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FILE NAME Reichhold REI DATE 1966 Sept 10 DOC REI008 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Article from Trade Journal - Chemical Week pg 32 & pg 106 Corfam goes Second chancfoer syndets sugar process *. 11 11 11 11 11 oe areecarepemiein neat vee nenwee mma eee BULLETIN 700 Type BR pole con trol relay with convertible contacts buy Bradley it's false economy not to i 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 will wipe out flocks of those hoped savings from buying motor control at cut prices Bradley quality features the proven A solenoid con- struction only one moving which simplicity of design is your guarantee of millions of trouble free operations The resistant silver alloy contacts of a special double break design assure long life and the utmost in contact performance- with never a moment to be spent for maintenance Coils are pressure molded- replaced free of cost to you if they should fail in regardless of atmospheric condition The built gap in the magnets remains permanent matter what the frequency of service may magnetic sticking is out of question The Type BR relay is of the same general trouble free design as just described and is unusually versatile All contacts are easily convertible it takes is a screwdriver and 30 seconds to change a pole from N.O. to N.C. or vice versa Also either they one or two extra poles can be quickly added in the field and are full rated and also convertible Type BR relays can be furnished with overlapping contacts YoYouurr llocoaclal Allen Bradley Bradley apapppooinitend ted didsitsrtirbiubtuotror ccaarrrriieess in in hihsis s st to oc ck k aa ve verry y wiwdidee selection of the Bradley control commonly used in your territory He has been trained as a control specialist Please contact him he is excellently qualified to take care of your control needs Bradley Co. 1349 S. 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CHEMICAL CW 511 Lancaster St. Leominster Massachusetts September 10 1966 CHEMICAL WEEK I Highly Successful Startup At New Brunswick Development Corporation's Fertilizer Complex aie = Dorchester Cape Brunswick New facility producing facility producing quality ammonium nitrate prills prills ammonium nitrate and nitric acid at design capacity within initial proces process proces light the The fertilizer complex designed engineered procured and constructed by The Lummus Company Canada Limited for the New Brunswick Development Corporation of Fredericton N. B. is on stream at Dorchester Cape N. B. The new complex which includes a 150 tons per day tric acid 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 the development of the Westmorland Chemical Park under the sponsorship of the New Brunswick Development Corporation The ammonium nitrate plant manufactures both fertilizer acid 33.5 nitrogen and explosion prills The nitric process used in this plant has a demonstrated overall ammonia Corporation efficiency of better than 95 Fundy Chemical Limited is the operator of the new facilities For ammonia ammonium nitrate nitric acid ammonium fertilizers- phosphates nitric phosphates urea and complex consult Lummus fertilizers, Lummus can put at your disposal close to 60 years of experience on more than 1,000 major projects throughout the world THE LUMMUS COMPANY A SUBSIDIARY OF COMBUSTION ENGINEERING York Newark ne ') Newark an international engineering and construction Offices and subsidiaries Newark Washington DC Chicago Houston organization organization 385 Madison Ave. New N.Y. 10017 Munich Engineering Development Center Newark Montreal London ParisParis The Hague Madrid Milan Bombay Tokyo Caracas 2 CHEMICAL WEEK September 10 1966 _ ae 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 perfect smaller and lighter magnets with higher coercive force p 101 CHEMICAL WEEK Vol 99 No. 11 SEPTEMBER 10 1966 DEPARTMENTS Business Benchmarks Business Newsletter Countdown Engineering International ; Key Changes Letters Management Market Newsletter Meetings National Roundup Production Research Specialties Technology Newsletter Viewpoint Washington Newsletter World Roundup 112 23 107 53 74 84 16 82 79 16 37 47 47 101 89 5 33 69 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 as 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 ~ As n end to the % tax credit Process industries have benefited by several hundred million dollars in four ponder new payout formula 29 ~ consolidating sAllied Chemical sets up new Industrial Chemicals Division former corporate offshoots of three of Allied's five original predecessor companies Consol 30 Continental Consolidation Coal merger set for next week Chem is included but potash and activated carbon stock holdings will be spun off 30 = Antitrust action in 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 ~ Asntitrust proposal for the world minded business men consider implications of Senator Hart's plan for agency to probe international mergers cartels 32 74 New opportunities on the horizon for plastics producers Medical research on air- borne mineral fibers could lead to restrictions on asbestos in major uses Canada's Prairie farmers begin a record wheat harvest are expected to follow up with another fertilizer splurge sales 20 next year i 82 Manhattan's Park Avenue is becoming the fashion address for chemical companies lured by modern offices easy commuting and good communications 112 ~ Ts here will be 250,000 fewer housing starts this year Mortgage money is short al- though housing demand factors family formations and income good THIS WEEK IN TECHNOLOGY lasting 43 Du Pont's Corfam finds its first use in process equipment as a ing and seal material for pumps etc. pack- ~ petroleum 47 Armour will build plant for new series of amines derived from materials and made by a new catalytic process ; 53 Nebraska seeks patents on a 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 50 million to 100 million Auto industry will take lion's share . Chemical Ciroulation McGraw 42nd 10036. and Fspihsehreerpresident1Jo5hn 10036.second Form Weak is published weekly by McGraw Ine 330 West 42nd St. New York N.Y. 10036. Copyright 1966 by McGraw Inc. and Advertising Offlees Hill Building 330 West 42nd St. New York N.Y. 10036. rights reserved Member ABC Corporate officers Shelton J. Cooke secretary John L. McGraw Individuals rate for in field of Printed at U.S. U.S. Pa 19104 3rd St. and Hunting class mall postage paid and Canada 5 per year single copy 50 other Western Hemi- countries all others 25 Please see Advertisers Index page before requesting a subscription or sending in a change of address Postmaster Please send 3579 to Fulfillment Manager Chemical Week P.O. Box 430 Hightstown N.J. 08520 Chemical Week's publisher New York editorial staff and advertising management are located on the 32nd floor of J. C. 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J i Please send me GANTREZ AN sample ( and ! 1 literature for use in ! J _ 1 ! ; Name t ! fe ! | Title i ! ! i Company ! ! ) 1 Address I ! j ! i 4 CHEMICAL WEEK September 10 1966 Se tee ee ee mee ene ee me oes cine Knox Armstrong . Publisher Howard C. E. Johnson ..Editor ..Editor Ralph R. Schulz ... Managing Editor BOARD OF EDITORS Meyer Lurie .Assistant .Assistant Managing Editor J. Robert Warren ..Assistant ..Assistant Managing Editor Donald P. Burke ..Senior ..Senior Editor Anthony J. Piombino ... Senior Editor John M. Winton .Senior .Senior Editor Homer Starr ........2......... Senior Editor Robert T. Martinott ......... ..Art ..Art Director - DEPARTMENT EDITORS Companies .Bruce Bendow Engineering .......... ee .Ryle .Ryle Miller International .........0....... Charles Joslin Management .Joseph F. Kalina Marketing ....0....0......, James Houtrides Markets ..Sandra ..Sandra Swift Production ..... coseeseees .Herbert C. Short Research . Philip A. Untersee STAFF WRITER Madelene Sayer Art ..Richard Kluga Robert M. Gorlin Copy ... William Mullinack copy chief John W. Price Jr. copy editor Leonard Bogner editorial production Buyers Guide . ..Albert ..Albert H. Kislin editor Reprints Kathryn Phelan ........0.....0.08 .Frances ..Frances Regan BUREAUS Chicago Kenneth Brooks editor Maria Xenakis Houston HughS. ......0.00.... Pylant editor Jean Tally Pittsburgh oo... .Anne .Anne Watzman San Francisco ............ William Bennetta MCGRAW WORLD NEWS Economics Douglas Greenwald News Bureaus John Wilhelm Director Atlanta Frances Ridgway Chicago Reck Johnson Cleveland Arthur Zimmerman Dallas Marvin Reid Detroit Nicholas Hunter Los Angeles Michael Murphy San Francisco Margaret Ralston Drossel Seattle Ray Bloomberg Washington Arthur Moore Correspondents in 94 other cities of the United States Bonn Robert Dorang Brussels George William- son London John Shinn Mexico City Bruce Cross Milan Ronald Taggiasco Moscow Howard Rausch Paris Robert Farrell Rio de Janeiro Wes Perry Tokyo Marvin Petal Correspondents in 68 other foreign cities BUSINESS STAFF Paul McPherson Advertising Sales Manager Alvin J. Babkow .... Business Manager Fred E. Lesner ...... Sales Promotion Manager Semple Stefan S. .... Market Research Manager Robert L. Maier.... ... Advertising Makeup Paul W. Erb .. Circulation Manager VIEWPOINT Is Ad Spending Too High Britain's Monopolies Commission rattled advertising agencies in London and New York last week when it found that Unilever and Procter & Gamble are wasting money on detergent advertising at the public's expense The commission recommended a 40% cut in advertising and promotion expenses and proposed at 20 reductionin wholesale selling prices CW Sept.pp 68 While this move by the commission goes appreciably further than any U.S. government attack on advertising advertising to date it is bound to holster the case of the trustbusters who have argued that excessive advertising could restrain competition * And the government itself has given strong hints that it is aware of advertising's power and intends to do something about it In '63 for example the Federal Trade Commission struck down the G advertising purchase of Clorox arguing that G's massive stretch Clorox's already commanding lead over its rivals would 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 Act companies that have violated the Sherman Antitrust Now an authoritative new book injects some facts into this emo- tionalissue It does much to dispel a popular illusion that advertising outlays have outrun other business costs The book out this week week by Results McGraw effectiveness evaluating advertising is Measuring Advertising Readership & Daniel Starch a year veteran of effectiveness i We hope that officialdom will read in particular the chapter headed Advertising and Other Business Costs Starch has 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 GNP This means that while dollar advertising expenditures have climbed from 5.710 billion in '50 to 13,050 billion in '63 this increase has been proportional to the GNP growth Says Starch There is an impression that advertisng advertising : although necessary costs more attracts fewer readers and obstivers obstivers and is less effective than formerly Because of competition for the public's harder people attention it is thought that it is them to pay attention to the ad message to reach and to get j Not so he demonstrates using readership studies It appears that advertisments themselves have not become less effective but 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 The economic and social justification of advertising ultimately rests a upon its service in increasing legitimate human wants and b upon its being an effective and fair agency of competition So 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 being 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 t September 10 1966 5 New Hydrocarbon Cracking Plant for Olefin Production Texas Eastman Company a division of Eastman Kodak Company called on Kellogg to handle design engineering and procurement for the multimilliondollar project Located on a 2,500- acre site near Longview Texas the plant is now in full operation producing ethylene and products by cracking propane feedstock Kellogg's steam pyrolysis process is used to produce the purity ethylene Other products include polymer propylene light and heavy aromatic distillates and a hydrogen product The olefins are feedstock to Texas Eastman polyolefin and chemical plants where plastics molecularweight waxes and resins alcohols aldehydes and other chemicals are made Kellogg is also completing a combined ethylene ethylene glycol plant at the same site The new plant is one of nine olefin facilities Kellogg is now engineering and constructing in five countries combined annual ethylene capacity nearly 3 billion pounds Giant Record Breaker This foot ammonia production converter weighs one million pounds has steel walls that are 5 inches thick and produces a record 1,000 D of ammonia by combining hydrogen and nitrogen gases over a catalyst at pressure of roughly 2,000 psi The huge reactor is part of a unique plant designed and built by Kellogg at Yazoo City Mississippi for Coastal Chemical Corporation The plant is the first of its size of completely single design Using but one reforming furnace ammonia con- verter and compressor train it represents a major advance in economical ammonia production Kellogg's new large plant design and ability to engineer giant pieces of equipment such as this con- verter have made possible the manufacture of ammonia at the lowest cost per fon As a result Kellogg is currently designing over half of the free world's new large ammonia plant capacity Combined output of these plants will exered 7 million tons per year 6 CHEMICAL WEEK September 10 1966 Grass Roots Refinery on Stream in Record Time The new 25,000 BPD refinery of Amoco Australia Pty Limited was in full operation just 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 Ultrafiner units combine to produce premium and regular gasolines fuel and diesel oils kerosenes jet fuels LPG and asphalt all for domestic consumption Included in the com- plex are a tanker jetty storage tank farm the process units a utility plant blending facilities product storage workshops laboratory and administration buildings The M. W. Kogg Company car- ried out complete process engineering design for the multimillion refinery while Kellogg Overseas Cor- poration the Company's affiliate in all Sydney handled procurement and construction Across Australia re- fineries of Kellogg design now account third for almost a of the continent's total refining capacity Licensed by Standard Oil Company Indiana THE M. W. KELLOGG COMPANY 711 THIRD AVE NEW YORK N.Y. 10017 A DIVISION OF PULLMAN PULLMAN INCORPORATED Offices of other Kellogg Companies are in Bogota i Madrid Buenos Aires Paris Dusseldorf 3 London : Sydney Toronto apply a stage adhesive in just ! 1 stage ! 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ARIZONA CHEMICAL COMPANY 111 West 50th Street New York New York 10020 Septmber 10 1966 CHEMICAL WEEK 15 , LETTERS ANTIOXIDANT CAO 30 AN naphthol In polyolefins rubbers other polymers hydrocarbons e.g *. lubricants CAO is a highly ef -*. fective thermal antioxidant at low -. concentrations displaying an out- standing synergistic effect in the presence of carbon black Most recently introduced of Catalin's wide range of antioxidants CAO is ' specially recommended for stabilizing black polyolefin wire and ; - cable compounds An experienced technical repre- | sentative is ready to assist you CORPORATION - CATALIN : Division of Ashland Oil Refining Company ONE PARK AVE YORK 10016 Basis for believing TO THE EDITOR Concerning the article titled A More Businesslike Socialism Aug. 6 p 50 I am surprised that your . . . authoritative pub- lication takes seriously the worker's management propaganda of the Yugoslav government as evidenced by your statement Unlike Western com- panies Yugoslav units will be directed by councils representing the plants workers The system of the fictitious worker'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 decisions of the government are implemented through the plant's director The council's task much like the National Assembly's is merely to formally approve the measure so that the document of approval can later be shown to visiting Westerners as proof of the democratization of Yugoslav communism and its evolution toward free enterprise .... .... .... May I also point out the follow- ing statement by Aleksander Rankovic to the Central Committee of CPY at Comrades the time of his dismissal I do not think that 1 can be accused of any kind of nationalism or chauvinism 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 CATALIN CORPORATION 1 Park Ave. H. 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Johnson Chemical Week 330 West 42nd St. New York N.Y. 10036 16 CHEMICAL WEEK September 10 1966 MEETINGS American Chemical Society national meeting New York Hilton and Americana hotels Sept. 11-16 Technical Assn of the Pulp and Paper Industry 21st plastics conference Commodore Hotel New York Sept. 1921 17th testing conference paper and paperboard Golden Triangle Hotel Norfolk Va Sept. 27-29 Society of ' . metic Chemists annual seminar Americana Hotel New York Sept. 20-21 Chemical Marketing Research Assn Greenbrier Hotel White Sulphur Springs W.Va. Sept. Oct 1 American Oil Chemists Society 40th fall meeting Stratford Hotel Philadelphia Oct. 3-5 Bureau National of Standards In- stitute for Materials Research first mate- research symposium Gaithersburg Md Oct. 3-7 Assn of Official Analytical Chemists annual Motor 10-13 meeting Twin Bridges Marriott Hotel Washington D.C. Oct. ! Technicon international symposium on automation in analytical chemistry Stat- Hilton Hotel New York Oct. 17-19 Drug Chemical & Allied Trades Assn annual meeting Hollywood Beach Hotel Hollywood Fla Oct. 20-22 Commercial Chemical Development Assn discussion of packaging Drake Hotel Chicago J Oct. 26-28 National Assn of Purchasing Agents Chemical Groupi annual fall conference Continental Plaza Hotel Chicago Oct. 27 . Society of Engineering Science fourth technical meeting North Carolina State University Raleigh Oct. Nov 2 American Society for Metals national metal congress and exposition McCor- mick Place Chicago Oct. Nov 3 Parental Drug Assn annual conven- tion Statler Hotel New York Nov. 1-4 t Fertilizer industry round con- ference Mayflower Hotel Washington D.C. Nov. 2-4 : The Society of the Plastics Industry 11th plastics film sheeting and coated fabrics conference Waldorf Hotel New York Nov. 9-10 conference on cellular plastics in transportation Edge- water Beach Hotel Chicago Nov. 15-17 The Franklin ~ nstitute Research Lab- oratories fourth annual symposium on the organic state Philadelphia Nov. 14 General Atomic Division of General Dynamics Corp. and Air Force Office of Scientific Research fundamentals of gassurface interactions San Diego Calif Dec. 14-16 : ike from coastal ster ged Galveston Bay and other waters make large gingu gingu gingu mportant raw material available for the manufacture of cement and other gingu gingu complimentary HOUSTON the September 10 66 Ammonia Ammonia Anhydrous ALABAMA Birmingham Mobile Montgomery .. ARIZONA Phoenix .. .. Phoenix .. Tucson .. Tucson ARKANSAS Fort Smith Little Rock 841-6451 471-3404 - 262-5787 258-7937 254-6111 MA 2-3613 793-9731 -. SU 3-4164 . 