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FILE NAME: Trade Publications (TR) DATE: 1966 Sept 10 DOC#: TR059 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: Trade Journal Issue - Chemical Week with Asbestos Article ilM IfiB ffiS tf A M c G B A W -M jti. PUBLICATION 5 0 C E N T S B B P T E M W R m 1 S S S Corfam goes to work in the manufacturing p lan t.,. 43 Second chance for syndets-from-sugar process? ,. ^ .* m u zz, s m m builctin 7o Type BR 4-pole con trol relay with convertible contacts Have you ever stopped to consider the "cost per minute" when a control failure shuts down a production line? You can bet it's plenty--it will wipe out " flocks" of those hoped-for savings from buying motor control at "cut prices." Allen-Bradley--the quality control--features the time-proven A-B solenoid con struction--With only one moving part--which simplicity of design is ym t guarantee of millions of trouble free operations. The weld-resistant silver alloy contacts of a special double break design assure long life and the utmost in contact performance-- with never & moment to be spent for maintenance. Coils are pressure molded-- replaced free of cost to you if they should fail in service--regardless of atmospheric condition. The built-in air-gap in the magnets remains permanent--no matter what the frequency of service may be--" magnetic sticking" is out of question. T he Type BR relay is of the same general trouble free design as just described and is unusually versatile. All contacts arc easily convertible--ail it takes is a screw driver and 30 seconds to change a pole from N.O. to N.C. or vice versa. Also, either one or two extra poles can be quickly added in the field and they are full rated and also convertible. Type BR relays can be furnished with overlapping contacts. Your local Allcn-Bradlcy appointed distributor carries in his sro:k a very wide selection of the Aikm-Bradley control commonly used in your territory. He lias been trained ns a control specialist, Pirasc contact him --he is excellently qualified to take care of your control needs. Alkn-Bradlcv Co., 1349 S< Fust direct, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53204. Export Office: 630 Third Ave., New York, N.Y., U.S.A. 1001B ALLEN-BRADLEY * H%Mh im -m m m QUALITY MOTOR CONTROL f 73 Resins i for doing business with Borden Chemical's Polyco Department! These 73 thermoplastic products and intermediates are the best recommendations we can offer f for dealing with os. Being basic back to the monomer, Borden Chemical supplies the broadest range >t of polymers and chemicals available from a single 'source, They are designed for use in paints, paper, adhesives, textiles, inks, specialty coatings, water soluble films and in polymerization, , Mam/ are useful as binders, thickeners and pacifiers. With 20 years polymer experience, we have developed the best quality control system possible and can provide unusual shipping flexibility and immediate delivery from over 12 siockpoints. i _ If you have a problem involving an emulsion or resin, we think we'could help, | 'Sound resinable? Then contact The Borden Chemical Company, Polyco Dept,, I. "CW-96, git Lancaster St,, Leominster, Massachusetts, BORDEN p i CHEMICAL Wm S ep tem b er 10, 1366 CHEMICAL WEEK t Highly Successful Startup At New Brunswick Development Corporation's Fertilizer Complex Dorchester Cape, New Brunswick facility producing high-quality ammonium nitrate prills and nitric acid at design capacity within three weeks of initial process light-off The fertilizer complex designed, engineered, procured and constructed by The lummus Company Canada Limited for the New Brunswick Development Corporation of Fredericton, N, 8., is on stream at Dorchester Cape, N. B. The new complex, which includes a ISO tons per day nitric add plant, a 190 tons per day ammonium nitrate plant, a nitrogen solution plant, an ammonia storage terminal, and auxiliary facilities, is the first of the installations to be completed in the development of the Westmorland Chemical Park under the sponsorship of the New Brunswick Development Corporation. The ammonium nitrate plant manufactures both fertilizer (33,5% nitrogen) and explosion-grade prills. The nitric acid process used in this plant has a demonstrated overall ammonia efficiency of better than 95%, Fundy Chemical Corporation Limited is the operator of the new facilities, For ammonia, ammonium nitrate, nitric acid, ammonium phosphates, nitric phosphates, urea and complex fertilizers-- consult .Lummus. Lummus can put at your disposal close to 60 years of experience on more than 1,000 major projects throughout the world., THE LU M M U S CO M PAN Y A SUBSIDIARY O f CO M BU STIO N ENGINEERING f% m international engineering and construction organization. 385 Madison Ava., Now York, M.Y. WOO. Offices andsubsidiaries: Newark, Washington, P.C., Chicago, Houston, Montreal, tonda, Paris, The Hague, Madrid, Milan, Bombay, Tokyo, Caracas, timmh. Engneoring Development Canten Newark. 2 CHEMICAL WEEK S ep te m b e r 10, .1966 ON THE COVER: Operator peers Into reactor as trickle of magnetic material drops from the opening. New markets are opening up for ceramic permanent magnets as designers per fect mailer and fighter magnets with higher coercive force <p. 101). llM BlPK SEPTEMBER 10, 1966 DEPARTMENTS Business Benchmarks 112 Business Newsletter 23 Countdown 107 Engineering 53 International 74 Key Changes , 84 letters 16 Management 82 Market Newsletter 79 Meetings 16 National Roundup ' 37 Production 47 Research 47 Specialties 101 Technology Neweletter 89 * Viewpoint 5 Washington Newsletter 33 4 World Roundup 9 THIS WEEK IN BUSINESS 5 VIEWPOINT; Cold light on the hot subject of advertising costs is shed by study showing yearly change of such costs m a percentage of GNP. 27 Trade balance may trigger new economic policies for '67- White House worries about the relatively rapid increase in imports. 29 An end to the 7% tm credit? Process industries--which have benefited by several hundred million dollars in four yoars--ponder new project-payout formula. 29 Allied Chemical sets up new Industrial Chemicals Division, consolidating former corporate offshoots of three of Allied's five original predecessor companies, 30 Continental Oil-Consolidation Coat merger set for next weak; Pitt-Consol Chem is included, but potash and activated carbon stock holdings will be spun off. 30 Antitrust action to the U.S.; General Dynamics indicates it will appeal ruling by federal court In New York that it must divest its Liquid Carbonic division. 31 Antitrust proposal for the world; Global-minded business men consider implications of Senator Hart's plan for agency to probe International mergers, cartels, 32 New opportunities on the horizon for plastics producers: Medical research on air borne mineral fibers coufd lead to restrictions on asbestos in major uses. 74 Canada'* Prairie farmers begin a record wheat harvest, are expected to follow up with another fertilizer splurge--raising sales 20% next year. 82 Manhattan's Park Avenue is becoming the fashion address for chemical companies lured by modern offices, easy commuting, and good communications. 112 There wifi be 250,000 fewer housing starts this year. Mortgage money is short, al though Housing demand factors (family formations and income) are good. THIS WEEK IN TECHNOLOGY 43 Chi Port's Corfam finds Its first use in process equipment as a tong-lasting pack ing and seal material for pumps, etc. 47 Armour dll build plant tor new series of amines derived from petroleum based materials snd made by a new catalytic process. 53 Nebraska seeks patents on new process for making surface active agents from sucrose and beef tallow, will offer process free to those who'll build in state. THIS WEEK IN SPECIALTIES 101 Specialty magnet market will double in the next 10 years--from $50 million to $100 million. Auto Industry will take lion's share. 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In this state for as the anhydride), it functions as a versatile thickener, tackifier, protective colloid, film former, etc. | I I = C=0 i j . , Reacted with alcohols, j | GANTREZ AN makes = 0 possible a wide range of I j polymeric esters having I 1 broad utility: partial or M OR monoesters for pH con trolled solubility (hair sprays,, tablet coatings, spray- on bandages, industrial protective coatings},* diesters and long-chained esters for oil solubility. With non ionic surfactants, this polymer forms water-soluble partial esters useful as latex paint thickeners, pressure sensitive adhesives, textile sizes and finishes and sta bilizers for surfactant' systems. 4 CHEMICAL WEEK S ep tem b er 10, 1966 Reacted with ammonia under anhydrous conditions, GANTREZ AN forms the mono amide/ammonium .-.alt which Is of interest in paper coatings, photographic applica- j tjons and print pastes. Under f 1 similar conditions substituted. C=0 amides can be formed by react- j_ j ing GANTREZ AN with primary NlC 0 NHS and secondary amines. Crossiinked with other polyfonctiopal compounds or _ used to form complexes with certain metal ions, It f; produces other useful products such as ceramic : binders, protective coatings and corrosion inhibitors. In other words, GANTREZ AN is the key to solving old * problems and creating new products for just about any industry. For technical data and samples, send die ' coupon to our Dyestuffs and Chemical Division. (And remember that you can rely on full technical assist ance from GAP,) gciF BSMCRAL ANILINE & FILM CORPORATION 1 4 0 W E S T 51 STR EET N E W YORK 10030* i, Dyestuffs and Chemical Division, Dept. CW-91.0 bj ,1 Piease send me G A N T R E Z A N sample ( } and j :. literature (or use in ..... .. ........ .... ........ . _ t-. ": TKIe---------------------------------------------------- j Com pany-- _____.__- ..................... ......................... j ' d d ress..... ....... ............ ... . ,, ............... .... . ! ! City................ ..............State............... Zip.......... j _____ ______________ _________________ ____ J um m :'=i!;u f. .. fipll fl, SeW* .;, ...KitoHif-aiff Mrnmm Mtor z r HMEMT0SS tteyef ' ...... . .Assistant tasaftagidit i m v ' V m m . . .Assistant Managing Editor t Swite'. . ...... .........'. .Senior Editor ! s i. Pkwbmfl John M Wimon . . . . . . i Spur , -- Senior Wiles ' .......Sentar Editor . ., .Senior Edita Robn I. Martistt ,,.. __ Art Director sbpm; (tors CSMipita,............'. faginttmg . . . . . . . . . fSfsWMMOBl ............ isflspweiti,. arl.tag ..: . . . . . . . Warfct-f .................. fro4tas .............. fcMareh ............. . . . .linage Benda Ryle Miller: __ .Charles JosJin .. Joseph f. K ate . lames Heufrides .. Herbert C, Short . Philip A, Untersee mff w f r t T a t . . . . ' fetanese Sayet " ' \ m -C?i Buyers' . :iiete Ktoga. Robert M. Salta , .William taima*, ce ahita 'John W. Pre ir., copy editor ; Leona! Bagw.r. editorial produttoo ....... Albor; H. Kalin, editor Kathryn Phelan ! Reprints ... ....... -- .. .francs Regan It'BFMIS Chit-age__ Houstnn ,.. W iis h m Fwtoise# -- Kenneth Brooks, editor Utm Xenakis ; . ....Hughs, f j taut, editor Jew) Tally' u f f h . Mm William;8ennetts MeSRftW-HIU WORLD MtWS' uoftemics.......... : .......taHigto CrserwaW : news Bureaus. . . . . .John Wtheii, Director . Atlanta, Frances RMgy: CMeage, Reck Jofciv son: Cleveland, Arthur Immmmt-m, Mar n feta: fletroftJkhtaas.tentir; jis A#pto$, Michael Murphy: Sea Fresis, Margaret Rals- : *-jn Orossel; Seattle,. 8sy itombefg; WatattBf- to, Arthur Moore. Correspondente in 94 other (.ties of tt (failed States, m . Bo, Robert Dorang: Brussels, feorge William- !.te ft) h r Cress; Milan, Ronald TaggiattO; Moscow, Howard Lift ta imc.ir. Wes Perry; Trtp, Matvtnfetal CoKwpntnte , in88other foreign,cities............ asiiis$stA Part Mrttaerse..,,,,Advertising lates Mwapt : Atvuot Babko*....... ...... Busiaess Manager Fred L Lesner . . . . . .Sales Promotion Manager Stelan S. Semple... .Market Research Manager Robert t Maier ............ Advertising Makeup = t a t a . .. i:-OI-.V...II VIEW PO IN T Is Ad Spending T o o High? Britain's Monopolies Commission rattled advertising agencies in London and New York last week when it found that Unilever and Procter k Gamble are "wasting" money on determent advertising at the public's expense. The commission recommended a 40% cut in advertising and promotion expenses and proposed at 20% reduction in wholesale selling price# { G W , Srj>t. 2, p, M ) , White this move by the commission goes appreciably further than any TJ.S, government attack on advertising to date, if is bound to bolster the case of the fnistbusters who have argued that excessive advertising could restrain competition, And the government itself has given strong him that it is aware of advei thing's power ami intends to do soim-thmg about it. In '63, for example, the Federal Trade Commission struck down the P&G purchase of Clorox, arguing that PM ? massive advertising would stretch Clorox's already commanding lead over its rivals. And last June, Assistant Attorney General Donald Turner, head of the Antitrust Division suggested imposing (for a period of time) an absolute or percentage limitation on promotional expenditures by companies that have violated the Sherman Aniitiust Act. Now, an authoritative new book injects some facts into this no tional Issue. It does much to dispel a popular illusion that advertising outlays have outrun other business costs. The book, out this week, is "Measuring Advertising Readership & Results" {M cG raw -H ill), by Daniel Starch, a 40-year veteran of evaluating advertising effectiveness. W e hope that officialdom will read, in particular, th<* chapter headed "Advertising and Other Business Cost'.." Starch ha* measured adver tising expenditures as a percentage of gross national product and finds no appreciable yearly change between '50 and *63, Through all these years advertising expenditures have been about 2,25% of the GNT. This means that while dollar advertising expenditures have climbed (from #5,710 billion 5a *50 to $13,050 billion in '63). tins increase has been proportional to the G N P growth. Says Starch: "There h aft impression that advertising, although necessary, costs more, attracts fewer readers and observers and is less effective than formerly. Because of competition for the public's attention, it h thought that it is harder to reach people and to get them to pay attention to the ad messaged* Not so, he demonstrates, sing readership studies. It appears that "advertisments themselves have not become less effective, bur, if any thing have become more effective in attracting readers." Before attacking the policies of one or two companies, trustbusters on both sides of the Atlantic should consider the philosophy behind advertising, best expressed by Starch; "T he economic and social justification ot advertising ultimately rests (a) upon Its service in increasing legitimate human wants ami (h) upon its being an effective and fair agency of competition, "Bo long as we believe that human beings should continue to want more and better things, which will in the long run contribute to their happiness and well-being--so long will we have individual effort and competition, if we believe In a philosophy of competition, then we must permit all means of fair and effective competition." September 10, 1966 5 KELLOGG r.t;in,'i'U,i;'. .uni tUiii-.irueUftd M m M fdtm rbm Cricking: Matt* far Qlettm Prbifition, Texas Eastman Company, a division of Eastman Kodak Company, called on Kellogg to handle design, engineering, and procurem ent for the multimilUcm- dollar project. Located on a 2,500acre site near Longview, Texas, the plant is n m in full operation, pro ducing ethylene and co-products by cracking propane feedstock, Kellogg's steam pyrolysis process fa used to produce the high-purlty ethylene. Other products include polymer-grade propylene, light and heavy aromatic distillates, and a hydrogen, product. 'The olefins are feedstock to Texas Eastm an polyolefin and chemical plants where plasties, low-molecular- weight waxes and resins, alcohols, aldehydes, and other chemicals are made. Kellogg Is also completing a combined ethylene oxide-ethylene glycol plant at the same site. The new plant is one of nine olefin facili ties Kellogg Is now engineering and constructing in five countries: com bined annual ethylene capacity -- nearly 3 billion pounds. |n*,* it-. .:!!.* ; , This 90-foot high-ammonia-production converter weighs one million pounds, has steel walls th at are S inches thick, and produces a record 1,000 T /B of ammonia by combining hydrogen and nitrogen gases over a catalyst a t a pressure of roughly 2,000 psi. The huge reactor fa part of a unique plant designed and built by Kellogg a t Yazoo City, Mississippi, for Coastal Chemical Corporation, The plant is the first of its size of completely single-train design. Using but one reforming furnace, ammonia con verter, and compressor train, it repre sente a major advance in economical ammonia production. Kellogg's new largo plant design and ability to quality-engineer giant pieces of equipment, such as this con verter, have made possible the manu facture of ammonia a t the lowest cost per ton. As a result, Kellogg is currently designing over one-half of the free world's new large ammonia plant capacity. Combined output of these plants will exceed 7 million tons per year. 6 CHEMICAL WEEK September 10, 186 Grass Roots Refinery an Stream In Uncord Time, The now 25,000 BPD : refinery of Amoco Australia Pty. I Limited was in full operation just 1 2 weeks after Kellogg completed - construction, A 25,000 BPD Crude and vacuum unit, 10,000 BPD Kellogg Model C Orthoflow Fluid Catalytic Cracking ; unit, together with Ultraformer* and Ultraflner* units combine to produce premium and regular gasolines, fuel and diesel oils, kerosenes, jet fuels* '] LPG, and asphalt, all for domeatjc j consumption. Included is the com? plex are a tanker jetty, crude-torap tank farm, the process units, a utility plant, blending facilities, product . - storage, workshops, laboratory, and ` : administration buildings. , The M. W. Kellogg Company cate - tied out complete process engineering T design for the multiinillion-dollay refinery, while Kellogg Overseas Cor- ' poration, the Company's affiliate in Sydney, handled ail procurement ands construction. Across Australia, 'to- ; fineries of Kellogg design now account1 for almost a third of the continent'* ` total refining capacity. ' *LfcfiSte by Stendimi O# C | * * y ON#*) THS ML W, KELLOGG COMPANY 1 T in ti AVE,, NEW YORK, N.Y. I03I A DIVISION OE MJH.MAN INCORPORATE. . - O cts of eiker KeUoff Companie are in Bogota Madrid Bueno Air Parte ; Dusseldorf Sydtwy London Toronto #th AKft*i *> ` m % JP m m jSamgti mmmmm The machinery manufacturer had a good idea. He wanted to eliminate m e costly step in ap plyinglabels lfood package, But he needed research experience in solvents. Could AMSCO help? Yes, Previously, adhesive had been applied to the labels in two stages: resin went on in so lution , . . with the plasticizer applied to the label back as a separate step, The plasticizer was emulsified in water. AMSCO Technical Service researched sol vents which were immiscible in water and would do the job of cutting the resin. One solvent proved ideal, Now resin and plas ticizer are applied In a single emulsified sys tem with no prematura reaction. Can you benefit from experience in chemi cal and solvent research? With AMSCO you can, just call. American Mineral Spirits CQmpany Chemicals Petrochemicals Solvent New York-Sales Offices In principal cities Service world-wide through AMSCO international September 10, 1966 CHEMICAL WEEK 7 Would you believe? Carbopol resins can be used: To thickm potassium hydroxide solutions, sulfuric acid solutions. To emulsify pine oil, tar, asphalt, creosote, silicone oils. To gel mineral oil, kerosene, gasoline, acetone, methylene chloride. To suspend core washes, powdered metals, paper- making fibers, graphite. To body rubber, polyurethane, vinyl adhesives. * CHiMlpM, WEEK September 10, 1966 To disperse insecticides, fungicides, herbicides,* fertilizers. . s If one of these properties of Carbopol resins interest* you, let us know about it. W e will be glad to work with' you in helping to decide whether or not a Carbopol ] polym er is your answer. C ontact B.F.Goodrlch Chenv teal Company, D ept. CW -S, 3135 f Euclid Ave., Cleveland, Ohio 44115. 'EEGoodrlch Chemical Company tftd*1th#SMMtaad'ic&*** Above: S i 4FCM with mixing chamber retracted for cleaning. Might- Orifice jock shown in position for orifice removal. wittuHit amof mtamHoii :4 Although the Fartei Continuous Mim s* Is not completely self-purging, one stock, a n be followed by another, without ; ' cleaning, with contamination of only a small amount of i' material. When required, however, the operator can dean ' belli the chamber and the rotors thoroughly and easily in a f very few inmates, f To dean, the mixing chamber is made readily accessible - by push-button control. I t is first moved forward and then |: rotated on a turntable, as shown so the upper illustration. k This leave* the rotor* overhung, supported by the drive end I of the machine. The orifice can be easily removed, as a unit, *,. for cleaning. This is only one of the many advantages o f the FCM, A true mixer, it has rotors and a mixing action similar to the Banbury mixer. Discharge temperature Is independent of production rate, and can be kept constant throughout a wide range of rates or can be varied by as much as 100* Jr at any given rate. For further details of this unique machine, send for a copy of bulletin 227. F A iiliC S iP d ilT IO N ANSOM IA, CO N N CCTICUT Plants: Anson} and Derby, Conn., Rochester, N.Y, Sales affirms: Antonio, Akron, Chicago, tas Angeles, Houston, Atlanta hr Europe: Ferret Italian s., t. VI* Bonjogne $. Milano, Italy in Gtmttdit: Farr#! Canada Untiled, 44 Victoria Street, Toronto I. Ontario September 10, 1966 CHEMICAL WEEK 9 t Will it just sit th ere? M oving a new chemical out of %&D into accepted use requires much thought, careful planning and, of course, adequate financ ing, At Bankers Trust, we have officers thoroughly acquainted with the usual and unusual de velopments In the chemical, indus try, They have assisted numerous companies --helping to turn po te n tia l? into worthwhile new products. If your company needs a knowledgeable financial m an's viewpoint, on anything fro m th f . developm ent of new m arkets overseas to long-term financing, get in touch w ith our m en ia chem icals a t B ankers Trust, BA1 K 1 ES 8v>Mn Tnat Cam** 19$$ 10 CHEMICAL WEEK S eptem b er 10, 1966 TRUST CO M PAlf N 1W YOBS Dfc&qs-i? 1Lookwhat's happened since we becamea division of Hooker Chemical Corporation. 3 , New PVC I :' will fedendetiag Plant. I Now uadef construction ia Burlington, j Hew Jersey, this new RC facfiity | will be devoted to the production of 4 , FVC hotaopoiymers utilizing an | mass polymerization process, if Versatile multi-calender lines arc also being established here for i 4 the increased manufacture of flexible and rigid him and sheeting. I i-c e rM m ilm , iability Doubted. Substantially increased versatility | is now possible in the production of specialty plasticizers, lubricant I bases, polyesters for polyurethanes ly - and comonomer*. New Applied Cliiii##Iastics fm m m im Laboratory. This advanced laboratory contains sophisticated processing equipment for the development of plastic products. Techniques include blown film, blow molding, special compounding processes and polyurethane fabrications. 100% PVC Copolymor Increase Now in giififtg, Greater production output and faster delivery of copolymer resins for use in vinyl records, floorings, extrusions for packaging and solution coatings. Continuad High Quality-- Increased Production, Call RC First for polyurethane coatings, adhesives, potting compounds, laminates, elastomers and caulking, Call RC First for PVG film ' and sheeting, press polishing and RueorailTM extruded profiles for handrail applications in exclusive woodgrain patterns. Call RC First for vinyl resins, RucotexTM butadiene-styrene latexes and latex concentrates, esters and polyesters, liquid compounds, dry blend and pellet compounds, mmmmmm i i ihimical i i r p i r a i o i MawSouthitM i/ licfcwtta, lawYrk 11882/Ttlaphoiti: I1IJ 831-8100 September 10, 1966 CHEMICAL WEEK 11 I iviis:$alki-9tafe electronic accounting system can compute invoices, give you job cost analysis, and calculate ingredient quantities. it only costs you $10 a day, That's about the price of a conventional accounting withholding, regular and overtime earnings. Then print machine. But this is the NCR 395-300. It does every a labor efficiency report for you. ' : thing an accounting machine does, and some surprising Or, the report can be punched on paper tape for trans things computers usually handle, mission to a home office computer by teletype or data- j Things that make this low investment pay you a hand phone . . . as a satellite for the central computer. some return. That's a lot of service for $10 a day. Tape and card o It can give you labor efficiency reports. . . fob cost re options cost a little more, but they do more. Do what? ports , . , wage accrual, input daily labor from clock or Your NCR representative has the specifics. Give him a time cards through the keyboard or through punched call. Or write NCR, Dayton, Ohio 4 5 4 0 9 . We'll rush some cards. The 395-300 can automatically compute RCA, literature to you- THE NATIONAL CASH REGISTER COMPANY, OAYTON, OHIO 45409 12 CHEMICAL WEEK September 10, 1966 Unique new NEODOL* 25 linear primary alcohol contains both odd and even numbered carbon chains in the Ct2 to C15range- plus traditional built-in Shell quality This crystal-clear l i t percent pri mary alcohol has an exceptionally mild, neutral odor--reacts like all alcohols t a t without unwanted side reactions. Result; you can count on high yields >f exceptional purity In reactions in volving Shell NEODOL 25. T he odd-num bered chains is hEODOL 25 have-already demon- sttaied superior performance charac teristics in surfactants, Perhaps they can help in your applications for long chain alcohols and derivatives. Mall coupon for evaluation sample. Well also be glad to send you techni cal bulletins on NEODOL 25, Shell Chemical Company, Industrial Chem icals Division, 110 West 51st Street, New York, N,Y, 10020. Shell Chernies! Company CW-* Industrial t*tot!s Db-fetea M l West 5 M S t,N,V,, N.Y. t t t l t Pleasesend meD sampleofNEOpOL 25 for evaluation, technical bul letins about NEODOL 25, __ ___ _____ __ j CTTT_________ __*TATB_________ _ _ S ep tem b er 10, 1966 CHEMICAL WEEK 13 How's this for versatility? You name it-- FRUEHAUF has a stainless steel chemical tank-trailer to move it swiftly, economically! Choosing from F ru eh a u fs com plete line of Stainless Steel Chemical Tankers is the easiest w ay to solve your specialized liquid hauling problem s -- and a t the lowest possible cost. 