THE CHEMICAL WORLD THIS WEEK soon as development has been completed and manufacturing e q u i p m e n t is available. Gustin-Bacon may undertake the manufacture and sale at a later date.
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Allied Builds 12-12-12 F e r t i l i z e r Plant Allied Chemical & Dye's Nitrogen Division is producing its new Arcadian 12-12-12 fertilizer here at South Point, Ohio, in a $5 million unit (shown a t r i g h t ) . O t h e r products of this plant are ammonia, urea, and nitrogen fertilizer solutions has been manufacturing and marketing phosphate coatings, metal cleaners, and lubricants for the cold working of steel. The new Fosbond line rounds out the company's activities in the entire field of phosphate coatings and virtually completes Pennsalt's line of metal processing chemicals. The basic principle of phosphate coating techniques is that they apply a stable, controllable, and chemically bonded crystalline surface to metals. For cold working, this coating provides a bond which holds lubricants under the most severe pressures encountered in presses. The Fosbond line includes a range of phosphating compounds for application of various types of iron phosphate, zinc phosphate, or manganese phosphate coatings. In addition, Pennsalt has developed a line of compounds for surface preparation prior to phosphating. These cleaning and surface preparation compounds employ new activators which improve control of the ultimate coating desired.
Taylor Completes Its Second P l a t f o r m e r Taylor Oil and Gas Co. recently put on stream its second UOP Platformer at Corpus Christi, Tex. The new unit has a design charge capacity of 5000 barrels per stream day of reactor charge. Universal Oil Products Co. designed and licensed the installation. Taylor Oil a n d Gas Co., constructed t h e unit. Taylor's other UOP Platformer, a 4 0 0 0 barrel-per-stream day unit, went into operation Dec. 10, 1951, at its Port Isabel, Tex., refinery. T h e company thus becomes the first independent refîner to have t w o UOP Platformers in operation. It is pres^ ^tly producing approximately 4500 barrels per stream day of stabilized Platfonnate having an F - l octane number
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of 96 when leaded with 3 ml. tetraethyllead per gallon. Construction of the Platforming unit, which consists of a prefractionating tower to prepare feed stock, a reactor charge heater, three intermediate heaters, four reactors and a stabilizer, was started in the fall of 1952.
Koppers Plans N e w Building For V e r o n a Research Center Koppers Co., Inc., has purchased a p proximately two acres of land directly east of its present research center at Verona, Pa., and will start at once to erect additional research facilities, primarily for its tar products division. A one-story building, approximately 80 by 160 feet will be completed b y late spring of next year to house service and testing laboratories of t h e tar division. Approximately 40 employees of the division will then have offices there, moving from present rented quarters in Pittsburgh. T h e new building at the research center will b e of cement block construction. A contract for its erection will b e let soon.
3 M Buys Gustin-Bacon Patents f o r Glass-Plastic Pipe Minnesota Mining & Mfg. Co., and Gustin-Bacon Mfg. Co., of Kansas City, Mo., have m a d e an agreement whereby 3M acquires certain Gustin-Bacon patents and inventions relating to the manufacture of glass fiber reinforced plastic pipe. T h e agreement also provides that the two companies cooperate in research and development work concerned with perfecting and improving the glass-plastic pipe together with a line of fittings and couplings. 3M is interested in manufacturing and selling the new pipe and fittings just as
Pan American Refining Corp., has decided to locate its proposed new East Coast refinery in Goodwin Neck, York County, Va. Options for t h e p u r c h a s e of the intended refinery site have been acquired. Present plans call for commencement of construction within six months, with completion of t h e refinery scheduled for late 1955. Initial refining capacity will be 25.000 barrels p e r day. Pan American is the refining affiliate of the American Oil Co. Amoco will distribute all t h e products from this refinery along with those from Pan American's presently operated refineries in Texas City, Baltimore, a n d Savannah.
GOVERNMENT C r a i g R. Sheaffer Q u i t s Commerce Department Assistant Secretary of Commerce Craig R. Sheaffer, the man w h o tried to fire Allen V. Astin, director of the National Bureau of Standards, has himself now resigned from his post in the Commerce Department. Informed officials expressed their belief that Mr. Sheaffer's loss of control Craig R. Sheaffer over NBS was a major factor in precipitating his decision to leave commerce at this time. On Aug. 22, Secretary of Commerce Sinclair Weeks announced t h e permanent reinstatement of Dr. Astin a n d also transferred t h e bureau's jurisdiction out of Mr. Sheaffer's hands into those of Assistant Secretary James C. Worthy (C&EN, Aug. 3 1 , page 3 5 5 4 ) . Mr. Sheaffer has figured prominently in the recent dispute over t h e NBS (C&EN, April 13, page 1524). Mr. Weeks had placed the entire jurisdiction of the NBS in Mr. Sheaffer's h a n d s . It was through Mr. Sheaffer that Dr. Astin, as director of NBS, h a d to deal with the Commerce Department. Again, in the battery additive controversy, which was the only definite reason given for Dr. Astin's dismissal on April 18, Mr. Sheaffer was a prominent proponent of the additive. H e sided with t h e maker in declaring that t h e bureau was not sufficiently objective in its tests of the additive o r of other products a n d was instrumental in having the fraud order o n the additive removed. Mr. Sheaffer, former h e a d of the pen
