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AnrseHccrs Cyar.arrsicl O p e n s Labs far A g r i c u l t u r a l Chemicals Research for agricultural chemicals r e F ACILITIES search were opened last week at
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There's α better w a y of loosen ing up those bins . . . w i t h a CLEVELAND air vibrator. It'll save on your shoe leather, your handling devices and your production time. Chemical pro cessors everywhere are using them to keep their materials moving swiftly and smoothly.
American Cyanarnid's consolidated r e search laboratories in Stamford, Conn. These facilities will enable American Cyanamid to better serve farmers and home gardeners by providing "the most modern and complete industrial laboratory of its kind" for research! on fertilizers, insecti cides, fumigants, fungicides, herbicides and other related c-hemicals. Ground for the new laboratory was broken in October 1951. It consists of a two-story, reinforced concrete building with two adjoining greenhouses. Provision has been made £or building additional greenhouses when necessary in the future, and the laboratory^ was designed for ease of movement and ready accessibility of one section to the others. The total area of the new building is over 21,000 square feet, which represents considerable im provement and increase over facilities pre viously available. The first floor of the building will b e devoted primarily to research on insecti cides, with certain rooms designed for evaluating compounds to determine their toxicity to insects. A conditioned room will be used to raise species of insects needed for this work. In one of the rooms on the first floor, three chambers have been installed for oontrolled environmental conditions of temjperature, humidity, and light. These will enable researchers t o simulate any type of weather condition. In other words, instead of sending chemi cals out for field testing in different parts Special dusting Hoods prevent drift of chemicals into t h e room, but permit a maximum deposit on the plant material
ot the country with varying weather con ditions, they will be able to do it in the laboratory. Chemical and biological research on fertilizers, herbicides, and fungicides will be conducted in six laboratories on the second floor. In addition, there are offices, a conference room, and other general pur pose rooms on this floor. The working corridor connecting the two greenhouses opens off the second floor. In the corridor is dusting and spraying equipment for precision application of chemicals to plants and soils. Adjoining
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For many years this non-toxic acid has served as the leading organic acidulantin foodstuffs ...beverages, candies, jellies, desserts. Now, more and more industries are finding Pfizer Citric Acid and its derivatives ideal for a variety of processes far-removed from the "kitchen." Take metal finishing for example. Because it removes oxide films with a minimum, loss of virgin metal, you'll find Citric Acid used in polishing and cleaning processes. Di Ammonium Citrate is finding increasing use in the removal of iron contamination from stainless steel and rust scale from iron surfaces. Because it forms water soluble complexes with metallic ions such as iron and aluminum, Pfizer Citric Acid serves as an excellent sequestering agent in processes where metals precipitating out of solution cause trouble...industrial water treatment, leather tanning, edible oil production, 2,4-D formulations. Since it contains one hydroxyl and three carboxyl groups, Citric Acid as an intermediate for organic synthesis offers many interesting possibilities. And, esters of Citric Acid...several of them marketed commercially by Pfizer...offer the plastics industry non-toxic plasticizers with a range of desirable characteristics. These varied applications may suggest mild, versatile citric as an acid or intermediate in your processing. For additional information, write:
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THE CHEMICAL WORLD THIS WEEK the corridor is a potting room and storage facilities for soil a n d equipment. T h e two greenhouses a r e each 110 feet long b y 30 feet wide. One is divided into four sections and h a s raised concrete benches which a r e equipped for subirrigation. T h e second is divided into two sections and has ground beds which have been made deeper t h a n those usually seen to provide adequate depth for testing chemicals o n soil. Various soil types are in these beds. Both greenhouses have automatic equipment for opening and closing vents for temperature control. National Aiuminafe C a t a l y s t P l a n t Nessrs C o m p l e t i o n
Zke Mysterious Source of the Profitable Metal *71 ^ H A T manner of men were these who came—no one knew ^&Swhence—bearing tin. And left—no one knew whitherbearing gold. They were the Phoenicians; they were merchants; they kept their own counsel. Silence stood guard at their source of supply and kept their profits safe. Some said they obtained the metal from Cornwall in England—once called the "Tin Isles". And those who coveted went to seek — fruitlessly. The bearded Phoenicians smiled and sailed—and sailed and smiled. T o d a y t h e o n l y mystery concerning tin lies i n t h e unlimited uses t o w h i c h i t can b e adapted. Metal & T h e r m i t C o r p o r a t i o n , through research, is constantly seeking and finding n e w ways of e m p l o y i n g tin and tin chemicals. If y o u have a tin p r o b l e m , "sign o n " w i t h M & T. P e r h a p s we can solve it together. DETINNING T H E R M I T WELDING METALS and ALLOYS ARC WELDING - Materials a n d Equipment CHEMICALS and ANODES for Electrotinning CERAMIC OPACIFIERS STABILIZERS for Plastics T I N , ANTIMONY and ZIRCONIUM CHEMICALS
