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FACTS SHEET ETHYL CORPORATION IN EATON ROUGE, LOUISIANA
Total Employments 3,400
Total Annual toytoll: 377,000,000
MANUFACTURING, RESEARCH, AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER
Aim: 200 Acres
MAJOR FUNCTIONS:
MANUFACTURING DEPARTMENT Responsible tor production of:
Pfroloom Chemicals "Ethyl" Antiknock Compounds
TEL TMl MLA TELMEL
Industrial Chemicals Couitle 5odo Chlorinatod Hydrocarbon Ethyl Chloride Ethylon* Dlchlorido Methyl Chloride Vinyl Chloride Chlorinated Solvent! Trichloroethylene Perchloroe thy lone
Chlorine Sodium Sodium Lead Alloy
Plostics P\/t (Polyvinyl chloride) Suspension Resins PVC Emulsion Resins
PVC Compounds Specialty Polymer Resins
Orgonizationolly subdivided into:
Operations TEL, Sodium, Hydrocarbon, and PVC Ames
Maintenance & Construction Maintenance, On-Plant Construction
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Administration
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Environmental & Product Quality Control)
Finance Industrial Engineering
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Power
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Production Planning
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Public Relations Sofety
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Stores & Services
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These groups oil have plant-wide application of their respective organisation's functions.
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT Departmental headquarters. Chemicol research on new and improved precedes and new products, process
development, process design, technical services to manufacturing and tales, and patents.
ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT Project engineering and engineering services, which includes inspection, instrument development, mechanical
development, and technical services.
PURCHASING AND TRAFFIC DEPARTMENT Some Companymw'de traffic (unctions. Plant purchasing.
EMPLOYEE RELATIONS DEPARTMENT Labor relations, personnel services, training and testing, employee benefits, wage ond salary administration.
MEDICAL Physical Examinations, treatment of on-the-job disease and injury (occupational ond non-accupotionol), health counseling ond rehabilitation.
PRINCIPAL RAW MATERIALS Pig Lead Ethylene Chlorine
Salt Brine Electricity Methanol
Ethylene Dibramide Vinyl Acetate Vinyl Plasticizers & Stabilizers
ETHYL TOWER
Executive Offices: Office of the President Aluminum Group Central Finance Central Purchasing & Traffic Central Systems & Data Processing Chemicals Group Industrial Chemicals Division Petroleum Chemicals Division Commercial Development Corporate Marketing
Corporate Plonning Corporate Pricing Employee Relations Ethyl International Group
International Industrial Chemicals Division International Petroleum Chemicals Division International Oil and Gas Division Law Deportment Manufacturing Department Medical
ONE AMERICAN PLACE
Plastics Group Dispenser Products Division IMCO Container Products Division Metal Products Division Molded Products Division Pipe Products Division Polymer Products Division VisQueen Film Products Division
Research & Development Dept. Tcssicology & Industrial
Hygiene Deportment
Engineering Department
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FACTS SHEET ETHYL CORPORATION
HISTORY:
,tthyl Corporation (Virginio) results from the 1962 ooquisition of Ethyl Corporation (Delaware) by Albemarle Paper
Manufacturing Company. Albemarle, which hod been founded in Richmond, Virginio, in 1887 purchased Ethyl in 1962 from General Motors and Standard Oil Company (N.J.), which hod founded Ethyl in 1924. Following the acquisition. Ethyl Corporation (Virginia) diversified rapidly through acquisitions and odding new product lines. In 1968, Ethyl sold substantially all the business end assets of Albemarle Paper to a midwest paper manufacturing firm.
ORGANIZATION: Historically known as a one-product, one-industry company. Ethyl Corporation today is o diversified manufacturer of
petroleum and industrial chemicals, plastics, aluminum ond energy-related products. The Company has facilities around the world and employs approximately 16,000 people, it operates more than 60 plonts, most of which make intermediates or oddifives for products that reach the consumer in another form. The Company's products ore distributed ond serviced by several divisions as follows:
Chemicals Group consists of: Petroleum Chemicals Division, which markets products mode specifically for the petroleum industry, including "Ethyl* antiknock compounds, antioxidants, multipurpose odditrves for gasolines ond diesel fuels, distillate conductivity additive, ignition improvers for diesel fuels, etc. The Petroleum Chemicals Division also renders important technical services to the automotive and petroleum industries, including cooperating in the development and use of improved engines and gasolines. Industrial Chemicals Division, which markets a wide variety of industrial chemicals, including sodium, caustic sodo, bromine chemicols, chlorinated solvents, vinyl chloride monomer, other chlorinated hydrocarbons, alcohols, olphoolefins, olefin sulfonates, aluminum alkyls, antioxidants, orthoalkylated aromatics, agricultural chemical inter mediates, and drug intermediates.