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THE CHEMICAL WORLD THIS WEEK company which b e a r s bis nr,me, also h a d difficulties with a government b u r e a u . In 1945 the F e d e r a l T r a d e Commission had ordered his firm and three other p e n companies to cease using the w o r d "life t i m e " in advertising. T h e Sheaffer C o . had been making a service charge for rf 40,000 or more workers a n d because of their technologi cal importance are m o s t p r o b a b l e t a r g e t s . W a s h i n g t o n , D . C , is the only exception to this rule in view of i t s psychological position as the c e n t e r of G o v e r n m e n t . While revealing these areas, CDA pointed out that o t h e r areas of national and military significance still are classified. This w o u l d include t h e site of t h e r u m o r e d u n d e r g r o u n d P e n t a g o n a n d t h e closely g u a r d e d atom bomb stockpile locations. This list, moreover, d o e s not i n c l u d e all possible targets for b i o l o g i c a l a n d chemical attack. Mobilization for these types of
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attack would involve different problems a n d would p r o b a b l y call for C D A mobili zation within a n d w i t h o u t the target areas to handle t h e situations adequately. T h e list supersedes o n e a d o p t e d on F e b . 4, 1952, but never m a d e public. T h e list was circulated only a m o n g governors and state a n d city civil defense directors. All capitals of states and territories are in c l u d e d in t h e list of 193 cities b u t are not listed as critical targets unless they are industrially important. T h e 70 critical areas a r e : Akron ( O h i o ) Albany-Seheneclady-TiOy ( X . Y. ) AHentown-Bethlcheni-Easton ( N . J . - P a . ) Atlanta ( Ga. ) Baltimore ( M d . ) Binghamton ( Ν. Υ. ) Birmingham ( Ala. ) Boston ( Mass. ) Bridgeport ( Conn. ) Buffalo ( Ν. Υ. ) Canton (Ohio) Chattanooga (Tenn.-Ga.) Chicago ( l l l . - I n d . ) Cincinnati ( Ohio-Ky. ) Cleveland ( O h i o ) C o l u m b u s ( Ohio ) Dallas ( Tex. ) D a v e n p o r t - R o c k I s l a n d - M o l i n e ( 111.Iowa ) Dayton (Ohio) D e n v e r (Colo.) Detroit (Mich.) Erie ( P a . ) Evansville ( Ind. ) Fall R i v e r - N e w Bedford ( Mass.-R. I . ) Flint ( M i c h . ) F o r t W a y n e ( Ind. ) Fort W o r t h ( T e x . ) G r a n d Rapids ( M i c h . ) Hartford ( C o n n . ) Houston ( T e x . ) Indianapolis ( Ind. ) Kansas Citv ( Kans.-Mo. ) Knoxville ( T e n n . ) Lancaster (Pa.) Los Angeles ( Calif. ) Louisville ( Ky.-Ind. ) M e m p h i s ( Tenn. ) Milwaukee ( Wis. ) Minneapolis-St. Paid ( M i n n . ) N e w Britain-Bristol ( C o n n . )
New Haven ι Conn. ) New Orleans ( La. ) New Y o r k - N . E. New Jersey ( N . Y.-N. J . ) Norfolk—Portsmouth-Newport News ( Va. ) Peoria (111.) Philadelphia ( P a . - N . J. ) Pittsburgh ( P a . ) Portland ( Ore.-Wash. )' Providence ( R. I.-Mass. ) Reading (Pa. ) Rochester ( Ν . Υ. ) St. Louis (Mo.-lll.) San Diego ( Calif. ) San F r a n c i s c o - O a k l a n d ( Calif. ) Seattle ( W a s h . ) South Bend ( I n d . ) Springfield-Holyoke ( Conn.-Mass. ) Syracuse ( Ν. Υ. ) Toledo ( O h i o ) Trenton (X. J. ) Utica-Rome ( Ν. Υ. ) Washington ( ID. C . - M d . - V a . ) Watei \>ury ( C o n n . ) Wheeling-Steubenville ( O h i o - W . Va. ) Wichita ( Kans. ) Wilkes-Barre-Hazleton ( Pa. ) Wilmington ( D e l . - N . J. ) Worcester ( Mass. ) York ( P a . ) Youngstown ( Ohio-Pa. )
Found Transshipping to Russia, Export Firm Denied Privileges Joachim W i l h e l m Krugel a n d his exportimport firm. A. Ripley and Co., London, England, and Oscar Brunoni, shipping agent, Zurich. Switzerland, h a v e been d e nied all export privileges b e c a u s e of u n lawful transshipment of tantalum to t h e U.S.S.R. The denial order, issued by the OfHce of International T r a d e , b e c a m e ef fective Sept. 10. It suspends Krugel a n d his firm until J u n e 30, 1956, a n d Brunoni for 18 months. In J u n e 1949 Krugel ordered tantalum wire and sheets (worth $18,000) from an American supplier, w h o a c t e d in good faith a n d had no knowledge of the in tended transshipment. Krugel falsely named Brunoni as the ultimate consignee and Switzerland as the c o u n t r y of ultimate destination, purposely concealing the true destination, t h e U.S.S.R. W h e n the con-
C e r t i f i c a t e s of Necessity In the two week period from Aug. 2 7 through Sept. 9, 81 new certificates of necessity, a m o u n t i n g to $39,020,049, were issued b y the Office of Defense Mobilization. W i t h these certificates, 18,037 certificates, amounting to $28,118,830,000, have b e e n issued since t h e b e g i n n i n g of the program. In this latest two w e e k period, 36 applications w e r e also denied. T h e largest certificate granted in this p e r i o d w a s : Tennessee Coal & Iron Division, U . S. Steel, Fairfield, Ala., electrolytic tin plate, $8.5 million, 4 0 % allowed. Certificates of chemical interest are listed below. N A M E OF LOCATION
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Barnhart Hydrocarbon Corp. _ B i g Lake, Tex. _ l he National Jfiastic I'roducts