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R eadily convertible to h an d le j e t fuel, solvent*, p a in t drier an d o th e r flam m able products. Single com partm ent model shown, model t k p -- a 4-eom partm ent model with h eav y gauge, deep dished bulk heads, th is u n it is designated fo r pres su res to 25 p ,s .ig . W ith p ro p e r eraer-: / gency valves, v en tin g a n d p ressu re re-, fief e q u ip m en t, it's ideal fo r regulated p ro d u c ts lik e n a p h th a , alcohols and acetones, - MODEL TKX-- a so p h istic ated , S-com part- < m en t m odel with options available to modify it for a variety o f high-purity, chemicals as well as synthetic sweetening a g e n ts u sed in low calorie food products- j E asy to dean. 14 CHEMICAL WEEK September 10, 1966 \m m m : \f warn Leadership in * / i TRANSPORTATiONSince 1914 . -||l j' m m m m m m ic Low^Temperfwr Plasticizer in New, Free-Flowing Powder form Low Temperature Performance , . , : ' . 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ARIZONA CHEMICAL COMPANY, 11 West 50th Street, New York, New York 10020 Septmber 10, 1966 CHEMICAL WEEK 15 ! LETTERS u lii.? ;13 W BMBBI 0KI y u u J ;jro.:c'.sr.V Wmm Basis lo r believing To the Editori Concerning the article titled "A More Businesslike Socialism" (Aug, 6, p, 50), I am sur prised that y our , , authoritative pub lication takes seriously the "worker's management" propaganda of the Yu goslav government, as evidenced by your statement, '`Unlike Western com panies (Yugoslav) units will be di rected by councils representing the plants* workers," The system of the fictitious "work er's management'* was introduced in the Yugoslav industry in 1952, but industrial units have always remained in the hands, and under the direction of, the government. The "worker's councils" are powerless in directing the affairs of their factories. . , , The decisiohs of the government- are im plemented through the plant's director. The council's task, much like the Na tional Assembly's, is merely to formal ly "approve" the measure so that the document of approval can later be shown to visiting Westerners as "p ro o f of the "democratization" of Yugoslav communism and its "evolu tion" toward free enterprise. . . . May I also point o u t . , . the follow ing statement by Aleksander Rankovic to the Central Committee of CPY at the time of bis dismissal: "Comrades, I do not think that I can he accused of any kind of nationalism or chauvin ism. Whenever I have seen this and whenever I was able, I raised this question... .'*As chief of secret police, Rankovic certainly was in a position to raise this question quite effectively, Daniel Stevens Chicago The CW article in question is based on the best available on-the-scene in formation: a report from our corre spondent in Belgrade, plus reporting in such journals as the Economist and the New York Times.--E d . CW welcomes expressions of opinion from readers. The only requirements: that they be per tinent, as brief as possible. Address all correspondence to: H. C. E. Johnson, Chemical Week, 330 West 42nd S t, New York, N.Y. 10036. I f CHEMICAL WEEK September 10, 1965 M EETIN G S / American Chentical Society, natkmaf : meeting, New York Hilton and Amer icana hotels. Sept. 11-16. 1 Technical Amtt, of the Pulp and Taper ! la d tty, 21st plastlcs-paper conference f Commodore Hotel, New York, Sept, % , 21; t?th testing conference, paper and paperboard, Golden Triangle Hotel. Star- I folk, Va., Sept. 27-29. _ : Society of Crnmeik Chemists. :<ftnual ' seminar, American Hotel, New Yo% i Sept, 20-21. - J Ctentfcd Marketing Research Amtt^ Greenbrier Hotel, White Sulpinu Springs, W.Va,, Sept, 29-Oei. L Aaitrieait Oil Chemists' Society, 4A ; fall meeting, Beilevue-SuaifofJ Hold, j Philadelphia, Oct. 3-5. , ; National Bureau of Ststndards, lo. stttute for Materials Research, first mate- rials-research symposium, Gaitocrdnirg, Mil., Oct. 3-7, Assn, of Official Analytical Ctmnkts, ' annual meeting, Twin Bridges Marriott j Motor Hotel, Washington, D.C .. Oct. i 0-13. f Technlcon laferB!i! symposium os automation in analytical chemistry, Statter-Hilton Hotel, New York, Oct 17-19. Drag, Chemical & Allied 'Trades A m , annual meeting, Hollywood Beach Hotel, Hollywood, Fla., Oct, 20-22. CmmmnisA Chemical Develop* Assoc, discussion of paekagine. Drake Hotel, Chicago, Oct. 26-28, National Assn, of Purchasing Agents, Chemical Group, annual f a ll vrmierene, Continental Plaza Hotel, Chicago, Oct, 27. j Society of Engineering fMcm-e, fourth technical meeting, North Carol inn State University, Raleigh, Oct. 31-Nov. 2. American Society for Metals, notional metai congress and exposition. McCor mick Place, Chicago, Oct. tj-Mov. 3. * Parental Drug Assn,, mmnd convert- \ tit, Statter-Bilton Hotel, New York, Nov. 1-4. FeriSteer Industry round-table con ference, Mayflower Hotel, Wellington, D C , Nov. 2-4. The Society of the Ptoxlicx .ii.-j-.fi , 11th plastics film, sheeting; owl fabrics conference, Waldorf-A<wrm Ho tel, New York, Nov. 9-10; conference on < cellular plastics in transportation, .Mgcwater Beach Hotel, Chicago, Nm. ' The Franklin Institute Research ib* oratories, fourth annual xympox,m on the organic-solid state, Philadelphia- Nv- t 14, * General Atomk Division o f t ...d Dynamics Coip., nd Air Force C ' ,:l Sritontifte Research, fundamentals of gassurface interactions, San Diet', Calif-. Dec, 14-16. Need raw materials in your business? (Put your plant in the Houston-Gulf Coast!) 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September 10, 1966 CHEMICAL WEEK 21 Paul i f Shannon's CDBs have everything soapers need. iWh mk Bey Rem, andPmlShannon, dry bleachchemicalssalesmgr., v m c in o r g a n ic c h e m ic a l s d iv is io n . If Stability, easy handling, solubility. And dry available-chlorine to spare. IIpIIt fmc's chlorinated isocyatmrics. Now being used successfully in a multitude |[ of consumer and industrial cleaners, bleaches, dishwashing detergents and sanitizers. Made to suit your specific formulation, granulation, package, i storage conditions and anticipated shelf life, fmc corporation, 'fMi sL inorgan ic c h e m ic a l s division, 633 Third Avenue, N.Y..N.Y. 10017 if BUSINESS New sletter cMSMicAi w is h mmmmm 10, 1##* Another mm UJ$, alinjaljwini producer W, J, Reed & Associates, Sait Fra n c I s c o ^ ^ S S g * c o S f f lttg * lr m 7 ^ ^ te e d plans late last week on behalf of a newly incorporated Georgia company* United Aluminum Corp. The new firm will-build, a $3S-tJiillion plant "somewhere in the Southeast" United Aluminum, which will be based in San Francisco, reportedly lias been organized by a group of San. Francisco and Southern industrialists and is now in the final stages of financing. Names of the principals and precise site of the proposed installation will not be made public for perhaps four or five weeks, CW learns, Construction of the plant, is expected to get under way next spring, be completed in early '69, Plans call for expansion of capacity to 132,000 tons/year in 10 years. Word of the United .Aluminum project comes just a few weeks after disclosure that another new producer, Northwest Aluminum, was ready to launch a $ 100-million project in the Puget Sound, area of the Northwest (CW Business Newsletter, Aug. 6 ), * tfnfott CarMle h pushing its big yapamto program. It will build a 30Q-mUlioa-ibs./year synthetic phenol plant (location not disclosed) that will have double the capacity of another UCC phenol unit slated to go into production at Bound Brook, N J,, early next year. The new unit will be completed in *69, UCC Chairman Blrny Mason, jr,, says the new installation, based on the cumene process, is expected to be the `largest and most eco nomical phenol plant in the world," While most of the output of both units will be used captively, sizable amounts of phenol, and by-product acetone, says Mason, "will be available to meet growing demands of the merchant market," CatMi also iw tite i plans for fmlfefhytene film production at its Wayne, N.J., plant, which has been turning out polypropylene film for packaging, The new polyethylene unit will adjoin the present plant building, will be an extension of the company's polyethylene film production coming out of Cartersviite, Ga,, and Ottawa, 111. Comtruction of the plant will begin next month, be completed late in '6?, Humble OR has the frees light oa eiistreeii plans for its pro posed $ iCW-miJfiom refinery at Benicia, Calif. The company's application to build needed water-terminal facilities was approved by the San Francisco Bay Conservation k Development Commission, Construction of the project, which was originally planned to be built at Moss Landing, Calif,, near Mon terey (CW Business Newsletter, May 23), will begin immediately; comple tion is expected by *69. The general construction contract goes to C,F,. Braun (Alhambra, Calif.), while the engineering design will be done by 23 BUSINESS N ew sletter Humble's research and engineering affiliate in Florham Park, N X Although approvals by other California regulatory agencies await further engineering details, the company says if foresees no serious obstacles and is proceeding with site preparation and contract awarding, 11 huge refinery (about 70,O0CM>bls./day capacity) will turn out fuel products, chiefly gasoline, jet and diesel fuels, * Btew*Knox gets the tra c t to gt6r and build Pittsburgh Plate Glass' propESid lfl,000*tons/yar titanium dioxide pigment plant at the latter's chemical division's complex at Natrium, W.Va, Initial production from the plant is scheduled for early '68. Rutile, raw material for the pigment, will come front a new mining and refining operation under construction in Sierra Leone, Africa, by Sherbro Minerals, Ltd. PPG has an 80% Interest in Sherbro. Foremost Dairies is making another offer io buy McKesson & Robbins stock from shareh(dderC~i3fowing a breakdown in merger talks that have been going on for months. Foremost's chairman and chief executive officer, Rudolph Drews, says his company will pay $53/share for up to 550,000 shares of McKesson stock. McKesson closed late last week on the New, York Stock Exchange at $46.25. Last February', Foremost bid $51 /share in attempt to pick up 1 million shares of the big drug distributor, managed to reach only 75% of its goal in the face of bitter McKesson opposition, including a suit in federal court (CW Business Newsletter, Fi. 5 ). The suit was dropped, and merger talks started. In addition to the 750,000 shares taken in the February offer, Foremost also holds about I million shares acquired from Glen Alden Corp., which tried unsuccessfully Iasi year to wrest control of McKesson. With 40% of McKesson stock in hand, Foremost hopes the new effet will give it majority interest. The Federal Trade Commission, though, has questioned the com pany's holdings on antitrust grounds, and there is some feeling that FTC may be contemplating divestiture proceedings against Foremost. * G, 0 . Searle & Co. is acquiring Fermco luAyraferies from Harshaw Chemical assets patents and name (for an undisclosed amount) becomes effective Oct. L Permeo is a basic producer of enzymes by fermentation, biochemical and diagnostic reagents; its activities will be consolidated into Searie facilities in Skokie, II, * The Justice Dept, will crack low on X5 , companies trying to boost p to ffS y "absorbing" tariff cuts resulting from the "Kennedy Round" of GATT talks in Geneva.' Several firms, unidentified by Justice, that have been working out deals to this end -with foreign producers have been warned of the antitrust implications, CHEMICAL WEEK piombar to , 1966 If no TiOa is better than TITA N OX*. * * why-not get the best technical help, too? 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T E L CO O K 201 - S 4 8 - a 2 0 0 i Why U.8. trade surplus Is shrinking flr*|ihall '*#< p o r ts mm up But Import* mm rtsim g fetter Smtkgm Mdter Mshrt Wood pulp tu b ltr goods NhwftefWMs motels Textile Om +31% +11% +15% +10% + 0% + 8% + 7% + 3% Attim &m Chemical* Whlstey Nonferrous Textile Newsprint Sugar metete +m % +54% +32% +21% +24% +10% + i % + 7% CHUWEEK SEPTEMSER 10,1966 The Global Spending Spree Rapid rise lit '66 imports could after (/.S. economy Sky-high demand for product1--including foreign cars and foreign chemicals {photo, k fr) -- hat the II. S. this year heading toward its smallest trade surplus the excess of exports over imports -~ since '59. This dwin dling balance of trade is likely to in duenec the Administration's economic policy for the coming year -- and perhaps its trade policy as well, Total U. S, exports in January through July were up about 15% from shipments in the corresponding seven months in '65; but imports were up more than 20%. In chemical products this trend sms even sharper; sevenmonth exports up 15$-, to neatly $1,6 billion; but imports up 32%, to $558 million. These figures, hew,ever, add up to a chemical trade surplus of $1 billion --- slightly higher titan for fast year's first seven months, and about one-third of the nation's total trade surplus for '66 to date. While the U,S. had a S7-billion trade surplus in '64 and a $5,2-btliion excess last year, the present outlook for '66 is a surplus of only about $4 billion. This would be less than 1% of the $739-biUion gross national product now predicted for this year. Demand Called Excessive; But the declining trade surplus could have a significant impact on the Johnson Ad ministration's economic decision-mak ing, The surge in imports lends to con firm what a good many critics of the Administration have been saying ail year -- namely, that demand in the domestic economy is much too high. It now seems dear that demand in 27 the U.S. has outrun the ability of some domestic industries to meet i t Ex amples in the field of chemicals; phthalic anhydride, sulfur, formalde hyde, phosphoric aclfi Civilian de mand is at a record high; and, of course, defense, requirements have been rising as the U.S. escalates its military effort in Vietnam, One reason exports haven't grown at a faster rate during the past year or so is that domestic demand has absorbed nearly all U.S. output, leaving relatively little merchandise for overseas shipments. The Federal Reserve Board already has moved to curb demand by making money tight and costly. But still there is intense pressure oft the Administra tion to slow things down by fiscal policy measures. The worsening U.S, trade position can only add to that pressure. Dollar Deficit Widens: A particular ly galling aspect o f the trade situation --front the Adroimstratioa** viewpoint --is the harm it is doing to the U-S; balance-of-payments position. There already is concern among the nation's money managers that the direct costs of the war in Vietnam will push the U.S,' payments deficit from last year's $1.3 billion to as high as $2 billion in '66. With the trade surplus shrink ing, this could be even worse. The war, of course, has forced U,S. industry to go overseas for some of the materials needed to meet defense needs. And the extreme tightness in the money market has left commercial basks with comparatively little funds for overseas borrowers -- including those who want the money to pay for goods from the U.S. At midyear, com mercial. hm k loans to foreigners totaled nearly $100 million loss than at the end of *65. U.S, bankers con firm that foreign customers arc not getting all the money they want. Expediting Exports: The Adminis tration has already started to carry out two plans to help reverse the tradesurplus trend. One is the proposed new set of regulations covering the tax, treatment of goods shipped by a U.S. company to its foreign subsidiar ies (CW, Aug. IS, p. SI ). The Treas ury Dept, figures the haphazard way in which such transactions have been taxed up to now may have discour aged such exports, Because parent-iosubsidiary shipments account for 25% of U.S. exports*, any improvement in this area could be important. Even more promising is a scheme by the Export-Import Bank to provide more funds for overseas lending by commercial banks (CW Washington Newsletter, Aug, 27), Under this pro gram, a bank could borrow front Bx1m for up to one year aa amount equal to 50% of its holdings of eligible export credit documents. Still, there is little likelihood of any sizable widening of the trade balance this year. That won't come, govern ment specialists concede, it cithet the super-boom at home or the war in Vietnam comes to an end. Chemical trade: patent tore U.S. balance o f payments arre Ha. Commodity groups IMPORTS Fir*t*hif 1966 Chan*# fro* '85 EXPORTS Fir*t-h!f 1966 Changa fra tti '85 BALANCE OF TRADE First+alf Ft m 512 Organic chemicals $105.8 + 40.9% 513 Elements, oxides, halides 73.8 + .38,8 514 Other inorganics 25.5 + 31,0 BIS Radioactive materials 28.3 - J.6.4 521 Crude chemicals from coal, o!, natural gas 5.3 + 33,7 531 Synthetic organic dyestuffs, Indigo, lakes 19,1 + 51.0 S32 Dyeing and tanning extracts 6,6 + 25.3 533 Pigments, paints, varnishes 2.5 + a i r 541 Phamtacefoicai products 38.4 + m s 551 Essential oils, flavors m s -k j 553 Cosmetics and toiletries m . . ,+:, 1 4 554 Soaps, detergents, polishing, preparations 2 ,7 + '3 1 .7 561 Processed fertilizers m ' + 19,9 571 Explosives, pyrotechnics 9,9 +123.2 581 Plastics and resins 29,2 + J 599 Other chemical products (pesticides, starches, adhesives, waxes, etc.) ms + aa 5 CHEMICALS mm + 30J $343,4 + 5.0% 79,0 + 3.3 SW +14 4 ' . 25,4' .+31,6 14.0 - 4,1 17.5 1.5 3?.0 132.1 . 20,3 vm +13.8 +34.4 +15,4 +11.0 +13,2 +m i 33.6 93. 11.2 240. +224 +41.0 +16,3 4 -tm 201,2 1 ,3 1 +2 +15,0 +$251.9 4" 23.1 + 29.4 -- 22.9 + 10.6 . wfw 2.8 ~ 4.1 26,5 + 96.2 -- 11.6 + 5.8 + 25,4 + 4,0 + 5.2 + 183.7 4* 133.4 + 774.8 +$237.6 + 5.2 *f* 30.8 -- 2.9 + 8,8 1.6 -- 5.1 + 30.5 + 93.7,, 2,7 4* 7.5 + 30.9 4* 18.7 + 1.3 + 211,4 + 189.3 4*- 833,1 231.2 Synthetic rubber 266 Synthetic and cellulosi fibers 271 Crude fertilizers 274.1,3 Sulfur 11M ' +1 4 37.1 + 78,72 J + 4S,f 1#J ' + 2 7 87.9 + *. 25-0 - 1,2 40.8 +27.8 40.7 +42.9 + 70,9 4* 4.2 + 30.3 + 14.9 Hb 76,7 12.1 + 38.3 + 26.8 Product groups with improved balance of trade are Irt color tootlar figures in minions. Source: U.3. P#et. of Comm:) 28 CHEMICAL WEEK September 10, 1966  An End to 7% Credit? * otit!ttng organization1 Congress may write a swift end to the 7% tax credit for new business investments, a law that has notably reduced ILS, business te e s --possibly $% billion on %(* federal income tax returns. About half of that amount will go to manufacturing industries, among which the eheaikal industry and the primary metals producers at about Si 40 million and $115 mil lion, respectively -- arc expected to get the largest shares. Such an abrupt tax law change this laic in the CangrcssJonal session was deemed most unlikely only a few weeks ago: but now important Ad ministration officials consider suspen sion of the investment credit "a live possibility." Gardner Ackley, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors, is believed to be poshing the measure; and even Treasury Secretary Henry Powder up to now the Cabinet's strongest advocate of keeping the credit -- is said to be reconsidering. The President Ponders: President Johnson himself has been trying to size op the pros and cons. A White House call for tax credit repeal -- as an an-intlatiod move -- would as Three-n-One Division sure Us quick passage. If Johnson takes a hands-off attitude, Congress may end the tax credit on its own. Last week Allied Chemical Carp. under Executive Vice-President Irb Late last week Senator Russel! Long fM up an Industrial Chemical* Di Pooshec (chart, above), iD,, Lab -- chairman of the Senate vision by consolidating three former Fooshee promised customers that Finance Committee and majority whip divisions that for many yea had been the new division "will offer al! of the -- tacked onto the House-passed for hotter known'among buyers of indus research, production and commercial eign investors tax, hilt a ruler n> repeat trial chemicals than Allied itself. functions previously provided by the the lax credb. His amendment would Merged into the big new division, whose '66 sales will probably exceed $500 million: General Chemical, Sol three separate divisions." It will take over major plants at Syracuse and Buffalo, N X ; Elizabeth, N.J.; East deny the 7rl- tax deductions for ali capita! equipment ordered after Aug. 30 and for ai! items not delivered !>v vay Process and National Aniline di St, Louis, 111.; Moundsville, W, Va.; next Jan. I. The senator pirns to visions, They were descended from three of the five companies that merged J 1920 to form Allied Chem Baton Rouge, La,; Ei Segundo and Nichols, Calif,; and the new chlorinecaustic facility at Acme, N.C. speed the measure through his com mittee and onto the Senate rtooi, where it's likely to pass easily, ical & Dye Corp., as it was known In another organizational move last l>ise<Miriiig Spending; The fate of until '58, The new division will be headed by 63-year-oid Vincent Suellau, who has been with Allied since the company was formed and who had been presi dent of the General Chemical Divi week, James Prendergast was named president of Allied's Nitrogen Divi sion, largest U.S. producer of anhy drous ammonia and derivatives, Prendergast --- who was born in Victoria, B.C., in "20, and served In the loyal the proposai in the House of Repre sentatives is iess certain; it is almost entirely in the hand or Ways <t Means Committee Chairman Wilbur Mills iD,, Ark.I, who so far has not aired bis views on the matter. sion for the past three years. Its head Canadian Air Force during World But even if she repeal rider is re quarters will be at Allied's corporate research .and development facility in Morris Township, N.J,; and initially it will employ about 14,000, Allied's Biggest: Industrial Chem icals, Allied's largest division, will be one of the two operating divisions War W-- wilt continue as president of the Barrett Division, a post he has held the past three years, As Nitrogen Division president, he succeeds George Meredith, who wilt retire at the end ol December after nearly 40 years a,s an Allied executive, jected by the Moose, Long seems to feel that the action he will generate in the Seriate will be enough to coo! business spending decisions. One political angle; congressmen up for re-election could pomt to re peal as *a blow at price rises. S ep tem b er 10, 1966 CHEMICAL WEEK 29 f Conoco'* McCollum: Carrying out hi* big oil*go-coaf'chomical morgen Selling Subsidiaries Next week Chairman JL, F* McCol lum of Continental 00 expects to car ry out his loBf-debyei merger with Consolidation Coal Co. Shareholders last week voted almost unanimous ap proval of the transaction -- Consol by 93,4% f Conoco by 99,2%, Conoco will thereby add Pitt-Con- sol Chemical Co. (Newark, N J.) to its expanding chemical operations. Piif-Consol, major producer of eresol and cresyitc acids, will be run as part of Conoco** new Consolidation Coal subsidiary. But Cornel's 50% stock holdings in two other chemical process ventures are to he sold off. Its stake in Na tional Potash Co. and in Mountaineer Carbon Co, will be offered to the other parent companies -- Freeport Sulphur Co. and Standard Oil Co. of Ohio, respectively. Asked about conjecture that Consol would offer those shares to its own stockholders, in the event that Freeport and Sohlo were unwilling to buy, a Consol spokesman told CW they will "defi nitely not" be offered. While Sohlo would not comment on possible acquisition of Consol's half of Mountaineer, a Freeport spokes man acknowledges that his company would be the "logical candidate" for the potash stock, Trade sources, on the other hand, say both Freeport and Sohlo are "negotiating" with Consol and will continue to do so. These sources predict that those transac tions will be wrapped up soon. Preparing Antitrust Appeal General Dynamics calls divestiture order `unjustified"; I/.S. lauds reciprocity ruling General Dynamics Corp, (New York) lawyers are studying last week's federal district court decision ordering the company to divest its Liquid Car bonic Division (Chicago). GD calls the decision unjustified, says it has ``every intention of contesting it vigorously," In a 98-page decision, the court ruled that GD's *57 acquisition of Liq uid Carbonic violates Section 7 of the Clayton Antitrust Act (which deals with lessening of competition and creation of monopolies) and Section 1 of the Sherman Act (which deals with restraint of trade). GD was given 60 days by Judge John Cannella to sub mit a plan for divestiture. The decision is based on a '62 suit filed by the Justice Dept., alleging that GD used its buying power and its authority to award defense subcon tracts to coerce other companies to purchase carbon dioxide and other in dustrial gases from Liquid Carbonic, Justice contended that GD's special sales and trade relations programs were actually restrictive agreements with suppliers and contractors, The suit sought to make GD discontinue the programs and also forbid it from acquiring any other carbon dioxide producing companies (CW, Nov, 17, '62, p, 45). One key point of the government's argument was rejected by Judge Can* nella. This was the charge that GD's agreements with suppliers were illegal because the company had, either by "leverage" or "mutual patronage," persuaded the suppliers to buy from Liquid Carbonic, It was the first time a court had been asked to rule on a "reciprocity" question. Lessening of Competition? In the opinion, Judge Cannella found that reciprocity, whether coercive in nature or based on mutual patronage, is an anticompetitive practice. Question; Did the reciprocity made possible by the General DynamicsLiquid Carbonic merger give rise to the probability that a substantial les sening of competition would occur? The court found that at the time of merger both parties had the intent to use GD's purchasing power to secure sales for Liquid Carbonic, `Not-So-Subtle Hints': The opinion made it clear that the supply contracts j contained no express terms requiring I reciprocal dealing. But Judge C/annella [ listed several instances in which GD j officials dropped not-so-subtle hints j to its carbon-dioxide-consuming sup- 1 pliers. Among them; .Raytheon, Tran- j sitron Electronics, Shell Oil, Standard J Oil of California, Sylvania Electronic 1 Products and Midiand-Ross. The Judge said such "hack scratch- iog" was "inimical to a competitive economic society." However, he said, s the government had proved that the 1 agreements accounted for only $177,- ! 