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Union Carbide has put on stream its computerized ethanol plant and dena turing unit at Texas City, Tex. Facil ity, with capacity of about 100 million gallons per year, will make ethanol by direct hydration using a Union Car bide process. Company's South Charleston, W.Va., ethanol plant scheduled to close. Ferrox Iron (New York), Ltd., subsid iary of Magnetics International, Ltd., Montreal, started up continuous proc ess ferrite plant in Ogdensburg, N.Y. Plant is integrated with company's own iron oxide superconcentrate pro duction. American Cyanamid will build 700 ton-per-day sulfuric acid plant at its Warner's complex, Linden, N.J. Plant, based on Monsanto's process design, will use molten sulfur as feed stock. Leonard Construction, Chi cago, has been awarded contract for engineering, design, and erection of unit. Completion scheduled for Jan uary 1970. Badger Co., Cambridge, Mass., has been awarded contract for design, en gineering, procurement, and construc tion of 500 million pound-per-year styrene plant by Foster Grant Co., Leominster, Mass. Plant will be in Baton Rouge, La. Completion sched uled for first-half 1970.
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