIMETHYL FORMAMIDE), designed as a "'close approach to the universal solvent," is currently providing the answer to a wide range of solvent problems.

AS A RESIN SOLVENT for vinyl chloride polymers, D M F o f f e r s a d v a n t a g e s over ketones of similar volatility. Higher solids a r e obtained for equivalent solution viscosi­ties with either straight DMF or diluted sol­vent. DMF is highly compatible with cost-saving extenders a t no sacrifice to its high solvent power.

Synergistic mixtures can be prepared combining DMF with a variety of solvents and extenders for optimum formulations from a cost and volati l i ty standpoint. AS A PIGMENT SOLVENT, D M F has unique abil ity for dissolving formerly insoluble pig­ments. While retaining the desirable prop­erties of pigments, DMF solutions of pig­ments have advantageous dispersion char­acteristics. They a r e fast to washing and crocking . . . h a v e unusually high color strength and covering quality.

DMF's unusual solubility for inorganics as well a s organics opens new potentials for:

φ titrations I n non-aqueous medium • electrolytic baths • reactions b e t w e e n compounds

of diverse solubility characteristics How many difficult jobs DMF can solve re­mains to be seen. S o if you have a solvent problem, D M F may b e the answer. Clip cou­pon a n d we'l l send full information.

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third section to its Waterbury, Conn., plant to produce greaseless abrasive compounds. In addition, an office and research building is scheduled for com­pletion in 1957.

• B e r k s h i r e C o l o r & C h e m i c a l has started full scale production at its dye-stuffs plant located in the former Bick Chemical plant at Reading, Pa. Bick, after being acquired by Berkshire 10 months ago, has been completely ^reno­vated and modernized and all Berkshire dyestuff production is being concen­trated there. Further expansion is slated to begin next spring. • Tidewater Oil has started operation of the first unit completed at its new refinery being built south of Wilrning-ton, Dei.—a water treatment plant ca­pable of processing up to 3200 gallons per minute.

N e w Names · • . • Electro Organic Corp. is the new name adopted by Pacific Commodities Co., 60 -66 Chapel St., Newark, N. J. The company feels that the new name more adequately represents its present manufacturing activities.

• S h a r p i e s C o r p . o f C a l i f o r n i a i s chang ing its n a m e t o S h a r p i e s C o r p . , western division. Offices of the cen­trifugal process equipment company remain at 1100 Carolan Ave., Burlin-game, Calif.

Subsidiaries · · · • Filtration Engineers, Newark manu­facturer of continuous rotary vacuum filters, has become a subsidiary of American Machine & Metals. Two other AMM subsidiaries are Niagara Filters and Toi hurst Centrifugals.

• Panel lit. Inc., has recently formed a new subsidiary, Panel I it Service Corp., to take over activities of its instrument services division and to expand the com­pany's activities in the field of instru­mentation and automation.

• American-Marietta and Dragon Ce­ment directors have agreed on a plan, to be submitted to stockholders, whereby American-Marietta will ac­quire the assets of Dragon, exchang­ing 1.05 shares of A-M for each share of Dragon's common.

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