I/EC CONSTRUCTION DIGEST
Cost, Millions of Dollars
Item Company and Location
No. 229.
MacMillan & Bloedel Ltd. a. Harmac, B. C. b.
1.125
Port Alberni, B. C.
67
230.
Naugatuck Chemicals, Elmira, Ont.
231.
Nichols Chemicals Co., Ltd.
232.
a.
Barnet, B. C.
b.
Port Arthur, Ont.
c.
Valleyfield, Que.
0.5
North Western Pulp & Power, Ltd., Hinton, Alberta
8-10
233.
Noranda Mines Ltd., Cutler, Ont.
234.
Pennsalt Chemicals Corp., Oakville, Ont.
235. 236. 237.
Polymer Corp., Sarnia, Ont. Reichhold Chemicals Ltd., Port Moody, B. C. Shawinigan Chemicals Ltd. a. Montreal East, Que.
238.
239. 240.
243. 244.
11
b. Shawinigan Falls, Que. Shell Oil Co. of Canada, Ltd. a. Montreal East, Que.
5
b. Montreal East, Que. Standard Chemical Co., Beauharnois, Que. Surpass Petrochemicals Ltd. a. Scarboro, Ont.
1
b. 241. 242.
49
3
Toronto, Ont.
1 0.75
T.C.F. of Canada, Ltd., Cornwall, Ont. Texas Gulf Sulfur in affiliation with Shell Oil Co. and Devon-Palmer Oils Co., Okotoks District, Alta. Upjohn Co. of Canada, Toronto, Can. West Coast Transmission Ltd., Taylor, B. C.
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Products and Remarks
Pulp. Expansion completed summer 1957. Woodroom for cordwood utilization Kraft pulp, kraft paper & board, and newsprint. Expansion to be completed summer 1958. Capacities: newsprint, 600 tons per day; paper board, 180 tons per d a y ; pulp, 500 tons per day Polyester resins and related products. Additional plant for operation early 1958. Laboratory area being quadrupled New plant for aluminum sulfate. Completed January 1957. Capacity : 15,000 tons per year First liquid aluminum sulfate plant in Western Ontario to serve paper mills in area Hydrogen fluoride, liquid and aqueous. Also fluorides, fluoborates, and other specialty chemicals. New plant completion fall 1957 New plant for bleached sulfate pulp. Owned by St. Regis Paper Ν. Υ. and Northern Canadian Oils, Ltd., plant has capacity of 430 tons per day Sulfuric acid. New plant completed fall 1957. Capacity: 1000 tons per day Chemical specialties (metal processing agents for food processing, etc.) New plant completed December 1957 Butadiene, synthetic rubber, specialty latex, and research laboratory. General expansion program. Synthetic rubber capacity will be increased by 10,000 tons to 130,000 tons per year Plywood glue, alkyd resins. Expansion completed January 1957 Acetone and phenol. Expansion of capacity (cumene hydroperoxide process) completed in 1957. Hexylene glycol production also started Caustic-chlorine. New plant to be completed early 1958 Detergent alkylate and alkyl additives for high-octane gasoline. New plant completed in late 1957 Epoxy-type resins. New plant to be completed 1958 Sodium chlorate. Engineering study for new plant now under way Petrochemicals. New plant completed mid-1957 for production of 3500 tons per year of petroleum sulfonates, and 2500 tons of emulsifiers annually Sulfonates, oil-soluble. New continuous process plant completed in August 1957. Capacity: 4 million pounds per year Cellulose film. Doubling capacity in 1958 Sulfur. New plant to be completed fall 1958. Capacity: 300 tons per day Pharmaceutical laboratories and offices being trebled in size LPG, pentanes plus, hydrogen sulfide. New plant completed Octo ber 1957
Note: As the Construction Digest was going to press, items 99, 100, 107, and 145 were discovered to be out of order in the table. Canadian construction projects and belong with the second part of the table.