565-2355 Bakersfield CALIFORNI..A. 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Industrial Chemical Departmont No. 499 West Norfolk Chesapeake Va 23703 Tol 703 397-3441 New Virginia amines perhaps most advanced in the provides for 24 fully automated multimillion lb. per year operation Flexibility of new production process meels heaviest demand for specific amines September 10 1966 CHEMICAL WEEK 21 CDB's PaulShannon's chemicals Paul Shannon dry have everythingsoapers need , mgr FMC INORGANIC CHEMICALS DIVISION solubility , easy handling handling And dry available to spare chlorinatedisocyanurics isocyanurics Now being used successfullyin a multitude consumer consumer and industrial cleaners bleaches dishwashing detergents and suit your specific formulation granulation package conditions and anticipated shelf life FMC CORPORATION CHEMICALSDIVISION 633 Third Avenue N.Y 10017 - a 99 99 99ne : 3 : : i i 11 11 BUSINESS Newsletter CHEMICAL WEEK SEPTEMBER 10 1966 Another new U.S. aluminum producer W. J. Reed & Associates San Francisco engineering consulting firm disclosed plans late last week on behalf of a newly incorporated Georgia company United Aluminum Corp. The new firm will build a million plant somewhere in the Southeast United Aluminum which will be based in San Francisco reportedly has 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 call under way next spring be completedin early '69 Plans of capacity to 132,000 year in 10 years for expansion Word of the United Aluminum project comes just a few weeks after disclosure that another new producer Northwest Aluminum was ready to the launch a million project in the Puget Sound area of Business Newsletter Aug. 6 Northwest CW ' Union Carbideis pushing its big expansion program It will build f a 300-million-lbs./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 Birny 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 product acetone demands says Mason will be available to meet growing market of the merchant : film Carbide also unveiled plans for polyethylene 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 production will be an extension of the company's polyethylene film coming out of Cartersville Ga and Ottawa Ill Construction of the plant will begin next month be completed late in '67 ; e plans Humble Oil has the green light on construction for its pro- posed million refinery at Benicia Calif The company's application to build needed terminal facilities was approved by the San Francisco Bay Conservation & Development Commission Construction of the project which was originally planned to be built at Moss Landing Calif near Mon- terey CW Business Newsletter May 28 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 Newsletter Humble's research and engineering affiliate in Florham Park N.J. Although approvals by other California regulatory agencies await further engineering details the company says it foresees no seriou obstacles and is proceeding with site preparation and contract awarding The huge refinery about 70,000 day capacity will turn out fuel products chiefly gasoline jet and diesel fuels e Knox gets the contract to engineer and build Pittsburgh Plate Glass proposed 18,000 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 from a new mining and refining operation under construction in Sierra Leone Africa by Sherbro Minerals Ltd. PPG has an 80 interest in Sherbro e 1 Foremost Dairies is making another offer to buy McKesson & Robbins stock from shareholders following a breakdown in talks that have been going on for months Foremost's chairman and exmeercguertive officer Rudolph Drews says his company will pay 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 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 Feb. 5 ) The suit was dropped and talks started In addition to the 750,000 shares taken in the merger February offer Foremost also holds about 1 million shares acquired from Glen Alden Corp. which tried unsuccessfully last year to wrest control of McKesson With 40 of McKesson stock in hand Foremost hopes the new offer 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 i Harshaw G. 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Searle & Co. is acquiring Fermco Laboratories from Chemical Cleveland Acquisition of the Chicago Fermco's assets patents and name for an undisclosed amount becomes effective Oct. 1 Fermco is a basic producer of enzymes by fermentation biochemicals and diagnostic reagents its activities will be consolidated into Searle facilities in Skokie Ill : that The Justice Dept. will crack down on U.S. boost profits by absorbing tariff cuts resulting from tht ecoh Kme epannnieedsytrRyoinugntdo of GATT talks in Geneva Several firms unidentified by Justice have been working out deals to this end with foreign producers have been of the antitrust implications warned ! 24 CHEMICAL WEEK September 10 1966 If no TiO2 is better than TITANOX why not get | the best | technical | help too We not only make many grades of titanium pigments but we help you use the right one more efficiently economically If your products need the whiteness brightness and opacity that TITANOX helps give call or write to us Our TITANOX Technicians continually help customers improve their process and products in our labs at their plants in the field It's like having an expert on your team but not on your payroll Remember only Titanium Pigment Corporation makes TITANOX helps you use it too Our headquarters are at 111 Broadway New York N.Y. 10006 with offices and warehouses in principal cities In Canada Canadiar Titanium Pigments Limited Montreal Try us . TITANIUM PIGMENT CORPORATION SUBSIDIARY OF NATIONAL LEAD COMPANY solutions to customer process problems PROFITABILITY SULFUR RECOVERY developed activated catalyst developed pelleted Porocel developed bauxite Can we solve a problem for you Write for POROCEL samples and technical literature MINERALS & CHEMICALS DIVISION OF MINERALS & CHEMICALS PHILIPP 4446 ESSEX TURNPIKE MENLO PARK NEW JERSEY 08837 TEL CORPORATION CODE 548.2200 } . CHEMICAL WEEK SEPTEMB^ 10 1966 Why U.S. trade surplus is shrinking First '66 exports are But imports are rising faster Soybeans Motor vehicles | Chemicals Wood pulp Rubber goods Nonferrous metals Textiles Ores 31 17 15 % 10 +% +% +% +% Autos Gems Chemicals Whiskey Nonferrous Textiles Newsprint Sugar metals 89 34 -1-32 % -28 24 % 16 16 % +% The Global Spending Spree Rapid rise in '66 imports could alter U.S. economy ~fl high demand for productsincluding foreign cars and foreign chemicals photo -has the U. S. this year heading toward its smallest trade surpl- uthse excess of exports over impo-rstinsce '59 This dwin- dling balance of trade is likely to influence 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 was even sharper sevenmonth exports up 15. 15. ip nearly 1.6 billion but imports up 32 to 558 million These figures however add up to chemical trade surplus of $ billion ITAM slightly higher for last year's first seven months and about third of the nation's surplus for '66 to date total trade While the U.S. had a billion trade surplus in '64 and a billion excess last year the present outlook for '66 is a surplus of only about 4 billion This would be less than % of the billion gross national product now predicted for this year Demand Called Excessive the declining trade surplus could But the significant impact on the Johnson Ad- ministration's economic decision ing The surge in imparts tends to what good of confirm a the Administration many critics have been saying all year domestic namely that demand in the domestic economy is much too high : It now seems clear that demand in 27 the U.S. has outrun the ability of some domestic industries to meet it Ex- amples in the field of chemicals phthalic anhydride sulfur formalde- hyde phosphoric acid Civilian demand 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 on the Administration to slow things down by fiscal policy measures The worsening U.S. trade position can only add to that pressure Dollar Widens A particularly galling aspect of the trade situation -from the Administration's viewpoint -is the harm it is doing to the U.S. 