225 in purchases from Liquid Car- ' bon and this wasn't enough to violate j the Sherman act. Justice Dept, officials were "well pleased" with the decision and only "slightly disturbed" by Canneila's re- = fasal to outlaw the agreements them selves, In their view, the judge was putting "a heavy burden of proof" on the government, but (hey felt that fu* : ture prosecution could be adjusted and i reciprocal agreements would be held illegal. IT this happens, it would sen- ; ously threaten the now-common prac- | rice of "you-buy-from-tne, I'll-buy- ; from-you" mutual patronage. History of Litigation: In '48 the Federal Trade Commission issued a cease-and-desist order against Liquid Carbonic, prohibiting it from price | fixing, predatory pricing to eliminate competitors, and dividing territories with competitors. Also in '48 the Jus- ; rice Dept, filed suit charging that Li quid Carbonic conspired to restrain trade in the carbon dioxide market. < At the time of its acquisition Liquid ; Carbonic held 35-40% of the carbon dioxide market. It was the largest domestic producer and distributor of gaseous, liquid and solid C 0 2. Its '56 sales totaled $35 million--about SIS million from carbon dioxide, Since the acquisition General Dynamics lias not made public the division's financial results. The company acquired Liquid Carbonic through an exchange ol stock, valued at about $58 million. 30 CHEMICAL WEEK September 10, 1966 Biding Herd on Mergers? Members of the 21aatfoa Organ!* zation (or Economic Cooperation and lisrdopinenfs restrictive pntetie committee nuty 'be asked this M l to endorse a proposal fla t would create 8 international agency designed "to ride herd" on mergers, cartels, Joint vestures and other combinations that aiiglit lessen world competition. The proposal was made by Senator Philip Hart (D,, Mich,), chairman of the Senate Antitrust Subcommittee, who feels that the number of links between 11$. and foreign firms may be excessive. He sees the trend as a menace, worries because no govern ment agency is keeping track of the combination*, let alone protecting the public interest He has urged the State and Justice Depts. and Federal Trade Commission to support his .plan at OECD's meet ing, The officiate of these agencies say they will consider the proposals, are otherwise noncommittal. Mean while, some members of Hart's staff think the OECD group may be too large to effectively deal with the issue, that a smaller unit--possibly includ ing the six-nation European Economic Community (EEC), Britain, Canada and the U.S.--may be more suitable. Rough Idea; Hart's agency would be the first'step toward such protection. Senator Hart; Soob Administration support for global antitrust agency. He doesn't have all the specific ironed out, but he docs offer some rough ideas: The agency would establish an of fice staffed by antitrust experts from several countries, who would act as a clearinghouse for information not now collected, It might have investigatory powers, but not powers to" prosecute; it could, however, rtcommend actions to the respective governments in volved. Adding impetus to Hart's proposals was new evidence submitted by FTC showing that the 50 largest U.S. In dustrial concerns have acquired at least 177 foreign companies since '60. In Western Europe alone these com panies since '58 have established 92 joint ventures and bought 78 foreign companies. FTC Chairman Paul Rand Dixon says U,S. investment abroad in recent years has outstripped private invest ment here. He refers to these statis tics to rebut long-standing company charges that harsh enforcement of U.S, antitrust laws cut off Investment opportunities abroad.- "Rather than being hampered by our antitrust laws," Dixon adds, "U.S. firms have been expanding abroad at a faster rate than they have been ex panding here. These expansions have reportedly been so great that several foreign governments are fostering mergers among their companies to offset the size of American operations within their country," CMIienfiiti International Unions*. Hart has pressed the Justice Dept, on why it hasn't challenged more inter national combinations. (Latest gov ernment suits in the international sphere were filed two years ago. One, still pending, challenges the joint ven ture of Monsanto and West Germany's Farbenfabriken Bayer, establishing Mobay, the largest U.S. producer of isocyanates.) Justice Dept, spokesman Edwin Zimmerman refuses to concede that the government is being soft on inter national combines, He notes that Jus tice has closely studied several big deals---e.g,, GE-Bull-Olivetti, RCASiemens, CKrysier-Simca-Rootes--but these didn't have the anticompetitive consequences that would add up to a violation of U.S. laws. Fisher Scientific's Fisher; Ready to serve fast-growing research martel. Growing with R&D Chemical and plmrraaceutkal re search will be growing at a mueh faster rate than the gross national product during the next few years, Chairman Aiken Fisher of Fisher Sci entific Co. (Pittsburgh) predicted hi an appearance before the New York Society of Security Analysts. Annual research and development expenditures hy ail U.S. industry will rise by more than 20% by '69, ac cording to Fisher's projections, and medical research outlays will climb at about the same rate. Number of trained young men and women available to carry on the chem ical research work wifi probably in crease still faster. Fisher presented a chart showing a 40% gain between '66 and '69 in number of four-year degrees f he awarded in chemistry by U. S, colleges and universities, This would mean rapid growth in at! the major markets served hy Fish er's company, which produces and distributes laboratory equipment and reagent chemicals for industry, hos pitals, schools, etc. Another ma jor product line: process control in struments. At present, industrial customers ac count for about 50% f the company's sales volume. Fisher expects this part of the business to grow, hut predicts that the rate of growth will he greater in other areas -- e.g., university la boratories, hospital diagnostic ami re search laboratories. He estimates his company's '66 sales at more than $63 million -- up about 10% from '65, Ssptember 10, 1966 CHEMICAL WEEK 31 Taking Giant Steps Two chemical- proms companies took giant steps toward diversifying into the oceanography field last week, and two paper companies with com bined sides of nearly I I billion/year reached a tentative agreement to merge, (!) Bcndix Corp, fDetroit) ex panded Its oceanic activities by ac quiring for an undisclosed amount of stock Marine Advisers (La lolls, Calif,), producer of oceanographic in struments for petroleum and utility companies, state and federal agencies, and firms engaged in scientific pro grams. (2) Fluor Corp, (Los Angeles) and B, L, McFariand and Associates (Fort Worth and Midland, Tex.), a group of five companies involved in offshore and onshore drilling opera tions, have agreed to merge, subject to stockholders' approval. The Mc Farland group operates five offshore drilling rigs in the Gulf of Mexico, (3) A tentative agreement lo merge has been reached fey 0,5, Plywood Corp, (New York) and Champion Papers, Inc, (Hamilton, O.). It Is sub ject to both directors' and stockhold ers' approval, The corporate identities of both companies will be preserved. Redyeing G as Rates The Federal Power Commission has ordered El Paso Natural Gas Co, and Transwestern Pipeline Co. to reduce by $17 milllon/year the price of na tural gas in the southern California market. The rate cut stems from the July 26 decision in which FPC turned down the application of Gulf Pacific Pipeline Co. (a' Tcnneco subsidiary) to supply gas to the Los Angeles area (CW , Aug. 6, p. 20). Gulf Pacific last week filed for a rehearing. 11 Paso and , Transwestern were told they would have to lower their rates to reflect the tower costs result ing from the bigger deliveries pos sible in the expanded system, At the same time, FPC said it would conduct further proceedings to decide if cus tomers should get additional benefits resulting from more liberal deprecia tion allowances, FPC has given the companies 45 days to show cause why the reduction should not take place. Enure o f a irb o rn e a sb e sto s ' Asbestos-lined ducts used in centrally air-conditioned buildings. Asbestos ducts and insulation in home central-heating plant. ; Motor vehicle brake linings and clutch plates. Auto undercoating*. Asbestos ceiling and floor tiles. Asbestos shingles and sidings, Construction and demolition Fitting, cutting, and removing asbfestps*filM wallboarts and floorings, piping and insulation. Incineration of asbestos-filled scrap. Improperly filtered effluent from asb6$im:pmmming .plants. Asbestos: Awaiting `Trial' The asbestos industry--whose end products are valued at more than $500 mlttkm/year---aiay he it for a shakeup, It could come in the form of federal togfetstto limiting the use of asbestos, because asbestos has been ac cused--though not yet "convicted"-- as a significant health hazard, Prob able contender for asbestos markets; plastics, Recent studies have convinced U.S. Public Health Service specialists and other medical authorities that about 40% of all Americans have mild, chronic cases of aabestosis, even though most of them never worked directly with asbestos. Unlike other airborne dust panicles, asbestos fibers have the ability-- al most as much as activated carbon -- to absorb polycyclic hydrocarbons and arsenical*. Furthermore, says USPHS, in the past 30 years the as bestos-related cancer rate . has in creased sixfold. The Inferences; While the average asbestos worker is well protected, the man on the street is not. The 3x1micron asbestos fibers in his lungs can come from a variety of sources (table, above). And medical experts say there's no way to assess hydrocarbon content in those lung deposits. American Cancer Society research ers fee) certain there is a synergistic relationship among airborne asbestos, smoking and lung cancer. They reason that the nondegradablc, hydrocarbonsoaked fibers may well be a constant source of lung Irritation, PHS officials think it may take them up to five years to 'establish asbestos* true role as aa air pollutant. However. Congress may act before the research is finished. Says Repre sentative Robert Watkins (R,, Pa,): "We've seen enough evidence al ready, Asbestos will never get a clean bill of health, With just a little more data we'll move for controls ami strict ones." Some form of asbestos control is In the offing, public health officials are certain, if only par! of a larger clean-ambient-air program. However, there is the danger that Congress may enact rigorous controls on the quanti ty of asbestos that could be used, In that case both Canada and U.S. asbestos products mamifaciurers would be hard hit, Of the five forms of asbestos mined today, chrysotlk asbestos holds the predominant mar ket position because of its insulat ing and processing qualities. Canada produces more than 80% of the chrysotile asbestos used in the U.S, In both countries, a number o f serious dislocations would occur, At present, there is no known ma terial that could fill all of asbestos' strategic roles. On the other hand, should federal controls merely call for Wglter standards for binders ami shtelditigs, that would spark a rise of new products, with plastics taking the lead. Reason, say industry spokesmen, present polymer technology could easily turn up products to replace os hestos in most end-uses. 3 2 CHEMICAL WEEK September 10, 1966 WASHINGTON Newsletter C H IM iC A l W IBC S I P T iM ili 10, I f #6 President "Great Society* legislation is at stake la Novem bers elections. As Is normal in an off-year election, the Democrats, as the parly in power, expect to suffer some losses in the House. The question is how many. They hold a two-to-one majority in the 89th Congress and can suffer some losses without losing effective control ol the legislative machinery. Democrats now hold 63 marginal House scats, some won by less than a 5% margin in *64, Republicans must win back 38 seats just to come up to the minority balance they held in the 88th Congress, And most analysts don't expect them to pick up more than 30 seats, despite unrest over Viet nam, inflation and civil tights troubles. This still would leave the President a good legislative margin, The outlook for Republican gains In the Senate Is even dimmer. Many house Democrats are vulnerable because they now will be running with out the coattail advantage of Johnson's landslide victory two years ago. But the senators up for re-election won their seats in '60 when the late President John F. Kennedy and Richard M. Nixon split the vote, Private patents w it be almost impossible to get under provisions of the new auto s a i ^ Jss^iltion ^ contract section. The House and Senate have agreed to language providing for public ownership of inventions if the governments contribution is "substantial," Senator Russell Long (D,, La.) is trying to tack such a provision to all research and development legislation so long as there is no government-wide policy in this field, The proposed Dept, of Transportation may b headed up a dead-end street in Congress, The House last week approved creation of the 12th Cabinet-level department*---but only after considerable gutting. And its fate in the Senate is uncertain, tied to how long the bitter civil rights battle will run, , Even if created, the department would have no role in approv ing rates, mergers of competitive practices. These still would be left to the Interstate Commerce Commlsion, Civil Aeronautics Board and Federal Mari time Administration, The Maritime Administration is out of the proposed de partment completely. And the House eliminated a proposal that would have authorized the'Secretary of Transportation to lay down standards for evalu ating federal-aid program, Thbre is little doubt that the department will come into being one of these years. While if will start with little actual authority. It can bo ex pected to lead a fight in Congress for changes in regulatory laws to give it more power, S3 WASHINGTON Newsletter Gm pipeline safety bill now seems fairly certain of winning '^arT The Senate Commerce Committee, has Opened hearings on a bill that would give the Federal Power Commission authority to set safety standards for pipelines,, a move that interstate pipe lines have resisted for years, There is no chance of the hill winning Con gressional approval this year. But observers predict that it will be passed in 567. # ' Automotive air-poilution 'controls for large vehicles operating either on gasoline or diesel fuel, are under consideration by federal officials. Controls so far are limited essentially to passenger cars and light commercial vehicles, They become effective as ears roll off die assembly line in the fall h f '61, The Public Health Service now js seeking methods of setting stand ards for oxides of nitrogen, not now covered, and of extending carbon monoxide and exhaust hydrocarbon standards to trucks and buses-- along with an initial round of controls on diesels, Under consideration are such '.possible solutions, as catalytic mufflers and fuel additives. A proposal 'along these lines is expected early next year. * Doctors inpst get written consent from patients before trying any experim enfti^ro5^5^toTuiteTM new ~ruiH lssm d^yT Food & Drug Com missioner James L. Goddard., A -consent requirement has been in the law - since !62, but Goodard feels that some loopholes needed closing. A recent survey by the pharmaceutical Manufacturers Assn, disclosed that $-% of physicians never comply and 30% do not always comply. The new rules limit exceptions to emergencies, cases where the patient can't communicate or understand the situation, or instances where the information would affect the patient's condition, # Project Mohole Is being closed -oat. The National Science Founda tion's $ 12f^oSSwra^ ; (1) to drill a hole through the earth's crust to try to learn, more about the earth's origin. (2) to teach the oil industry more about deep ocean drilling. But the House decided that the nation could do without the project and refused to bow to Senate efforts to retain the programs. The Science Foundation now has begun closing out its contract with Brown and Root Inc. ('Houston), the prime contractor. The project has been replete with controversy since its conception in the mid- 'SOs. Original cost estimates have risen from $15 million. The 25% nickel set-aside for milfery production, ordered by the government in August, has been extended through September by the Business & Defense Services Administration. There still is some disruption of the nickel market from the recent Canadian -wildcat strike. If the disruption doesn't clear up by the, end of September, BDSA undoubtedly will extend the set-aside again. (Also see Market Newsletter, p, 79.) 34 CHEMICAL WEEK S eptem ber 10. 1986 From plant model to model plant FPnlmm ...<)/ N i t C i > '-ft-': - ' V; , , \, -ft , / /\v ; ;. Stdelnu. .'.V, fiJ w ft,,,? s', ! ` f. U8* HSO} W eatherly's breakthrough in Urea plant design m akes t possible to build plant's for the sim ultaneous m onufac ta rin g of Urea, Nitric Acid, Am m onium Nitrate. UA 32 and other Nitrogen Solutions, it's unique, it's more eco nomical too. W eatherly's design offers more fe rtilize r at less co st per tort through low initial cost, higher ammonia conversion, and lower operating labor c o s t W eatherly's fully automated process utilizes urea off-gas for the n itric a cid plan t and am m onium nt- trate neutralizer. C a p a c itie s of 20 to 1000 tons I per day. fo r more information on this com- k ? plete, com pact W eatherly nitrogen com plex, ft I write, wire or phone Area Code 404 355-5323, M T h e D, M . W e a th e rly Company Eng.mmts Budd^rs * ISI 9 Podtchtrec , MC.5Atlanta. Georgia 30aOc Aerofab ventilated vinyl breathes life into cushions <gs (stays young itself because of Admex plasticizers) In Aerofab vinyl fabric by Southbridge Plastics, 6 4 4 tiny air v e n ts per sq. ft. actually "breathe" to provide air con ditioned comfort. No trapped air. No tearin g or pop-outs. Aerofab ventilated vinyl is designed to spend much of its life outdoors, rain or shine. It must have light stability, flexi bility in cold w eather, and easy wash- ability, T hese are only a handful of the virtues an Admex plasticizer can buiid into a vinyl product. Do you have a problem with vinyls? Get in touch with ADM Chem icals, as the Southbridge Plastics people did. It fig ures th a t the leader in vinyl plasticizers can help. r , . , . *Aefolafe is a tradern. rk of Soulttbridge Plastics, Dsv , W, ft, Grace V Co, m m C H E M IC A L S AJtCH* m%'<ANO 7S3* A 8(3UTff &V*MdT> &L' ft vb 6 3 6 CHEMICAL WEEK S ep tem b er 10, 1966 | NATIONAL ROUNDUP I i Grow Chemical acquires U.S. Paint; j. Petrolfte enters Humble's complex j Grow Chorale) Coif. (New York) has bought 1J.S, Paint & Lacquer (St. Louis) for 84,000 shares of Grow common and about $600,000 worth of preferred stock. The purchase of the protective coatings maker is the second of three planned acquisitions. Cello Chew!! (Baltimore) was acquired in July and negotiations are under way to buy Farhefl Co. (Baltimore), (Recent I price of Grow shares: $12.50.) 1 Petrolic Corp, (New York) has purchased an 85- s acre site in Humble Oi & Refining Cods Bayport, 1 Tex,, industrial development, Petrolite is the sixth land owner on the 7,250-acre property on Galveston Bay, S 25 miles southeast of Houston. Other site owners are Lockheed, Reteloff Chemical Corp,, Shaffer Tool Works, Haldor Topsoe, and American Cryogenics, Dow adds to Ohio site; Stromberg-Carlson to market microfilm Dow Chemical Co, (New York) has acquired an ad ditional 279 acres in Belmont County, Ohio, which I brings its holdings in the area to more than 500 acres, j Other land holdings--'which lie over what experts j believe to be major salt deposits--were acquired in two j previous purchases. 1 awteg4)aEEltt (Rochester, N.Y.)--a General I Dynamics subsidiary--will market microfilm produced | by Kefir Corp. (New Orleans, La.). Stromberg-Carlson J Data Products Division (San Diego) will manage the distribution of Kelvar's microfilm aperture cards and duplicating equipment, I Abbott acquires Faultless Rubber; Fulton and Producers Cotton Oil merge The boards of Abbott Laboratories (North Chicago) i and Faultless Robber Co. (Ashland, O.) have ratified an agreement providing for the acquisition of ail Fault less assets for 110,554 Abbott common shares, And Abbott has reached an agreement in principle with Air Control (Norristown, Pa,), a subsidiary of NiariO0al-Aewttcal Corp. (Fort Washington, Pa,) lor the exclusive distribution of Air Control's laminar air flow filtration hoods. The merger of Fulton Industries (Atlanta, Ga.) and Producers Cotton CHI Co. (Fresno, Calif.) has been ap proved by the directors of both companies (CW, Aug, 20, p, 32), Terms of the agreement, subject to stock holders' approval: exchange of three-quarters share of Fulton common and 0.14 shares of new Fulton preferred for each share of Producers common stock. In all, Ful- ton will exchange 834,447 shares of common and 155,763 shares of new preferred for 1,112,596 shares of Producers common stock. (Recent price of Fulton common: $12,75.) Purex increases quarterly dividend; Pioneer omits dividend Purex Corp. (Lakewood, Calif.) has increased its quarterly dividend from 16s* to 17(/share, and has declared a 2% common stock dividend. Pioneer Plastic# Corp, (Auburn, Me.) is omitting its regular quarterly 5/share dividend to conserve capital for completion of Pioneer's recent move to a larger plant in Auburn, Me., and to install new equipment. Glidden plans $4-million R&D center; Shell dedicates $75-rmllkm light oil complex The GiftMen Co, (Cleveland) will construct a $4million research center in Strongsville, O,, which will house all the research and development activities of its Ceafittp and Resins and Durkee Foods groups. The company has an option on a 30-acre site, subject to rezoning of the property, if rezoiting is approved, Glidden says it will begin construction by June '67, with com pletion scheduled for Aug. '68. The Coatings and Resins and Dnrkee Foods groups account for about 80% of the company's annual sales. Sales for fiscal '66 (which ends Aug. 31) are expected to total about $345 million. The company's R&D and technical service expenditures for fiscal '66: about $8 million. Shed OD Co. (New York) has dedicated its $75million light oil processing complex at Martinez, Calif. The addition increases the capacity of the Martinez re finery by 55% , brings Its capacity to 85,000 htals./riay, Atlantic Richfield builds coke facility; Fluor Corp. awarded refinery contract Atlantic Richfield (Philadelphia) is building a $1.2million petroleum coke storage and handling facility at Long Beach, Calif., for overseas shipments. The unit -- to be completed about April '67-- is designed to accumulate coke in quantities sufficient to load 10,0001$,000-*o cargoes for Japan and Europe. Product will come from a new, 1,200-tons/day coking unit nearing completion at the company's Watson refinery. Powerine Oil Co. has awarded a $10-million mod ernization and expansion contract at its Santa Fe Springs, Calif., refinery to Fluor Corp. (Los Angeles). Construction will begin later this year and is scheduled for completion to the summer of '67. September 10, 1966 CHEMICAL WEEK 3 7 NATIONAL ROUNDUP g Sun lets contract for gasoline plant; Texaco markets automobile filters Sun Oil Co. '(Dallas) has contracted with Austin Rankin Corp. to design and construct $ 1.5-million addi tion to its natural gasoline processing plant in Fremont, Tex. Construction will begin in September. Texaco {New York) is marketing its own brand of automotive filters at- 40,000 Texaco retail outlets. The new filter line complies with requirements for nearly all American-made automobiles. Monsanto triples squestrant capacity; Carbide expands methyl isobutyJ ketone Monsanto Co. (St. Louis) will begin work immedi ately, at its Everett, Mass., plant, to triple manufacturing capacity of Deques!, a phosphorus-based deflocculatiag and sequestering agent. T he expansion, th second since the product's introduction in. *64, will be completed by early fall. Dequest is used for sequestering a wide range of metal ions-- e,g,, calcium, magnesium, copper, iron and aluminum. The product is also used in bottle washing, metal cleaning, rubber compounding, textile and food processing and for d ay deflocculating. Union Carbide will increase methyl isobutyl ketone capacity by more than 20 million lbs,'/year. The expan sion will be completed in first-quarter '67. Cost and plant sites were not disclosed, Carbide says the increase is required to provide for the expanding needs of cus tomers in the protective coatings, rubber, pharmaceu tical and plastics industries. Three companies offer debentures for financing expansion programs Three chemical process companies have filed prelimi nary registration statements with the Securities & Ex change Commission for convertible subordinated debentures, proceeds of which will be used for capital expenditures programs, (1) Standard Oil Co. (Indiana) has filed for $175 million in debentures due Sept. 15, '91, with about $150 million earmarked for expansions. The company's estimated '66 expenditures: $460 million. Breakdown: production, 53%; manufacturing, 2 3 % ; marketing, 20% ; transportation and other, 4% . Standard will com plete construction this year of a 400-million-lbs./year dimethyl tercphthalatc and purified terephthalic acid plant at Decatur, Ala,, and a 225-million-lbs,/year p a m -x y ltm plant at Texas City, Tex. Also under con struction at Texas City: a 1,500-tons/day anhydrous ammonia unit, scheduled for completion in '68. (2) Aluminum Co. of America filed for a $125-mil- 38 CHEMICAL WEEK September 10, 1966 lion offering of convertible subordinated debentures due in '91. Through '6$ Alcoa will spend $780 million ; expanding and modernizing its facilities. Expansions | now under way atEvansville, Ind., Badin, N.C., and J Wenatchee, Wash., will increase the company's domes- - tic primary aluminum production capacity to over 1.1 j million tons/year, ; Other expansions: an integrated aluminum complex and related power facilities at Surinam, South America; 'j facilities to fabricate sheet, plate and foil (including a f new foil mill at Lebanon, Pa.); and a caustic chlorine : plant at Point Comfort, Tex, (3) Mitron Research & Development Corp, (Wal tham, Mass,) filed for a $1-million offering of 6% con- vertible subordinated debentures due in '76. About one- j, fourth o f the 'proceeds will be used to further develop | Mitron's titanium casting and molding processes and i the company's ceramic fiber-cast metal composites f process. 