These are
Products Index For plants listed in the Construction Digest
Acetone Acetylene
237a
106f, 118o, 125c, 125e, 209 Acrylic fibers lOi Acrylonitrile lOh, 54d, 183a Activated carbon 144b Adhesives 77,203,204 Adipic acid 56a, 118g Adiponitrile 56q Alkyds 236 Alkyl amines 11 Alkylated phenols 166 Alkylates, C4 20b Alumina 9a, 131 Aluminum . . . 9b, 101a, 101b, lOld, 201a, 201b 76 A
Aluminum sulfate .10b, 69e, 231a, 231b Ammonia 18, 39, 136b, 139a, 142, 158, 173d, 202a, 212c, 220 Ammonium nitrate . . . . 21b, 39, 158 Ammonium phosphate 132b Aniline 10m Anthracene 23b Antiknock compounds 62b Antioxidants 76c Argon, liquid 5 , 6 a , 6 b , 6 c , 6f,31b, 97, 125a Aromatics, C 9 -C u 189 Asphalt 35c, 198 Barium carbonate Barium oxide
INDUSTRIAL AND ENGINEERING CHEMISTRY
154a 195b
Bauxite 10a Benzene 52b, 95a, 189, 210 Bis-phenol A 118k Borates 134 Borax 134 Boric acid 164h Boron chemicals 32a Boron fuel 32b Boron oxide 164h Boron trichloride 164f Butadiene . . 45, 54b, 72, 95d, 128, 140, 141b, 172 Calcium hypochlorite Caprolactam Carbon bisulfide
130a 122b 194
PRODUCTS I N D E X Carbon black 2a, 2b, 176 Carbon electrodes 84 Carbon products 123 Carbon tetrachloride 194, 217 Catalyst, polyolefin 50c Catalyst, reforming 50a Caustic soda . . . .54n, 54o, 101b, 130c, . . . 136d, 156a, 164c, 199a, 224, 237b Cellophane . . 56f, 56o, 130g, 221c, 22lg Cellulose 147,200 Cellulose film 241 Cement 96a, 96b, 96c, 137 Cesium carbonate 150 Charcoal 49 Chemicals 65, 183e, 234 Chlorinated solvents 54o, 164e Chlorine 54n, 101b, 130c, . .136d,156a,164c, 199a,220,224, 237b Chlorine dioxide 136c Cobalt 94 Coke 13,42,98,120 Cracking catalyst 218 Cutting fluids 93 Dacron Detergents Diallylamines Dichlorocyanuric acid Dichloroisocyanuric acid Diisobutylene Diisocyanate Dimethylhydrazine Dinitrile fiber Dodecyl benzene Dolomite
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56j 67b 153c 196 118d I73h 122c 130b 76a 226a 113
Epoxy resins 238h Ethanolamine 54e, 183f Ethylene .54b, 60, 95b, 118a, 139b, 141e Ethylene glycol 29,67c, 183f, 199b, 212a, 220 Ethylene oxide . 29, 67c, 183f, 199b, 212a Ethylene oxide condensates . . . 166 Ethyl parathion 118a Ethyl silicate 118f Explosives 10g, 221e I Fatty acids 118i Ferroalloys 171 Ferromanganese 144a Ferrosilicons 129 Fertilizers 37, 169, 193 Fission products 22 Flakeboard lOf Fluorinated hydrocarbons . . . . 183b Fluorine chemicals 69c Forging agents 93 Formaldehyde . . . 26a, 26b, 43a, 148d Formica laminated plastics . . . 10e Fuel elements, reactor 41, 70b, 130e, 170b Fuels, high energy 130d, 130f Fungicides 56i Gases, liquefied . . . 106a,106b,106c, 106d, 106e, 106g Gasoline 13a, 14a, 35, 42, 58a, 58b, 143a, 155a, 155b, 155c, 155d, 155f, 161a, 161b, 162, 173a, 173c, 173e, 173f, 173g, 173i, 179, 188, 205 Gasoline additives . 238a Glycerol 54g Glycols 182 Graphite 47,84 Gypsum products 102 Hexamethylenediamine 56a Hydraulic fluids 93 Hydrogen, liquid . . . .31b, 125b, 125d Hydrogen fluoride 231c Hydrogen peroxide 40a, 153d, 212b, 221c Hydrogen sulfide 244 Hydroxyethyl cellulose 183d Ilmenite
115b
Isobutylene Isocyanates Isopropyl alcohol Jet starter cartridges
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95c 117 153b 17b
Kraft pulp
48
Lead Lime Limestone LPG's Lubricants
215 202b 137 244 93
