C f i E N PROGRESS REPORT
EXPAIMSIOIM IIM THE CHEMICAL IIMDUSTRY Here are companies making news last month, adding to the chemical process industries by
threesome 1 to control | product quality
PUNNING Company and Site American Potash & Chemical Corp. Hamilton, Miss.
Plant or Unit Sodium chlorate
Amoco Chemicals Corp. Subsidiary of Standard Oil Co. (Ind.) Chocolate Bayou, Tex. Celanese Corp. Clear Lake, Tex.
High-density polyethylene Vinyl acetate
FMC Corp. South Charleston, W.Va.
Hydrogen peroxide
Hooker Chemical Corp. Columbus, Miss.
Sodium chlorate
Rohm and Haas Co. Houston, Tex.
Methyl methacrylate
Sunray DX Oil Co. Corpus Christi, Tex.
Polymethylbenzene
Union Carbide Corp. Texas City, Tex.
Vinyl acetate
Remarks Cost: $1.5 million; will expand capacity by 8000 tons per year; slated for completion in early 1970 Capacity: 100 million pounds per year; scheduled on stream by mid-1970 Construction to start in early 1969; completion slated for February 1970; will bring company's total vinyl acetate capacity to more than 350 million pounds per year Capacity undisclosed; multimillion dollar facility; construction to begin by early 1969 Expansion will increase chlorate capacity at Columbus by 26,000 tons per year Capacity: 400 million pounds per year. Cost: $10 million; slated for completion by spring of 1970 Initial capacity: 10 million pounds per year; slated for completion late this year Expansion will increase capacity of existing plant by 100 million pounds per year; full operation slated for early 1970
Plasti-Corder® Torque Rheometer uses miniature mixing and extruding heads to test materials and accurately predict full-scale processing results. Makes permanent strip chart records. Request Bulletin PC-67.
Prep Center® sample mixer/ extruder uses same heads as Plasti-Corder. Use it in plant or laboratory. Request details.
STARTING CONSTRUCTION Jefferson Chemical Co., Inc. Port Neches, Tex.
Glycol ethers
An expansion, capacity undisclosed; scheduled to start operating in first-quarter 1969
STARTING PRODUCTION Borden, Inc. Geismar, La.
Vinyl acetate
Union Carbide Corp. Taft, La.
Benzene, toluene, xylene, other aromatic and nonaromatic mixtures
Cost: $4 million; expansion increases capacity from 75 million pounds to 150 million pounds per year Combined capacity for products: 200 million gallons per year
Visco-Corder® automatic viscometer provides on-the-spot recommendations for successful plant production. Ideal for plastlsols. Strip chart recorder. Request Brochure VC-3. For any of the above literature, or information on other company products, write or phone C. W. Brabender Instruments, Inc., Dept. 68, P.O. Box 2127, South Hackensack, N. J. 07606,
201*343-8425.
C5SDC.W. Brabender INSTRUMENTS, INC. SEPT. 2, 1968 C&EN
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