FINANCIAL Pennsalt Chemicals' first-quarter net income increased 1 1 % to $1.5 million (39 cents a share) compared to 1962's first quarter. Sales rose 10% to $26.9 million. Pennsalt's capital spending will total between $12 and $14 million this year. The company expects to start building one, or possibly two, commercial units this year to make polyvinylidene fluoride and polytetrafluoroethylene. Other projects slated include a new unit to make hydrogen peroxide and an expansion of an existing calcium hypochlorite plant, both at Wyandotte, Mich., and an expansion of an existing ammonium perchlorate plant in Portland, Ore.
Foote Mineral's sales for the first three months of 1963 were about $4.6 million, compared to $5.2 million for the same period the year before. Net income also dropped—from $213,719 in 1962 to $87,133 in 1963.
Pfaudler Permutit's first-quarter earnings amounted to $462,000, compared with $508,000 a year ago. Shipments for the quarter totaled nearly $13.2 million, compared to about $11.9 million in the similar period of 1962.
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Mallinckrodt Chemical Works earned $160,594 on sales of $9.3 million in the first quarter of 1963. In 1962's first quarter, Mallinckrodt earned $168,881 on sales of $9.6 million.
Spencer Chemical's sales for the first three months of this year were $26.5 million compared with $25.3 million the previous year. Income was about $1.4 million (41 cents a share) compared with $1.3 million (40 cents a share) in 1962's first quarter.
INTERNATIONAL Industrial Chemical Co. (Ja.)i Ltd., is operating its new sulfuric acid plant at Spanish Town, Jamaica. Capacity of the plant is 10 tons of 100% sulfuric acid at 98% acid per day. Britain's Simon-Carves, Ltd., supplied the equipment for the plant.
Quimica Del Rey, S.A., a subsidiary of Metalurgica Mexicana Penoles, S.A., will build a $3 million salt cake and anhydrous sodium sulfate plant at Laguna Del Rey, Mexico. The plant will be able to produce 75,000 tons a year of salt cake and anhydrous sodium sulfate. Production should start later
this year. American Metal Climax owns 49% of Metalurgica Mexicana Penoles.
Industrias Quimicas de Mexico, S.A., has started to build a 100 ton-per-day sulfuric acid plant at Guadalajara, Mexico. The plant should start production this December. Stauffer Chemical owns 4 1 % of Industrias Quimicas.
International Minerals & Chemical plans to sink a second shaft at its potash mine and plant near Esterhazy, S ask., this summer. The new shaft will probably cost a little more than $9 million, compared with $11 million for the first shaft. The project is scheduled for completion by 1968.
Shin Nippon Chisso Hiryo, K.K., has started to operate its 28 million poundper-year polypropylene polymer plant at Tokyo, Japan. The plant uses Avisun Corp.'s polypropylene process. Shin Nippon and Avisun are also building a jointly owned polypropylene fiber plant at Moriyama, Japan. The fiber plant will have a capacity of 10 million pounds per year. It should start operating by June.
EXPANSION IN THE CHEMICAL INDUSTRY
Here are companies making news last month, adding to the chemical process industries by PLANNING . . . Company and Site Koppers Co. Port Arthur, Tex. Kobuta, Pa. Olin Mathieson Chemical Corp. Lake Charles, La. Phillips Petroleum Co. El Paso Natural Gas Products Co. Phillips Pacific Chemical Kennewick, Wash. Stauffer Chemical Co. Dominguez, Calif. Anderson Chemical division Weston, Mich. Union Carbide Corp. South Charleston, W.Va. Texas City, Tex.
Capacity to be increased "substantially"
Styrene-butadiene latex and expandable polystyrene
Will double latex capacity. Increasing expandable polystyrene capacity by 2 0 % to 55 million pounds a year Rebuilding explosion-wrecked plant for $1.5 million Capacity to be 55 tons a day. To be operating by fall of 1963
Hydrazine Ammonium tion
nitrate-urea
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Construction to begin in May and be completed early in 1964 To be on stream in the third quarter of 1963 Modernization of plant will increase capacity Plant modernization will increase capacity
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STARTING CONSTRUCTION . . . Air Reduction Co., Inc. Air Reduction Sales division Riverton, N J .
Rare gases
W. R. Grace & Co. Dewey and Almy Chemical division Owensboro, Ky. Union Carbide Corp. Linde Co. division Antioch, Calif. Sacramento, Calif.
Polyvinylidene chloride latexes
Union Carbide Chemicals Co. division South Charleston, W.Va.
Thomas Pagan Co. is building $350,000 addition to air separation plant to house rare gas production operations now located in Jersey City. To be completed in June Capacity expected to be about 5 million pounds a year
Oxygen and nitrogen
On-site plant for Du Pont's titanium dioxide plant to be completed in August
Liquid hydrogen Sorbic acid
Capacity will be 60 tons a day. Kaiser Engineers is the general contractor Will replace present plant and triple company's capacity. To be on stream in the fourth quarter of 1963
Isooctyl and decyl alcohols
Capacity is 30 million pounds a year
Oxygen
Unit can supply 250 tons a day to Du Pont's methanol plant next door
Liquid helium
Capacity will be more than 60 liters per hour. Arthur D. Little, Inc., is fabricating the unit R. L. Frailey, Inc., constructed the $1 million unit. Capacity is 26 million cubic feet of natural gas a day. Replaces old unit New 100 ton-per-day unit boosts capacity 5 0 %
STARTING PRODUCTION . . . Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. Tidewater Oil Co. Delaware City, Del. Air Reduction Co., Inc. Air Reduction Sales division Huron, Ohio Air Reduction Pacific Co. division Richmond, Calif. Continental Oil Co. Maljamar, N.M.
Propane, butane, and natural gasoline
Deere & Co. John Deere Chemical division Pryor, Okla. E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., Inc. Augusta, Ga. Ferro Corp. Berwyn, III. Foote Mineral Co. Sunbright, Va. Hercules Powder Co. Louisiana, Mo.
Ammonia
International Minerals & Chemical Corp. Bonnie, Fla. Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Corp. Gramercy, La. Monsanto Chemical Co. Texas City, Tex. Monsanto, III. National Distillers & Chemical Corp. U.S. Industrial Chemicals Co. division Houston, Tex. Onyx Chemical Corp. Jersey City, N.J. Stauffer Chemical Co. Anderson Chemical division Weston, Mich. Stein, Hall & Co., Inc. Newark, Calif.
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Sodium silicate Dry colorants for plastics Anhydrous lithium hydroxide Urea-ammonium nitrate and ammonium nitrate-ammonia solutions; prilled ammonium nitrate Phosphoric acid Fluorochemicals
Capacity for prilled ammonium nitrate is more than 100,000 tons a year Capacity is 90 tons a day. WellmanLord, Inc., constructed the plant Cost: $6 million
High-density polyethylene
Capacity is 45 million pounds a year. Scientific Design did design and construction Capacity is more than 20 million pounds a year Capacity is 60 million pounds a year
High molecular weight tertiary amines Tributoxyethyl phosphate
Capacity is more than 2 million pounds a year Quadruples company's capacity
Vinyl acetate monomer Chlorinated cyanuric acid
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