Water Project Hits Snag Terms o f financing a g a i n hold up plans to supply Lake Erie w a t e r to Buffalo chemi­ca l companies

L»ITY O F F I C I A L S of Buffalo, Ν . Υ., and clipemical and industrial companies in thie area have again failed to agree on a «contract for building the long-pro-poKsed Niagara River "water cooling" pnojcct. T h e plan, which has been un-desr consideration for the past decade . \y©uld take water from Lake Er ie and piamp it to the consuming industries, wEiich are now served from the Buffalo River.

Aim of the project is to r educe con­tamination of the Buffalo River. Water How rate of this river is not high enough at times to dilute discharge from the plants concerned, and the tempera ture dialing some par ts of the year is too high. Flow rate through the proposed system from Lake Erie would be high eiaougli to dilute discharge water from time Rve plants chiefly concerned and eliminate this prohlem.

The system is unique: T h e lake vvi-ater would not be filtered, only strained to remove fish and other ma­terial. The water is used chiefly for cooling and similar p lant purposes. Once in use, project sponsors say, the system would serve as a pro to type for other such industrial wate r projects.

Representatives of National Aniline ïimd General Chemical divisions of a l l i ed Chemical, Republic Steel, Atlas works of Socony Mobil, and Donner Klanna Coke have heen trying to work G*ut financing of the project with Buffalo officials. T h e city has agreed to supply rJhe capital—estimated a t be tween $5 i».nd $7 million—if industry will give wr i t ten assurances that the cost of the project will be amortized by the users o f the industrial water. But amortiza­t ion would take 30 years, and industry thus far hasn' t found it possible to give firm assurances it will buy the water for more than a five-year period.

Elmer S. Stengel, assistant corpora­tion counsel, says the industries have given "some assurances" that they xvould continue to buy water beyond i:he five-year period. However , the

^proposed contract is complicated by -conditions under which the companies <?ould stop buying. T h e city apparent ly is not willing to take this risk. •

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Briefs - · . Waro«r-Ljanib»rt's foreign operations shape tip as tlwe key reason for its pro­posed «marriage with Reynolds Tobacco. Reynolds" president Bowman Gray says

| W-L's foveign units (in Central and South Amaarica, Western Europe, and Africa > can be o f real assistance in mar· keting its tobacco products abroad.

• International teckel happily reports that HurMiciine Helene did little dam­age to «lie company's Kure Beach-Harbor Island testing stations near Wil­mington, N.C.

• Du P o n t would be prohibited from I voting its General Motors stock* increas-! ing its proportionate CM holdings, or j sending Du Pont officers to GM I meetings if Chicago Federal District I Court hasnds down immediate injune-I tion requested by Justice Department. I Recent iraovc o f former executive vice I president for financial affairs Frederic 1 Donner t*> board chairmanship and po-I si tion as GM's chief executive officer J may b e foehind urgent government rc-I quest for restraints already agreed to in I part b y D u Pont.

I • Industrial growth will continue at a J rapid pace along the Texas Gulf Coast, I says C H. Walton of Houston Pipe J Line. A* the first meeting of the Gulf j Coast Industrial Development Commit-1 tee, Walton predicted industry will ! expand Erom t h e Houston area down

the coasst toward Corpus Christi if communities sel l industrialists on their assets. Intelligent labor, vast raw ma­terial siapplies, transportation, good climate, and favorable tax structures continue to be the area's major assets.

• Strategic Materials Corp. and Kop-pers offer to guarantee "the economic performaence of integrated steel plants'* using the? Strategic-Udy direct iron re­duction process (C&EN, April 14, page 4 S ) . In a joint statement, John Ucbd, président of Strategic, and Fred C. Foy, Koppers' president said that the guarantee depended only "on the availability of reasonably priced electric jpower and the advantageous location of raw materials." Koppers says the willingness of the two com­panies to» certify- the performance of the process i s based on a series of tests now being completed at a semi-works plant

I that Strategic operates at Niagara Falls.

