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PVC Industry Would Collapse I K m i SAIinoi EXECUTIVE VP: Prod Meyer, who hos been appointed executive vlce-presldcnl ol finance and corporate operations at Sandoz, Inc. UCC Liquid Gas Plant Set for North Carolina Plans for the construction of a multi-million dollar air separation plant near Wilmington, N.C., are dis closed by Union Carbide Corporation. Tlie highly automated plant will be op erated by the firm's Linde Division. The c ryogenic air separation facility, re ported;} the first such plant in North Caro lina. is designed to produce 170 tons a day of high-purity liquid oxygen, nitrogen and argon, as well as gaseous oxygen and nitro gen. The facility is expected to be in opera tion bj the fourth quarter of 1975. Nor li and South Carolina are rapidly growing areas Ior oxygen, nitrogen and argon in such industries as chemicals, syn thetic textiles, pharmaceuticals and food processing, carbide points out. Isoprene Site Acquired DyGcn. /ear, At Zero-VCM Work Standard, Study by Foster Snell Claims A vinyl chloride monomer standard that sets the ceiling at a "no detecta ble'' level for the workplace as pro posed by Occupational Health & Safety Administration would mean a com plete shut-down of the polyvinyl chlo ride industry and would take a heavy toll of the monomer producers as well. This was reported to OSJIA in an exten sive study of the economic impact of pro posed standards tor VCM in the workplace made by Foster D. Snell, Inc., for the De partment of Labor. The study became available only lust week (Wednesday. August 28) and inter ested parties have only until Friday (Sep tember 6) to file comments. According to the report, there are n;ne companies operating fourteen VCM plants and employing about 940 workers that v/iil produce about 5,225 million pounds of VCM for conversion into PVC in 1974 and 1975. Twenty-one companies operate thirty-six major PVC plants employing about 5,000 workers. These plants have a nameplate capacity of 5.4 billion pounds per year arid over 1.9 billion pounds of now capacity is scheduled over the next two years. Fiftyeight percent of the PVC plants are ten years old or older. IMPACT QUANTIFIED The report shows that the estimated eco nomic impact ot standards for VCM for the monomer industry would range from 0.0T;i cents per pound to meet a fifty parts per million standard ceiling, to 0.42 cents perpound to meet a ceiling of less than tem ppm. All nine producers of VCM can meet the current (ifty-ppm standard, the report shows, but if the ceiling is reduced to twenty-five ppm, only 5 percent of the in dustry capacity could meet it this year, or one plant. It would take the other eight plants until 1976 to meet the twcnty-fivc- Continued on Page 45 Europe's DCPD Markets Ethylidene norbornene (ENB) mar kets in European synthetic rubber pro duction have a projected growth of about 30 percent annually through 1978, according to a multi-client survey of Eu ropean dicyclopcntadicne (DCPD) mar kets, by Eldib Engineering & Research, Inc. Significant possibilities for synthetic wood rosin and changes in European pcsticidemarketsarc highlighted in a 240page report, "European Market Survey on Dicyclopcntadicne and Us Products" which includes directories of DCPD con sumers and details on demand and con sumption of DCPD in such apparently diverse industries as polyesters, flame retardants, hydrocarbon resins, varnish es, lacquers, pharmaceuticals and spe cialty chemicals. Manufacturers of EPDM, the leading commercial rubber based on ENB or its precursor DCPD, for the first time arc seriously considering building European plants to produce ENB, the study says. Thecompany, expects ENB consumption to increase 300 percent by 1978. Although Europe has an increasing demand for pesticides, polychlorocyclopentadiene pesticides have come under environmentalist attack. Italy, Europe's largest consumer of such pesticides, will phase them out by 1975. Consequently, Eldib sees DCPD use in the European pesticide industry dropping to less than 25 percent of the 1973 level. Dr. I. A. Eldib, president of the com pany, says "aldrin and dicldrin are not the only pesticides using DCPD, and I expect non-persistent DCPD-pesticidcs to recover most of this market." Continued on Page 14 A top level investigation of charges of hnrrassmcnt by FDA mar.agen.cnt of its medical officers making unfa vorable reports on new cl run applica tions has been ordered by See rotary of Health, Education & Welfare. Casper W. Weinberger. Iiillet! as a "full review of the procedures and practices by which Ihe Food A Drug Administration evaluates Ihe safely and ef fectiveness of new drugs." Ihe investigation was requested by FDA Commissi.uwr Alex ander Sclunidt. Tlie investigation will be made by a panel of six members - three from govern ment outside the FDA. ami three nnii-goveminent experts. Tin: inquiry is e>:peeled tc take six months. Dr. Theodore Cooper, Deputy Assistant Sccret.v'y for itc-alt!;. end former head of the National IJearl & Lung Institute of the National Institute s of Health, will head the investigatory gioup. Charges of industry favoritism, improp er administrative practices, and harrassment of employees were leveled at FDA management at recent hearings by the Kennedy Health Subcommittee of the Sen ate investigating the pharmaceutical indus try. "These arc disturbing charges which Continued on rage 13 Dr. Herbert Gruncwald, the newly appointed main board chairman cf Far ben fa bri ken Bayer AG, Lever kusen, Germany, says the company expects to see a slight downturn in world economic activity in the fall of 197-1, accompanied by increased com petition from both US and Japanese in dustry. He is concerned that balance cf pay ments problems may lead to increasing Continued on Pa23 C*3'0D'\)\.'sQ PVC Industry Standard Continued Irom Page 5 ppm st.ind.ml. At ten ppm, only five plants could meet the standard by 1977. Based on a sample survey, the report said, 4'.! percent of the industry capacity would be endangered at a ceiling of ten ppm. The impact on the PVC plants range from 0.72 cents a pound to meet the fi: typpm ceiling to 2.73 cents a pound to meet a ceiling of twenty-five ppm of VCM. The re port added that increasingly strict VCM compliance requirements would be expect ed to result in significantly greater price escalation for PVC than for VCM. However, it was added, PVC prices are estimated to be reasonable through a twenty-five-ppm ceiling since only 9 per-' cent of the supplies would be affected; that is, a 9 percent expected reduction in supply is claimed in the industry sample An 8-cents-per-pound price for PVC with the ceiling at less than ten ppm was viewed as being on the low side since the industry claimed that 42 percent of the capacity would possibiy be lost as a result of this standard. A ceiling of twenty-five ppm would endanger 31 percent to 100 percent of industry capacity, it was stated. Carhicte Awards Contract Hydroquinone ^ . Normal Butyl Alcohol Rer.crcinol..................... ............ 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