1 About $100,000 will be used to disci ge bank loans ) of Rode, Ik *., a wholly owned subsidiary and $50,000 g as a loan to Rode for working capital. The balance will be used for general corporate purposes. j AHis-Chalmers supplies equipment to Airco; Hercules increasing methanol capacity j A I M e l m w has signed a $I.,7-miIiion contract to supply equipment to Air Reduction Co.'s (New York) $24-miliion complex in Hancock County, West Yir- ; ginia. The complex---an air-separation plant and a weld ing wire p lan t-w ill utilize two Allis-Chalmers 17,000- hp. main air compression systems and a 10,000-hp. nitrogen cycle compressor. Hercules (Wilmington, Del.) will increase methanol capacity at its Hercules, Calif., plant by about 15 mil lion gal./year. The expansion, to be completed in lute f '66, is being made by conversion of ammonia produc- f tion facilities, Work will begin immediately, r i Consumer's Co-op changes name; i Gardner, Almo build helium unit Consumer' Cooperative Assn, (Kansas City) is changing its name to Farmland Industries effective L Sept. 1. The new name is intended to be more de-scrip- j) live of the company's activities and services, suggesting | agricultural ownership and industrial character. ' Gardner Cryogenic* Corp. (Higittstown, N.J.) and Almo Chemical Co.---wholly owned subsidiary of Phillips Petroleum Co.-- plan to construct a jointly owned helium extraction and liquefaction plant near J Elkhart, Kan. Scheduled for completion in fail of '66, | the plant will process 385,000 c u it./day of high-purity (99,95%) helium gas, ! ' op CHEMIICAL^ P O W E R j Helping you meet the challenge of marketing change 1 Y **-.** i * * y : i t ' %***v4~* . 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IN PROCESS PLANT: Corfam packing end seals are out tor equipment market held by leather and rubber goods. Corfam Steps into the Plant New materlaPa durability adds to life of se als and tackings in pumps, other equipment Coriant, Du Font's leather-like ure thane-polyester composite, which has been winning a market as a shoe upper iCW, May /, '65, p, 45), now has its foot in the door of the chemical plant. Its promise: improved durability, lough ness and flexibility in packing and scaling applications for process equipment. It has already won a job in an East Coast detergent plant as a packing in ceramic plunger pumps, which arc used for highly abrasive detergent slurries. Where ordinary vee rings made of neoprene and duck had to be replaced every two or three days be cause of excessive wear. Corfum vee rings are replaced after one or two months of service, Moreover, Cor fam rings do not show excessive wear, are replaced as part of a regular proventive-tnaintcnancc program. Corfam is being tested wills excellent results as a packing and seal mate rial in a paint plant for water-, ketoneor acetate-based paints. It is used in plunger pumps for fire-resistant hy- drauiic fluids {water- or oil-based) in metal processing plants--in one case, increasing packing life from about a week (with neoprene) to five months. And tests now under way at Du Pom's engineering laboratories show that Corfam will make an excellent scaling material for rotary shafts (for example, centrifugal pump shafts), Stepping In; Du Font's Kenneth Johnson, product manager of indus trial fabrics sales, does not see Cor fam`s industrial sales rivaling Its mar ket in shoes and consumer products. And in the industrial'sales area, auto motive seals could well turn out to be a larger market than plant process equipment. But there Is no question that plant process equipment will be gin to take a portion of Corfam's p ro duction if more potential users have the good results from it that the pio neer users have had. The same properties that make it attractive shoe material -- durabil ity. toughness and flexibility--arc main reasons for its success in industrial trials so far. And Du Pont has added to these props, rtics by impregnating Use Corfam with other materials. in fact, ``straight" Corfam hasn't been used industrially, and probably won't he be cause the Impregnated material has improved properties, 'according to Johnson. Du Pont describes Corfam as a coriaceous (1 ugh, leatherlikci poromeric material. It h a nomvovui sheet of urethane polymer base reinforced with polyester. The sheet contains fi bers deposited in a random manner and held together with a hinder to ob tain uniform strength In all directions. Each cubic inch of sheet contains mil lions of pores that can be saturated with elastomers, resins and waxes. 1 he sheet may also he coated. The first material Du Pont has am! for impregnating Dor fain is Adtptene, its urelhattc-hased elastomer, which has good resistance to abrasion, oil, fuel, weather and ozone. In addition Adiprenc has good tensile strength, high load-bearing and elongation ca pacities. When vulcanized, ft remains flexible at temperatures below -80 F and retains hardness and strength at temperatures u> 250 F, ft also has good S e p tem b er 10, 1966 CHEMICAL WEEK 43 p r o d u c t io n TRICHLOROETHYLENE TEXTILE SCOURING EXTRACTION METAL DEGREASING {Conforms to Federal Specifications) GRADES contact your heal distributor C H E M IC A L MANUFACTURING ; come. 444 Marti Ave,, Hm York, N. Y,, J022 moisture and steam resistance, proper ties not often found in other urethanes. When impregnated with the ure thane elastomer, the Corfam substrate becomes stronger and is no longer permeable, Durability Tests; Du Poofs En gineering Test Center carried out tests with packing cups of Adiprene-impregnated Corfam on pistons that were reciprocated in cylinders contain ing mineral oil and water-oil emulsions to determine wear as it might be found in applications of hydraulic packing. In honed cylinders, Corfam packing outlasted other materials, such as im pregnated leathers and neoprene-coat ed duck, and gave indications that rougher cylinder walls might be used, reducing the cylinder finishing opera tions. In general, leather packings are lim ited to cylinders with 64-roicromch roughness and rubber to those with 32-microinch roughness, Corfam out lasted other materials by as much as three to one in cylinders of 35-40-mic roinch roughness and as much as 1? to one in cylinders of 90-100-inicroinch roughness. Moreover, the Corfam packing cups honed the cylinders, reduced the roughness as much as 25% after 1 million cycles. But Du Pont cautions that extensive field tests should be run to confirm the laboratory results. The hydraulic cylinder tests were run at 3,000 psi,, indicating that the Corfam seals can probably withstand higher dynamic pressures. And in stat ic pressure tests, Corfam has witfo stood pressures above 5,000 psi. In general, Corfam h similar to other reinforced packings where the sub strate prevents excessive extruding and blowing out at high pressures, Cess Drag: Most engineers express concern about "breakaway" force and friction when considering any new seal for rotating shafts. And often the seals must be coated to reduce friction, en able shafts to be started without too much effort, Du Pont says that no problems have been encountered with Corfam seals that have been impreg nated with Adtprenc, which has a low coefficient of friction. It has also ex perimented with silicone coatings and suggests Teflon coatings could help keep operating temperature down in addition to reducing startup torque. But Robert Phelps, Sr,, president A& CHEMICAL WEEK S eo tem b er 10, 1966 of Phelps Packing & Rubber Co,, Inc, (Baltimore), indicates that Adiprene-impregnated Corfam may be more than satisfactory. Phelps, which probably has sold more Corfam pack ing and seals for industrial applica tions than any other packing supplier, makes hydraulic seals of 24,5-in. in side diameter for machines that cut large metai parts. These machines which hold the work stationary, ro tate the cutting wheel at high speed, had been using graphite-impregnated neoprene. But the Adiprene-impregnated Corfam seals produced for less drag. Phelps adds that Corfatn's tensile and tear strengths and good elonga tion properties have helped its use as diaphragms in 150-psi. air service, re placing nylon and neoprene. C m t Savings: Cost comparisons with other materials are difficult to make. For example, leather costs are rising, and very thick or very thin sheets of leather often cost more than sheets of intermediate thickness. Moreover, it is not possible to make direct comparisons of many seal mate rials because different thicknesses, de pending on the material, may be used for the same seal application. Do Pont lists Adiprcne-impregnated Corfam prices at $3,05-1,50 /sq it, depending on quantity and thicknesses ordered. Corfam may cost more than twice m much as other sheet packings. However, Phelps Packing says that 50% more would be a better figure for most applications. And, when serv ice life of Corfam may be 20 times longer, the higher initial cost may not be significant. But Corfam will not be the answer to ah packing and seal problems. For example, Corfam has not been tested in many chemical environments, may not be superior to some of the rubbercoaled and homogenous-rubber mate rials already being used. And Teflon, despite cold-flow and permanent-set problems, has superior chemical and temperature resistance. Also, Cor fam cannot be made into a braided packing, although sheet forms might replace braided packing in some ap plications. Moreover, in many cases the lessexpensive packing and seal materials do a satisfactory job But where more durable packings and seals are needed, Corfam will rate a trial. if #y#-tppel didn't self products, you wouldn't need our color-brightening TiCh Bui appearance is everything. And to be competitive, you have to match nature itself. That's why we developed HORSE HEAD titanium dioxide pigments. They whiten whites, and brigh'en and enhance other colors. Ideal for interior or exterior points, industrial finishes, plastics, and "ubber prodeas For information, write to the company with 100 years' pigment xpenence. Our p.gments are your best salesmen. The N ew jersey Zinc Company, 160 Front St., N Y,, N . v . 10038 mm HOW i - l jg f l m S BdHBM ip |f 2 n n y MAKE PACKAGES TALK-- Mattel, Inc, scores another first m toy marketing". ft Talking Package! 'Ihanks to a new, super-tough polypropylene fiim from Hercules Incorpoi ated, shop pers can reach into the side or Pack of the shrink-wrapped carton to operate the t o y , , , see how it acts through the crystal-clear window , , , hear how it sounds... yet neve*"touch the prod act. This new balanced polypropylene film for shrink wraps ts called 1i>0 gauge BC120. Made only by Hercules, it is three times thicke- and three times stronger than conventional shrink films. It provides tnpie-sltength seals, with puncture resistance that virtually eliminates film breakage in shipping and retailing. Producers of many types of hard aml soft goods have found that Hercules polypropylene shrink wraps, m one gauge or another, are the ideal solu tion to their packaging problems. Tough in any gauge, they run just right on sealing and shrink equipment . , , yield tight, non-relaxing wraps. . . give uniform shrink without wrinkles. MEET DEMAND FOR NITROGEN- This new 160-foot prilling tower is part of a multimillion-dotlar expansion program at Hercules, California. With the addition of Herco-Prills* prilled ammonium nitrate, the complete line of Hercules fertilizers -now available on the West Coast, These include anhydrous and a q m am monia, nitrogen solutions, HPC* ammonium ni trate-ammonia solutions and ammonium nitrateammonia/urea solutions, UN-32* and UN-28* urea ammonium nitratesolutions, and Nitroform41 ureaform plant food. H ER C U LES Wilmington, Delaware 19899 CUT AMMO COSTS Law enforcement officers and sportsmen who reload their cartridges or shells get the ultimate in savings and performance irorn Hercules'4 double-base smokeless powders. Sold by dealers under the trademarks Builseye* Green Dot*, Hercules 24GQ* Hercoft Red Pot4", ReSodeR*. and Unique*, there is a composition for virtually every shotgun, pistol, revolver, and center-tire rifle. A new, detailed Smokeless Powder Guide is available from Hercules. nLucorrs Tvc-i-mark w s 46 CHEMICAL WEEK September 10, 1966 RESEARCH r Armour's McCorkio ami onSnor chk plans lo r now am inos plant. Betting on Beta's The green light tor constroction of a m m m em M plant to tote a new rie of amines lm been flashed by lames Gardner, president of Aroiawr Indus trial Chemical Co., and Miles MeCorkle. 'ftepreieat and technical director, 'l l * new iniworfes unit win tor out several rrilion pounds/year of the new bete-einjuts after It goes. onstream at McCook, III., In March '67. The produci* making the lah-toplam transition differ in several re spects from conventional fatty amines sold by Armour and a number of other producers, They are derived from petroleum-based materials rather than from naturally occurring raw mate rials, and are made by a new catalytic process (patents have been applied for in the U.S. and abroad), The new route gives a saturated long-chain hydrocarbon containing an amine or diamine group on an interior carbon atom -- predominantly at the beta position. Conventional products arc alpha-amines. The beta-amines have greater liquid ity, solvency and stability than do alpha-amines. Like alpha-amines they are strongly cationic surface-active agents. They are expected to show cost advantages when used in competitive applications. Large-scale uses are anticipated in the paper, petroleum, plastics, rubber, textile, metalworking, paint, steel and pesticides industries, MoCodrie de clares that fatty nitrogen chemicals am now a SlOC-million/year industry, and concludes, "The beta-amine break through, we feel, opens up an equally big new business field." Among the other producers of fatty amines; ADM Chemicals, Dow, Car gill, General Mills and Huinko Prod ucts. Fatty amide condensates and 'fatty nitriles are also part of the fatty nitrogen chemicals family, Amines and Diamines; Four betaamines and a pair of diamines have been tested since '64, and a series of derivatives joined them in '65, The amines are dubbed Armeens L-7, 1,-9, L-l 1 and L-15, the number indicating the number of carbon atoms in the chain. The diamines are Duomeens L-l l and L-15. Exceptionally tow molting and cloud points are said to make the. amities easy to handle and store, especially when used outdoors at temperatures THE CASE OF THE fiM G JU K T HJUL The Chinese description of dove is "fragrant nail." The objective of a continuous de velopment program p e rlo rm e d by Snell for a clove growers5cooperative of an African island-nation was to dem onstrate the flavor value of " fra grant nails" (doves), A t last count, our creative food technology staff had produced 32 unique ways of using cloves, including the use of cloves as an ingredient in powdered spaghetti sauce mix, cake frosting mixes, car bonated beverages, cordials, a choco late syrup, tea, and cigarettes. Snell has been serving the food in dustry for almost half-a-century in product research, development, and improvement. Snell's work in the food field in cludes formulation, analysis, sensesy pane! evaluations, package design, processing, food additive studies, and microbiology. D o you have a problem involving food research and development'1 Call or write today. Foster D, Snell, Inc., a subsidiary of Booz-Alien Applied Re search Inc., 29 West 15th Street, New York, N.Y. 10011. (212) 924-8800. SN ELL September 10, 1966 CHEMICAL WEEK 47 QUALITY - excellence - superiority - if the caliber of your products demands the very best in raw materials - don't compromise - depend on GLYCO! Our more than thirty years experience in specialty chemical manufacturing Is your assurance of top QUALITY in products and service - which MAKES THE DIFFERENCE! ' Esters Synthetic W axes H ydantm m O th ers . - - a full line of nonloncc surfactants including a wide variety of ethoxylated products. . -. Aerawax C -- the ali-lndustry-lubricant -- and self-emulsifying, water-dispersible Cerespersea, - -. versatile organic intermediates or, rcady-to-use water and alcohol soluble resins ~ cross-linking agents -- odorless formaldehyde donors. - Chelating Agents, Dimethylol. Urea, Specialties* GLYCO chemlcajs, Inc. 417 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK, N.Y, 10016 * 4 8 CHEMICAL WEEK September 10, 1966 RESEARCH down to 0 F (c.g., in mineral beneftciation, petroleum processing and road building). They arc also highly soluble in a variety of solvents, including ace tone, isopropyl alcohol, ethylene glycol, kerosene, mineral spirits and mineral oil. The beta-amines have an electro static attraction to roost natural and synthetic materials, displacing mois ture from surfaces and coating them with a hydrophobic film. They serve as effective emulsifiers for quick-breaking emulsions and arc also able to kill mknohes, algae and fungi. Oil- or water-soluble salts can also be formed (e.g,, oleuic or acetate, most of which are liquids at room temperature). Derivatives: Three types of deriva tive are planned, but many more are possible. Initially there will be dimethyl beta-amines (Arm cen), quaternized beta-amines (Arquad) arid ethoxyiaied beta-amines and diamines (Ethomcvn and Ethoduomeen). The dimethyl compounds are sug gested for use as reactive alkaline chemical intermediates, especially hi the manufacture of quaternary am monium salts, amine oxides and other coordination compounds. They arc more soluble than the corresponding tertiary alpha-amines and thus product more concentrated reaction products. The quaternized and elhoxyiated products are good emulsifiers for ; wide variety of products, The qu.c., are water soluble and are effective bactericides, fungicides and atgaeeidm. The cthoxylated amines arc offered in a .range of compositions to allow selec tion of the hydrophilic-lipophilic F r ance best suited to a particular applica tion. Delivered tank-car prices for tlv: beta-amines are 35.S-SO#/Bv, similar figures for the derivatives are 50y/ib. for the dimethyl compounds, 39.2545#/!h, lor the quats and 38.7541,7S#/lb. for the ethoxylated prod ucts. Single-drum prices would average about 8-9<71b, higher. The company says these are commercial develop ment prices and Indicates that largevolume production may reduce them further, Armour's willingness to put out iffnew line in competition with its owe standard line of amines backs up itcontention that the beta-amines will be an important new offering. W hatever the aim , whatever the type SCHIRMER STICKS WITH P F R T I F I F I ) %JP m m m m m m m m mm m m m I-., Thiseakif W-pegebooklet with the PmfiMk PpyM storyis yams fm epos mqeett Ihy4 Schirmt. 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For automatic remote operations, outfit them with Crane Tefcdyne* motorized valve operators. Where you have w ater conditioning, waste treatment and product recovery problems, Crane has the engineering and product sophistication to solve them most economically. W ith specified-to-order or pre-packaged Crane-Cochrane systems from demineralizers to deaerators, ion-exchangers to salt-splitters. But that's not the half of it. Crane also has piping and fittings to meet about any requirement you have. For full details, w rite Crane Co.. Dept, 012, 4100 South Kcdrie Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60632, C R A N E nnna rirtmcs . . v aw es pum as * water treatment peum no h e a t i n s a ir c o n d itio n in g What separates your customers from the weather? ORONITE POLYBUTENES, the great go-betweens. Caulk and Sealant properties improve dramatically when ORONITB Poiybutenes become the base for yonr formulations. These air-oxidation stable materials have a high degree of tackiness, They maintain flexiWUty and adhesion even after-years of exposure to severe atmospheric conditions, And they're extremely hydrophobic, essentially insoluble in oxygenated solvents and form an effective water vapor and gas barrier. Imagine what ORONITE Polybutenes can do for your formulations - and profits. Better yet, write us and get "Compounds For Your Imag~ ination," our comprehensive 30 page brochure on the character and versatility of these mate- rials, Let's dream together. CHEVRON CHEMICAL COMPANY P a r t of the g r e a t g r o u p of CHEVRON compani es ORONITE DIVISION 200 Bush Street, San Francisco, California 94120 5 2 CHEMICAL WEEK S eptem ber 10, 1966 (O R O N ITi) v^jj j. e n g i n e e r in g I T a llo w a to fro m *fors lik e th s# H erefo rd * Is u s e d In n e w s y n d e t m a n u fa c tu rin g p ro cess. Jrighter Sucrose Ester Prospects A new `transparent emulsion' process opens way to sugar esters in surfactants What do cattle have to do with the cially available synthetic detergents. choice of a synthetic detergent proc 8ig on Biodegmfabllity: One big ess',' If the State of Nebraska gets its selling point 5s that the surfactants are way, the relationship will be plain. both edible and biodegradable. They Nebraska, big producer of both cattle are nonionics, compatible with other and sugar beets is seeking patents on anionics. They amid be used for food a new process for making surface* * active agents from sucrose and beef additives (e.g,, as emulsifiers) and in cosmetics, as well as for conventional tallow. And it's willing to offer the surfactant jobs--in paint drying oik, process royalty-free to processors printing inks, and for a range of who'll build in the Mate. household and industrial detergents, The process has been worked out Nebraska officials feel the 'foiode- for Nebraska by Lloyd Osipow and gradability question'* regarding house William Rosenblatt of the consulting hold detergents is Car from answered, litm Foster 0, Snell, Inc. (New York), even though industry has switched And while the process is yet to he from alkylbenzene-based sulfates and piloted, Ostpow is convinced that it sulfonate to linear alkyl sulfonates. not only overcomes the major draw Several Switches: Oslpows and backs of previously offered sugar or- Rosenblatt's method incorporates sev faaants processes but also will be eral changes front earlier sugar-using economically competitive with proc processus. The big switch is in avoid esses based on petroleum derivatives, ance of a solvent in order to bring The technique is so new that indus- together the sugar and "tallowauf* hy evaluations have not bee made, reactants. Bui studies on forerunner of tli new The new process employs a sol processes, made for she Sugar Re vent for the sugar, but its twist is search foamiation, hear out estimate to form a transparent emulsion of the that sugar-based syndets can compete ialtewate-- making Ihe tallow product on a cost basis'with present eommer- into droplets smaller in diameter than one-quarter the wave length:, of lights, These can be dispersed in pro pylene glycol solution of sugar. And, according to Osipow, the tallowates in this form react with sucrose much as they would if the two products were dissolved in a mutual solvent (dimethyl ftmamide has been used commercially as a mutual solvent!. Although the glycol most be recov ered by distillation, this is a fairly simple step. 1 his dispenses with pos sible trouble with the UN. Food & Drug Administration, which appar ently feels dimethyl formaamte card! be fully removed, and that solvent residue is a hazard to users.* Taliowutes (the mixture of methyl stearates, plus some palm itate ,md oleates derive,! from fallow) arc put into the highly dispersed fotm by mixing with a strap or detergent and stirring with the glycol, The micelles of soap carry the calknvutes into the ultra fine suspension. Among suitable suspending agents: alkyl sulfates and other organic syndets--e.g., sodium cleat. The oieate cars be recovered as oleic nek! it' needed*, tu oiKer eevv-- such as in making household syndets --the agent need nos be rem oval. While transparent emulsions have *Sii .Ianasu I>!ii Sf>4tPT tV>. *<H!s c;Na'>Nr t<w>dmhcwilkno , S ep tem b er 10, 1066 CHEMICAL WEEK S3 * t h e Universal d i s p e r s a n t One minute, please! 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American Can Company A M J ^ m i W E R I mm i Il l C A N !I CAN COMPANY * M ARATH ON CHEM ICAL PR O D U C TS AMZMCAH -CAN COMPANY, MARATHON CHPMlCAt PRODUCTS, NEENAH, .WISCONSIN Please send fnfotmatian File No. W-4 and samples [H of Marasperse for use in the following application ......................... .............................................................................................. NAME ..... TITU COMPANY ADDRESS filose citoch fo your lempcmy lefferhead VV-4 54 CHEMICAL WEEK September 10, 1966 E N G IN E E R IN G been known for some time, Osipov and Rosenblatt say in their pate^ / specification that they are the use water-free transparent emulsion / in a chemical reaction---i.e., the esterr'^ of the tallow fats react with sugar <&,, '* solved in propylene glycol. Another important factor ,i Osipow-Rosenblatt process: the erase ester formed by the reaction between the fatty ester and the sugSr is usually a surfactant with emttlxifbr properties. Thus the product of the; reaction can form additional soap micelles, which also act to' incorpo- rate the dispersed fatty ester into & transparent emulsion. The patent ap plication says that this js observable:' a temporarily turbid emulsion ujJS become transparent as the reaction takes place. In adapting their process for food ; and cosmetic applications, Osipov anti Rosenblatt suggest potassium sodium soaps of fatty acids. These . soaps are inexpensive and nontoxic; they can be removed by the use of ion exchange resins; and they can be converted by acidulation of fatty adds that have entirely different solu- ; bility characteristics than those of'--' the soaps. Distillation Reaction! According to' examples in the patent application, the State of Nebraska's new process could most readily be expanded from laboratory to plant scale by means of a batch-type distillation tower oper ating out of a reaction kettle. The soap, tallovvate and sugar are mixed with propylene glycol to form the transparent emulsion, and then the propylene glycol is vacuum distilled out of the mixture. Osipow and Rosenblatt' theorize that the actual formation of the sugar ester occurs during the distillation of the last 10% of the propylene glycol. Hence it is necessary to distil out all of the propylene glycol to obtain good yields. Once the propylene gly col is removed, the starting soap may be separated from the sucrose ester product by conventional extraction. In one patent example, propylene glycol (63.6 wt.%) is used to foim a transparent emulsion containing sodi um oleate (8.4 wt.%), sucrose (21.7 v/t.%) and methyl stearate (6.4 wt.