ί Lîndum Fibres Corp* is the name or the new company formed by imperial Chemical Industries anâ Celanese to manufacture polyester fiber in tine U. S. (OfcEW Oct. 6, page 2 7 ) .

ί Smith-Douglas, Norfolk, Va.» and Wilson & Toomer! Jacksonville, Fla.* may merge. Sunith-Dougjas operates 11 plants in 10 cities, Wilson & Toomer has six plants in Florida and «Georgia. Both fions manufacture fertilizers.

New Facilities · · . ί Linde Co. breaks ground for its liquid oxygen and nitrogen plant at Pittsburg: Calif. The inultiniillion dollar facility will produce 300 tons of the gases daily» supplv a nine-state area. Completion is slated for early I960, iichlecry Corp. of Santa Clara, Calif., will construct the first phase of the project.

• Copolymer Rubber and Chemical completes a new research building at Baton Rouge, La., which bouses chemi­cal, polymerization, and instamment laboratories. Cost: an estimated $350,-00(1.

• Reichhold Chemicals* synthetic res­ins plant, which the company is plan­ning to build at Houston (CfidEN, July 7, page 34 ) , will cost about $1 million* be completed b y mid-1959. Plant's output wîîî î n c î » w «iKyoS, pcmrâiSïS,, and emulsions.

• Continental Carbon will expand fur­nace black capacity at Ponvca City* Okla., from 5 0 t o 75 million pounds a year. Continental also operates carbon black plants at Lake Charles, La.; Eunice, NW1.; and Sunray, Tex.

• Du Pont plans t o build a lab and pilot plant at the Sabine River works, Orange, Tex:., to investigate polyethyl­ene films.

• AiC is inviting proposals for develop­ing, designing, building, and operating a gas cooledL graphite moderated, nu­clear power plant big enough t o serve as "an effective prototype for a foture full scale power plant of similar design."

• Stauffer Chemical doubles capacity of Trithion, its insecticide-mitieide, at Henderson, Nev.

• Derby Refining awards a contract to Proton, Inc., to build a 1700 barrel-a-day hydrofluoric acid alkylation unit at Derby's refinery in Wichita, Kan.

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• Harshaw Chemical has sold ST mil­lion worth of 20 year» 5% debentures. Money from the sale will be used t€> retire all of the company's previous $£.3 million of long term debt and $1.2 million of current bank deb t . A11-otlier $1.5 million will be used for Harshaw's capital improvement pro­gram, and the rest of the proceeds will go> for additional working capital and atlier general corporate needs- Har­shaw is acquiring Kentucky Color & Chemical, whose facilities will be ex­panded and modernized in connection with Harshaw's improvement program.

• Oxford Pape r plans to sell $10 mil­lion of convertible 20-year debentures. I t wants funds to meet the cost of its capital improvement programs through 1962, estimated at $ l o million. Ox­ford is adding a unit for recovering cooking liquors from kraft pu lp mills, a new soft-wood kraft pulp mill, in­creased capacity for hardwood kraft pulp, and bleaching equipment at its Rumford, Me., plant.

• Hooker Chemical 's third quarter net earnings were up nearly 4% from last year's like period, despite a Ιψο decline in sales. For the nine months ended Aug. 3 1 , sales ($91.0 million) were down 3.5To, profits ($1.03 a snare) off 3.2%. Recent months show a "pick­u p in most segments of our business," says president Thomas E. Moffitt, con­firming that recovery is under way. Phosphorus division operations arc at capacity; sales of Durez Plastics are increasing, and the Durez plant at Ken­ton, Ohio, is now operating seven days a week following many months of cur­tailment; operation of chlorine cells has increased "substantially" in recent weeks. "It is generally believed that the pickup in activity of the industries w e serve will continue through the fourth quarter and into 1959," com­pany officials add.

• Beckman Instruments reports record sales of $39.8 million for the yesar ended June 30, but the company showed a net income loss of $946,923 for t h e period. President Arnold O. Beckman describes the loss as "the result of non-recurring losses on government contracts,'heavy investment in research projects, the recession, and certain inadequacies in internal controls attributable to the company's rapid growth."

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