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 shrinking 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 banks with comparatively little funds for overseas borrowers - including those who want the money to pay for goods from the U.S. At midyear commercial bank loans to foreigners totaled nearly 100 million less than at the end of '65 U.S. bankers con- firm that foreign customers are getting all the money they want not Expediting Exports The Adminis- tration has already started to carry out two plans to help reverse the trade- surplus 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. 13 p 31 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 subsidiary shipments account for 25 of U.S. exports any improvement in this area could be important Even more promising is a scheme by the 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 from ExIm for up to one year an 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 until either the boom at home or the war in Vietnam comes to an end Chemical trade potent force in U.S. balance of payments SITC No. Commodity groups IMPORTS First 1966 Change from '65 EXPORTS First 1966 Change from '65 BALANCE OF TRADE First '65 First '66 512 Organic chemicals 513 514 515 Elements oxides halides Other inorganics Radioactive materials 521 Crude chemicals from coal oil natural gas 531 532 533 Synthetic organic dyestuffs indigo lakes Dyeing and tanning extracts Pigments paints varnishes 541 551 553 = Pharmacetuical products _ Essential oils flavors Cosmetics and toiletries 554 561 Soaps detergents polishing preparations Processed fertilizers 571 581 Explosives pyrotechnics Plastics and resins 599 5 Other chemical products pesticides starches adhesives waxes etc. CHEMICALS 231.2 Synthetic rubber 266 = Synthetic and cellulosic fibers 271 Crude fertilizers 274.1,3 Sulfur 105.8 73.8 25.5 28.3 5.3 19.1 6.6 2.5 38.4 22.9 5.3 2.7 75.1 9.9 29.2 31.9 482.2 11.2 37.1 2.3 13.9 + 40.9 +.38.5 +31.0 +31.0 - 16.4 + 35.7 + 51.0 + 25.9 + 20.7 + 68.4 22.2 + 9.4 +31.7 +31.7 + 19.9 +123.2 +64.9 +64.9 +22.2 +22.2 + 30.8 + 19.4 . +75.7 +75.7 +48.5 +48.5 + 2.7 343.4 79.0 55.9 25.4 + 5.0 + 3.3 +14.4 +31.6 14.0 . 17.5 1.5 33.0 132.1 20.3 12.9 - 4.1 +13.8 +34.4 +15.4 +11.0 +13.2 +20.7 33.6 93.8 11.2 240.6 * +22.4 +41.0 +16.3 +19.4 201.2 1,315.3 87.9 25.0 40.6 40.7 +26.2 +15.0 + 9.5 - 1.2 +27.6 +42.9 251.9 + 23.1 + 29.4 ~ 22.9 : + 10.6 + 2.8 I 4.1 + 26.5 + 96.2 +1+ 1116 +1+ 5.8 i + 25.4 + 4.0 + 5.2 +183.7 +183.7 ' +13.4 +133.4 +133.4 + 774.8 i + 70,9 : +2 + 30,3 + 14,9 Product groups with improved balance of trade are in color Comerce Dollar ligures in millions Source U.S. Dept. of Commerce 237.6 + 5.2 + 30.5 - 2.9 + 8.6 1 1.6 5.1 + 30.5 +1+ 93.7 +1+ 2.7 +1+ 7.5 + 30.9 + 18.7 + 1.3 + 211.4 +169.3 +169.3 + 833.1 + 76.7 - 12.1 + 38.3 + 26.8 28 CHEMICAL WEEK September 10 1966 Allied's operating organization Board chairman and president Chester Brown i. Executive president Irb Fooshee Tt. | Division president V. W. Suellau i i , Executive president L. Bissinger L Division president Frank Norton i i Divisions president James Prendergast I Executive president H. Marshall | i] Division president W. H. Winfield Division president Harold Imes Division president Frank French Division president 3. H. Marshall Division president G. H. Elliott INDUSTRIAL DIVISION Former General Chemical National Aniline and Sol- vay Process divi- sions PLASTICS | DIVISION Resins molding compounds plas ticizers coal chemicals BARRETT DIVISION Building and pay ing materials UNION TEXAS PETROLEUM Natural gas con- LPG and petro- chemical petro- stocks > CHEMICAL CANADA LTD Chemicals build ing materials SEMET SDLVAY DIVISION Coke coal chemi- cals mining and engineering FIBERS DIVISION Nylon fibers and filaments NITROGEN DIVISION Ammonia and other fertilizers urea formaldehyde mel amine glycol etc. ALLIED CHEMICAL INTERNATIONAL Exporting overseas marketing Three Division Last week Allied Chemical Corp. set up an Industrial Chemicals Di- vision by consolidating three former divisions that for many years had been better known among buyers of industrial chemicals than Allied itself Merged into the big new division whose '66 sales will probably exceed 500 million General Chemical Sol- vay Process and National Aniline di- visions They were descended from three of the five companies that merged in 1920 to form Allied Chemical & Dye Corp. as it was known until '58 The new division will be headed by year Vincent Suellau who has been with Allied since the company was formed and who had been presi- dent of the General Chemical Divi- sion for the past three years Its headquarters 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 Chemicals Allied's largest division will be one of the two operating divisions under Executive President Irb Fooshee chart above Fooshee promised customers that the new division will offer all of the research production and commercial functions previously provided by the three separate divisions It will take over major plants at Syracuse and Buffalo N.Y Elizabeth N.J East St. Lou .; Moundsville W. Va Baton Rouge La El Segundo and Nichols Calif and the new chlorine- caustic facility at Acme N.C. In another organizational move last week James Prendergast was named president of Allied's Nitrogen Division largest U.S. producer of anhy- drous ammonia and derivatives Pren- dergast -- who was born in Victoria B.C. in 20 and served in the Royal Canadian Air Force during World War will 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 will retire at the end of December after nearly 40 years as an Allied executive An End to % Credit Congress may write a swift end to the % tax credit for new business investments a law that has notably reduced U.S. business possibly 2 billion on '66 federal income tax returns About half of that amount will go to manufacturing industries among which the chemical industry and the primary metals producermisl- at about 140 million and 115 mil- lion respectively are expected to get the largest shares Such an abrupt tax law change this late in the Congressional session was deemed most unlikely only a few wecks ago but now important Ad- ministration officials consider suspen- investment sion of the credit a live possibility Gardner Ackley chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors is believed to be pushing the measure and even Treasury Secretary Henry Fowler - up to now the Cabinet's strongest advocate of keeping the credit The i- s said .. be reconsidering President Ponders President Johnson himself has been trying to size up the pros and cons A White House call for tax credit repeal - as an inflation move - would as- sure its quick passage If Johnson takes a hands attitude Congress may end the tax credit on its own Late last week Senator Russell Long D La - chairman of the Senate Finance Committed and majority whip tacked onto the passed for- eign investors tax bill a rider to repeal the tax credit amendment would deny the 7 tax deductions for all capital equipment brdered after Aug. 30 and for all items not delivered by next Jan. 1. The senator plans to speed the measure through his com- mittee and onto the Senate floor where it's likely to pass easily Discouraging Spending The fate of the proposal in the House of Representatives is less certain it is almost entirely in the hand of Ways & Means Committee Chairman Wilbur Mills D Ark who so far has not aired his views on the matter But even if the repeal rider is re- jected by the House Long seems to feel that the action he will generate in the Senate will be enough to cool business spending decisions One political angle congressmen up for election could point to repeal as a blow at price rises September 10 1966 CHEMICAL WEEK 29  Preparing Antitrust Appeal Conoco's McCollum Carrying out his big chemical merger Selling Subsidiaries Next week Chairman L. F. McCollum of Continental Oil expects to car- ry out his delayed merger with Consolidation Coal Co. Shareholders last week voted almost unanimous approval of the transaction - Consol by 99.4 Conoco by 99.2 Conoco will thereby add Consol Chemical Co. Newark N.J. to its expanding chemical operations Consol major producer of cresol and cresylic acids will be run as part of Conoco's new Consolidation Coal subsidiary But Consol's 50 stock holdings in two other chemical process ventures are to be sold off Its stake in National 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 Sohio were unwilling to buy a Consol spokesman told CW they will definitely not be offered While Sohio would not comment on possible acquisition of Consol's half of Mountaineer a Freeport spokesman acknowledges that his company would be the logical candidate for the potash stock Trade sources on the other hand say both Freeport and Sohio are negotiating with Consol and will continue to do so These sources predict that those transactions will be wrapped up soon General Dynamics calls divestiture order unjustified U.