Plostio Group is subdivided into: Dispenser Products Division, which is o leading producer of aerosol volves ond pbstic accessory ond mechanical spray pumps. 1MCO Container Products Division, which produces ond markets polyethylene, polypropylene, polyfocmoldehyde, polyvinyl chloride, and barrier resin bottles, os well as extruded flexible cellulasic packaging. Metal Products Division, which produces decorative metal fitments ond closures, collapsible ond rigid oluminum tubes, drown tinplate cons and aerosol valve mounting cups. Molded Products Division, which makes injection molded plastic products, including closures, and has design ond tool capabilities. Pipe Products Division, which produces and markets PVC pipe ond fittings for pressure water ond for sewer opplicotjons, ond polybutylene tubing for water service applications. Polymer Products Division, which produces polyvinyl chloride (PVC) resins and compounds. PVC, one of the most versatile of all plastics, is used in such end products as PVC film, bottles, pipe, conduit, house siding, business machine ports, communication equipment, carpet booking, battery separators, and appliance housings. VisQueen Film Products Division, which produces and markets: polyethylene films for pockoging and industrial uses, building and agricultural uses, shrink, ond disposables. PVC film, stretch, for packaging of red meot ond fresh produce.
Ethyl International Group, including its divisions, is responsible for oversees production ond distribution of Ethyl chemical products listed above under Chemicals Group and for world-wide oil ond gas exploration, development, ond production.
Aluminum Group, including its subsidiaries, is responsible for the production and distribution of o variety of aluminum products, including aluminum extrusions, windows, doors, ond residential lawn buildings.
Arkansas Division produces ond distributes ethylene dibromide, vinyl bromide, and other bromine chemicals.
Edwin Cooper Division is o world-wide manufacturer and marketer of lubricant additives far the petroleum industry.
SUBSIDIARIES (U.S. ond Canada): Ethyl Corporation of Canada limited (wholly-cwned) produces and distributes petroleum chemicals ond industrial chemicals in Canada. The William L. BonneII Company, Inc, (wholly-cwned) produces ond markets olumirum extruded products. Copitof Products Corporation (wnoliy-owned) produces ond markets aluminum extrusions, aluminum windows and doors, and residential lawn buildings. Elk Horn Cool Corporation (96%-owned) leases cool-bearing lands to others ond owns approximately 130,000 acres of cool land, primarily in Eastern Kentucky.
PRINCIPAL LOCATIONS: Headquarters - Richmond, Virginio Executive Offices - Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Houston, Texas; New York, New York l(eseorc^ ond development Laboratories - Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Detroit, Michigan; St. Louis ond Kansas City, Missouri; Houston, Texas; Orangeburg, South Carolina; Terre Haute, Indiana; Bracknell, Berkshire, Englond Engineering Deportment - Baton Rouge, Louisiana Chemical Manufacturing Facilities - 10 plants in the U.S., Canada, ond Greece fHostics Manufacturing Facilities - 48 plants In the U.S. ond Conoda Aluminum Extrusion ond~Fabrication Facilities - 6 plonts in the U.S,
OTHER DATA: 1978 Net Sales - $1,422,451,000'; 1978 ^ lncome * $82,698,000 -----$4.24 per share dumber oFEmployees - approximately 16,000 Stock listings The-Slew York Stock Exchange, The. Pacific Coast Stock Exchange, and The Toronto Stock Exchange Ticker symbol - EY
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PRINCIPAL PRODUCTS
Product
Principal Uses
TEL AREA
Tetraethyl lead (TEL)
"Ethyl" Antiknock Compounds
Tetramethyl lead (TML)
"Ethyl" Antiknock Compounds
MLA Compounds (Mixed Lead Alkyls)
TELMEL (Physical Mixtures of
TEL and TML) "Ethyl" Antiknock Compound
"Ethyl" Antiknock Compounds "Ethyl" Antiknock Compounds Antiknock Agent for Gasoline
SODIUM AREA
Sodium Metal Chlorine Caustic Soda
HYDROCARBON AREA
Ethyl Chloride
Ethylene Dichloride
Methyl Chloride
Vinyl Chloride Chlorinated Solvents
Trichloroethylene) Perchloroethylene)
PVC AREA
Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC) Resins
PVC Compounds
TEL and TML Manufacture) Industrial Raw Material) Industrial Raw Material)
TEL Manufacture
Ingredient of Antiknock Compound; Vinyl Chloride
TML Manufacture, Synthetic Rubber, Chemical Intermediates
Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC)
Dry Cleaning and Industrial Degreasing
PVC Compounds
PVC film, bottles, pipe, conduit, house siding, business machine parts, communication equipment, carpet backing, battery separators, and appliance housings
Raw Materials
Lead, Sodium, Ethyl Chloride
Lead, Sodium, Methyl Chloride
TEL, TML
TEL, TML
TEL, TML, Ethylene Dichloride, Ethylene Dibromide, Dye
Salt Brine
Ethylene, Hydrogen Chloride
Ethylene, Chlorine or Ethylene, Hydrogen Chloride, Oxygen
Methanol, Hydrogen Chloride
Ethylene Dichloride
Vinyl Chloride, Ethylene Dichloride, Chlorine
Vinyl Chloride
PVC Resin, Vinyl Plasticizers and Stabilizers
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