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Texas City, Texas . March 18, i960 R. T. Clark D. S. Plumb F. E. Reece Ethyl Corp, - VCM Plant *.z;nr. r' V* rt*' * :i>,- , i >. ' -i "vtS1 ^r':: ': ' , ' ' ' ' -- 1 <!> . i sf * Sf*r '"'f ;J * ,r**' *' ' * '* * *' '-``v` , *,-- - lf'-1 - *< i -l*., ^ : ^.-Va.'C^UJ ^ v, 4-i. "'v^;".-^ I-- '* ^ <-(V J. V. Waggoner ; u r.V . - V/V- ' 1 * - `, ` . ' . , . f i s- *v; * - - z ` - v1 . * * -. . , ; . r*. t , r . r.` . , 1 r , , / ,, 1 >* V* -, '-`if''u Springfield, Mass.'I*''?*-'.fii \ i- ', - . < -i'. . \ Per your request, X have finally gotten around to investigating the possible capacity of the Ethyl Corporation VCM plant to be built in Houston. ` According to the information I have, their capacity for making tetraethyl lead solution is 360,000 pounds per day. This would require 102, 000 pounds per day of HC1; and if all of the HC1 were made by *. -i EEC cracking, this would produce between 50 - 60MM pounds per year of VCM, depending on what on-stream, factor is used. `mw** r r"T* ' It is interesting to note that Ethyl has been burning chlorine and hydrogen as a means of producing their HCl for the Houston plant. > This is rather, expensive HCl, as you know; and if the cost of this HCl is credited to the; vinyl chloride plant, when VCM begins - supplying the HCl,. the vinyl operation becomes quite profitable.'- .M X talked to a Houston contact.of Ethyl Corporation about their VCM business and he made the statement several times that their manage ment was extremely pleased with their Baton Rouge VCM venture. T.iis is obvious since they arc going forward with the Houston plant. h`j contact cicl not know, however, the cine of the ho was involved jin tL,; TEE phase of the butiuoae _an ''-date ea the VCM picture. '* w- :< i t i i CPF:eb CBY 102Z771 C. P. Fullerton 4 . RSV0031226