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 Carbonic Division Chicago GD calls the decision unjustified says it has every secure sales for Liquid Carbonic Subtle Hints The opinion made it clear that the supply contracts contained no express terms requiring reciprocal dealing But Judge Cannella listed several instances in which GD intention of contesting it vigorously In a 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 Section1 of the Sherman Act which deals with restraint of trade GD was given 60 days by Judge John Cannella to submit 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 officials dropped subtle hints to its consuming suppliers Among them Raytheon Transitron Electronics Shell Oil Standard Oil of California Sylvania Electronic Products and Midland The judge such back scratching was inimical to a competitive economic society However he said the government had proved that the agreements accounted for only 177 225 in purchases from Liquid Carbonic and this wasn't enough to violate the Sherman act authority to award defense subcontracts to coerce other companies to purchase carbon dioxide and other industrial 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 Cannella 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 lessening of competition would occur Justice Dept. officials were well pleased with the decision and only slightly disturbed by Cannella's re- fusal to outlaw the agreements them- selves In their view the judge was putting a heavy burden of proof on the government but they felt that fu- ture prosecution could be adjusted and reciprocal agreements would be held illegal If this happens it would seri- ously threaten common prac- tice of from buy- from mutual patronage History of Litigation In '48 the Federal Trade Commission issued a desist order against Liquid prohib.. pirothiibintigng it from price fixing predatory pricing to eliminate competitors and dividing territories with competitors Also in '48 the Jus- tice 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 and largest dioxide market It was the domestic producer distributor of gaseous liquid and solid CO Its '56 sales totaled 35 million 18 million from carhon dioxide Since the acquisition General Dynamics has not made public the division's financial results : The court found that at the time of merger both parties had the intent to use GD's purchasing power to The company throughacquired Liquid Carbonic through an exchange of stock valued at about 58 million 30 CHEMICAL WEEK September 10 1966 Riding Herodn Mergers Members of the nation Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development's restrictive practices committee may be asked this fall to endorse a proposal that would create an international agency designed to ride herd on mergers cartels joint . ventures and other combinations that might 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 U.S. and foreign firms may be excessive He sees the trend as a menace because no govern- ment agency keeping track of the combinations let alone protecting the public interest He has urged the State and Justice Depts and Federal Trade Commission He doesn't have all the specific ironed out but he does 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 recommend actions to the respective governments involved Adding impetus to Hart's proposals was new evidence submitted by FTC showing that the 50 largest U.S. industrial concerns have acquired at least 177 foreign companies since '60 In Western Europe alone these companies since '58 have established 92 joint ventures and bought 78 foreign companies to support his plan at OECD's meeting The officials 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 possibly including the nation European Economic Community EEC Britain Canada and the U.S. be more suitable Rough Idea Hart's agency would be the first step toward such protection FTC Chairman Paul Rand Dixon says U.S. investment abroad in recent years has outstripped private invest- ment here Herefers to these statis- tics to rebut 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 expanding 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 Challenging International Unions Hart has pressed the Justice Dept. on why it hasn't challenged more international combinations Latest government suits in the international sphere were filed two years ago One still pending challenges the joint venture 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- Senator support ; WIDE WORLD Hart Seeks Administration for global antitrust agency tice has closely studied several big deals Olivetti RCASiemens Chrysler 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 growing esearch market { Growing with & Chemical and phaaceutical re- search will be growing at a much gross faster rate than the national product during the next few years Fisher Chairman Aiken of Fisher Sci- entific Co. Pittsburgh predicted in an appearance before the New York Society of Security Analysts Annual research and development expenditures by all 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.j Number of trained young men and women available to carry on the chemical research work will probably in- * crease still faster Fisher presented a chart showing a 40 gain between '66 and '69 in number of year degrees to be awarded in chemistry by U. S. colleges and universities This would mean rapid growth in all the major markets served by Fish- - er's company which produces and distributes laboratory equipment and reagent chemicals for industry hospitals schools etc. .nother ma- jor product line process control in- struments . At present industrial customers ac- count for about 50 of the company's sales volume Fisher expects this part of the business to grow but predicts that the rate of growth will be greater in other areas - e.g. university laboratories hospital diagnostic and re- search laboratories He estimates his company's '66 sales at more than 63 million - up about 10 from '65 September 10 1966 CHEMICAL WEEK 31 { ' Taking Giant Steps Two chemical process companies | took giant steps toward diversifying into the oceanography field last week and two paper companies with combined sales of nearly $ billion reached a tentative agreement to merge 1 Bendix Corp. Detroit CXpanded its oceanic activities by acquiring for an undisclosed amount of stock Marine Advisers La Jolla Calif producer of oceanographic instruments for petroleum and utility . companies state and federal agencies and firms engaged in scientific pro- grams Sources of airborne asbestos Asbestos ducts used in centrally conditioned buildings Asbestos ducts and insulation in home heating plants Motor vehicle brake linings and clutch plates Auto undercoatings Asbestos ceiling and floor tiles Asbestos shingles and sidings Construction and demolition Fitting cutting and removing asbestos floorings piping and insulation wallboards Incineration of asbestos scrap Improperly filtered effluent from asbestos processing plants and 2 Fluor Corp. Los Angeles and B. L. McFarland and Associates Fort Worth and Midland Tex a group of five companies involved in offshore and onshore drilling operations 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 to merge has been reached by U.S. Plywood Corp. New York and Champion Papers Inc. Hamilton O. It is sub- ject to both directors and stockholders approval The corporate identities of both companies will be preserved Reducing Gas Rates The Federal Power Commission has ordered El Paso Natural Gas Co. and Transwestern Pipeline Co. to reduce by 17 million the price of natural 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 Tenneco subsidiary to supply gas to the Los Angeles area CW Aug. 6 p 20 Gulf Pacific last week filed for a rehearing El Paso and Transwestern were told they would have to lower their rates to reflect the lower 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 Asbestos Awaiting Trial The asbestos industry end products are valued at more than 500 million be in for a shake- up It could come in the form of federal legislation limiting the use of asbestos because asbestos has been ac- 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 chronic cases of asbestosis mild even though most of them never worked directly with asbestos Unlike other airborne dust particles asbestos fibers have the ability most as much as activated carbon- to absorb polycyclic hydrocarbons and arsenicals Furthermore says USPHS in the past 30 years the asrelated 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 researchers feel certain there is a synergistic relationship among airborne asbestos smoking and lung cancer They reason that the nondegradable 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 rolaes an air pollutant However Congress may act before the research is finished Says Representative 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 and strict ones 