THE CHEMICAL WORLD THIS WEEK • A t Du Pont, safety is good business.
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management support and line responsibility have brought a safety record 10 times better than the rest of the chemical industry. Page 3372. • Where do chemicals g o ? Largest part go into making more chemicals. This is a conclu sion drawn by Stanford Research Institute from Labor Department statistics. Page 3376.
• A new t y p e of distillation plant said to allow uninterrupted production has been developed by a new British engineering firm. Page 3400. ί Germany's big three of the chemical indus try plan large-scale expansion in synthetic rubber in first joint venture since the combines were broken up after the war. Page 3400.
nitroparaffin
• M C A gets α r e t i r e d general as president—
manufacture is nearing completion. Commercial Solvents has already produced over 2000 deriva tives from the four nitroparaffin fractions pro duced in its process. Page 3382.
• & C S Southwest Regional Meeting is set for
• First
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plant
for
• Calspray takes $16 million step into ferti lizers with four-unit plant at Richmond, Calif. Its parent, Standard of California, will build two others. Page 3384. • Latest expansion of Esso's research center
will be a large office and lab building to accom modate some 600 employees of the engineering, design, and economics divisions. Page 3385. • Rocket and ramjet propulsion will g e t a
boost from a three-cornered program being started jointly by OHn Mathieson, Reaction Motors, and Marquardt Aircraft. Page 3386. • Eight firms will use first nuclear
• Reactions plastics undergo on irradiation
are not clearly understood. Studies on effect of oxygen shed new light on the subject. Page 3390. can open new
vistas
for
the
paper industry by developing solvents, additives, inhibitors, and other products specifically tailored to paper industry's needs. Page 3392. • The first chemical pipe cutter in the oil in dustry uses halogen fluorides to perforate steel pipes several miles underground. Page 3395. • Businessmen serving the Government out compensation are being scrutinized by gressmen seeking ammunition for political paigns. Spotlight is on BDSA group. Page VOLUME
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Dec. 1 to 3 in Houston, Tex. Several special symposia are planned. Page 3417. • fcehovot, Israel, will be the scene of a Sym posium on Macromoleeular Chemistry, April 3 to 9, 1955. IUPAC and Wiezmann Institute of Science are sponsoring the meeting. Page 3417. • & waterproofing adhesive developed by Koppers permits high-speed production of corrugated or laminated boxboard and bags. Page 3420. • Eastman adds 10 new chemicals to its organic line. Included is a stabilized diazonium com pound for paper chromatography. Page 3422.
reactor
built by private industry for research in industrial and humanitarian fields. Other firms may join group sponsored by AMF. Page 3388.
• Chemistry
Gen. John E. Hull, former U. S. and UN com mander-in-chief in the Far East. Page 3406.
with Con cam 3396.
1955
• Fast sulfur analysis in hydrocarbons by a
high frequency combustion process is possible witih an induction furnace and automatic sulfur tiirator from Laboratory Equipment. Page 3424. • Argon c a p a c i t y is going up sharply.
By the
end of 1956, 12 companies will be operating 21 plants; total will represent a 22% expansion in capacity over June 1955. Page 3430. • Business is good in chemical process indus try; paper and paperboard demand is up, textiles have recovered to 1953 levels. Page 3432. • It's α good year for steel, too, with second quarter earnings up 87% from last year; no im mediate letdown is apparent. Page 3434. • Among 6 0 companies boosting dividends in
July are Union Carbide, National Lead, National Gypsum, and American Marietta. Page 3436. 3363
