Innovation in chemicals has been our course, since 1923. That's the year we conceived the idea (on the ship above) of a pilot plant for the production of ethylene dibromide from seawater. The tribromoaniline process developed then was never commercialized. But this operation marked the beginning of our deep involvement with chemicals derived from innovative production technologies. Today, we still make ethylene dibromide. As well as elemental bromine and bromine intermediates. But we've developed other production techniques, too. Such as orthoalkylation for antioxidants and pesticide intermediates. Ethylene chain-growth for linear primary alcohols and alpha olefins. And organometallics for aluminum and other metal alkyls. Chemical innovation has been a central concern for the American Chemical Society, just as it has for Ethyl. On its 100th birthday, we congratulate this fine organization which we've grown with over the years.
Ethyl Corporation m£h Industrial Chemicals Division \ X ^ £ ETHYL TOWER, 451 FLORIDA, BATON ROUGE, LOUISIANA 70801
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