1 Some form of asbestos control is in the ofling public health officials are certain if only part of a larger ambient program However there is the danger that Congress may enact rigorous controls on the quanti- ty of asbestos could be used In that case both Canada and U.S. asbestos produci manufacturers would be hard hit Of the five forms of asbestos mined today chrysotile asbestos holds the predominant mar- ket position because of its insulat- ing and processing qualities Canada produces more than 80 of the chry- sotile asbestos used in the U.S. In both countries a number of serious dislocations would occur At present there is no known ma- terial that could fill all of asbestos strategic roles On the should federal controls for higher standards for other hand merely call binders and shieldings that would spark a rise of new products the lead with : plastics taking Reason say industry spokesmen present polymer technology could easily turn up products to replace as bestos in most uses 32 CHEMICAL WEEK September 10 1966 WASHINGTON Newsletter Newsletter CHEMICAL WEEK SEPTEMBER 10 1966 President Johnson's Great Society legislationis at stake in Novem- ber's elections Asis normal in an year election the Democrats Democrats as the party in power expect to suffer some lossesin the House The question is how many They hold a one majority in the 89th Congress and can suffer some losses without losing effective control of the legislative machinery Democrats now hold 63 marginal House seats some won by less than a % 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 Vietnam inflation and civil rights 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 election won their seats in '60 when the late President John F. Kennedy and Richard M. Nixon split the vote Private patents will be almost impossible to get under provisions of the new auto safety law and its million research contract section The House and Senate have agreed to language providing for public ownership of if invention's the government's contribution is substantial Senator Russell Long D. La is trying to tack such a provision to * research and government legislation development this field so long as there is no policy in : The proposed Dept. of Transportation may be headed up a dead street in Congress The House last week approved creation of the 12th Cabinet department 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 approving rates mergers of competitive practices These still would be left to the Interstate Commerce Commision Civil Aeronautics Board and Federal Maritime Administration The Maritime Administration is out of the proposed department completely And the House eliminated a proposal that would have authorized the Secretary of Transportation to lay down standards for evaluating federal programs There is little doubt that the department will come into being one of these years While it will start with little actual authority it can be expected to lead a fight in Congress for changesin regulatory laws to give it more power 93 WASHINGTON Newsletter Gas pipeline safety bill now seems fairly certain of winning Congressional approval next year 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 bill winning Congressional approval this year But observers predict that it will be ssed in '67 Automotive pollution 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 cars roll off the assembly line in the fall of '67 The Public Health Service now is 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 along with an initial round of controls on diesels Under consideration are such proposal possible solutions as catalytic mufflers and fuel additives A these linesis expected early next year along } fi Doctors must get written consent from patients before trying any experimental drugs on them under new rules issued by Food &Drug Commissioner James L. Goddard A consent requirement has beenin 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 would informationwould affect the patient's condition Science Project Mohole is being closed out The National Founda- tion's million project had two objectives 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 bSeegnuante to retain the programs The Science Foundation now has efforts 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- 50s Original cost estimates have risen from 15 million - The 25 nickel aside for military 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 will doesn't clear up by the end of September BDSA undoubtedly the aside again Also see Market Newsletter p 79. extend 1 34 CHEMICAL WEEK September 10 1966 Flak Flak NII med 14 pants Post Natur om Nah Ard HN IN Mtr 2 X Su ered Bova ad Weatherly's breakthrough in Urea plant design makes it possible to build plants for the simultaneous manufacturing of Urea Nitric Acid Ammonium Nitrate UA and other Nitrogen Solutions It's unique It's more eco- nomical too Weatherly's design offers more fertilizer at less cost per ton through low initial cost higher ammonia conversion and lower operating labor cost Weatherly's fully automated process utilizes urea gas for the nitric acid plant and ammonium nitrate neutralizer Capacities of 20 to 1000 tons per day For more information on this com- DM WW plete compact Weatherly nitrogen complex write wire or phone Area Code 404 355-5323 W j The D. M. Weatherly Company Engineers and Builders ' 1819 Peachtree Rd NE Atlanta Georgia 30309 Aerofab ventilated vinyl | , breathes life into cushions stays young itself because of Admex plasticizers 1 4 In Aerofab vinyl fabric by Southbridge Plastics 644 tiny air vents per sq ft actually breathe to provide air conditioned comfort No trapped air No tearing or outs Aerofab ventilated vinyl is designed to spend much of its life outdoors rain or shine It must have light stability flexibility in cold weather and easy wash- ability These are only a handful the virtues an Admex plasticizer can build into a vinyl product Do you have a problem with vinyls Get in touch with ADM Chemicalass the Southbridge Plastics people did It fig- ures that the leader in vinyl plasticizers can help ' Aerolab is a trademark of Southbridge Plastics Div W. R. Grace & Co. Coes) ADM CHEMICALS ANCHER DAE EMG AND LIN LIN MARQUETTE & ENUE BERT 17 MINGEAPURSOTA MINGEAPURSOTA MINGEAPURSOTA Waar 36 CHEMICAL WEEK September 10 1966 NATIONAL ROUNDUP Grow Chemical acquires U.S. Paint Petrolite enters Humble's complex Grow Chemical Corp. New York has bought U.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 Chemical Baltimore was acquired in July and negotiations are under way to buy Farboil Co. Baltimore Recent price of Grow shares 12.50 Petrolite Corp. New York has purchased an 85- acre site in Humble Oil & Refining Co.'s Bayport Tex industrial development Petrolite is the sixth landowner on the 7,250 property on Galveston Bay 25 miles southeast of Houston Other site owners are Lockheed Retzloff Chemical Corp. Shaffer Tool Works Haldor Topsoe and American Cryogenics Dow adds to Ohio site Stromberg to market microfilm Dow Chemical Co. New York has acquired an additional 279 acres in Belmont County Ohio which brings its holdings in the area to more than 500 acres Other land holdings lie over what experts believe to be major salt deposits acquired in two previous purchases Stromberg Rochester N.Y General Dynamics subsidiary market microfilm produced by Kelvar Corp. New Orleans La Stromberg Data Products Division San Diego will manage the distribution of Kelvar's microfilm aperture cards and duplicating equipment Abbott acquires Faultless Rubber Fulton and Producers Cotton Oil merge The boards of Abbott Laboratories North Chicago and Faultless Rubber Co. Ashland O. have ratified an agreement providing for the acquisition of all 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 National Aeronautical Corp. Fort Washington Pa for the exclusive distribution of Air Control's laminar airflow filtration hoods The merger of Fulton Industries Atlanta Ga and Producers Cotton Oil Co. Fresno Calif has been approved by the directors of both companies CW Aug. 20 p 32 Terms of the agreement subject to stockholders approval exchange of 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 16 to share and has declared a % common stock dividend Pioneer Plastics Corp. Auburn Me is omitting its regular quarterly 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 million D center Shell dedicates million light oil complex The GliddeCon. Cleveland will construct a 4- million research center in Strongsville O. which will house all the research and development activities of its Coatings and Resins and Durkee Foods groups The company has an option on a acre site subject to rezoning of the property If rezoning is approved Glidden says it will begin construction by June '67 with completion scheduled for Aug. 68 The Coatings and Resins and Durkee 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 D and technical service expenditures for cal '66 about 8 million Shell Oil Co. New York has dedicated its 75- million light oil processing complex at Martinez Calif