Production Equipment Upswing? Exhibitors at 8th National Chemical Exposition report signs of upswing in chemical production equipment Refinements and adaptations to automatic o p e r a tion pace developments in instruments and lab equipment
Levulinic acid, diisocyanates, nitroparaffins promise as big volume chemicals in near future
C H I C A G O . - T h e more than 160 s u p pliers of equipment, materials, a n d services to the chemical process industries who took part in the 8th N a tional Chemical Exposition were f r e e with their comments about business conditions. In general they have not fared too badly during the 1954 e c o nomic slump. Several have even maintained their climbing trends with improved sales records as compared w i t h 1953. The exposition, held at t h e Chicago Coliseum Oct. 12 through 1 5 , was sponsored by the Chicago Section of the
AMERICAN CHEMICAL
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Spokesman for one engineering firm which designs and produces relief
