C&EN PROGRESS
REPORT
EXPANSION IN THE CHEMICAL INDUSTRY Here are companies making news last month, adding to the chemical process industries
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PLANNING Plant or Unit
Company and Site Allied Chemical Corp. Green River, Wyo. Borden Chemical Co. Geismar, La.
Natural soda ash Acetic acid
Union Carbide Co. Linde division Gary, Ind., area
Oxygen
Union Carbide Co. South Charleston, W.Va.
Diketene and derivatives
Remarks 6 0 0 , 0 0 0 ton-per-year plant will be completed in m i d - 1 9 6 8 Just-completed plant will be expanded by 5 0 % to 100 million pounds per year by early 1968 One 1200 ton-per-day unit will increase capacity at Gary by 5 0 % ; two more such units will be built at another location. Units will increase oxygen capacity of Chicago-area pipeline network to 6 0 0 0 tons per day Capacity will be tripled by January 1 9 6 7 . Derivatives include acetoacetaryl amides, acetoacetic esters, and higher acetic esters
STARTING CONSTRUCTION Allied Chemical Corp. El Segundo, Calif.
Phthalic anhydride
Chemetron Corp. National Cylinder Gas division Stuyvesant Falls, N.Y. FMC Corp. Green River, Wyo.
Liquid oxygen and nitrogen
International Minerals & Chemical Corp. IMC Chlor-Alkali, Inc. Orrington, Me. Stauffer Chemical Co. Green River, Wyo.
Chlorine and caustic soda
Natural soda ash
Natural soda ash
Capacity will be expanded by several million pounds per year. Will be on stream in October. Plant operates on either naphthalene or o-xylene Combined capacity will be 18 million cu. ft. per month. Completion will be this October Capacity will be increased from 9 0 0 , 0 0 0 to 1.25 million tons per year by January 1967 $9.5 million plant will have annual capacity of 1 2 0 , 0 0 0 tons. Completion will be late in 1967 Capacity will be increased by 4 0 0 , 0 0 0 tons per year by the end of 1967
STARTING PRODUCTION Borden Chemical Co. Geismar, La.
Acetic acid
Celanese Corp. Celanese Chemical Co. Rock Hill, S.C. Foote Mineral Co. Silver Peak, Nev.
Formaldehyde
Standard Oil Co. (Calif.) Barber Oil Corp. American Gilsonite Co. Grand Junction, Colo. Union Carbide Co. Taft, La.
Nitrogen heterocyclics
Warner-Lambert Pharmaceutical Co. Nepera Chemical Co. Harriman, N.Y.
2-Vinylpyridine
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Lithium carbonate
Ethylenesmines
$5 million plant has capacity of 67 million pounds per year; completes company's program to make vinyl acetate from natural gas and air 100 million pound-per-year plant uses methanol oxidation process Solar evaporation of brines yields concentrate which can be processed to give more than 10 million pounds per year of lithium carbonate Gilsonite mined at Bonanza, Utah, is piped as slurry to plant, which recovers alkylated quinolines, indoles, pyrroles, and pyridines Doubles Carbide's capacity for products. First unit of petrochemical complex to go on stream Capacity is more than 1 million pounds per year. Process was licensed from U.K.'s Midland Tar Distillers