The addition increases the capacity of the Martinez refinery by 55 brings its capacity to 85,000 bbls./day bbls./day 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 -is designed to accumulate coke in quantities sufficient to load 10,000- 15,000 cargoes for Japan and Europe Product will come from new 1,200 coking unit nearing completion at the company's Watson refinery Powerine Oil Co. has awarded a million mod- ernization and expansion contract at its Santa Fe Springs Calif refinery Fluor Corp. Los Angeles Construction will begin later this year and is scheduled for completion in the summer of '67 September 10 1966 CHEMICAL WEEK 37 ) NATIONAL ROUNDUP Sun lets contract for gasoline plant Texaco markets automobile filters Sun Oil Co. Dallas has contracted with Austin Rankin Corp. to design and construct million addition to its natural gasoline processing plant in Premont 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 automobiles a Monsanto triples sequestrant capacity Carbide expands methyl isobutyl ketone Monsanto Co. St. Louis will begin work immedi- ately at its Everett Mass plant to triple manufacturing capacity of Dequest a phosphorus deflocculating and sequestering agent The expansion the 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 calcium magnesium copper iron and aluminum The product is also used in bottle washing metal cleaning rubber compounding textile and food processing and for clay deflocculating Union Carbide will increase methyl isobutyl ketone capacity by more than 20 million lbs./year The expansion will be completed in 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 pharmaceutical and plastics industries Three companies offer debentures for financing expansion programs Three chemical process companies have filed prelimi- nary registration statements with the Securities & Exchange 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 carmarked for expansions The company's estimated '66 expenditures 460 million Breakdown production 53 manufacturing 23 marketing 20 transportation and other % Standard will complete construction this year of a 400-million-lbs./year dimethyl terephthalate and purified terephthalic acid plant at Decatur Ala and a 225-million-lbs./year xylene plant at Texas City Tex Also under construction at Texas City a 1,500 anhydrous ammonia unit scheduled for completion in '68 2 Aluminum Co. of America filed for a mil- 38 CHEMICAL WEEK September 10 1966 lion offering of convertible subordinated debentures due in 91. Through '68 Alcoa will spend 780 million expanding and modernizing its facilities Expansions now under way at Evansville Ind Badin N.C. and Wenatchee Wash will increase the company's domes- tic primary aluminum production capacity to over 1.1 million year ; Other expansions an integrated aluminum complex and related power facilities at Surinam South America facilities to fabricate sheet plate and .2.i including a 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 million offering of % con- vertible subordinated debentures due in 76. About one- fourth of the proceeds will be used to further develop Mitron's titanium casting and molding processes and the company's ceramic fiber metal composites process : About 100,000 will be used to discharge bank loans of Rode Inc. a wholly owned subsidiary and 50,000 as a loan to Rode for working capital The balance will be used for general corporate purposes Chalmers supplies equipment to Airco Hercules increasing methanol capacity Chalmers has signed a million contract to supply equipment to Air Reduction Co's New York million complex in Hancock County West Vir- ginia The complex separation plant and a weld- ing wire plant utilize two Chalmers 17,000- hp main air compression systems and a 10,000 nitrogen cycle compressor ! Hercules Wilmington Del will inclcase methanol capacity at its Hercules Calif plant by about 15 million gal./year The expansion to be completed in late '66 is being made by conversion of ammonia produc- tion facilities Work will begin immediately Consumer's Co changes name Gardner Almo build helium unit Consumer's Cooperative Assn Kansas City is changing its name to Farmland Industries effective Sept. 1. The new name is intended to be more descrip- tive of the company's activities and services suggesting agricultural ownership and industrial character Gardner Cryogenics Corp. Hightstown N.J. and Almo Chemical wholly owned subsidiary of Phillips Petroleum plan to construct a jointly owned helium extraction and liquefaction plant near Elkhart Kan Scheduled for completion in fall of '66 the plant will process 385,000 cu.ft./day cu.ft./day purity 99.95 ) helium gas : cls POWERhelping Swift CHEMICAL POWER POWER you meet the challenge of marketing change a _ 2 es 2 OR a, Technical suet. 5: Technical ve Technical Technical e oe fey st Colloids wg fe ry : Technical oy :* - & Colloids Colloids Colloids af . ww - . -. Colloids (e425. 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TRICHLOROETHYLENE CLA TALDEAS TALDEAS TRICHLOROETHYLENE TALDEAS TALDEAS CLA TRICHLORETHTRYICLHLEORNETTHYLRENICHLOROETHYLEN TRICHLOROETHYLEN TRICHLOROETHYLEN t vf mF ... ... Z ... VLINK Nrw VLINK contact your local distributor CHEMICAL MANUFACTURING CO INC 444 Madison Ave. New York N. Y. 10022 714 Los Blvd. West Olympic Angeles 90015 114 Sansoms San Francisco Street 94104 moisture and steam resistance properties 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 Pont's Engineering Test Center carried out tests with packing cups of Adiprene pregnated Corfam on pistons = that were reciprocated in cylinders containing mineral oil and water emulsions to determine wear as it might be found in applications of hydraulic packing In honed cylinders Corfam packing outlasted other materials such as impregnated leathers and neoprene ed duck and gave indications that rougher cylinder walls might be used reducing the cylinder finishing operations In general leather packings are limited to cylinders with microinch roughness and rubber to those with microinch roughness Corfam outlasted other materials by as much as three to one in cylinders of 35-40 roinch roughness and as much as 17 to one in cylinders of 90-100 inch 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 with- stood pressures above 5,000 psi In general Corfam is similar to other reinforced packings where the substrate prevents excessive extruding and blowing out at high pressures Less Drag Most engineers express concern about breakaway force and friction when considering any new scal 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 Adiprene 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 forque But Robert Phelps Sr. president 44 CHEMICAL WEEK September 10 1966 of Phelps Packing & Rubber Co. Inc. Baltimore indicates that Adi- impregnated Corfam may be more than satisfactory Phelps which probably has sold more Corfam packing and seals for industrial applications than any other packing supplier makes hydraulic seals of 24.5 in- side diameter for machines that cut large metal parts These machines which hold the work stationary rotate the cutting wheel at high speed had been using impregnated neoprene But the Adiprene nated Corfam seals produced for less drag Phelps adds that Corfam's tensile and tear strengths and good elongation properties have helped its use as diaphragms in 150 air service re- placing nylon and neoprene Cost Savings Cost comparisons with other materials are difficult to make rising sheets For example leather costs are and very thick or very thin 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 he used for the same seal application Du Pont lists impregnated Corfam prices at 3.05-1.50 depending on quantity and thicknesses ordered i Corfam may cost more than twice as 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 1 But Corfam will not be the answer to all packing and seal problems For example Corfam has not been tested in many chemical environmenmtasy not be superior to some of the rubbercoated and homogenous mate- rials already being used And Teflon despite flow and permanent problems has superior chemical and resistance | temperature fam cannot Also Corbe made into a braided packing although forms might replace braided packing some ap- plications Moreover in many cases the less- expensive packing and seal materials do satisfactory job But where more durable packings and seals are needed Corfam will rate a trial If appeal didn't sell products you wouldn't need our brightening TiO2 But 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 and brighten and enhance) other colors Ideal for interior or exterior paints industrial finishes plastics and rubber products For information write to the company with 100 years pigment experience Our pigments are your best salesmen The New Jersey Zinc Company 160 Front St. N. N. Y. 10038. | MAKE PACKAGES TALK- Mattel Inc. scores another first marketA iTalnkigng Package polypropylen to a new super polypropylene shop film from Hercules Incorporated shop pers can reach side or the wrapped carton to operate the ... ... how it