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Electric arc melts button of refractory ailoy at new lab in Concord. Mass.

More R&D for Nuclear Nuclear Metais stakes S2 million on future of modern metais with metallurgical lab

V^IIXLK I F another industrial expan­sion in New Eiisland. Nuclear Metals. I n c . has formally set up shop in its intp-w S-̂ snsHiitn resea η Λ ι ancî develop­ment laboratory ΛΪ Concord. Mass. Main objective: to work out fabrica­tion techniques for the ~new" metals, with a particular eye toward reactors and >pace vehicles.

Primarily a contract research AÎU\ de­velopment organisation. Nuclear dties turn out some prototype quantities o i rare and exotic metals, mainly in fuel elements. "We have no plans lor 20ÎÎ1ÎZ into metal production as such, but we could team u p with metal pro­ducers to work out production tech­niques for these rare metals." says Nu­clear vice president and technical direc­tor Albert K. Kaufman. Nuclear Metals has been knee deep in the de ­velopment of the pure metal, alloys, and compounds of beryllium, alumi­num, vanadium, chromium, gallium, zirconium, niobium, molybdenum, haf­nium, tantalum, tungsten, thorium, uranium, and a number of the rare earth metals.

One current major project facins; nuclear researchers—overcoming beryl­lium's brittleness. This lack of duc­tility remains the prime deterrent to

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1Η*Γ> Ilium's widespread use. sa\s Kauf­man. But beryllium single er> stals do show ductility in certain directions. Now Nuclear's staff is hard at work to orient crystals in the ductile direction. And. says Kaufman, results are promis­ing.

Nuclear—a joint venture of Arthur 1>. Little. Inc.. and Allegheny Liidlum Steel—got its start at MIT back in 1942. Then it was MIT's metallurgical project set up to develop uranium melt­ing techniques. After the war. Nuclear staxed on at MIT, concentrating on de­veloping and making fuel elements for nuclear reactors. It remained under MIT sponsorship until 1954. when AEC selected ADL and Allegheny Ludium to carrv mi the project.

• Joint Celanese-ICI synthetic fiber venture gains momentum, as Fiber In­dustries, Inc. (formerly Liiuhui? Fibers ( lorp. ) selects a plant site near Shelby, N. C . for making Teron polyester fiher. The new firm, owned by (Vlanese and !(*I. will begin construction in early 1959. The plant will come into pro­duction in stages, eventually reach a capacity of 40 million pounds a year. Fiber's executive offices will he located in Charlotte, some 40 miles from the Shelby site.

• More phosphate fertilizer capacitx in the Pacific Northwest is in the offing. Bunker Hill Co. will build a $10 mil­lion, 200.000 ton-a-year plant to use by-product sulfuric acid from its Kel­logg. Idaho, lead-zinc smelter to pro­duce a variety of phosphates. Kx.ict location has not > et been chosen, but it will be somewhere in the Oregon-Washington - Idaho - Montana area. Completion is scheduled for mid-1960.

• Ciba's plastics division merges with its manufacturing affiliate. Ci ha Prod­ucts Corp. Company will continue to make its headquarters in Kimberton, Pa., until new research and production facilities are completed in Toms River, N. J., and its administrative and sales offices are transferred to new quarters hi Fair Lawn. N. J.

• Reichhold Chemicals chooses Kansas City. Kan., as the site for its seventh formaldehyde plant in the U. S. De­signed to produce 30 million pounds of product a year, the $500,000 project will begin producing around April 1959.

Federated l^end Fights Corrosion! Federated lead is one of the most efficient and economical protection materials against many acids. Lead is self-healing. Scratch it and a protective coating re-forms immediately. Lead is easy to work ami moderately priced. Federated produces chemical lead in sheets* to your requirements. Pipe, bends, traps and standard fittings available front stork. Special forms fabri­cated to order. Call the Federated Sales Office near you. Or write for Bulletin No. 162. the Lead Handbook for the Chemical Process Indus­tries. Federated Metal> l)i\i>ioii. 120 Broadway, New York .5. In Can­ada: FVderated .Metals Canada. Ltd.- Toronto and Montreal.

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