%). The transparent emulsion h formed by stirring and heating to about 270 T, Then the system is put under vacuum, and the propylene glycol distilled out On stream in less than 10 months! Occidental's 1.5 m illion ton per year rock beneftciation plant turnkeyed by Dorr-Oliver In October of 1964, there was nothing but an empty stretch of Hamilton County, Florida on the site above, But less than 10 months later. O ccidental's rock beneficialion plant was on stream-- the first plant in the newly opened phosphate rock fields of northern Florida. Working closely with Occiden tal engineers, D orr-O liver's Murphy Division designed, con structed and completely equipped all battery limits and off-sites of the plant, It will feed phosphate rock to Occidental's new multi-mil lion dollar fertilizer plant located one mile away, (Dorr-Oliver turnkeyed that plant, too.) D orr-O liver's experience and know-how made it possible. )orr-01iver means total responsibility Experience Dorr-Oliver has had over 25 years' experience in the field. W e've designed, constructed and equipped more than a dozen rock washing and beneficiation plants. And we've completed nearly 100 similar jobs for the fertilizer industry. Our engineers have worked out effi cient solutions to just about every problem that could arise in the operation of a plant, Responsibility Dorr-Oliver can take total turnkey responsibility. A il the way from prospecting through laboratory and pilot plant evaluation, design criteria, engineering, equipment pro curement and construction. Off-sites included. W e'll even help you select your plant location. And we'll train your operating personnel. Delivery Dorr-Oliver puts plants on-stream in the minimum time. 100% design capacity is reached almost immediately. That means owner profits start sooner. D - 0 gets repeat orders on the strength of first-job per formance. Are you planning a rock beneficiation plant or a complete fertilizer complex? Or anything in between? P lan on getting D - 0 performance. Talk to our engineers. Contact Murphy Division, Dorr-Oliver Incorporated, Stamford, Connecticut or Bartow, Florida. Sx 'O JS '-jRATET. ENGINEERING under reflux, as the pressure is grad ally reduced io one millimeter of mer cury and the temperature brought to a final 350 f . There remain many processing hurdles before, such bench-scale proc esses can Ire brought to the most eco nomic commercial design, and Snell is now working on this. Bids ok BiodegratteMllty: Nebras ka's big hope Is for a commercial plant to use sucrose esters in produc tion of household detergents. One measure of the potential comes from a manufacturing cost estimate pre pared by The Lummm Co, (New York) anti a '64 market study pre pared by tfora-Dev,, Jnc, (Philadel phia), for the Sugar Research Foun dation (New York), which sought to commercialize a previous Gsipow process. Lummus calculations assume sugar supplied at I0d/lb, and methyl tab lowate at 12p/lb. A detergent mix containing i0% of the sugar tallowate (sucrose ester)-- and aid to equal commercial packaged syndefs in ef fectiveness--could be manufactured at ITSp/ib. its a plant having capacity for 10 million' Ibs./year. Cost would drop to 7.740/Ih, in a plant having a capacity for 100 million Ibs,/year, Snell says it expects it new process to be even less expensive than the process evaluated by hummus, According to the Com-Dev. report, the nonionic sucrose ester detergents are compatible with anionic surfac tant*, which . make up as much as 30% of over 2 billion tons/ycar of detergents produced in the U S. And the sucrose ester detergents are far more easily broken down in sew age treatment processes than are the alkylbenzene sulfonate detergents. Since Com-Dev. made its report, however, the soap and detergent in dustry switched from alkylbenzenesuifonate, adopted linear alkane sul fonate (LAS) as the basic component of the detergent mix.* Now there are reports that J-AS is not completely broken down In the oxygen-starved conditions prevalent in most house hold cesspools. Sugar and tallow de tergent proponents hope that this will open the way to widespread commer cialization' of sucrose synjets. Long Island Test: One study of rtn addition id fSms T,A5 mMitri&l tlie amlaowtdN d*Wr*H naiis* sad) other <Amteib as wetiam hyikmpiKitat, odtttm *jlteate. nadtais stf*ie, et. Breathe easier The odds aren't posted yet on the last man that gambled on oxygen compressor design. Whether you nr pushing oxygen over the (nim io a steel mill or really ramming it info a prtx ess at 500- {100 or even 00 psi, wc* can give you a hundred reasons to consider Clark oxygen compressors and they are ail operating! Most oxygen plant designers know about the dependability and safety of these proved units but the economic justification is equally impressive. Clark offers two types of machines -both proved. For many ap plications, a horizontally-split centrifugal compressor of comtxnmd design will do the job best if the pressure ratio across the case isn't too high. Jit other applications, a Clark isothermal centrifugal com pressor is right. T h at gives cooling between individual stages---saves horsepower---holds down temperature, Pressure of 250 psi ran be handled the isothermal way. Higher pressures usually call for an isothermal and a compound unit. They are both good machines. Same finesa inside. Same safety --same 100% availability. No stand by needed. You will often save- an extra case. With Clark oxygen compressors there is no reason to asid o r odds -- thews aren't any. Breathe easier. So your insurance man can too. Say Clark, CtAftK BROS CD , hv'm r, o ( q m s s S ir-dus'' <A. New CESHE^ y s s r -- S eptem ber 10, 1966 CHEMICAL WEEK 3 3 S)iwCorning gjlicone tteibamer suppresses foam on reading intermediate* in plastics manuthcture. Cwiwrsely, uniform, cavity-frce urethane foam is produced when foam ingredients mix contains Dow Corning eijiconc surfactanf. Siili News Briefs im proved sealing now afoot! Terra M'' 100 'Hiking com|;u;iti is- made Ui b, steppe <m. This muiy-KcUst- isigHOw-Uinii poiyutMtianv rubber milking asm- pntuiii nnD joint*, cxj/'isw ) lo >ln'we,ti ahru- f p e r in: :u .n u id IrM ac. I t ,v a n eT I'itrin g . r d f m e l t : : - r a i a n ! t h a t o ficrs -isi- nr,,.;!.''-;, and >>i>i!!gai mi .m ,, n; rr ((jvufrth.H.i- mhiiCJ .ente: ` 1 Kupe- r .iir Si'ui' an t! peel d re s ig i Hr a n d if.-a P a nee f;> i-hi-Uiffass m a k e p, uit- n in? :- :n i* m a -e > v.sinnx.*!;- (*^,S aiadH U ir-. :.KU '.'..Ik.*-, bridge.-., off,- xp-Mt'd' . .usti't/f-l an; par-,. fVrite for brock tire. CHEMICAL WEEK S eptem ber 10, 196$ New cosmotic-grade fluid ready j A now afidiisVi-, DOW roKASbD-, 5f. j me.itr- t rfiW, hnn D e r cerei,-d te u n . p ro ra th e proper!H e. rtf van,-if,- type; : <<>,-. im-tr. This -nitrii*,<; (Stud n.-iti,--. Minkine--,' (a compili >!>!<* 'Ait A W,if !>;,, O' i .-m.-t i-V ! n pr;a!m,,ng nipredfrro-, i i< ,u, <-,\ J tre u s e lc lovt i,| k 'V rt 'Vn : rep- fit l - . | iiUfwrt;. k 'Uh !--i a k in a n d ! a i r a. `- v i s - j th u tn ily w>iub'<- tn ambitj 'V - 'esrr, Type . f .ippscnU'iis Acisir hiiir-jir tvs, '.anti I prepar-.uion-, p re d ia te lomn-;, .ori ;S|) r v i t r t i t v .-od im- du!,! ah ei t o t / a n o n p eotoptt-tp j)Vi<;-r V rutti >o a , a n b .i a v d . , u c h em ical. n s i b w s t ^ r , c*w c u n t b g Chemistry turned "end-for~end" as Dow Corning develops new aids for plasties processing Going to '"extreme*' to find answer to plastics process! ng questions is commonplace a t Dow Corning. For example, w h eth er you want to m ake a foam, or'm ake another foam disappear, we can help you do It bettor. Or if you need to m ake som ething slick, or make1it stick , our researchers have developed alfickm l ways 1 do both. Details? For foam o r no fo am , we have the answer as shown in Use illus trations. If u n w a n te d foam is the problem, one of our foam control agents stops it quickly, speeds production, cuts costs, reduces waste. B y using one of our Dow Corning silicone-glycol surfactants, u re th an e foams frigid or flexible) gain uniform, :mtmlk>c! ceil size-, stable dimensions, processing advantages. Is "s tic k " o r " s tic k " y o u r g o a l? Dow Corning m aterials aid both. One of our silicone release agents, applied to molds, extrusion presses or other plastic processing equipm ent assures quick, deanrelease cycle after cycle Still another group of our products..our reactive organosilicon chem icals--provides an excellent m eans of coupling organic resins to inorganic surfaces such as glass, paper, fabrics, Tighter, stronger, longer-lasting hands are assured. A t Dow Corning we specialize in many such "end-forend" develop ments > finding new uses for our products, new answers for your problems. IW ell do it even if we have to develop a new material!) Why not let us try for you? J u s t w rite us on your lei!erhead, IIm Release coating talks turkey! The lid F <IVsticky jtfickngmfi problems with this m>w cover coutod with a hyl-oAto fwet- grartt; iltconv Canted rvW,' cuatiiii' DeveS- opoti I}' Dow Corns;.; and applied by n con venor. ilii.-j coni inti prew-nts the froam J,oc r,*atk'4o-as)t turkey roast from irking So Um,' fid, ,sitor -it 4').> F Tin* foil won't <i<htsnmaie pull mc.-il awav irons the uuu*t. Knelt coatings, applied u* a wide ratijto <>/ board and paper stack, *<>iH mi grate, Irattow . or voni-umsktto Write for a bro-hura wish coaU'd -mmiilro- We welcome th e opportunity to keep you ab reast of latest news on the development and applications of m aterials . . . to help you use them m ost effectively in yo u r products, processes, production, Please make all inquiries on your letterhead, and address them to Dept, 2109, Chemical Products Division, Dow Corning Corpora tion, Midland, M ichigan 48640, m iem w m m i g u id o n m m em M uia September 10, 1966 CHEMICA! WI-.FK 61 ENGINEERING LAS products is being carried out by the Public Health Dept, in New York's Suffolk County Center at Riverhead, near the eastern tip of Long Island, A number of commer cial products are being observed under typical household conditions to discover; if the detergents are broken down; whether they can alter the effectiveness of waste disposal systems; and whether Sack of syndet biodegradability can lead to contami nation of water supplies, Some industry observers are expect ing dramatic disclosures from the Suffolk work, But, because of the complexity of the waste it's likely Bright New Ideas in Bright New that the Suffolk studies will not pro vide any specific data for or against any products. So the future of sugar taliowate Silicates by detergents seems tied to the work now being done to make the products and processes commercially attractive, Allegheny j W e t-A c id P u rifie r j T h e re 's hew, co m p letely ,, T W hat happens to a bag problem w hen you call W estvaco? Toyo Soda Manufacturing Co., Ltd. has developed a new solvent proms for concentrating md purifying wetprocess phosphoric acid. The firm now has this technique in operation and is offering it for license. The process makes an add that is about 85% wf. % phosphoric acid (ByPG4) and Is claimed to be pure enough for processing to food additives, deter gents, etc. Thus, it appears that the route is a competitor of the conven tional furaaee process. So called furnace acid is widely used in the U,S,, primarily to make sodium phosphates in detergents; and silicates at Allegheny, j New g rades. . . new quality, . . new 'J handling techniques. . . the uitu f mate result of new processes atief hew thinking. For in stance, . . new spray-dfied * sodium silicates that dissolve f a s t e r , . . quality-controlled by computer automation. Mew liquid silicates delivered crystal d ear at Standard prices, (They earned their name "B riteSil"'}, Synthetic 'magnesium silicates (SriteSorb-') 'with far higher adsorptive capacity j than natural grades, New uitrafrne , ''BriteSorb 40" , j capacity for phosphorus furnaces con Also new ways to stpre and tinues to grow at over 10%/year, handle silicates that offer you It d isa p p e a rs! although the furnace process is fun savings or permit use of- quality : damentally more expensive than the tgrpdes-yoff couldn't affgrrd.feefjgre: W estvaco's Technical Service De partm ent can often work magic with multi wall bag problems. Ju st ask for a Westvaco Packaging Audit, We'll wet process used in making fertilizergrade phosphorus acid. The additional expense of the fur nace method stems primarily from And most important; new, ultra modern production capacity joining-our fast growing facilities. make'&n in-depth study of your bag the cost of electric power (about " '.fbrbrighb'Bew ideas' in'bright new g in g .o p e ratio n s, then p re se n t de 5,240 kwh/ton of phosphorus pent- 'silicates. ; ; ta ile d an aly ses and recom m enda oxide), of carbon (0,60 tons/ton) tions. and of silica (1.2? tons/ton). How I f this is the kind of service you w a n t, i t 's tim e to c a ll in W est Virginia Pulp and Paper Company, 280 P ark Avenue, N X , N.Y, 1001?. ever, the high purity of the acid-- which results from burning the ele mental phosphorus produced in the furnace and then hydrolizlng this ALLEGHENY A M R A C industrial w Ssm * & m < ch em ic a l f ^ .., DiVISjON y W e st V irginia Pulp and P a p e r phosphorus pentoxide to the acid-- gives furnace acid an edge over wetprocess acid in nonfertilizer applica tions. And since the phosphorus fur- BOX 786, BUTLER, H , l 07405 IM. !.-;!!" -,! .i SH.KWTIS Hm tWHm 62 CHEMICAL WEEK September 10, 1966 Hie m en w ho k n ow U hde M ercury C ells b est... best know the dependability of GLC A nodes 8HAPHITE PRODUCTS DIVISION GREAT M 1 1 S CARBON CORPORATION 1 8 E a s t 4 8 t h S t r e e t * Ns ?/ Yor k, N. Y, 1 0 0 1 7 OFFICES AND ASENTS FROM COA8T-TCFCOAST AND AROUND THE WORLD Great Lakes Carbon Corporation vs mu of Ike irorU'g largest mauiifueturpr of graphite jor eieeiroeAnmeal ami eleetrotlumnie proet;sMS~~imd far aerospace, nmlm'tr, metaHarghml and other industrial uses. They are the people at Pfaudler, Them refers to GlasteelTM reactors. That big 1$up to 22,000 gallons* And the man who said fiYeswknows. Because he looks for answers to important questions in Pfaudler's new Buyer's Guide. You can, too. Like? You want to know about reactors stocked for quick delivery, you turn to the table on page 4. Or you're interested in materials of construction. 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The reason we get so fanatical on the subject of uniformity is that uniformity is important to our customers, and our customers are important to us. 68 CHEMICAL WEEK September 10, 1966 WORLD ROUNDUP Soviet gas industry shows rapid growth According to information mitered from Soviet sources by Radio Liberty, output of natural gas in the IXS.S.R. has risen from 2.3% of the world's total in '55 to 15.6% in '65, making it the world's second largest producer. Use of this gas, the Soviets claim, has saved the country 8 billion rubles ($8.88 billion at the official exchange' rate) or double the amount now invested in the industry. Japanese plan two big styrene centers Two Japanese chemical groups plan giant styrene monomer production centers. One of 68,000-100,000metric-tons capacity will be built by four members of tise Mitsui group: Toyo Koafcu Wastries, Mitsui Pefrodhemiatl Wastries, Toyo Rayon and llectro-Chemfcal I#Mrtal.' The tour firms had originally planned to build separately, as they generally do, bat opted for the economy of scale. At the saute time, MltsoMsM Petrochemical is plan ning to build a styrene monomer plant of 80,000tons/year capacity. Details haven't bees ironed out yet. Arabia 'moves on sulfur; Kuwait exports fertilizer Three companies now conducting feasibility studies for a possible sulfur extraction plant in Saudi Arabia estimate that 250,000 tons/year could be extracted. Value, at present world prices, would be $12.5 million. Two U S. companies, Occidental Petroleum and Allied Chemical would market the sulfur, while the third mem ber of the consortium, Saudi A rabia's Peirootkt, would supply sour gas at no cost, Occidental would receive a management fee as opera tor of the project. It expects the sulfur to be used mostly for the manufacture of phosphate fertilizers in the Medi terranean area, Europe, Australia and the F ar East. Long-term supply contracts to be negotiated would serve as the basis for financing the $19-miliion project. The first export shipment has been made from Kuwait's new $33-miilion fertilizer complex at Shuaiba, ll went to Iraq under an agreement made earlier this year by the plant's operator, Kuwait Chemical Fertiliz ers Co, The company is 60% owned by the Kuwait government and private interests and 20% each by Gulf Oil and British Petroleum, Its entire output for the present year is already committed, with deals concluded with Cyprus, Pakistan, and Sudan and other African countries. Present capacity, already due for expansion, is 400 tons/day of ammonia, 550 tons/day of urea, 500 tons/day of ammonium sulfate and 400 tons/day of sulfuric acid. RCPG handles its own sales to neigh boring areas, with sales further afield handled under a three-year agreement by a group consisting of Olin Mattel* (UK), R. G, Shaw (London) and Woodwar# & Dickerson (Philadelphia). Chemicals pace Italian recovery Italy's economy continues Its slow, steady recovery. Official statistics for the first six months of SC>6 show that industrial production as a whole registered a strong 11.2% growth rate over the similar period a year earlier, But chemical output rose 15.2%. This compares with a chemical rise (all are first-half figures) of 5.5% in *65 and 9,6% in '64, and a rise for industry as a whole of 0.4% in '65 and 3.2% in '64. Production of artificial and synthetic fibers was up 19.7% the first half of this year, compared with a 3.1 % drop in '65 and a 25,2% gain in '64. Reason for the surge is increased domestic buying. But exports (including heavy sales of fertilizer to Red China) also played a big part. BP w ill double capacity of Australian ammonia plant Kwfaiaaa Nitrogen Co. Pty. Ltd. (80% owned by BP Australia, Ltd.) is blueprinting a 100,000-tons/ycar ammonia plant at Kwinana, Western Australia, instead of the 50,000-tons/year unit originally planned. The Ill-m illio n refinery associated with the project should be onstream within 18 months. A 9 0 ,0 0 0 -tons/year nitric acid plant and-a 1i0,000-tons/year ammonium nitrate unit will complement the ammonia plant. Planned ammonia capacity was doubled as a result of market surveys indicating a greater-than-anticipatcd demand for nitrogenous fertilizers in the region. Four Japanese PVC plants scheduled for South Korea Four Japanese polyvinyl chloride plants having total capacity of 37,600 metric tons/year and costing more than $14 million will be built in the Republic of Korea. Construction of each plant will be undertaken by the Korean firm that buys it, with technical guidance and equipment to be supplied by the Japanese. Japan's Cteisso Corp, will help Korea Plastics Co. build a $3,6rmilion, 6,600-tom /year plant. Shtei-ets Chemical In dustry Co., Ltd., has a deal with Kongyung Vinyl Co. S eptrnber 10, 1966 CHEMICAL WEEK 6 9 WORLD ROUNDUP for a $3,4~milli<M, 6,000-tons /year unit. Nippon Car bide Industrie* Co.,' Ine., will build a 15,000-tons/year plant for an unidentified Korean firm. A fourth Japanese chemical company, to be chosen by the Japanese trad ing firm Tosholto Lid., will build a $3.7-million, 10,000tons/year plant for Samchok Industry Co. Because South Korea has no naphtha-cracking center, the first three companies will use their own carbide processes. The fourth will take a petrochemical route using a combination of ethane dichloride and acetylene methods. Canadian mining venture to include Japanese capital Nippon Mining Co. has received approval from the Japanese government to enter a joint venture to develop copper and molybdenum deposits in southern British Columbia, Canada. Borings are being taken by the Canadian interests; results will be disclosed next March. Nippon Mining would invest $170,000 for 15% of the company's initial capital stock. The remainder would be owned by Canadian mining interests, Euratom facing sizable deficit in fast-reactor research program The Euratom Commission has informed the European Economic Community's Council .of Ministers that its research program for fast reactors will have a $7-million deficit by the end of '67, The deficit will be entirely in the French and German operations. The Belgian and Dutch research activities are minor, Italy has dropped one project and has worked out no new program. EEC recommends that the French and German gaps be closed by turning over a $3.5~mil1ion surplus from earlier programs and getting the remainder of funds from the two governments. EEC capital-goods market strong in France and Italy Capital-goods makers selling to France and Italy should find business brisker this year than last, but pro ducers marketing in West Germany will encounter a slowdown. That's the gist of the Common Market's first semiannual investment survey, Its next study will in clude Belgium and Luxembourg but not the Nether lands, The biggest shift in investment plans has been in Italy, where spending dropped In '64 and '65, but will be up 10-20% this year, French industrial investment after two years of stagnation, is expected to rise 4% 70 CHEMICAL WEEK September 10, 1966 this year. In West Germany, however, while investment | will continue rising this year, the increase will be at a ft slower rate-- 6% this year, compared with a rise of { 16% in '65. Reduced profit margins and tighter credit and capital are blamed. j The Common M arket has also published the guide- r lines under which exclusive distributor agreements wilt . be permitted by EEC's antitrust department. Effect of j the regulation will be a sweeping one-shot authorization of .sonic 25,000 of the 32.000 agreements that have been certified to the Euratom commission, with the remainder to be determined case by case. Some of the contracts 1 may be rewritten so they will come under the exempt ' category. Qualifying for exemption will be exclusive 1 dealer agreements containing prohibitions against carry tag competing products or prospecting for customers outside an exclusive sales territory, and an obligation | to use certain trademarks. No automatic approval will 1 be granted agreements containing export prohibitions. ! agreements on trademarks, or price fixing that would j hamper exports. . ' I Border Chemicals to build U.K. acrylonitrile plant ! Border Chemicals Ltd. will build a new acrylonitrile { plant in Britain, expanding its capacity to 100,000- J 120,000 long tons/year at Grangemouth. The com party-- owned jointly by British Petroleum Distillers Co-, ! Lid., and Imperial. Chemical Industries-- will build the unit alongside its recently commissioned 40,000-1,t./- : year acrylonitrile plant, Cost of the new project is ex pected to exceed $17 million; completion is set Im early '69, The company's rapid step-up of capacity stems from , inability of the initial Border plant, the first in Britain j to keep up with soaring demand. About $5 million worth of acrylonitrile will be imported tins year, ami imports may rise to $20 million by '69. Border now sell acrylonitrile to Courtatilds and Lhemstrand. South American oil firms discuss joint petrochem icals State-owned oil companies of Venezuela, Colombia. Chile, Ecuador and Peru wilt meet to discuss programs for joint petrochemical industries. The meeting, at : Caracas, follows a conference in Bogota last month of the presidents of Venezuela, Colombia and Chile and representatives of Peru and Ecuador. The presidents of f the countries' central banks have discussed reciprocal I credit agreements. McKee serves fliese Process Industries*. PETROLEUM CHEMICALS STEEL ----------------------IRON NONFERROUS METALS MINERALS ORE AGGLOMERATION McKee continues to serve Mexico's Process Industries The two new plants at Reynosa, connected by a seven-mile, storage-type pipeline, were placed in operation early in 1966. These are the latest in a long list of projects for Mexico's petro leum, chemical, iron and steel, and mining industries for which McKee engineers have supplied a diversity of services since 1944. In Mexico/ as in 59 other countries, repeat contracts from satisfied clients for projects-like these offer strong evidence of the reliability of McKee engineering and construction. We would welcome an opportunity to discuss your next project. ARTHUR (a. McKEE & C O M PA N Y , 2300ChesterAvenue, Cleveland,Ohio 44101 CLEVELAND . NEWYORK . UNION PITTSBURGH * CHICAGO * BIBBING SAN FRANCISCO CANADA . MEXICO CITY * SAO PAULO * BUENOS AIRES * SANTIAGO * PARIS MADRID W lSlg g^fiikM iM M W B liaH I p iw B ll&mm jp il p TA K E O U T TH E "SHAKE* mm WfMmmt ` I Excellent temperature viscosity Stability from -100' to SWF. without solidifying, smoking, melting or charring, is achieved in Serrerai Electric silicone grease, utilising CP-0-Sit- a# the thixotropic medium. Good adherence, maximum coverage, and chemical Inertness recom mend use over a wide spectrum Of industrial products. 72 CHEMICAL WEEK September 10, 1966 A great selling surface, with beauty that lasts, con tributes to the popularity of the Boston Whaler, pro-; duced by fisher-fierce Co,, Inc, The exceptionally tough, durable end colorfast SHELL coats contain ing CAB-0-S1L are produced by Advance Coatings, West minster, Mass. x ,sngw appearance. AV'j*:j ,o r `inferior'*because-'of !T H Very offer* just a little CAB-O-i > keep s silver polissi ingredients in suspension. C ontents of 0 q u art jar of a it colors retailing for $3.25 can be kept in suspension for oty N pigm ent settling occurred after lb. CAB-O-Sfl ? f pe1r >g*~iar\l>loAn.mInaa <^ d few weeks; only 3 % CA Let CAB-O-SIL enhance your- the settling problem. No' time to try a satpple^ sttied witnin '* ' 'Viri?