DESIGNING ENGINEERS AND CONSTRUCTORS
FOR THE PETROLEUM AND CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES
385 MADISON AVENUE, NEW YORK 17, NEW YORK
First Complete Ammonia Products Plant Planned For Puerto Rico Lummus d e s i g n e d u n i t a n d w i l l d o construction Construction will begin shortly on a new anhydrous ammonia, sulfuric acid and ammonium sulfate plant at Guanica, Puerto Rico for Gonzalez Chemical Industries, Inc., San Juan. With the creation of this industry, the second largest new e n d e a v o r on t h e island, another milestone is passed in the Puerto Rican Government's industrialization program. T h e plant will provide a dependable source of ammonia-nitrogen and related products for fertilizer and industry of the island. This is of particular importance in times of international emergency when shortages may seriously handicap growers of sugar cane, tobacco, coffee and other industrial chemical developments. Forty-two thousand tons of anhydrous ammonia will be produced per year. P a r t will be sold as such, and the balance will be converted to aqueous ammonia, sulfuric acid, ammonium sulfate and possibly other materials for use by agriculture and industry.
Artist's conception of complete ammonia products plant for Gonzalez Chemical Industries, Inc., Guanica, Puerto Rico.
This will make the fourth amm o n i a u n i t in t w o y e a r s f o r Lummus. It adds another to the 700-odd plants and installations completed by Lummus throughout t h e w o r l d . M a y our engineers serve you—at home o r overseas? T h e L u m m u s Company, 385
Madison Avenue, New York 17, X . Y. Engineering & Sales Offices: New York, Houston, Montreal, London, Paris, T h e Hague, Bombay. Sales Offices: Chicago, Caracas. Heat Exchanger Plant: Honesdale, Pa. Fabricated Piping Plant: East Chicago, Indiana. SEPT.
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