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Pressure Hydrogénation /umner Let Sumner put you on the right track to the right facilities. For more than two decades, Sumner has been building up its expertise in pressure hydrogénation and supplying products of the highest quality to discriminating customers. This technology is yours for the asking. Our experience includes the use of most types of metal catalysts, and we know the answers to the proper use of heat and pressure. If your needs include other unit processes, we can provide condensations, fractional distillation, centrifugation, filtration and other such ancillary operations. Can you benefit from Sumner's knowhow in medium pressure hydrogénation? Call or write Joe Brudnak for more information and our Custom Processing Brochure. 219-262-7174. TYPICAL SUMNER HYDROGENATION PRODUCTS: Furfurylamines, Tertiary Butyl Benzylamine, alpha & beta Phenylethylamine, Dibenzylamine, Cyclohexenyl Ethylamine. t£ s MILES LABORATORIES, INC. 1 1
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• Acrylic sheet—Du Pont plans startup July 1 of cast acrylic sheet production facilities at Memphis; startup will mark the company's return to this business after an absence of almost 25 years. • Chlorine-caustic soda—Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical has completed a capacity expansion of about 6% at Gramercy, La., to 205,000 tons per year for chlorine and 233,000 tons for caustic. • Cyclohexane—Sun Co. has production under way at its Tulsa refinery's newly converted reforming unit; current production of 42,000 gal per day will rise shortly to 60,000 gal and is scheduled for an expansion to 85,000 gal later. • Gases, specialty—Union Carbide is opening a new facility of unspecified size for the semiconductor industry in Santa Clara, Calif. • Pesticides—Stauffer Chemical is completing the last unit of a $50 million agricultural chemical complex at St. Gabriel, La., this month; the complex has four separate units to produce pesticides as well as an antidote reducing herbicide injury to corn. • Pollution control—Union Carbide has dedicated a $4 million oxygen-treatment wastewater control system at its chemicals and plastics plant in Marietta, Ohio. • Polyethylene, low-molecularweight—Allied Chemical has completed the second phase of a continuing expansion program, increasing capacity of specialty low-molecular-weight polyethylenes and copolymers 25%; most of the expansion is at Orange, Tex., with the rest at Tonawanda, N.Y., and Baton Rouge. • Sulfonates—Witco Chemical has completed an expansion of unspecified size for producing detergent intermediates, including linear alkylate sulfonates and formulated products, in Chicago. • Toluene diamine—Air Products has begun production at a 125 million lb-per-year merchant plant at Pasadena, Tex., supplying intermediate for toluene diisocyanate used in polyurethanes.
