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CHEMICAL PROFILE PVC Mar 2*. im. 1871 by William 0. Allison 42 by Harry J. Schnell .hing Company, Inc. , New York. N. Y. 10007 iddress: Reporter, New York nell Publishing Company. Inc. M MnVSMTMf DESK lical Company and Sartomer Industries, lanufacture and market specialty acrylate ampany will be based at Manchester and died territories." a - day ammonia plant has been put into , the second such M.W. Kellogg-designed in the USSR. Techmashimport, the comparchases in the Soviet Union, contracted for Corporation, through its joint venture com, has agreed to supply The Peoples Repub1 be used to purify ethylene gas by selective ies.;e)-CdF Chimie has started up a new plant 0 metric tons a year of "Norsolene" SP hywhich came up to nominal capacity quickiy's steam cracker at Carling. y) -- BASF AG of Ludwigshafen is building of neopentyl glycol using its own technoloplant, which is due on stream in 1975, will F says. 'ire & Rubber Company has sold its 40 persat affiliate of Montedison. Montefiber now ity over the next five years from a current metric tons. a second polyolefin licensing deal, Solvay sxclusive license for the US of its high-den-hemicals Corporation. The move follows a )lvay made with Hercules Incorporated on 's know-how for its new high-density polyx. Solvay asserts the choice by Amoco conmade to its superactive catalysts and in the lands)-J.T. Baker Chemicals BV will exetherlands. Construction is due to start in cnt and acid subdividing plant with wareimsen is only a few miles from the present ected to give the company space for contincight years. & KArioc nf hAorinoc ponontlv on tVia SUPPLY PRODUCER - CAPACITY* Air Products, Calvert City, Ky....................................... 150 Air Products, Pensacola. Fla..................... .'................... 50 American Chem., Long Beach, Calif ............................. 150 Borden, Uliopolis, 111.......................................................... 140 Borden, Leominster, Mass............................................... 180 Conoco, Aberdeen, Miss.................................................... 285 Conoco, Oklahoma City, Okla......................................... 240 Diamond Shamrock, Deer Park, Tex ........................... 270 Diamond Shamrock, Delaware City, Del ......................100 Ethyl, Baton Rouge, La .......................................... 180 Firestone, Perryville, Md................................. 230 Firestone, Pottstown, Pa................... 270 General Tire, Ashtabula, Ohio........................................ 125 General Tire, Pit. Pleasant, W. Va...................................50 Goodrich, Avon Lake, Ohio .............................................140 Goodrich, Henry, 111 ....................... 140 Goodrich, Long Beach, Calif ...........................................140 Goodrich, Louisville, Ky.................................................. 340 Goodrich, Pedricktown, N.J..............................................170 Goodyear, Niagra Falls, N.Y..................... --v...............100 Goodyear, Plaquemine, La.............................................. 100 Great American Chem., Fitchburg, Mass ...................... 40 Hooker, Burlington, N.J.......................... ....180 Hooker, Hicksville, N.Y........... ........................................... 15 Keysor-Century, Saugus, Calif ......................................... 35 Monsanto, Springfield, Mass .............................................70 National Starch, Meredosia, 111 ............................ 10 Olin, Assonet, Mass.......................................................... 150 Pantasote, Passaic, N.J...................................................... 60 Pantasote, Pt. Pleasant, W. Va................................. 90 Robintech, Painesville, Ohio............................... 250 Stauffer, Delaware City, Del...........................................175 Tenneco, Burlington, N.J. ............................... i............... 165 Tenneco, Flemington, N.J....................... 70 Union Carbide, S. Charleston, W. Va............................ .160 Union Carbide, Texas City, Tex .....................................240 Uniroyal, Painesville, Ohio.............................. 140 Total .............. ...5,415 * Millions of pounds annually of polyvinyl chloride and copolymers. Capacities vary with product mix. Approximately 76 percent ot total ` nameplate capacity is devoted to homopolymer suspension resins, ap proximately 11 percent is devoted to copolymers, and approximately 13 percent is devoted to emulsion process (dispersion) resins. Certain-Teed plans to have a grass roots (aclUty in Lake Charles, La., with a capacity of 300 million pounds annually. In operation by the fourth quarter ot this year. Output will be 100 percent captive. Georgia Pacific plans to come on-stream late this year with a 220-milIion-ponnd facility at Plaquemine, La., most of the output of which will he for captive use. Robintech, in co operation with Shinetsu of Japan, is hoping to have a 220-milllon-pound unit operating by the fourth quarter, most of the output of which will be captive for the two owners. Tenneco is completing a new 300-mllllonpound plant in PassaJena, Te*.. alto expected to be on-stream by the fourth quarter. Borden owns all the output of Monsanto's Springfield, Mass., plant, and Borden Is planning to add 200 million pounds of new capacity to its IIHopoll*' HI- facility by the end of the year. Diamond Continued B Page 18 Tho hio coft drink franchisers have Chemical MartraUm* Oannrtar GO Tl O K> oo G\ SS O swim Fragrance OILS ODORS OILS EXECUTIVE OFFICES: 410 E. 62nd ST. NEW YORK CITY. N.Y. 10021 SKOKIE, ILLINOIS 6007$ SAN FRANCISCO 94060 OFFICES IN ALL PRINCIPAL CITIES. AGENTS IN ALL PRINCIPAL COUNTRIES. WrGMM fe/iun anilla Products and Aromatics hnson Ave., Brooklyn, N.Y. 11237, (212) 497-4664 nrj Williamson V V CARAMEL COLORING 1901 Payne Street, Louisville, Kentucky A OlVISION OF AEROJET CHEMICAL CO Cordova Chemical. P.O. Box 13400 Sacramento, California 95013 (916) 365-5000 \ or 3 Hastings Road, Marlboro, New Jersey 07746 k (201) 536-4700 y` UilLmivrti. _ PV CPROFILE ......................... 2332700? Continued from Pace 9 Shamrock is planning to expand its Deer Park, Tex., plant by 200 million pounds during the fourth quarter. Goodyear will expand its Plaquetnine, La., plant by 100 million pounds during the third quarter of this year. Stauffer hopes to add 10 million pounds of dispersion resin capacity by mtd-1975, and another 55 million pounds of the same by mld-1976. Fire stone says it is planning a "significant expansion" of its dispersion ca pacity by mid-1975. Air products is said to have a 200-300 million pound capacity expansion planned "on the books" for its Calvert City. Ky.. plant, but no construction has begun. Total new capacity by the end of 1974 should be about 1.5 billion pounds, increasing nameplate capacity fee the industry to about 6.9 billion pounds annually. DEMAND 1973:4.732 billion pounds; 1974: 4.9 billion pounds; 1978: 6.3 bil lion pounds. GROWTH . Historical (1963-1972): 14 percent a year; 1973: 9 percent; Fu ture: 2-5 percent a year through 1978. PRICE Historical (1963-1973):. High homopolymer suspension resin, bulk, ft. alld., 16 cents a pound; low, same basis, 10 cents a pound. Current: homopolymer suspension, same basis, 17-20 cents a pound. Projected: homopolymer suspension, same basis, 24-26 cents a pound by year-end. USES Pipe, conduit, and fittings; 27 percent; flooring, 10 percent; siding and other construction, 6 percent; wire and cable, 9 per cent; furniture, 6 percent; auto and transportation, 5 percent; film and sheet, 4 percent; textile, paper, and adhesives, 5 per cent; sound records, 3 percent; export, 5 percent; miscellane ous, 20 percent. STRENGTH Cheapest material for most uses, often with no adequate sub stitute. Increasing prices have substantially improved profita bly with virtually no erosion of relative cost-effectiveness. Con struction end-uses should continue to grow rapidly and become increasingly dominant (pipe and fittings). Siding is considered a potentially rich market. Coated floorings, wire and cable, and auto use expected to grow strongly. WEAKNESS Toxicity is a serious threat, perhaps a pre-emptive market condition currently as monomer and polymer producers sus pend capital investment pending research and regulatory devel opments. Some end-use markets, particularly packaging, have especial liability. Otherwise, there is insufficient feedstock (monomer and precursers) to feed current PVC capacity, and a lack of new and an nounced feedstock capacity to support expanding PVC facilities. OUTLOOK Markets for PVC, especially in rigid and construction applica tions, continue to expand, while many minor end-uses will be shaked-out (especially disposable products). The effect of gov ernment toxicity investigations could cause production disrup tions, and heavy expenses, if substantial engineering and workpractice changes are demanded. Inadequate feedstock supply, and projected supply, is expected to cripple growth in strong, traditional markets, and to inhibit the development of promis ing new ones. BFG24865