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National Alurninate Corp., Chicago, is now constructing a catalyst plant in South Gate, Calif. T h e plant, designed for the production of microspheroidal grades of petroleum cracking catalyst, will cost several million dollars. Construction began in M a y and completion is expected b y late Fall. Fullscale production is anticipated by Jan. 1, 1954. The new installation will supply synthetic fluid cracking catalyst demands oJ West Coast a n d adjacent-area refiners. Local technical service assistance will also b e provided. T h e California plant becomes the sixth in the Nalco organization. T h e main plant and o n e catalyst plant are located in Chicago; subsidiaries a r e located in Texas. Ontario, a n d Italy. Standard (Ind.) Starts Detergent A l k y l a t e Production Detergent alkylate—principal raw material for synthetic household d e t e r g e n t s is n o w in production in a recently completed plant a t t h e Standard Oil Co. ( I n d . ) refinery, Whiting, I n d . T h e detergent alkylate is produced from benzene and propylene tetramer. T h e benzene is made synthetically from crude oil at Standard's Whiting refinery. T h e propylene tetramer, produced catalytically from refinery gas, is m a d e for Standard at El Dorado, Ark., b y Pan-Am Southern Corp., a subsidiary. At W h i t i n g t h e t w o raw materials a r e reacted catalytically to produce detergent alkylate. Synthetic detergent manufacturers will convert Standard's detergent alkylate by further chemical processes into the desired active base for household a n d industrial detergents. Sales of the alkylate to these manufacturers a r e being h a n d l e d through Indoil Chemical Co., Standard's chemical subsidiary. Koppers to Build Plasties Development Plant a t Kobuta Construction of a plastics development plant is being planned at t h e site of t h e Kobuta chemical plant of Koppers Co., Inc. T h e new facilities will produce semiAND
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commercial! quantities o f a w i d e variety of a e w plastics. These compounds result f r o m an eortensive research program con d u c t e d by Koppers o v e r the past several yeairs, and. will be available for applica tion to various industrial and consumer g o o d s neecfLs in the plastics field. The plant wilL be ab3.e to produce several new prod u c t s in qiE-antities sufficient to satisfy pre liminary commercial orders. Design a i d erection of the n e w facilities w i l l be (Lone by the chemical and gas departmens-t of Koppers Engineering and Con.struction Division, which built the orig inal Kobu--ta installation for the Governm e o t durisag World W a r II and additional facilities f o r Koppers on the site in recent years.
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& l y c o Nâow Producing T o n n a g e Quantities of EDTA F u l l scaQe production o f ethylenediamine tetraaceticr acid (EDTA.) and its salts has j u s t been started by Glyco Products Co,, [ n c - This series of products is useful in ttie conta-inment of trace metal impurit i e s ' in infcdustries w h e r e such impurities b a v e beem most troublesome. Under the trade-rnank Tetrine, Glyco is producing t o n n a g e quantities in its plant at Williamsp o r t , Pa, Textile processing and dyeing, soap a n c l syntkietic detergents, metal cleaning a n a plating, agriculture, cosmetics, leather, germicides, and many other industries are ttsrmg E D T A and its salts. T h e T^trines are stable and function efficiently in highly acid, neutral, and strongly alkaline solutions. They function b y compEexing or sequestering the trace m e t a l impmrity so that rrTis rendered harml e s s iindeur processing conditions.
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Shell Oil Co. and Continental OH Co. have completed arrangements u n d e r which T C P , Shell's n e w gasoline additive, will be used in N e w Conoco Super Gasoline. Conoco operates mainly in the midwestern, Rocky Mountain, and southwestern states, an area in which Shell has limited distribu tion. T h e arrangement with Continental will make T C P available coast to coast. Eastman Chemical Products, Inc., has opened a n e w office in Toronto, Ont., to handle sales of Tenite plastics in Canada. The office is located at 3 0 Bloor St. West, Toronto. E, F, Heughtew & Co, plans an expanded research program, including a further ad dition to its laboratories. T h e firm manu factures oils, chemicals, a n d hydraulic leathers, a n d is located a t 303 W . Lehigh Ave., Philadelphia. An additional floor will be added over t h e present research labora tory to provide required facilities for the program, a n d t h e staff of chemists will be increased. Diversey Corp. has purchased Selcon Engineering a n d Chemical C o . of Chip p e w a Falls, Wis., manufacturers of auto matic solution controls a n d sanitation chemicals. Selcon's compounds a r e used in dairy plants a n d restaurants in t h e north central states, although the solution con trols manufactured b y t h e company are distributed nationally. S p e n c e r ΟΗθϋΗβαϊ c© e has awarded s contract for design services o n a unit to prepare high-purity ethylene from com mercially purchased ethylene, to t h e Sci entific Design Co., Inc., of New York. T h e unit will form a part of the new polyethyl ene plant at Orange, Tex., now under con struction b y Spencer. Horizons, Inc., has leased t h e Buckeye Garment Bldg., comprising 19,000 square feet of floor space. T h e building is situ ated at 2905 East 79 St., Cleveland 4, Ohio, a n d will accommodate expanded physics, metallurgy, a n d ceramics divi sions. Horizons' main building is at 2891 East 79 St., Cleveland 4, Ohio.
OXYGEN COMBUSTION BOMBS for fuel ecslorimefry and tests PARR O x y g e n Bombs are made o f corrosion resistant alloys and r e q u i r e no liner. They offer maximum safety a n d convenience for testing a n y solid o r liquid fuel wi
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GOVERNMENT E x p e r i m e n t a l Fuels S t a t i o n T o Be S o l d b y Bid i n N o v e m b e r Private industry will b e asked to sub mit bids for t h e purchase or lease of t h e Quartermaster Experimental Fuels Station, which is located on a 4 0 3 acre tract near Louisiana, Mo. Bids will b e opened at 11 A.M., Nov. 16, at the Division Engineer Office, Omaha, Neb. Now considered as surplus to present defense needs, t h e plant's extensive facili ties for t h e production of ammonia and A N D ENGINEERING
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