C&EN PROGRESS REPORT
EXPANSION IN THE CHEMICAL INDUSTRY
Here are companies making news last month, adding to the chemical process industries by PLANNING . . . Company and Site Air Reduction Sales Co. Buffalo, N.Y.
Oxygen and nitrogen
Allied Chemical Corp. Chesterfield, Va.
Nylon 6 fiber
Celanese Corp. of America Pampa, Tex. Chemical Enterprises, Inc. Freeport, Tex. Commercial Solvents Corp. United States Powder Co. Marion, III. Essex Chemical Corp. Group of fluorocarbon wholesalers Racon, Inc. Witchita, Kan. General Electric Co. Mt. Vernon, Ind.
Methylethyl ketone
Plant or Unit
Granular mixed fertilizer Prilled ammonium nitrate
Fluorocarbons
Bisphenol A
International Minerals & Chemical Corp. Four southeastern states
Granular fertilizer
Michigan Chemical Corp. St. Louis, Mich.
Dry calcium chloride
Pantasote Co. Point Pleasant, W.Va.
Polyvinyl chloride resins
Phillips Petroleum Co. Stauffer Chemical Co. Phosphate Chemicals, Inc. Pasadena, Tex.
Phosphatic fertilizers
Remarks Project Fabrication Corp. has contract to build 650 ton-per-day plant. Plant will supply Republic Steel Corp. and other northeastern customers Increasing capacity from present 75 million pounds a year to 100 million. To be completed late in 1965 Capacity for 25 million pounds a year. To be completed in mid-1965 Dow will supply ammonia for $1 million plant Anhydrous ammonia will be supplied from Commercial Solvents' plant at Sterlington, La. Fifteen million pound-a-year capacity. Badger has construction contract
Construction to begin early next year on 15 million pound-a-year plant. Crawford & Russell is design consultant. Output to be used at nearby plant to make polycarbonate resin Five units, to cost $2.5 million, will be built at plants in Augusta, Ga., Winston-Salem, N.C., Florence, Ala., and Spartanburg and Hartsville, S.C. Units will be similar to one recently installed at Americus, Ga., which has a capacity of 600 tons a day Spending about $2 million to add facilities for the dry product and improve those for the liquid. Capacity for the dry calcium chloride to be about 40,000 tons a year Capacity: 50 million pounds a year. Plant, to cost about $5 million, will produce homo- and copolymer PVC resins New, joint company to build plants for producing sulfuric acid, phosphoric acid, superphosphoric acid, and highanalysis nitrogen-phosphate fertilizers on Houston Ship Channel
STARTING CONSTRUCTION . . E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., Inc. Orange, Tex.
Surlyn A resin
Olin Mathieson Chemical Corp. Sun Oil Co. SunOlin North Claymont, Del. Richfield Oil Corp. Watson, Calif.
Ethylene
To be in commercial production by early 1965 with new family of polymers Adding 85 million pounds a year to 105 million pound-a-year capacity
Ethylene
Increasing 40 million pound-a-year capacity to 100 million
Methanesulfonic acid and methanesulfonyl chloride
Unitil now, Pennsalt produced these chemicals on a pilot-plant basis only
STARTING PRODUCTION Pennsalt Chemicals Corp. Wyandotte, Mich. 34
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