/*'^./%*r<'*S' ^ ^ afi n t*asi ne d*s>u$peosieri >yhelping solve ^ Ili Considered by Acushnet Process Company, Pew Bedford, Mass., 8 the most reinforcing of all light colored materials, CAB-O-SIL contributes tonsite strength, increased modulus values, .elonga tion, purity, and aids In processing various poly mers lor molded products, O Send literature i J Send free sample of CAB-O-SIL * I am especially interested m F Please calf me for appointment. Tei. Nme,, ,, .... ...... ............. .. .., _, ! Title. f Company,.. I I cidress,,,,,,,, ! City., /j:&Coda-,,,.. Dem,- UCWW I S eptem ber 10, 1966 CHEMICAL WEEK 73 ing along the strip between Baton Rouge and New Orleans. Trained em ployes are plentiful. Twenty-seven free vocational schools train 30.000 persons a year. Louisiana ranks No. 2 in petroleum and natural gas and produces a good share of the world's sulphur Salt is unlimited, and lime abounds. For water---the Mississippi's 300 billion gallons and plentiful other surface and ground sources. The state's 16 million acres of timber doesn't shrink--it expands, A d d to th e s e a s s e t s the services of the No, 1 U. $, north and south railroad.", a mild dimate and excellent educational and recreational facilities. Also a location close to Lstrn American and world markets. Do th ese facts suggest asking u s f o r m o r e d etails? Your inquiry will he kept in strict confidence, J, $. m o o r , D irecto r o f In dustrial D e v e lo p m e n t 13&P. Flevfcftth 10. Chicago, III. 6060b Phene {312)922-481 1 MAIN LINE OF MI D- AMERI CA ILLINOIS P E IIT B fll b S ili I vlfll* RAILROAD 74 CHEMICAL WEEK September 10, 1966 IN T ER N A T IO N A L A Good Year for Fertilizer in C an ada Unless the rail strike Interferes wMb the shipments t*f wheat now being harvested in the Western province,, Canadian Browers should have a gMi j year. And this m eans increased ie*- < tille r sates next spring, Canada expects a record 750-mti- ) lion-bu. wheat crop this year, alreacy has firm export safes of 500 tniflu a bu. -- including 112 million to fl.e U.S.S.R., 90 million to Red Chin i, 1 and 250 million to traditional ma*- kets {e.g,, Britain). Fertilizer consumption by prairie 1 formers had been estimated at 585,- 5 000 tons for '66, but a boxcar shottage during last spring probably v,Ji keep the figure at 550,000 tons, Fcr- I lilizer demand has been rising at a 5 2 0 % annual rate for five years -- - ii*><n i 137.000 ions to '60 fin terms of bp- j trieot content: 21,700 tom of nitro- 1 gen, 44,800 tons of phosphoric artel, , to 463,800 tons in '65 (84,200 tons f of nitrogen, 135,200 tons of piles- j phone acid). Early season estimates fix 1 '66; Manitoba, up 3 8 0 , to 103,000 ; tons; Saskatchewan, up 2S%, to 172.- \ 000 torts; Alberta, up 23%, to 310- [ 000 ions. Three new ammonium phosphate plants went onstream las! fall: W estern Co-operative Fertilizers J.td.'s unit at Calgary, Alta,. Sherri Cordon Mines' installation at Fort Saskatchewan, j Alta,, and Cotrtineo's plant at Regina, ; Sask. But the additional capacity fo ! 385.000 tons of fertilizer (melndme some co-op ammonium nitrate) didn't result in any ovmupply, Much fertilizer output in Western ,, provinces is for export to the 11,8. , Also, Sherritt Gordon's production was limited by defective equipment in '< its new ammonia plant. Price Cutting: Both Cominco ami Sherritt G ordon complained in their midyear reports that reductions in sell | log price hurt earnings. Said Sherri f Gordon: "Our fertilizer marketing m- ' rangements with the grain computves 4 have worked very satisfactorily, and | by the end of the fertilizer year our IN T ER N A T IO N A L E . , ventory was negligible. Price cutting by some of our competitors resulted in a genera! reduction in the price of ammonium phosphate fertilizers and >2 in our opinion did not result in any in crease in the total quantity sold in western Canada." One source says most of the price cutting was started by one of G'om- '*: inco's major customers, Imperial Oil Ltd. The Standard OH Co. (New Jer- I say) affiliate is a major entry in the prairie market fas is Shell Canada -..i Ltd,), working with some $00 distrib11 titers, There are persistent reports that either Imperial or Shell will be the if next fertilizer maker on the prairies, fj Price discounting varied, but cute :k exceeded the usual $5/ton discount Hi for bulk fertilizer. Whether '67 will see *1 a repetition of this price cutting is a If -moot question. The only new produo *1 cr will be Simplot Chemical, whose } Cornwallis, Man,, plant should be op '1 eradftjj by year-end. Most of the proi| dwetion (220,000 tons of ammonium |l phosphate, 35,000 tons of urea, 90,~ | | ODO tons of nitrogen) will be mar keted in the U.S. But some will be sold in Manitoba and Saskatchewan, pi Tke only other fertilizer plant on the horizon, is a much-discussed unit that would be built ia the Regina area in conjunction with a pyritesto-sponge-iron installation by Hudson flay Mining & Smelting Co. jte w llg a Future? Best estimates arc that wheal acreage will expand 4% /ye, .white fertilizer demand should continue to climb 20%. P . A. Sim, chief executive officer ; of Western Co-operative Fertilizers I lid ., said in a talk last year that fertilizer use on the prairies could reach 3 million Sons by '75. He pre; diets 550,000 tons ia *66, 700,000 tons in *6?, 850,000 tons in '68 and over I million tens in '69. "Should this trend continue," says Sim, "projec tions for '75 are In excess of 2 million tons." If the trend follows the pattern that developed in the U.S., use ia '75 could reach 3 million tons, he adds. Sim points out that farmers in the il.S. border states that have similar climatic and soil conditions are aver aging 5-10 times more fertilizer per acre than are the Canadian farmers, Dean C. F, Bentley of the University of Alberta told the Canadian Fertiliz. c*r Assn, last August that be could "see ih m are o, o < s ,m uses far :; R?o-Pe)< mhi'fit is fW4 ? If you tell us whether you want to build solids or control sweetness; or you want a carrier, a plasticizer or a humectant; or you would like to save money. . , then we can tell you which of the many kinds of Fro-Dex* corn syrup solids to use. Fro-Oax conies in a variety of OE's and particle sizes. 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Telephone: <5131 731-U*0 ACtTYlACITONATi CARBONATE chum iide HYDRATE NAPHTH1NATK NITRATE # OCTOATI PROPIONATE SULFATE CHEMICAL COMPANY a coioti Nca i m * Cincinnati, onio ami a M CHEMICAL WEEK September 10, 1966 IN T E R N A T IO N A L | no prospect of fertilizer sties increas ing to the leve! of 1.6 million ions by '75" unless there were some entirely unexpected influences on the price of Canadian wheat. His view is that *75 sales would approximately double those of `65 and that if the "super crop of '65 is followed k f other lush crops and small delivery quotas, fertilizer sales by `75 may be only 50% greater than in '65 " Saskatchewan is the key to increased fertilizer sales to prattle farmers, ami D. A, Rennie of the University of Saskatchewan argues that vichis pur ; acre 1 that province could be in- I creased an average of about 50% b> M l utilization of technical informa tion concerning moisture conserva tion, greater use of fertilizers, soil management and control of weeds t and diseases, More Wheat -- If: There arc dif ferences of opinion on whether Cana dian wheat production can continue a! the record rate of 750 million Hu. One observer says Canada has been fortunate to have good moisture con ditions four years in a row. Even if acreage is upped and more fertilizers and chemicals arc used, lack of metis- ture could mean reduced yields, On | the other hand, Rennie has predicted ; that Saskatchewan alone will even- . tuaily increase production by 18a 6 million by, by expanding acreage, de- creasing the amount of fallow land by ahout 5 million acres and increasing stubbie-seeded crops by 10 million : acres. U.S. and Canadian representatives at the "Kennedy Round" of tradetariff talks at Geneva have clashed : over wheat demand and supply, I. R. , Hedges, a key U.S, trade negotiator 5 at Geneva, is said to be demanding ; that Canada adopt controls on acre age, production and marketing ml | agree to minimum and maximum ; prices, Canada doesn't have extensive 1 support programs hite those in effect in the U.S. (the Canadian government < pays for some storage, crop insurance . and subsidizes rail shipment to the f Bast). Canada feels it avoids ovetjvo- ductioo by refusing to fake for sum- age any grain not committed to Me. J Recent rains have made this years crop took good, and the big export markets seem firm for some years to come. All conditions promise a lag , fertilizer market next year -- if the traas run and it doesn't hall.' Congratulations. It's bound to be the industry s top-selling fabric. Staying on the top is no cinch. 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WSiK SSPTIMBSR 10, I f iUpIta-flA priem have im a slashed sharply by GmM OflL Prod ucts under Gulfs new schedule, The same tag will apply to any combination of C~GS* fractions as well as to the C-^Cm fraction, Previous prices of individual olefins and fractious ranged as high as 25 /lb. No change, however, was made in the 6,25p/lb, price for * product. Commercial application of alpha-oleins in detergents, polymers and specialty chemicals is expected to be stipulated by the new price cut. Intensive developmental work is already under way on alkenyl sulfonate detergents derived from alpha-olefins, Alkenyl sulfonates may ultimately compete on a price-performance basis with linear alkylate sulfonate, now the major household surfactant (CW Market Newsletter, Apr130). Btatolic resto price Inewasts confn to spread, Relchhold Chem icals will K S "p e 3 ^ m 3 e p i a 3 S l ^ T # I 5 i r e f e c t i v e Oct. 1. The increase, to be prorated on a mm olds basis and will apply to most of Reichhold's line, follows- similar hikes recently posted for p-tertiary-butylphenol, p-phenol and phenolic molding resins. IMWmm cartonale prices ate holding at 38,S#/lb. for most con tracts despite confusion in recent weeks concerning packaging differentials (CW, Sept. 3, p. S3), Some months ago Foote Mineral established a price of 37#/ib,, but only for packaged-carbonate shipped on yearly contracts of 200,000 lbs, or more, In addition, a 35,5*#/lb, bulk price (hopper cars, deliver!) was established for the large orders. By now, both prices are -standard in the industry for big orders. Efforts to Mock sale of sfockptei nickel m a M i basis are being made by tfie^M ro H 'A ssH T W ^M 'F S lslm rT S T Io m eW ^^ resen tativ es is now considering legislation that would release 24.5 million lbs, of nickel through the General Services Administration, Metal finishers are fearful that the bid disposal would duplicate the difficulties that arose when, cadmium was sold two years ago. The association charges that relatively little cadmium reached the metal-plating business, although large lots were acquired by speculators. The metal finishers are urging Congress to restrict the nickel disposal to users in the U.S., prohibit resale and to restrict distribution to domestic nickel producers and established distributors. In addition, sale at the prevailing market price (rather than bid selling) is suggested. Nickel scarcity has forced some shops to parcha nickel from Mack-market sources at twice the normal 80#-$l/lb, price. 79 MARKET N ew sletter Two Wolff process style plants will go mmbtmm this month in Great f t S u T T i e ^ ^ feedstock, The units--one to be operated by British Oxygen at Maydown, Northern Ireland, and the other by British Geon Ltd, (Barry, South Wales)--each have a 30,000-long tom/ymir capacity, British Oxygen's output will be sold "over the fence" to Du Pont; by-product ethylene from the plant wit! probably feed a SO,1000-1.i/y e a r ethylene dichloride unit slated for Maydown. British Geon will use Its new ethylene source for vinyl chloride. Monomer output will be upped to 130,000 l.t/year by '67, Hedon Monomers Ltd, (aDwUllers- Celanese venture) is also building a Wulff plant at Hull. Considerable economies are expected to stem from the naphthabased Wulff units, Some British sources estimate that the initial United King dom acetylene cost from naphtha will be 7-7,,5#/tb, Acetylene from the old carbide route costs 8.5-lO#/lb,, depending on depreciation factors, Future British naphtha prices, however, are a question, mark; in the past year the naphtha price Increased from $18/metric ton to over $22/ton because of growing demand as a manufactured gas feedstock. Natural gas from the new strikes in the North Sea (CW, Sept 3, p. 26) may ease the price pressure, although If exceptionally large strikes are found the one-stage flame process may upstage the WIff-apMm. route. RiB-scale cumene production ha tmmmM. at Gulf Oil's 300million-lbs,/yeaf plant at Philadelphia. The plant was extensively damaged by fire last May. Repairs and reconstruction, says Gulf, were completed several weeks earlier than expected, Loss of Gulfs output contributed greatly to tightness of supplies of phenol and acetone and helped spark price increases. * Shell Chemical will increase prices, effective Oct, 1, The tag on liquid Epos resins 815, 820, 826, 828, 830 and 834 will go up 2,5^/lb* Tank-truck quantities of Epon 828 will sell for 50.5# /lx , under the new schedule, Solid-resin prices will be hiked I f /lb, for Epon 1.001, 1002, 1004, 1007 and 1009. Comparable changes will also be made In solution prices. Price differentials between, bulk, truckload and less-truckload quantities, however, are not being changed. Epoxy-resin prices have fallen precipitously over the past 14 months, and a recent attempt by Ciba to partly restore the cuts was unsuccessful Sapping price differentials for high- and low-density polyethylene will be revised by Monsanto next month to reflect the trend toward bulk movement and to obtain minimum freight costs. The minimum prices category for truckload bag shipments will be increased from 20,000 to 30,000 lbs. for high- and low-density product. Boxed shipments will command a 0.25**/1b, premium. The l,2 5 //lb . discount for 100,00O-5b,-mmimum hopper-ear shipments will be trimmed to l# /ib . The L25#/lb, discount, however, will be offered on shipments of 160,000 lbs, and greater. m CHEMICAL WEEK September 10, 1966 v-'^' " G A - t e s so about our Citric Acid Stepan Gitrlo.A.gfd isp n ly d ifferent to begin w ith. O u r ra w ro a te riaH s blackstrap m olasses. B ecause this is the m o st .... abundant and,eseaQSjk;aLo ait carbohydrate sources, It is an assurance to you of our dependability as a supplier. Through our unique ferm entation process, blackstrap m olasses is transform ed into C itric A cid which m eets or exceeds the m ost exacting purity and m esh requirem ents. A vailable in (J,5/P. anhydrous; granular, .fine granular o r pow der. Telephone or write for t*tuple STEPAN C H E M I C A L COMPANY B4cn* & Wjrmitka NfortitfieM, lliuioi* Telephone; 3i2.44i.7S MANAGEMENT Park Ave.' Stauffer's move spot lights a midtown saga j Manhattan's posh Park Avenue. } once known for its debutantes rather j than for its direct ates, is becoming { a chemical process stronghold, A two- | block area just north of Grand Central j Station {between 47th and 49th streets) j has attracted 16 CPI organizations in less than a decade. And Stauffer - Chemical will join them s soon as the 42-story lower at 299 Park Avt-, is completed. "Chemical Row" was born when ; Union Carbide acquired the old Mar- gttery 'Hold at 2?0 Park Ave. and 1 tore it down for its headquarters i offices. Carbide President Kenneth Rush tells why; , "We were headquartered in the old ' building on 42nd Street but were I spread out in 13 other buildings , around town. We needed to house i 4,000 employees, and after extremely careful consideration this seemed tho best way to do it." | Rush adds that the choice wasn't easy*, recalling: "We bought the old Butler estate In Tarry-town. N.Y., as.) gave very serious thought to building I our headquarters there" | But Carbide needs a lot of secretarial j help, ready accessibility to customers - and business associates, uncomplicated j commuting and travel facilities (if is 1 mur the Pan Am heliport?). and these were most readily available in the j heart of the city. 411 this plus ample, i welt-lighted, pleasantly decorated of- 5 frees on the 'wide, bos- and neon-sign - - free avenue have since lured others. Any regrets? None at all, says Rush. . Corporate growth was anticipated and the building already occupies as much space as is practical. If Carbide out- S grows this building it may put up tm . additional one or lease addition: I i space. Where, it won't sav. But don't ; Smm from top A Po Am building is the Carbide bolding (left) and flookor office* {right uteri. Under way? 399 Park {right}, 8 2 CHEMICAL WEEK S ep tem b er 10, 1066 i * 'f * ' ' * ' I Tv . 1 ysefef.i'pmt*fd by N V. Aitwsys Heheuptff Sw- CPI Row rule oat Park Avenue as a location, Carbide ($2 billion sales) has ac quired large neighbors -- e.g., Hooker "Chemical ($244 million sales) and $?itco ($146 million)-- and small 'ones: Grow Chemical ($13,3 million), ' And the neighborhood seems far from crowded. Only Carbide owns the building it occupies, But Grow, Hooker, B. P, Goodrich Chemical, Monsanto, Missutfehi and Wiico have offices is the ' .similarly styled and relatively new Chemical Bank Hew York Trust Co. building across the street, ! When Stauffer moves into 209 Park 'it will have as a neighbor Westvaeo, which is switching over from 230 Park, This spring. Great Lakes Chemical moved its soles offices from Fifth Ave. into 250 Park, Travel is critical at ` great Lakes: its president is stationed ' jpxtos Angeles, research is located in Inltena, and plants are in Arkansas , and Michigan. " Equalizer Ruing . The International Chemical Workers Is calling a new Equal Employ ment Opportunity Commission ruling '*%veritable Mapia Carta for Southern workers,'' ,''E EO C has sustained the first com plaint ever filed by a union under the jual-etnployment provisions of the A i l Rights Act of '64, Earlier, EEOC f`Sfipd nationwide Interest when it , fSjgfeeit to consider ICWU's complain! ICTF, May 29, p, 49), after first de* : Maiiig to do so, t EEOC says Planters Manufacturing C% (Clarksdale, Mass,) violated the fa# in a number of ways, most notably ' W,paying Negro workers lower wages , paid to white workers. The next step is to conciliate the differences between Planters and the ion. iCWU President Walter Mit- ^ e li says .he is "willing to meet with a company any time so work out Agreement," `pefore the commission had handed a its ruling. the union filed a suit federal court accusing Planters of '^termination. The suit is still pending. is w aste! Fight it fast! Save money! Speed -production! Prove to yourself how only a drop (or maybe a few) of one of our silicone defoamers eliminates troublesome foam in such products as detergents, oils, insecticides, inks, quickly and totally, How it helps reduce your waste, cut your costs, increase your profit, Well send you a sample of one of our broad line of Dow Corning industrial defoamers, matched to your operation. B u t... first, we must know what your foaming problem is, how you handle it, what your system is. So, help us to help you,,, M;i th is co u p o n to d a y to .-'.top your foam ing problem s tom orrow ' Dow Corning Corporation Chem ical Products Division (ept. 2145) Midland, Michigan 48640 I'd like to evaluate a Dow Corning silicone defoamer designed for the following conditions: ran My foam ing product is= I'm working with an oil system; , j aqueous system. My process is : . I must apply the foamer Ci manually; U by metering, In my operation, the foam controller must: D prevent formation of foam (as an antifoamer) D elim inate already-formed foam (as a defoamer) Please send me your new brochure covering Dow Com ing silicone defoamers for food applications: for industrial applications. Name ............ ............................. , Title .... ,, * Company . ...... , , .,,I________________ ________ __ _ , . Address.,,,.,,.... ............................... ........................................ S t a t e ................._.......Zip ....... . ... | Sptmber 10, 1966 CHEMICAL WEEK 83 sp ecia liza tio n . . . that's the word for PCA--we're specialists dedicated to producing tap quality potash products, and only pot ash. Dedicated alto to giving.you the kind of service you want. PCA customers, have learned to expect the best, so why hot loin the ranks of the many friends of Chief Kay-Two-Oh and his Canadian cousin, ft's their job to see that PCA potash from Carlsbad or Saskatoon is alike as two little Indians: Uniform in chemical analysis and in particle size; non-caking in storage; free-flowing in automatic systems. Next time you need potash call the specialists, call PCA, For super-fast service, phone, wire or telex us at New York: 2ITS8M 24G; Telex; 710-581*5030 Potash Company of America Mines at Carlsbad, New Mexico - Saskatoon, Saskatchewan General Sales Office: 630 Fifth Avenue, New York 10080 Midwestern Sales Office; First National Bank Building, Peoria, III. 61602 Southern Sales Office,- 1776 Peachtree Building, N, W,, Atlanta, Ga, 30309 Canadian Piles Office; 4800 Dundas $t,, W., Islington, Ontario America's 'HfE? Stjppimr o f Potash SODIUM SULPHATE fA n h ySrous) ZIP CODE SPEEDS YOUR PARCELS SALT CAKE P m o &n * C h e m ic a l C orporatio* 420 U*t0tM Amt> N g j i g Y HtwVerts 17, N. Y, 1. P a c k a g e s are shipped by more direct route, 2. They are handled few er tim es, 3. There is le ss chance of dam age. / keep portal *oils \ I dawn bat only if j V you use them. J KEY CHANGES Robert W. Sterrelf to general man ager is charge of Zonolite Division, Dewey and Almy Chemical 'Division, (Cambridge, M a s s W, R, Grace , Co. C. If, Gehrei to vice-president and general manager, Mincrals/Rcfractcries Division (Conshohoclcen, Pa.), Howntet Corp. G. Keith Brcwhi to director, Inter national Dept,, The Gltddeu Co. Aten T, Knight to chief executive officer and chairman. Catalytic Con struction Co. (Philadelphia). John Corcoran to president, . Howard Hardesty, Jr,, and L. James fltiegel to executive vice-presidents, Consolidation Coal Co. {Pittsburg; if. O. R. Wiebe to vice-president, and L 1, Quimm to executive assistant to the president, Central Farmers Fer tilizer Co, (Chicago), Thomas M. SmylSe to vice-presi dent, Ethyl Corp, (New York). John A. Witting to treasurer, Mead Johnson & Co. IEvansville, Jnd,). E, O. Rohardt to assistant general manager, Hosiacham Division, Amer ican Hoechst Corp. (Mountainside, n .i). Waiter G. Gibbons to general man ager, The Montrose Co, (Hew York), division of Militnaster Onyx Corp, Morton M, Gruber to assistant ft? the president, Joseph R. Weschler to manager of marketing. Marketing Dept,, Resin Division, Ciba Products Co. (Summit, N.J.). Harold G. Mangelsdorf to board chairman, Crown Central Petroleum Corp, {Baltimore, Md.), Sober* D,, Evans to vice-president and technical manager, Vectra Co, fOdemon, Md.), fibers maker. William H, Collins to vice-president of sales, Trent Tube Division, Cru cible Steel Co, (Pittsburgh). Richard C. Richter to vice-presi dent, Superior Zinc Co, (Bristol, Pa.) and Hopco Chemical Co, (Pittsburgh), subsidiaries of Nopco Chemical Co. (Newark, N.J.). Edward W. Callahan to manager of business development, Allied Chemi cal Corp. (New York). 84 CHEMICAL WEEK S ep tem b er 10, 1966 Mwmri V, llagipian to general I . manager, Hoover Chemical Products I Division, Hoover Ball and Bearing Co, > (Whitmore Lake, Mich,), | iLoiite 5. M* Annandias to director of business development in European I countries, York), ACF Industries Inc. (New Joseph A, Paefello to assistant to | the president, Berkshire Color BivisI- ion (Reading, Pa,), Tenneeo Chemi!< cals, Inc, 'Irwin R. iJnaard, Frank Mari% !' Jr., and Thorwald 11. Smith to senior : vies - presidents, Warner * Lambert Pharmaceutical Co, (Morris Plains, NY). r Ralph 1. Davies to vice-president of administration, Applied Radiation Corp. (Walnut Creek, Calif,), ; ` Donald H, Hartmann to vice*presi- ; Asm of 'Dresser Industrie (Dallas) ; and president of Magnet Cove Barium , Corp. (Houston), John A, Kennedy to president, American Mineral Spirits Co,, WesI tern (Los Angeles), Dwight N, Waif to executive vice- president, Consumer Produets Di> vision, Union Carbide Corp, James 1 , Frendergast to president ami Edward J. Korbel to executive 'kr-president, Nitrogen Division, Wes* i ley E. Gatewood to executive vice* I president, Barrett Division, Allied , CL-mical Corp, (Mew York). William A. Smith# (o vice-presi dent and general manager, Pittsburgh bland*. Fisher Scientific Co. Chart 1* Peck, Franklin f t Win ner and Richard E. Trumbull to vice- presidents, Owem*Corning Fiberglas Coip, (Toledo, 0,), tried Dwyer and Martin Solomon to vice-presidents, Thermoformed Plastics ^Flushing, N,Y,), division of Loral C o rp , ! Edward J, Bolka to vice-president ; ami treasurer of Vancouver plywood Co, (Portland, Ore.), subsidiary of , Skeiiy Oil Co'. Chart G, Goebel to corporate technical director, H, Fred Oehl* sebimg0e to director of research, Or ganic Chemicals Division, Emery In; dustries, lac. (Cincinnati), LaBour made the first self priming pump... still builds the best. LaBOUi PUMP COMPANY ELKHART, INDIANA Are. Cod. 819 * 522.7365 nUZX; LABOUR Ck ft 025926 S ep tem b er 10, 1966 CHEMICAL WEEK 8 5 Iwas a nobody m CHEMICAL WEEK September 10, 1956 S e e i t ,,. fe e t i t . . . ( ir o n i f . . . p o u n d i t . . . u s e i t !: - r.iys:-*! :t ?- v.i'l c-^wniw; y i\i !' has everything! Mow your customers can receive your product in m attractive ! ...ils" :! f.ri.' ! if!.",: V.` !l i s m . - ill p-'rf": ! 