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PROCESS-ABILITY
IN GENERAL
CHEMICALS
Typical of Blaw-Knox contributions here is the cooperation with a major producer of chlorine and caustic soda, in the development of a new type of Mercury cell design. This cell is being used in several operating plants designed and built by Blaw-Knox. BlawKnox has completed more than 100 process plants in the general chemicals field with a value in excess of 250 millions of dollars.
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PROCESS-ABILITY
IN PETROLEUM
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CHEMICALS Blaw-Knox has completed nearly 100 refining and processing plants in this broad field. Individual projects include refining of crude; production of petrochemical intermediates; production of monomers, fuel additives and plasticizers. Blaw-Knox offers many licensed processes which are made available by major oil and chemical firms both in the United States and abroad.
IMPORTANT WORDS TO GROW WITH ProcessAbility describes the Blaw-Knox business-engineering service that develops your plan for process development, expansion or modernization. Bringing into a single focus all the factors that determine process feasibility, this important service can give you a clear picture of profitability before the investment of capital. • Blaw-Knox Process-Ability is the result of more than two decades' growth and refinement. Process-Ability can minimize research and development work ; translate new or existing process data into commercial plant designs; apply the newest processing techniques, and give you realistic cost estimates before capital commitments. • Blaw-Knox Process-Ability is reflected in over four hundred completed processing facilities totalling more than eight hundred millions of dollars in corporate assets. It has resulted in the completion of process plants in such far-flung areas as Egypt and Australia, Holland and Mexico, Japan and England, Denmark and Brazil. • If you are considering expansion for profit, you will want to consider Blaw-Knox Process-Ability and its many unique contributions to the Processing Industries. A letter to Mr. C. F. Hauck, Vice President, will bring a full description of our services. BlawKnox Company, Chemical Plants Division, Blaw-Knox Building, Pittsburgh 22, Pa. District offices in NewYork,Chicago,Houston, Birmingham and San Francisco.
PROCESS-ABILITY
IN FATS AND OILS Blaw-Knox
is perhaps best known in the fats and oils industry as the developer of the Rotocel Extractor used for the extraction of oils from oil seeds such as soybeans, cottonseed, corn germ and flaxseed. Installed capacity of Rotocels exceeds 2,500,000 tons-per-year of oil-bearing seeds. Total value of ninety-five Blaw-Knox installations in this field is in excess of 30 millions of dollars.
PROCESS-ABILITY
IN RESINS
AND
PLASTICS
Blaw-Knox experience in this field is represented by ninety completed plants valued at 150 millions of dollars. Early in World War II Blaw-Knox was chosen by the Defense Plant Corporation and the major rubber companies to design and build synthetic rubber plants. Since that time, Blaw-Knox has designed, engineered or constructed the majority of the free world's synthetic rubber plants.
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Blaw-Knox designs and manufactures for America's growth industries: METALS: Rolling Mills · Steel Processing Lines · Rolls · Castings · Open Hearth Specialties · PROCESSING: Process Design, Engineering and Plant Construction Services · Process Equipment and Pressure Piping · CONSTRUCTION: Concrete and Bituminous Paving Machines · Concrete Batching Plants and Forms · Gratings · AEROSPACE: Fixed and Steerable Antennas · Radio Telescopes · Towers and Special Structures · POWER: Power Plant Specialties and Valves
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