Magnesia 101c Magnesium 7 Maleic anhydride 1181 Melamine 23e Metals 25 Methanol 43b, 59a, 59c Methanol derivatives 43c Methyl esters 166 Methyl ethyl ketone 153e Methyl isopropyl catechol . . . . 88b Methyl parathion 118a, 153a Monoallylamines 153c Monosodium phosphate . . . 195a, 195c Morpholine 183i Mylar 56e Naphtha 20a, 20c Naphthalene • 23a Natural gum 119 Neopentyl glycol 174a Nickel 86 Nicotinic acid 105b Niobium 63a Nitrate solutions 39 Nitric acid 216, 69d, 116,158 Nitrogen, liquid 3e, 5, 6a, 6b, . . . 6c, 6f, 28, 31a, 31b, 97, 125a, 125c Nitrogen products 43b Nitrogen solutions 158 Nuclear materials 50b Nylon 12, 159a Nylon intermediates 221b Organic solvents 182 Organometallics 115a Organotins 115a Orion 56r, 221d Oxygen, liquid 3a, 3b, 3c, 3d, 3e, 5a, 6a, 6b, 6c, 6d, 28,31a, 31b, 97, 125a, 125c, 125e, 125f, 125g, 209, 228 Paints 154b, 212e Paper 191 Paperboard 197b Para-cresol 87a Para-xylene 161c Pentaerythritol 87c Petrochemicals 226b, 240 Petroleum products 214 Pharmaceuticals 16, 57,167 Phenol . . .23c, 118b, 118h, 148e, 237a Phosphates 34 Phosphoric acid. . 111,187d, 195c, 222b Phthalic anhydride 17a,118e,144c, 148a, 148c Phthalonitrile 23d Plasticizers 182 Platinum 25 Plywood glue 236 Polyester resins 230 Polyethylene 54c, 80, 87d, 105c, 141a, 141d, 151, 159d, 174b, 183c, 183g, 183k, 187c, 212a, 216b, 212d, 221f Polyethers 199c Polyethylene glycols 54f Polystyrene 54a Poly(vinyl alcohol) 152b Polyvinyl chloride) 26c, 33, 59b Polyvinyl resins 152c, 223 Potash 15, 52a, 99 Potassium carbonate 150 Potassium muriate 145 Potassium phosphate 195c
Powdered metals 63b Propellants, aerosol 136a Propylene glycols 54f Proteins, edible 73b Pulp 27, 104, 191, 213, 216a, 229a, 229b, 231 Reactors Refractories Refrigerants Resins, polyester
70b 101c 136a
21a, 55b, 148b, 165, 204 Resins, polyformaldehyde . . . . 56s Resins, thermoplastic 10k Resins, thermosetting 101 Rosin 88c, 118i Rubber, cold 78 Rubber, GRS 45, 72 Rubber latex 79a Rubber, synthetic 16, 141c Rubidium carbonate 150 Rust preventatives 93,149 Rutile 115b Salicylaldehyde 88a Sensitized materials 133 Silicon. . 56p, 129 Silicon dioxide 74 Silicones 70d Soda ash 40b, 195d, 207 Sodium 56k Sodium carboxymethylcellulose . 56c Sodium chlorate 92a, 222a, 201b, 239 Sodium sesquicarbonate 40b Sodium silicofluorides 187d Sodium sulfate 132a Spiegeleisen 144a Starches, oxidized 160 Steel 83,103 Styrene 46, 72, 118m, 118o, 220 Styrene-acrylonitrile copolymer . 541 Styrofoam 64p Sulfamic acid 56g Sulfate pulp 206 Sulfite pulp 197a Sulfonates 166, 240b Sulfur . . . 14b, 42, 100, 175, 227, 242 Sulfuric acid 56h,69a, 69b, 164a, 164b, 208, 211b, 233 Surfactants 67a, 89, 199c Tall oil . . . 73c Tantalum 63a Tar distillate . 219 Teflon 56n Titanium 112,115b, 187a Titanium dioxide . . . lOj, 561, 73a, 181 Titanium pigments 211a Toluene 52b, 189,210 Triallylamines 153c Trichloroisocyanuric acid . . . . 118d Triple superphosphate 10c Trisodium phosphate 195a Trithion 164d Tungsten 170c Uranium concentrates . . . 5 1 , 85, 90, 91 . 107,108,109,178, 184b,184c, 190, 192 Uranium hexafluoride 69c Urea . . 23e,87b,118c,158,159b, 159e, 202a Urethane foam 127 Vinyl Vinyl Vinyl Vinyl Vinyl
acetate monomer butyral chloride resins stéarate
Xylene
4a 118p 53, 62a, 156b 79b 4b 52b, 189,210
Zefran Zinc Zirconium Zirconium oxide Zirconium silicates VOL. 50, NO. 1
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54i 215 187b 180 180 JANUARY 1958
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