'isUO U. l l rs Lu u ;U, li;:h! .n:::i:'ie, seamless, needs !V |.; >k :iifi passed LC.C. tests. This new tight head container is m o td fd Ti-i-rr: !iijw. u o lym e r resm which is F.D.A. approved Ask I i ;t::u .) d em - latoUuU; the Ci*u;u> 21, or odd hr write am .Ctiatohsor' Service Department today! Enhance your sales power; call (or BENNETT pails and drum Bennett Industries, PEOTONF. III. 60^68 SSNEMt OFWOS AND MIOMS ' -i i -r / C#Hs from Chicago 56S-0300 Or';. ALTA LOMA, CALIFORNIA n^YUkon 74735 Call* . i Inc. , JW'JtSssf v. i TECHNOLOGY Newsletter CHMIGAl W flK SEPHMBCft 10, 1964 A new process for making aroiatntfe derivatives of fatly eoiitfowttis, d evelopedA rch er''D an iels Midland (Minneapolis), will sharply cal the price of plienylstearic acid arid will bring a number of new chemicals onto fbe market-- c,,g., phenol, thiophene and naphthyl acids; ary! alcohols, amines, quaternaries and some esters. ADM plans to sell phenytstemic acid made by the process for less than S i,lb . Present price: $4-5/lb. *lhe material is used in semifluid all-weather lubricants, to which it imparts stability to temperature and moisture extremes, ADM has applied for patents on its new process, which yield both crude and refined products. # A MW'-kilogium magnet, ihe rim hlb biggest, k being designed at the National Mapnel aboraiory at Massachusetts hiem ue of fedmofopy. Coil material for t!v huge elect mmagrt-'i will he tosr/tm yircormim copper, a high-strength, high-conductivity copper alloy made by American Metal Climax, Power needed will be 41 megawatts. Superconductive magnets would eliminate this power requirement, but the largest magnetic fields obtained from (hem are about 100 k ( l The National Magnet Laboratory has !4 magnets that c m produce fields ranging from 100-225 kG, Five others, in cluding the 300-kG. unit, are in design, * Vmkiikmme may find m e m treatment of arthritis, rheumatism and other collagen diseases, according to University of Southern California researchers, Luden Bavetta and Marcel Nitnni. in their animal studies, the two physicians used the chemical to render collagen in the skin less fibrous and more soluble. This reverses the trend taken by the material (found in tissue, bones m d teeth) during aging or disease. No adverse effects have beat noted. The USC team Is investigating how the penicillamine causes the change in the collagen molecule. The work ts supported by the National Institutes of Wealth, Pressures of centrifugal compressors keep moving up. Nuovo Pignone ( Florence, Italy) has successfully completed a three-week continuous test run under industrial conditions with its new Model 2 L1CL 3065b operat ing at 290 kg./sq.cm. (4/125 psi.). Order! by Norsk-Hydro (Oslo, Nor way), the compressor was operated on synthesis gas (hydrogen and nitrogen) at the ANIC ammonia plant at Ravenna. Italy. While compressor manufac turers have had the ability to design special centrifugal auks for pressings up to 5,000 psi. (CW, May 9, *59. p, (06K most units operating, al pressures this high have been reciprocating type. One reason: tremendous volume of gas moved by centrifugals were not needed. Decisions to build giant am monia plants provided the break for centrifugals, although most of the* big plants required synthesis gas compressed to only 2,000-2,500 psi. Under these conditions centrifugal compressors became the economic choice (CW. Oct. 9, '65, p. 79). m Significant developments from Emery oleochemical research Emery offers low odor polyamide resins for printing inks There's no fongor any need to 'topeckl order" tow odor polyamide resin for flexographic or rotogravure inks. Low odor 1 a uniformly dependable characteristic of /I Kmert*' Polyamide fiesina. Film and foil printed with inks based on Eroertas 1838, 15:15,1530, and 1540 show superiority in the resin odor test, shown below, prescribed by the Flexographic Technical Assn., Inc. in addition to low printed film odor, E m em t Poly amides offer excellent color: improved wet-pack resist ance and iidhesion to polyolefin films; rub, blocking, and smearing resistance; high {floss; and good com patibility with other film-forming resin. For detailed information, write* for Technical Bulletin 446, "EnKiHa Polyamide Resins in Flexographic and. Rotogravure lnks"l Quality Esters for textile lubricants Em ery oleate eaters, widely used in specially lubricants, reflect the outstanding color, odor, and oxidation sta bility of the* KniersoP Oleic Acid from which they are derived. Em ery's methyl, propyl, and glyceride esters, because o f their oily, non-corrosive nature and low poor points, are used in textile oils, m huatwi for ulfurixed lubricants, and in the compounding of specially lubricants. When sulfated, they exhibit interesting surface active properties which have led to their use a w etting agent. A nother Em ery ester, glyceryl toono-olcate, is a longchain mono-ester. W ith its unique oil solubility, small amounts of glyceryl mono-oteate add rust preventative properties to mineral lubricating oils. Technical Bulletin 434A contains specifics lions and properties of Em ery Oleate Esters. Three additional Em ery quality esters are well worth investigating for use as textile lubricants and as com ponent of .textile softeners and finishing compositions: Em ereet 2322 Butyl Stearate. Very low odor and w ater white color, Request D ata Sheet No. 104. Emereat 2320 Butyl Stearate. Priced below 2822 for applications having k m stringent odor and stability requiraments. Request D ata Sheet Mo. 104. Em ery 3981FD Ethylene Glycol Distcarate, a white, m oderately high-melting wax, exhibit good light, boat, and odor stability. Request D ata Sheet No, 105, INDUSTRIES, INC, Organic Chemicals Division Dept. 13?, Carew Tower Cincinnai!, Ohio 45202 imSrmagsk Cdltf-oniiii Vrmty1ndyg?nr<*{Cling??&| Bid,, %Mdnvr? Emery MV.. Good, Tire Mrihos'Un^t- |-;xpnf-r C<iviwy-yfi/ c,\m fnmdi Hams *(%*>? -tefpl O vme-wsn mm tw*% rifs `r-iitipW brorhb-e n Trebri fiuiUXif', 44$, i`*d|4ririd*'- grid \;k:F' f j Tb"--' m %%C t 4 - H A . "Fxn"?y Ohtefw iMtstei" 1 } itei.il bd, f m erer tH-rmearAgutf-i :ff;uAcred a fh<'t rite, F?m-r,v SitolMt F?bvh-nr t\iyekt f>SSliAmi.R' Tiflre, Sir<tet ......... _______________ _____ ____ ____ S ep tem b er 10, 1966 CHEMICAL WEEK 93 C A U S T Pretty ordinary stuff ? That's the way most makers tend to treat it, We don't At Wyandotte, caustic is a key chem ical. This makes it mandatory for us to think of caustic m something special. And to treat it accordingly. That's why we're so fussy about its quality , , . about the economy, effi ciency and speed of its distribution. Why we are continuously expanding our manufacturing facilities to pace our customers' needs for qualify caustic. And that's why we put our technology at your disposal, help you get the most from our products and experience. That's the key chemical concept. Ail Wyandotte customers benefit from it. We don't take any thing for granted. Send in the coupon . . . well provide complete price and shipping information, as well as technical consultation. IC WYA N D OTTE C H E M IC A L S IMOUSTWAfCHEMICALS GROUP, WYANDOTTE.MICH. MOUST???AL CHf-MJCAtl GROUP # Y A N & T T & CHEMICALS CORPORATION 2> PAR TM & N ir 47B VYAM0OTTC, MICHIGAN 4BW NAME,TM, ... . add nm%- -....TM ...... ......._ .. _____ __ __ ,,>>.___ ____ _______ TiTLti..,..,.,,, ^ _ Z.iP. es* L 1 caustic; \ j I8JS liquid*,t.J U% ifqeid. Pia m i meL ` Caustic Seda Bmk. 1* 1 L I Ha*a your wreiwWi ta#t*ei. I s a request life? L j $*; I, J s within arrtis months; ' ' refer; Second Try for DMSO? R A meeting to be MW curly next | m onth to W ashington a y help de- | * die the pharmacological fat of di* | methyl wifaride (DMSO). The cbemI leal has been widely praised as a mir* | acle among miracle irwpi but dtnkal testing 1 DMSO was virtually halted J fat l* t year by the Food & Drug , . A im la te a io n after reaearchrn here ' ' m& abroad reported m e adverse side effects in atite treated with T ft* material. 0 O ct 5, officers of the Dept, of # Health, Education & Welfare will \ meet with several medical researchers : who have had laboratory and clinical ; experience with DMSO, The confer cnee was arranged at the request of Representative Robert Duncan (D., ' Ore,), mnoy of whose timber-country * constituents are keenly interested sn the . fate of DMSO. Reason: in the U.S., f DMSO is a wood chemical. It's de rived commercially from the lignin waste produced to pulping wood chips. FDA won't say what sort of dis- (. cussfon it expects at the coming meet- mg, A spokesman for FDA C m m m - J, sioner James Goddard comments only that "Well listen to what they have to say," Rut one of the physicians who plans to attend, Dr. Arthur Scberbel of the 1 Cleveland Clinic, tells CW he expects 1 "a thorough review of DMSO---its history, the problems that led to the discontinuation of testing, and what we m o do to get it hack into clinical testing," , A thorough review of DMSO is a ; hig order. During the three years since the first reports of its extraordinary itehavior in living organisms, DMSO has been the subject of considerable controversy and considerable bally hoo. If has also been credited with ' an almost unbelievable spectrum of medicinal actions--from relieving headacbes.and alleviating schizophren ia symptoms in humans, to enhancing * _ the efficacy of antibiotic and nutrient materials applied to fruit trees. The singular property of DMSO Is its ability to pass through biological membranes: it can be applied extern ally, then penetrate deep into the body of an organism. For example, doctors have reported successful treat ment of the pain of bursitis or rheu matism simply by swabbing DMSO onto the skin near the affected joint, Moreover, DMSO seems able so carry other substances with it as it courses through living tissues. Finally, the permeating action of DMSO seems to he completely reversible-- le., there is no permanent effect, on membranes once the DMSO has passed through them. A1I of this was noted by the men who did the initial research on DMSO: Stanley Jacob, a surgeon on the faculty of the University of Ore gon Medical School: and Robert Hezschter of Crown Zellerbach Corp.'s {San Francisco) Research Center at Camas, Wash,* First reports of these extraordinaryproperties of DMSO appeared in '63, in news releases from the University of Oregon. Early in '64, the first re ports in medical journals came out. Six drug houses help CZ pro duce medicinal-grade DMSO: Ameri can Home Products, Oeigy, Merck, Sobering, Squibb and Syatex; (CZ has an agreement with the university whereby the company and the school will share equally all royalties from sales of medicinal DMSO by licensees.) By lan, *65 the popular press had discovered DMSO and doctors curi ous about the "miracle" began trying it on a great variety of afflictions. Physicians not affiliated with any formal testing program were experi menting with the drug, with neither the knowledge nor the supervision of FDA or the drug companies, And laymen who had read of the "miracle" and bad become convinced that it could 'help them were treating themselves with industrial-grade DMSO, By '65, more than. 1,000 doctors in the U.S. were trying DMSO; and --as even the staunchest supporters of the drug concede--the situation had gotten out of hand. The several reports of - adverse reactions to DMSO caused alarm in Washington. Most important of these: researchers here and in England had found that heavy doses of DMSO caused changes lit the leases of the eyes of experimental animals. The doses used were much larger than CpZrcSiVm-U-i-km im-4 dr. OTMbrSOcVpi-rdrk-d-t,,Vciwvrvrvr.i latittstriiiily as solvent for a wiik varlftjr of maiti-isl, iwM'J'mg polym*; syntlsefse Itfcrr pre-fee as Si in quantltf. You'll make better zinc dust pants with this eledroBK watchdog" working for you Smaller zinc particles--that's one of the secrets of producing better zinc dust paints. Smaller particles, with their greater surface area per unit of volume, increase contact between the zinc dost and the substrate. Result: improved conductivity and increased corrosion resistance. Both Federated"s No. 111 and No. 555 zinc dusts are electronically monitored to ensure that their particle size wilt average between 5 and 7 microns. The electronic monitor also controls the high purity and low oxide content of No. i 11 and No, 5S5 zinc dusts. This ensures full reproducibility of oil absorp tion, specific gravity and color. Your benefit; uniform results with your zinc dust paints and printers. Is it worth the effort, to produce zinc tins! under the exacting requirements of our electronic monitor? We think so. And so doourcustomers.Weinviteyou to test the* zinc dusts in your own formulations. For samples or informative literature write: Federated Metals Division of Asarco, 120 Broadway, New York, N.Y. 10005. AMERICAN auMX&'r m o & m t r e p in in g COMPANY S ep tem b er 10, 1966 CHEMICAL WEEK 9 5 ***and tower costs too! 9 If you have a w ater clarification problem, consider the benefits to be secured by using an efficient, fow cost fioceufani--DARLING'S Im proved Anim al Glue, Not only cleaner water, but in some instances, the- recovery of process materials will save you money, DARLING'S Im proved A nim al G lue used as a floccuiant has dem onstrated its efficiency and econ omy in many diversified industries. May we show you how it can effec tively solve your water clarification problem. The entire cost is on us. You've nothing to lose,.,m uch to gain. Check with your Darling repre sentative ; or write or phone collect to Glue Division, 312/927-3000. B i l l l i G ' i COMPANY m m division 4201$outfs Ashland Amue, Chicago, Illinois 60609 those being tried on human patients, and no lens effects in these patients had been reported; nonetheless in Nov. '65 FDA ordered a halt to test ing of DMSO on humans, At that time, it's estimated, nearly 50,000 per sons had been (reared with the drug in the U.S. atone. It, has become dear that PDA's crackdown on DMSO is one of the most unpopular moves the agency has ever made. Physicians who believe that the compound has great clinical promise are afraid that large-scale testing may never b<* resumed. They also question whether FDA is any longer in a position to make an ob jective assessment of DMSO, However that may be, DMSO is on the shelf for now, Some small test programs are still operating, un der FDA supervision. Five "sponsors" am being allowed to me DMSO on some 100 patients who have life-threatening diseases- ~e,g,, multiple sclerosis and scleroderma, FDA won't tell who these spon sors arc, but one is Cleveland Clinic's Sclwrbd, I h tells CW that he is using the material on some 40 scleroderma patients. (Scleroderma in a condition that affects collagen, a fibrous com ponent important in the structure of skin and bones. Changes in the col lagen render the skin and other soft tissues rigid, the joints stiff.) According to Scherbei, his patients have received frequent eye examina tions in the course of DMSO treat ment, and none has shown "any ocular abnormality thought to he related to DMSO" But last week an FDA spokesman said the agency knows of no evidence of sufficient significance to support wider use of DMSO as an experimen tal drug, And there the matter stands. Stanley Jacob--now engaged in an imal experimentation on the use of DMSO an an adjunct in the treating of arterial diseases--;;p he hope, some "washback" of data and clinical experience from Europe may help bring a break in the present stale mate. Indeed, Europe will he holding the attention of DMSO experts in the months ahead. Early in November a conference at the University of Vi enna will be devoted to the drug and to European doctors' experience with it. More important, by year's end DMSO will have readied the market as a prescription drug in West Ger many and Austria, m CHEMICAL WEEK September 10, 1986 Our competitors make white mineral oils just as good as ours in every way. Brand "X'! Soniex Brand In fact, you couldn't tell the difference if you didn't see our name on the drum. AHof us have to meet FDA require ments. We maintain elaborate qualify control procedures to insure quality. So what reason can we give you to do business with us? Here's our ace In the hole; We Provide Local Availability. SONTEX brand white mineral oils art available from 125 strategic stock points. Who can equal this? MINERAL OIL REFINING CO, Dickinson, Texas DISTRIBUTED IOCAUY BY MtKESSON & ROBBINS CMEMtCAt DEPARTMENT !Titanium !replaces cast iron in Solvay %*** skw*5*.&>m **wax#***1s-****** 4*m ammonia stills for lower costs, longer service, reduced maintenance Titanium replaced 4-inch diameter x 5/16-Ineh wall east iron tubes in am monia stills and enabled Allied Chemi cal to significantly reduce costs ta four soda ash plants. Titanium readily with stands the severe corrosive attack of ammonia, ammonium chloride and hot brine, Allied selected titanium to replace cast iron because of titanium's projected three-iimes-longer service life. This is expected to reduce retubing labor costs, extend header sheet life and minimize downtime, Maximum economic peifornuujee is vital in soda ash manufacture, with its high fixed investment and tight profit margins. After an intensive metals eval uation program Allied specified titani um tubes in ammonia recovery on a company-wide basis. Where header sheets are in good condition cast iron pipe is replaced with 0,030" wall tita nium, Where header sheets need re placement, the heat exchangers are redesigned around the properties of m " OD x .030" wall CodeWeld ti tanium tubing, Redesigned titanium heat exchangers have higher heat trans fer efficiency, are more compact, cost less to install and maintain. Bonus Savings in Steam. Tests at Allied' Syracuse, M.Y. plant suggest that titanium tubes will offer a 2% savings In process steam--worth 11500 per month -- because of its superior heat-transfer, One half million feet of titanium tubing, , , this is the use of titanium in the soda ash industry to date. You too can engineer your way around tough coirosion problems with tita nium. Titanium Metals Corporation of America's Application Development Center can assist you with chemical, metallurgical, or engineering data, a testing program, prototype fabrication, and technical assistance to your com mercial fabricator. All you have to do is ask. Ask too for 1'MCA's Design Data Book for the Chemical Processor. TIM ET / / t.a n / u m 'T I T A N I U M M M ' m i M C O K P O K A T I O N O F A M IB tC A 233 B r o a d w a y , N aw York* N ,Y , lOOOT imw&<*uimMm cresco m m :xn Countdown 10, N otify Production of im pending order 9. Inform Shipplug of se e d for tank track 8, Start order processing 7. Inspect truck for correct hosin g and cleanliness 6, lo a d truck 5, R a n analysis o n shipm ent 4, Check applicable freight rates 3, G et proper approvals 2. D eterm ine best routes, bridge lim itations 1, Roll out T hree hours from notification to roll out. T h at's all the time it took for Eastman people to process the urgently needed order of NIPA (ndsopropylanilmeL a new product recently m arketed. W hile the track's m otor was being warmed up for the cross country run, orders were signed, approvals obtained and the material loaded. Next day, as promised, the shipm ent was at the cus tom er's p lant, alm ost 750 m iles away. O nly twentynine hours after the order was received, W ith Eastman service, all systems m e "GO ," Interested personal seivice-alw ayswhetj you buy from Eastman thmore than40industrial ini specialtychemicals,Eastman ves these Industries: $i8$ * ifteili *Cfwftal sjKrfaNi*Cesnrtfa Drugs. Fuxts industrial Jsifs igiut * Mute, *raMi*si*l iswpirs Pttreftsam Plasties * Prirttef Inks * tabtar . TUI properties m i shipping information on Eastman industrial and specialty tsicais, see Chemical Materials Catalog, page E-t, or Chemical Week Buyers" da, page 101,' CHEMICAL PRODUCTS, INC, CHEMICALS DIVISION, KINQSPORT, TEN. Sussidino? of Kodak Compiny m m ornai; tsitiii mmitti PfBstSs, Inc,, Kingsport Tetas,; Atlanta; Boston; Chicago; Cincinniti; el**!nd; OsiWSj CMHrol; C?aei)boo, N,C,; Houston; Mint* Al; Now im t City; PMitfatphIt; St, touts. 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Write Procter & Gam ble, Industrial C hem icals S a le s 1 Dept., P.O. Box 599S2, Cincinnati, Ohio 45201, i Service isn 't extra, it's Just part of P&G. j I S prqctm am m ii. mmmmi %m &m m m. m u m s qmsios s jL* Amines Epoxides * Fatty Acids Fatty Alcohols ' I Fatty Esters Glycerine Methyl Esters !} too CHEMICAL WEEK September 10, 1966 } \ I fm kff dry ferri! from revolving drum appears as 'clinkers' enlarged 13,000 time*, Magnet Makers Turn Up the Heat { uto In du stry sets the pace In g ro w in g market for p e rm a n e n t m a g n e ts , p a rticu la rly c e ra m ic s Thanks mainly to zooming sales of electronic equipment and electric mo tors for auto use, producers of the permanent magnets used in such de vices are in an expansion phase that shows few signs of ending. Saks of the magnets, made of special alloys am! ceramic ferrite compounds,* arc l expected to double within the next tit years from the present $5(}-ohI- lion/year level, Getting ready for this sales spurt are: * Crucible Steel Corp, (Pittsburgh). It produces both the relative new ce ramic magnets and the well estab lished alnico metal types, and has Just dedicated a new muttimillion-dollar permanent magnet plant at Elizabeth- ville. K y. Management has already \ approved plans to expand the ceramic r n u o ore o sdh -so w? mmat to,ri m-my i: i%SEtoi m'A cxyiG ri rito'rrip Tib>Yi%hto!; triirtum tetrit borri .e,,!CSr, rim *rA for r it o * V-'i til vukni su?!. Itorrii<-s >: tiw pi' f a (<Ytiikrxf'i tor<ii vtM'.h irony <nktorma, rnnim itok, firitol trirtifr a ?ri Uyx rt Nl'Tiisismi wikhoU ) Mift fig y iU's ma n*,%4 tt mot} CriGG rii .tomi ; tor-fririst"?. n%h , gh! m <T?br TV Gdtto facilities of this plant in the fall, and again next spring, Westinghouse Electric Corp. (Pittsburgh), sole producer of sulfatemodified strontium fertile ceramic permanent magnets. It is com pleting an expansion at Its Blairsville. Pa,, plant. This will hike its magnet capacity from approximately 1.5 mil lion to 4 million Ibs./ycar (CW Mar ket Newsletter, Oct. 23, '65), Stackpole Carbon Co. (St, Marys, Pa.). This company has roughly dou bled its magnetic powder plant ca pacity at Kane, Pa. Stackpole sells both ferrite powders and sintered barium ferrite magnets. Indiana General Corp. (Val paraiso, Ind.). IGC, which claims to be the largest manufacturer of mag netic materials, and first to produce ceramic magnets commercially in the II.S,, is doubling permanent magnet capacity. These expansions are all to boost output of ceramic magnet materials: not for enlargement of alnico plants, Alnico, a castable metallic alloy, has been around for over 3b years, has perhaps 60G oi the market. Ceramic magnets, made by pressing and sin tering powdered ferrites, bus com mercial stride about live years ago. By opening new markets in a tangc of productsTMpower tools and kitchen appliances to office equipment and automobiles--they have shared 40(of PM sales airem!) bales of cet antic magnets arc now estimated at SI5-18 mil lion/year. The boom is gaining strength large ly because of the automotive indus try, When Dennis's industrialists be gan using small electric magnet motors in autos a few years ago, most magnet people foresaw no big market potential. But the tmto makers have recently committed themselves to more motors hi autos---there were 19 different magnet motors in seine '65 Chryslers...to opetate car windows, fans, scats, washer pump motors, etc. Also, ceramic magnet motois arc replacing tunny "electroiiekT motors --those that depend on electromag nets!, The new motors have greater September 10, 1966 CHEMICAL WEEK 161 S P E C IA L T IE S P m srn d dmh of m m m ie mo0 ittfc material Is re e d y for kiln. W e rk p re p a re * n ew 200-ton p re ss fo r operation. 102 CHEMICAL WEEK September 10, 1968 efficiency, simplicity and lighter weight, are smaller, cheaper and make it possible to make easily portable' appliances and tools. Each magnet type lends itself to . different uses. Alnico magnets are | selected usually where small surface { areas and tong lengths are needed; | ceramics can be made into flat plates that have a large surface. Hie ferrites are brittle anti tower in ten sile strength; alnico is better for mag nets that must operate at elevated temperatures and where shock tesis-y tisrtee is a prime requirement, \ Right now about 95if of ceramic [ magnets sold in this country are bad- j um ierrlte types, although Westing-,; house is going in heavily for a sulfate r modified strontium type, ' Both alnico and ceramic magnets"J ate truly long lasting. Tortus M. ij Wheeler, president of Crucible Steel | Magnet Division, says "a PM retains f more than ')!% of its magnetism" k practically forever. It loses about \% : of its magnetism as soon m ifs er.er* ; gized, and 0,2% during the next 11 f months, for a total loss of approxl-1 mately 1.2% during the first year, | Anti our best guess is that it loses * only another 192 during the next , i 00,000 years." , | Long After Lodestoac: The natural ly occurring iron ore, magnetite or lodesione, was the first known per manent magnet material. But the first man-made PMs were made cummer-1 daily by magnetizing high carbon steel, Tungsten magnet steels were de-;J veioped next, followed by chromium I alloy steels. Next came cobalt steels.j The alloy element contents in these T later steels add to their ability to re-lf twain magnetic, carbon steels are'f readily magnetized hut lose iheir | `force field" quickly. I Big improvement came in the *30$ f with development of alnico, a metal lie alloy of alumitnim-nickel-iron. withf cobalt, copper or titanium added in certain cases. This alloy is cast in molds to near finished shape and| ground to specific tolerances. Suchf alloys soon became the "wonder met' ah" of magnetism. Until I960, when the ceramic per manent boom began, alnico and per maneot magnet were synonymous. This is no longer the ease. The big,| reason for the ceramics' success is that! they are cheaper. A ceramic material suitable for door latches costs about SPECIALTIES $iJO /lh,; a comparable atulco magset,, about $2J0/ib, Keyed to Chemical fmeemt Ce ramic magnets involve a (rue CPI process. The processes lor permanent ce ramic magnets originated with a Dutch company, Philips of Eind hoven in *56, but North American philips Co, (New York) owns the : ILS, patents (2,762,777--nonorieat: gd ami 2,752,778--oriented), which it license to magnet producers in the : tl-S. NAP purchased all the Dutch firm's patents, including futures, which | were put into trust in the V S . by the | Child) company in *39. WestiagI house has a U.S, patent on the sulfate1 modified ferrites. i The ceramic types are made from I alkaline carbonates (e.g., barium, j' strontium, lead), mixed with iron I oxide and calcined for about three | hows. The resulting ferrite is then : ground to a Sue powder, pressed Into l shape and fired in a kiln at 2000f IK F, I So-called oriented grades arc ground I into powder with wafer and wet1 pressed; partlyoriented and nonI oriented grades are dry-pressed, then ' fired. Oriented means controlled posh I. tion of the molecules (all point the I : same way) in the magnet; nonorient, ed is random. When the ferrite paws> Uer ss wet- or dry-pressed into the ; designated shape lr< a die, iho grains 1; of the magnetic compound are aligned 1; in magnetic field, ; I he ability of a pernianeai magnet ` to support an external magnetic field : results from locked-! n positions of 7 small magnetic "domains." These i1 locked-in positions, once established by Initial magnetization, arc held until acted upon by forces exceeding these Iwked-in forces, "Coercive force" of a iftugnet reflects its resistance to demagnefiiatioo. you we snipping wuw bwead and i l H l K W MHf wd mm c- <*>Miri Uf , ^ spread itt SthLZinmm"mm* A magnet's coercive force is meas ured in oersteds, fa alnieo magnets, I coercive force values are 400-1,800 | oetwteads: in ceramics, 2,000-4,000. iiatws is the unit term for residual induct ion, on a square inch basis "BH mux'1denotes peak energy prod uct. 8 stands for flux density; H, for Coercive force (gauss and oersteds), ^mioricnted ceramic magnets proI duce about a i million energy prod uct (BH max),.oriented consssietiliy produces 3.5 million BH max, few er Package: These high levels VULCAN. 