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y India's First Explosives Factory Starts Up Now on stream at Gomia, Bihar, is India's first commereial blasting explosives factory. The plant is a joint venture of Imperial Chemical Industries and the Indian government, which in 1953 formed Indian Explosives. Ltd.; SO'' of the equity capital is held by ICI and the rest by the Indian government. The plant will turn out 3000 tons ot explosives a year using nitroglv eei in made bv the Biazzi process. Liquid ammonia is supplied by the fertilizer factory at Sindri. and glycerol comes from soap makers in Calcutta. Demand tor commercial explosives is increasing d u e to India's Five-Year Plan developments, and Indian Explosives plans to raise the factory's capacity to 7500 tons a year.
Fertilizer for Korea At Chung-Ju, on the Han River in South Korea, is a nearly completed $40 million urea fertilizer plant which will supply Korea with 250 metric tons ot urea a day. This will be enough for nearly one third of the country's foodgrowing needs. The plant, located about 70 miles south of the boundary guarded by C \ troops (near "Broken H e a r t ' bridge), has been built largely with American aid through the U. S. International Co operation Administration. It is a joint engineering and construction venture of F. H. McGraw & Co. and Hydrocarbon Research. Major design and engineer ing work for the plant was done in the U. S. The plant's output will save South Korea some $10 million a year in foreign exchange by reducing fertilizer imports, according to McGraw. The plant has been set up near the coal fields, since it will use 500 metric
tons—17 freight cars full—of coal daily. Twice the amount of steam required for electrical power is produced by the plants high-pr.'ssure boilers. The ex cess steam is used in the ammonia and urea-making processes and to chive pumps and compressors.
• Methyl chloride is being mack1 by l)o\v Chemical of Canada in tank car quantities for use in synthetic rubber production. The firm has also started up Canada's first methylene chloride unit and is turning out drum lots. Both of these chemicals had been previously imported, chiefly from the U. S. and Canada. • Dominion Magnesium, Toronto. Ont., will supply magnesium to Volks wagen in Germany . Each Volkswagen engine uses 3& lb. of magnesium alloy. Requirements for the alloy in 1959 will be 11.000 tons
YKCLASSKS c o m e in multicolors and shapes; medicines taste like p e p p e r m i n t ; h a n d - a i d s a r e available in d e c o r a t o r d e s i g n s ; a n d e n t i r e sewage s y s t e m s a r e scented for the c o m m u n i t y ' s comfort. C r e a t i v e m a n u f a c t u r e r s a r e , daily, t u r n i n g s i m i l a r p r o d u c t liabilities into positive a s s e t s , a n d profiting g r e a t l y for t h e i r i n i t i a t i v e . T o most commercial g rectifia it ses, home gar deners, indoor plant fanciers and private lawn custodians the n a t u r a l odor of fertilizer is a liability . . . and a big o n e ! B u t . . . it doesn't have to b e ! I n t h e D&O I n d u s t r i a l O d o r a n t Labs, m a s k i n g and reodorizing compounds h a v e been devel oped for all t y p e s of commercial fertilizer, i n c l u d i n g those based on urea, fish solubles, actirated sludge, dried bone yneal, animal ?nannre, tankage, meat scraps and phos phate. T u r n y o u r p r o d u c t liability into a p r o f i t - i n c r e a s i n g asset by m e a n s of a t a i l o r - m a d e fertilizer r e o d o r a n t from D&O. W r i t e for specific details . . . t o d a y ! rV0U
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