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Wafer Repvilancy for Com*tlc*; Plus soft, smooth feel tor creams.,, sunscreen compatibility for suntan lotions ., lubric ity tor mascara and lipstick.,, gloss im provement and softening for hair sprays ... chemical inertness for products that touch the sain. Release tor O w n Protectant: Silicons treatment makes oven surfaces resist hard sticking of overentfrusiasiiealfycookot) casseroles. Wiping replaces scraping. UNBREAKABLE QUALITY Silicones work ail these improvements at very low conceniratkms and so are often handled as emulsions to disperse their potency equably. While the viscosity ol h silicone oil to ba emulsified will vary, depending on the job it's asked to do. (there's an optimum viscosity for each job), all oils invariably receive the skinful emulsification for which Union Carbide has long been known. Our emuisiona re sist `frseze-fhaw breakage through repeated cycles, and can be heavily tap-wafer diluted (to as low as 0,3% solids) without creaming under reasonable storage conditions. (Mild agitation restores victims of unreason able conditions.) This quality means more re'ieble performance for your product Have you investigated what silicones can do lor your products, in the product, on the label? We offer formulation assist ance.In tho development of new products and the improvement of old. Take advan tage of u s . . . with the coupon below. r-*--H iS IL IC O N E S ; Ut. v r C o m , i t "A.tn; H i. 1 S l.ic m OS liiU i-O f I >:i "a'k AiO' ,o. Ge#: /5fi J do* vs i, y isai? ! :-ru fci- -jasa m year siSI- 1 r;-'%s tor Cf-torT.-isC- j ' C s n v ^ A -rw oi*. Spci8!|i* $ Nam. ..... __TW.... . I CempiMW,...... _ ........... .... I M e m . . ___ __ ... ............ I Citjo,,, . ... __ of magnetic force mean motors made with ceramic magnets have high effi ciency, These motors (up to W h.p.) arc operated on direct current and have made "cordless" batteryoperated appliances a practical house hold reality. But PM motor applica tion is not limited to DC operation. Where light weight and small size arc Important, a rectifier diode can be incorporated in the PM motor cir cuit so that AC can be used. Since electric power in an auto is limited, and auto makers are very cost conscious, the relatively cheap ceramic magnetic motors have taken most of the car business, Ford Motor feck that ceramic magnets are so im portant to its operations that it may put in its own magnet-making fa cilities. The shortage of copper now makes PM motors look even more attractive to the automotive people. In a win dow lift motor, for example, two-thirds o f the motor's copper is in the stator coils that supply the magnetic field. Such copper-wound electromag nets can be replaced with ceramic magnets. The magnet is cheaper, and there's m labor cost for winding the field coil. Ceramic Uncertainties: Not all ce ramic magnet makers agree on the best recipe for a magnet, Westmghouse holds a patent (U.S. 3,113,92?) for sul fate-modified strontium ferrite compo sition. it claims magnets made of this have the highest coercive force of any of the currently popular produc tion products. Westinghouse says that in laboratory experiments with sulfatemodified strontium ferrite, it has gone up to as high as 5,300 oersteds and repeatedly averages 4,500 oersteds. Alien Bradley Corp, (Milwaukee) largely discounts the strontium fer rite magnet, at least for the near future. And it also rates lead fer rite, the third ceramic type of higher coercive, quite low, AB says the lead compound is difficult to handle, al though it has high degrees of residual induction. Size for size and weight for weight, the price of the basic raw materials {barium or strontium) is incidental, says Indiana General; processing ac counts for costs. Arnold Engineering, which has worked with both barium and. strontium ferrites, says both are competitive in price and magnetic i m CHEMICAL WEEK September 10, 1966 properties. Prices are dependent on size and complexity of the piece part as well as on quantity desired by he user. Magnets have to compromise be tween cost ami properties. Some ma terials can make excellent magnets, but usually at too high a cost, Arnold Engineering Co. {Marengo, lll.j makes a costly platinum cobalt may net, for example, that is used for mi crominiature application. Improvements Coming: The need for ceramic magnets, will more than double in 10 years--potential k n.si early exhausted. In '65. ceramic magnet produciion was about 7 mil lion lbs., including barium, strontium and load ferrites. Better materials will help sustain magnet growth. Indiana General says ft has achieved, in laboratory samples, intrinsic coer | cive force of 12.U03 oersteds--with out strontium. Theoretically, maxi mum intrinsic coercive force has been f calculated by Dutch scientists to be 17,000 to 1.8,000 oersteds--using bar ium or strontium ferrites. Ceramic 1 magnets that are now being mass pto* duced have a force of ahout 4,000 oersteds. With or without improvements, the I list of uses lor magnets is growing, I and ceramics go into most of the it, w J products. One potential application: Use of opposing magnets to act as spring cars for trains. Ceramic mag | nets will never totally replace ainko; but the field of PMs would not be growing so fast now if is were not fur 1I the ceramic permanent magnets. It all adds up to a long-time boom for magnetic materials. Foam Control Agent A Z Products Inc. tEaton Pmk, Fla.), manufacturer of ore flotation reagents, has developed a new chemi cal defoaming agent The new prod uct, Defoamer 15-E, is a balanced liquid fatty acid Wend reinforced with special additives. it is suggested for control of foam in the manufacture of phosphoric atad by the wet process, it can he added to the acid train as HKH-active con centrate or can lie dispersed in water of any desired concentration. Stable emulsions cats be prodnet-d by slight mechanical agitation or by bubbling air through the defoanitvwater mixture. Home proving ground: Will our silicones help you win the marketing battle.,,in the product...on the label? functional fluids from S J ! SILICONES %spt#mbr 10, 1966 CHEMICAL WEEK 105 The Reichhold eye for the future. Our eye for the future makes sure you get the basic chemicals you need in tjie form you need precisely when you need them.Whether you're formulatin' pilot batches of k v / pi oil n e ts or production runs of present products made better, remember Reichhold for basic chemicals. -'re.. x3( s ' ;'/ *Of|s.cj'&amtf *s# * Usiteit, r4 VHt'Mt, Armymtlv1, * s!|g ! * Im S ti -i ic i i s i c j * f > at *Ms/ >ittut1tim* W 'i 'wSrt-'' if ,tt>i... ;it"' I l i COUNTDOWN ,, t,'!'J 1 3-rnnufe summary of this w e e k 's new products H tW EQUIPMCNT 5PfE#?W 50i?T CONTROL:- Motorola in stru m entation and Control Inc. ( P ,0 . B ox 5409, Phoenix, A riz. 85010) has developed a 10-eoni- joatid supervisor)' control system for plant, pipeline, electric and water Utility applications. The packaged system enables installation by the user, eliminates custom engineering, T h e solid-state system, called T M -- Im 10, controls and monitors circuit-breaker and relay positions,, c lo s u r e gcttsators, alarm s for pressure, level, tem perature current, etc., positions I for valves, op eration s o f com p resso rs and pumps. FILTER H O LD ER; Millpore Filter C orp. (B ed ford , Mass. 01730) has come up with an im proved-design Millipore filter holder for w ithstanding lO.OOO-psi islet pressure. T yp ical applications are filtration of ultra- .dean liquids and gases in high-pressure litres. The unit holds a 47-m tn ,diaracter filter. D im en sion s: 3% in. diameter, I >%ti in. high. CO ND ENSATE R E C O V E R Y ; Graver Wafer Conditioning Co, (U n io n , R J, 07083) n ow has a new p rocess for economical refining of con densate for reuse as boiler feedwater in installations where complete condensate dem ieralteers arc not necessary. The system, called GRP, combines sodium cycle ion exchange and filtration to remove soluble and su spend ed impurities. The p ro cess removes water hardness, copper and iron at temperatures to 3 0 0 F, Cation resins have been developed to withstand these temperatures without breakdown, COL!) PIPE JO IN T; T u b e Turns Division of C hem etron Corp, (Louis ville, K y .) is offering a new pipe joint that perm its alum inum and stain less steel p ip in g to be used in th e same installation. T h e joint is especially' suited for cryogenic uses, is made of alum inum ami stainless steel, which arc meMs that can n ot be joined satisfactorily by conventional welding, EPIDIASCOPE: Jartell-Ash C o . (590 L in co ln St., Waltham, Mass. 02159) is the agent for Metals Research Ltd.'s (England) new epidia scope, which c m be used with an image analyzing computer for examina tion of large, solid objects, Typical applications: the examination of brickwork, concrete and metals for flaws, porosity, granular size, the f study of crack d en sity in ceram ics and an alysis of fibers It can a lso be cti to analyze electron m icrographs, photographs, negatives an d transpan vies. A large area can be covered and 25-lb. samples can be analyzed. W SPECIALTIES E S i 'A P S V L A N T ; Emerson & C u m in g Inc, (C a n to n , M a ss.) is market ing 4 new two-part epoxy castin g resin. Stycast 2 0 5 0 is said to h ave low viscosity and -long pot-life, can be cured at 140-150 F in three hours, or at m o m temperature in tw o or three days. T h e product is supplied in two-container kits, in 2-, 10- and 50-lb, sizes at approximately $l/fb, AGIO neutralization . , . without scaling m sludge formation, and a t costs comparable to lime, de pending upon the process , . . these benefits are inherent In M acox4 magiK'Mum oxide Cor acid effluent neutrali zation, reaction with mineral adds, and pH adjustment. Cano sugar mills find Maoox a scaieoliminating, cost-saving substitute foe lime. Magnesium Bisulfite pulp milk roly mi M m o x , Magnesium compounds utilize Maoox for the magnesium coraixmmil, Acids are neutral land with Maoox a t 1.65 times more efficiency than with hydrated lime, and with the rate of reactivity adjusted to improve process performance! M.Aoox is urdunited in supply, avail able in bulk or Isays anywhere in the world. It is produced from high-purity, iwleeiivsiy-mincd natural magnesite, in 90 te>1*5',;, Mg<> purities, in 13 standard Alto,. K >r acid n e u tm lia a tie r., c o n ta c t T-ciimi;.d Field Service a t Basie Cheml< Is, g te ifonna ,Building, Cleveland, Ohio 41(15- phone 216-241-5000; twx M fo-w fi,, B U T Y L -B A S E BEDD ING A D H E S IV E ; A butyl elastom eric polymer compound is offered by Steelcote M fg. Co, (3418 G ratiot, St, Louis, A oivMHOMop mmta id ta September 10, 1366 CHEMICAL WEEK 107 COUNTDOWN Oxidative Dehydrogenation $f In-dopth study of tlie new technique that promises to opart op cheaper route to olefins and diolefins, 12 pg. Ethylene, in two parts $1,10 Penetrating look at the worldwide ethylene Industry, with emphasis on the technology behind the gisnf now plants. 25 pg. Ammonia $1 Here's the latest box score on tit burgeoning U.S, synthetic ammonia industry. 16 pg. The Challenge to Research $1 [J Research productivity is doelm/ng at a time when the nation's scientific effort faces a mighty challenge; to support swelling populations, 20 pg, Phosphates $1 JO Ostalied examination of the market factors that are pushing phosphate rock production to new highs, 24 pg. Mo. 63103) for bonding glass to wood or alum inum in windows and doors. The premium-priced com p ou n d is claim ed to provide a water proof seal and to withstand contraction and expansion. It is packaged in 1~ and 5-gal, pails, and 5 5 -g a l. drams for use w ith p u m p in g equipm ent, ; P O L Y E ST E R SIZ IN G A G E N T : G eneral Aniline & Film Corp, (140 j W est 51 S t, Newf York 1 0 0 2 0 ) is offering P olectro n 1 3 0 , a p o ly (v in y l- . p y rro lid o n e/eth y l acrylate) copolymer emulsion for use in com bination i with latexes to make polyester filam ent yarn sizes. A ccord in g to GAP, ' the new emulsion-- a 40% solids content and subm icron particle size -- , is stable to mechanical shear, has good freeze-thaw resistance, and is com p atib le w ith m any com m ercial latexes, tolerates high levels of pig- ; men! and filler loading, t i W A T E R -S O L U B L E L A N O L IN : A water-soluble form of lanolin tor ? toiletries, cosmetics and consumer product formulations is being mar- : keted by A k o la c Chemical Corp. (3440 Fairfield Rd., Baltimore, Md. f 21226), Sipon L L S, a blend of lanolin alcohol ethoxylate sulfate and i lauryl alcoh ol ethoxylate sulfate, is said to give good foaming properties, hard-water stability and low cloud point. Sample, experimental or multi- ( drum quantities are available, Sulfur $1 Frasch sulfur is outdistancing re covered sulfur in the competition for world markets, 16 pg. Detergents $1 How tho switch to "soft" detergents is revolutionizing the giant U.S, sur factant industry, 16 pg. Pesticides, in two parts Study of the U.S. pesticide industry, with comprehensive directory of products and producers. Part I: Insecticides, MitlcMes, Nematecidea, ftodentfcfdas $ Q Part It; Fungicidas and Herbicidas $1 Q | Mailing address: . ; \ | "Chemical Week: ' I I Reprint D ept, ' 1 1 3 3 0 m l 42nd Street I | New York, N.Y. 1 0 0 3 6 I t '' * Please send me the CW J j Reports checked above, J I " I j Enclosed is ............. | 1 Send price o f , , , , , , .copies \ i * | (Bulk prices on request) l i h M w m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m S A N TISTIC K R U B B E R C O ATIN G : National Milling & Chemical Co, : (4601 Flat Rock R d ., Philadelphia 1912?) has developed a new slab ' release com p oun d that adheres to oil-coated rubber stock. JM -53 corn- : pound comes in an aq ueous cream -colored paste that is diluted in water I before use; the low -sud s solution can be used for dipping, spraying or coating natural or synthetic stock. The compound is packed in 55-gal,, op en -h ea d , lever lock-type n onreturnab le drums, { N O N SP R E A D IN G IN ST R U M E N T OIL: A new synthetic lube fluid, , Folcfaem Oil 461, that stays where it is applied in fine instrum ents, time- * pieces and electro n ic eq u ipm en t, has been introduced by William F. j Nye la c . (P.O. Box G-927, New Bedford. Mass, 02742). F u ich em is a \ tow-viscosity o il that Sows easily at temperatures as tow as --20 P yet will not migrate or creep at 200 F or higher. The oil is stabilized to pre vent oxidation or gumming and inhibited to prevent corrosion of die metals used in instrument construction, P L A SJ'ISO L M O D IF IE R R E S IN : Goodyear Chemical Division (Niag- j ara Falls, N .Y .) is marketing a new piastisol modifier resin for expanded \ vin y l compounds in w h ich low plasticizer level is d esired (e .g ,, in flooring ; an d fabric coatings). According to the company, the low m olecular f w eight of P lio v ic `M-50 gives piastisols low melt viscosities and low ! fu sion temperatures, The new resin is also suggested for use in au tom o tive caulks and sealants, rotationally cast d olls and other toys, etc. H O T -M E L T A D H E SIV E : In stan t L o k 34-2900, a versatile hot-nick t adhesive for ice cream carious, bacon cartons and bag tip seals, has been ; introduced by National Adhesive Division (750 Third Ave., New York 10017), Final bonds arc said to withstand temperatures from subzero . to over 140 F. The new adhesive, available in crushed form, is said to i work well in almost all commercially available prem elt-type applicate- [ 108 CHEMICAL WEEK September 10, 1966 LUCIDOL leads again . ., this time with THE LOWEST TEMPERATURE ORGANIC PEROXIDE COMMERCIALLY AVAILABLE J1PERS0L* 227 0 0 (CH3}2CH--C--0--0--C--CH(ch3)2 Lupersol 227 is a clear, colorless, 50% solution of diisobutyryf peroxide In mineral spirits, it is more active at lower temperatures than any other unpromoted free radical source for sale today, Lupersol 227 lias great potential in high-pressure ethylene polymerizations where it will initiate lower temperature reactions than were previously obtainable to give polyethylene of higher density and greater linearity. Lower temperature and more economical polymer]* : zations of vinyl chloride and other vinyl monomers are also made possible by Lupersol 227. With its wide range :of solubility in 'most organic solvents and monomers, Lupersol 227 will initiate many other polymerizations at lower temperatures than formerly were possible -- clear down to room temperature in some cases. For technical bulletins and samples, fill in and mall the coupon to our Commercial Development Dept, thermal m m m m m m 0.2 nwlir tfution in minar#) *pMi* TEMPERATURE fC) HALT UFE (hr#.) 30 17.1 34 10.0 40 3.9 SO 1.28 0-2 molar olutlon In Senza 30 245 W A L L A C E a Tt8 R N A N I N C . micidql DIVISION j Z Z fn m * ^ A % * 0 I* tornire, Toronto taf*#*; y*ALL*$SATWNAN 9? $*rNHiy F m ^7?A dLe& MORE NEW IDEAS IN 4RHANtG-#ftGXI&E> TECHNOLOGY Lupersol 22? * isn't the only new produel at Luddol, Our Commercial Development Department is evaluating many other new and different peroxidic and non-peroxidic initiators for possible commercialization, interested? Mail the Coupon TODAY. ``Refrigerated shipment required. Commercial Development Department LUCIDOL DIVISION 1742 Military Road Buffalo, New York 14240 Please send------Technical Sulletin(s) and Q a 'sample of your Lupersol 227. Please send information on the foilsw ing type of initiator (indicate chemical type and/or activity) Add'! Requirements Application Nam#-- Company, $tr*#t_-- City- _ZIp_ September 10, 1966 CHEMICAL WEEK 109 c i} X X c r r~ ^ ~ ALLEGHENY INDUSTRIAL CHEMICAL DJV. AMERASE CORP. AgencyW, t, Twm C*., I I * . ........... .................. 42 M.UM-88AM.SY CO. Agency-- fn to li A., Inc. 2nd ie * r AMERICAN CAS COMPANY, MARATHON CHEMICAL PRODUCTS Agency- J. A. CWBIS* . . . . . . .................. ...................... >4 AMERICAS AIZE-PRODUCS CO. Agency-- Ssshsp, K*ph * t 1-, Inc. ? AMERICAN MINERAL SPIRITS CO., A OIV, OF UNION OL CS, OF CALI FORNIA Agency-*Lev Simm. t,, lut, . . . . . . . . ... .................. t AMERICA SMSLT8S AND REFINING 00, FEDERATED METALS DIVISION Agent/TMCjm Umts, fee. ......................... . . . ............... . - " ARCHER DANIELS MIDLAND CO. Agency--O m m Strack & Soumit, Inc, >6 ARUSHA CHESICAI.S CO. A*?--PRWS! * itstft, lac................ ARMOUR INDUSTRIAL NITROSEN WV., ARMOUR AGRICULTURAL CHEMI CAL CO, .Asemr- -Ulfec. Nani B<* & U , I .............. ......... 1 BANKERS' TRUST CS, Ageney-^O*., O<**, 8e*>h, Inc.................. JO BASF, COLORS & CHEMICALS, INC. Agwsey--A rtiw Esteomt Atteintes .. 103 BASIC INC. Agtney--Gclwil Ai*, Agency - - . ................ LOT BENRET INDUSTRIES, Ii , Agaiwy-- SfeiAtsn Ad**rting . . . . . . . U BORDEN CHEMICAL CO., THE Agency t* m tm fc I I lac. ............ 1 CABOT CORPORATION, OXIDES 81V. AgencyTM3. 6. Kwten & . , . - 7t-7A CATAUN CORP., DIV, OF ASHLAND OIL & REFI NINO CO. Agsncj" Walt .J. fiailash' Ai........................................................ CHEMICAL WMSmiCTIO C6RP. Agency-- M Po, Inc.......... .......... IL 40-41 CHEMICAL ME, CD, Ageac-- RwNWn. SCt*n*r & $ta*tr, I , . . . . . 44 CHEVRON CHEMICAL CO., 08II1TI 01V, Agec/-~8jtis, Bnrtvs, Dtwtine ft S. , ......... .......................... . . . . . . . . . Si CLARK BROS., CO. DIVISIN DF DRESSER INDUSTRIES AOfncy- CfWfcs N. SksN Altee., lac..................................... .............. . M CPASE C8WAIY As**..-Vit MaRIanO & ASOC., Inc. .................. . 50-S CABLI NS & CO GLUE IVISJ8S / t m m -- M n m , Meyer 4 Km, 1st. . 90 DORR*OLIVER, IN, A * ? -- Bas*, Inc. ....................... . .. . 5S-O DOW CHEMICAL CO., THE Aganey- - MaeManv. Mut & Aduras, lac. .. 77 DOW CORNINO OMS. A-pacy-Sismi 4 C,st* * ,, lat............ 69-M, EASTMAN CHEMICAL PRODUCTS INC, CHEMICALS DIV. Ajtaty- Prsd V,-::: C, , .................. EMERY INDUSTRIES, INC., 0R0AN1C CHEMICAL DIV, Agency--srtHich, Ssstes, !ae. . . . . . . . ... . . ., .................. . . . . . . . . . ,, PARRELCORPORATIONAgency-- 8s*sy AiKrtltfng Agent/ . 98-99 9-93 4 F8IC CORP,, INORGANIC CHEMICALS OIV. A p y -MgMer, i m i A HittKL, Ic. ......... ........................ .............. . - .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . FRUEHAUF-OIV,, FRUEHAF CORP. Agenty---Tse Allman 6s., lat, . . . . GENERAL ANILINE 4 FILM CORP. A m m --Hmsf4 M m iM m Ce., Int, . GtYCO CHEMICALS, INC. Agency-Pastamak Awselstes . . . . . . . . . . . . . GOODYEAR TIRE & RU8fEK CO, Agency-Tntt, ia W & Kwtaer, 1. Jrt m t r GOODRICH CHEMICAL CO., i , F. Agency-- 'TI Orlswc'd.EtfUem Co. . . . . 8 GREAT LAKES CARBON CORP., GRAPHITE PRODUCTS DIV. AgencyTM P * f'!,P st ) straismeler A4*. ................ *3 HERCULES INCORPORATED Agency- Fuller & Smith & Rot, Sfts........ . *6 HESS OIL f, CHEMICAL CORP. Agency- Wtlk AdwrtWn I ...........4 tt wer HOUSTON LIGHTING POWER CO. Mniner--tabla Adrtlt<i Agty 17 i r-^ j r _ } ILLINOIS CENTRAL R, R. Agency-- Gewr, </ & Battati, In*. . . M KELLOGG C0,, THE i , W. A jtn tp -F M iw 4 $mJ & Rp*l I . . . s LA BOHR PUMP COMPANY Afsw Y-Cfl & P H , *. . . . . . SS LUCIOOL 0,, WALLACE S TIERNAS, INC. Agency--8aHr 4 I ................. . . .................... ... . ..................... ' C UfMNtfS CO, Aoty--CaoNtey A l R , k . ............................ S MCKEE & COMPANY, ARTHUR 6, ptse -M6. ALs-rtiswg Agency , . n MINERALS & CHESIGALS PHILIPP CORP. Ajency-aWlllt A8*ils'.r, !. it MINERAL OIL REFISING CS. Agency-Twit & A sististe . . . . 8| NATIONAL CASH EGSTER CO, Agency- MCa>.Brle>w, inr , j| NATIONAL ENGINEER!NS CO, Agency-Rot' T. 6=-, Use. . . J NEW JERSEY ZMC COMPANY Agency-Uk Mc. Inc. . . . . . . . . OHIO CORRUGATING COMPANY Agwcy - Meek & m-,,ms, he. , OWENS ILLINOIS, FOREST PROBUCTS IV, Agency-- he**ri Swik A te r- SisiBS Agency, I , . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PFAUDLES .OJV. OF RITTER PFAMPLER CORP, Ageccy-- Itows. -Hew, lot, POTASH CO, OF AMERICA, THE Agency -eUr.tes 0. Case * tu . Irse. . PRIOR SHEhIcAL CORP, Agee--ReStftaen Marts M u . . . . PROCTER 4 GAMBLE CO., INDUSTRIAL SOAP & CHEMICAL PRODUCTS 0!. Agency--Coawen AUwitistog, he.................................. PULLMAN-STANDARD, DIV. OF PULLMAN 1C. Agency Vasirg *. t?w. , be, . . . . . . . . . . ..................... ............ . . . if U | M -H$ m f % 10tJ ti 7#|j RC DIVISION, HOOKE CHEMICAL COBP. Agtwy~*nw<so<rt AeiecWe. be, ..................... ........................................ . |: REICHHOUI CHEMICALS, INC. Agency- .Befol, b e ....................................... , | AND HAAS 6. Aaw cy-A. , Prnun, Cbmtin, la s & K, Inc, t SHELL CHEMICAL CO., INDUSTRIAL CHEMICALS DIV, Agwcy-Ogilyy & M iO , I ................... .................' .............. ............................. I5 SHEPHERD OIEMiGAL CO. A y - S i * ft w & McKR, I ............... n \ SNELL INC., FOSTER D,, SUB. OF 80OZ-ALLEN APPLIES RESEARCH "iti Aicy-"Rsut, Kremer 4 SUmUf, Ine................... . . . Itti STAINLESS * STEEL PR0WCT5 00. A*ey~RK Atfwrth, Sue g! STAUFFER CHEMICAL C0,, INDUSTRIAL CHEMICAL DIV. Agerxy Clynt Manen, lac. A4*......................... ... ............... , - . . . STEFAS CHEMICAL CO, Agency-- Frank C. Nshr, iac. . - . SWIFT 4 CO. Agtency-- H&*rsfs H, Ksr 4 Ajissc., be. ....................... TITANIUM METALS CORP. OF AMERICA Agency-- W. L. Tc*r* Cs,, lf. TITANIUM PIGMENT CORP., SUB. OF NATIONAL LEAD CO. Age/ Bshtn Aif/ertiiiaj, Ins. . . . . . , . , ................. .. ................... UNION CARBIDE CORP., SILICONES DIV. Agency-- J, J. use, Inc. .. 104-1 UNITES STATES STEEL CORF, Agency Batte, Salsa, Banttee & &mrs, Inc . .......... .. ., . , , ........... ,, ..... St- USS PRODUCTS OIV, OF UNITED STATES STEEL CORP, Agency - Bitten, Saris, Csrttiw 4 bor, I, . . . . . ......................... VIRGINIA `CHEMICALS INC. 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AWOW ONE MONTH r m CKANGC * EECOME Ef.FECVE. i 110 CHEMICAL WEEK September IO, 1966 I BUSIN ESS BENCHM ARKS i MONEY SHORTAGE CUTS HOUSING STARTS Residential buildin g is in a sharp depression, says Charles Young, di rector of Economic S ervices and M arket Research of the Western Wood Products Assn., even though demand factors for new h om es -- family formations and income -- are good. Rig reason for the drop; the shortage of mortgage money. The main sources o f mortgage money are savings banks and sav ings and loan associtions. But higher interest rates have -attracted savers elsewhere. R esult: savings deposits growth has declined at a rate of $20 bill io n /y e a r ~ ~ f rom $8 billion in fourth-quarter *65 to less than $3 billion in second-quarter '66. And savings and loan associations have had net withdrawals in second-quar ter '6 6 . Residential mortgages totaling $216 b illio n bring in annual repay ments o f $8-11 b illion p lus $ 1 0 billion in interest payments -- a source of new loan funds. And recent legislation has en abled the Federal National Mort gage Assn, to purchase $ 3 -3 .6 billion in Federal Housing Adminis tration and Veterans Administration mortgages. However, compared with the 120-billion annual decline in deposit growth, this relief is relative ly Insignificant Other possible forms of govern ment help include legislation provid ing additional home mortgage funds and federal rulings setting interest rate'ceilings to divert savings back to deposits in savings institutions, The diversion could be accomp lished by placing an interest ceiling on government securities and by changing bank reserve requirements, On the basis of the present mort gage-fund situation, Young esti mates, housing starts in second-half '66 will not exceed 570,000, vs. 716,400 in the first six months. Thus, he sees a total for the year of not more than 1 ,2 8 7 ,0 0 0 and possibly a low of 1 ,2 5 0 ,0 0 0 , vs. 1,520,000 last year. Excluding 3 5 ,- 0 0 0 publicly owned housing starts and 25,000 farm homes, private starts will total 1,190,000-1,227,- 000, Since '66 totals include the effects ; of some earlier commitments for f mortgages, the outlook for new housing starts in first-half '67 ap pears highly unfavorable. By nert summer more funds should be avail- 1 able, and housing starts might total j 1,140/100 for the year. 1 An increase in housing shortages j will likely be the upshot of the com- ' bined maximum 2,420,000 hous- *! mg starts this year and next. This will probably spur the market lor mobile homes and the remodeling j of existing homes. Mobile homes are already being produced at an annual rate of more than 200,000 units. These developments arc possible : in a tight-money period boras-. e j mobile homes and remodeling pod- j eats involve shorter-term and higher- yield loans than do mortgages, and funds are likely to be available for j these loans even in highly comped- f live money markets, -i THE CW INDEXES. ill cNCMtcAt ra ies m m % MM i m ..^ j ., : mm - . ;_ v y * /j BUSINESS INDICATORS CW output index CW wholesale price index Stock price index (12 firm s) Steel ingot output (1,000 tons) Electric power (million kwh.) Crude oil, condensate (dally av,, 1,000 bbls.) Latest Week 195.8 99.6 55.88 2,560 22,828 8,245 preceding Week 195.4 99,6 56.90 2,501 23,698 8,249 Y*ftr Ago 174.8 98,7 69,60 2,414 21,269 7,786 112 CHEMICAL WEEK September 10, 1966 If a I n -llLiJ l l U l l i >m iljJ j lift M** Apt MAY IW* AUG" m PRICE INDICATORS (Wholesale) All commodities (other than farm, foods) Chemicals, allied products Industrial chemicals Paint Drugs, cosmetics Fats, oils (inedible) Fertilizer materials July '66 105.1 97.8 95.9 106.8 94,3 106.6 104.2 f June '66 104.9 97,6 95.8 106,8 94,3 101.6 104.8 : mt July *6* 102,5 97,4 95,0 105,7 94,0 110,3 103,3 I