acts through the crystal window hear how it sounds touch the product This new balanced polypropylene film for shrink wraps is called 150 by gauge BC120 Made Hercules . is three times thicker and three times stronger than conventional shrink films It provides strength seals with puncture resistance that virtually eliminates film breakage in - : shipping and retailing ran Producers hard - . soft goods have found that Hercules the shrink polypropylene wraps in one \ gauge another the ideal solu- tion to their packaging problems Tough gauge they run just right on sealing and shrink equipment yield tight non relaxing wraps ... ... uniform shrink NITROGEN- CUT AMMO COSTS- This new foot prilling tower is part of multimillion expansion program at Hercules California With the addition of Herco | |S prilled ammonium nitrate the complete line of Hercules fertilizers is now available on the West Coast These include anhydrous and aqua am- monia nitrogen solutions HPC ammonium ni ammonia solutions and ammonium nitrate ammonia solutions UN and UN urea ammonium nitrate solutions and Nitroformfi Ureaform plant food HERCULES Wilmington Delaware 19899 Law enforcement officers and reload their cartridges or shells get the ultimate in savings and performance from Herculesfi double smokeless powders Sold by dealers _ under the trademarks Bullseye Green Dot Hercules 2400" Herco Red Dotfi RelodeR and Unique there is a composition for virtually every shotgun pistol revolver and center rifle A new detailed Smokeless Powder Guide is available from Hercules HERCULES TRADEMARK G66.5 46 CHEMICAL WEEK September 10 1966 _-. RESEARCH THE CASE OF THE ie Armour's McCorkle and Gardner check plans for new amines plant Betting on Beta's The green light for construction of a commercial plant to make a new series of amines has been flashed by James Gardner president of Armour Industrial Chemical Co. and Miles McCorkle president and technical director The new semiworks unit will turn out several million pounds of the new amines after it goes onstream at McCook Ill in March agents They are expected to show cost advantages when used in competitive applications Large uses are anticipated in the paper petroleum plastics rubber textile metalworking paint steel and pesticides industries McCorkle declares that fatty nitrogen chemicals are now a million industry and concludes The amine break- '67 The products making the lab plant transition differ in several respects from conventional fatty amines sold by Armour and a number of other producers They are derived from petroleum materials rather than from naturally occurring raw materials and are made by a new catalytic process patents have been applied for in the U.S. and abroad 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 Humko Products Fatty amide condensates and fatty nitriles are also part of the fatty nitrogen chemicals family Amines and Diamines Four beta- amines and a pair of diamines have been tested since '64 and a series of The new route gives a saturated chain hydrocarbon containing an amine or diamine group on an interior carbon atom- atom- predominantly at the derivatives joined them in 65. The amines are dubbed Armeens 1. 1. 1-11 and 1-15 the number indicating the number of carbon atoms in the beta position Conventional products are amines The amines have greater liquidity solvency and stability than do amines Like amines they are strongly cationic surface chain The diamines are Duomeens 1-11 and 15 Exceptionally low melting and cloud points are said to make these amines easy to handle and store especially when used outdoors at temperatures NAIL The Chinese description of clove is fragrant nail : The objective of a continuous de- velopment program performed by Snell for a clove growers cooperative of an African nation was to demonstrate the flavor value of fra- grant nails cloves At last count our creative food technology staff had produced 32 unique ways of using cloves including the use of cloves as powdered an ingredient in 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 century in product research development and improvement i Snell's work in the food field in- cludes formulation analysis sensory panel evaluations design processing food active active studies and microbiology Do you have a problem involving food research and development Call or write today Foster D. Snell Inc. a subsidiary of Allen Applied Re- search Inc. 29 West 15th Street New York N.Y. 10011. 212 924-8800 CHE MISTY ENGINEERS ENGINEERS BIOLOGINIS BIOLOGINIS September 10 1966 CHEMICAL WEEK 47 i CHEMICALS BY 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 ... full line of nonionic surfactants including a wide variety of ethoxylated products Synthetic Waxes ... Acrawax C 111 the lubricant - and emulsifying dispersible Ceresperses Hydantoins ... versatile organic intermediates or ready water and alcohol soluble resins - linking agents odorless formaldehyde donors Others +. Chelating Agents Dimethylol Urea Specialties GLYCO chemicals inc 417 FIFTH AVENUE NEW YORK Y. 10016 48 CHEMICAL WEEK September 10 1966 RESEARCH F down to 0 e.g. inimineral beneficia- tion petroleum processing and road building They are also highly soluble in a variety of solvents including acetone isopropyl alcohol ethylene glycol kerosene mineral spirits and mineral oil The amines have an electro- static attraction to most natural and synthetic materials displacing mois- ture from surfaces and coating them with a hydrophobic film They serve as effective emulsifiers for breaking emulsions and are also able to kill microbes algae and fungi Oil or wat soluble salts can also he formed e.g. oleate 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 amines Armeen quaternized amines Arquad and ethoxylated amines and diamines Ethomeen and Ethoduomeen The dimethyl compounds are suggested for use as reactive alkaline chemical intermediates especially in the manufacture of quaternary ammonium salts amine oxides and other coordination compounds They are more soluble than the corresponding tertiary amines and thus produce more concentrated reaction products The quaternized and ethoxylated products are good emulsifiers for a wide variety of products The quats are water soluble and are effective bactericides fungicides and algaecides The ethoxylated amines are offered in a range of compositions to allow selection of the lipoparticularplhipioplhiilicc bal- ance best suited to particular applica- tion ' Delivered tank prices for the amines are 5-50 similar figures for the derivatives are 50 for the dimethyl compounds 39.2545 for the quats and 38.7541.756 for the ethoxylated prod- ucts : Single prices would average about 8-9 lb. higher The company says these are commercial develop- ment prices and indicates that large- volume production may reduce them further may Armour's willingness to put out the rew line in competition with its own standard line of amines backs up its contention that the amines will be an important new offering Lloyd Schirmer Pres SCHIRMER | When its cargoes call for stainless Schirmer Transportation Co. 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St. Paul Minn relies on eleven Certified UNIFRAME tankers of three STICKS WITH | different types purpose 304 and 31 from 3800 to 7000 gal capacities Mr. Lloyd Schirmer president states Best payload ratios with wide cargo CERTIFIED range add up to profitable operation for our fleet of UNIFRAME tankers | They've logged more 6,000,000 miles during the past years without time off for other than normal maintenance We attribute this to Certified's superior construction and experienced know Million performance by hundreds of the nation's chemical transporters who rely on Certified tankers has proved the soundness of the Profitable Payload concept of design engineering and fabrication For lowest cost per lb. per mile transport of your cargo call or write Stainless & Steel Products Company 1000 Berry Ave. St. Paul Minn 55114 Telephone 612 646-8833 Sales and service nationwide This colorful page booklet with the Profitable Payload story is yours free upon request QUALITY BACKED BY 58 YEARS EXPERIENCE UNITE UNITE PIO U.S. PAY OFF count on Crane to move control . and treat it Whether it's mercury ammonia acid or oil Whether it's stable or unstable at tremendously high or cryogenic temperatures matter what it is ' it's not too tough for Crane to handle Take Crane's line of chemical pumps It's the biggest in the industry Offers you the widest possible choice new AVS centrifugal pumps to } canned Chempumps that combine pump and motor in one proof welded unit Together they pump just about any liquid } - : including the ordinary troublesome ones with less maintenance When it comes to regulating Crane corrosion stainless steel valves and special alloy valves stop leakage problems before they start They come as regulars in many types and pressure classes in a full range of sizes For automatic remote operations outfit them with Crane Teledynefi motorized valve operators Where you have water conditioning waste treatment and product recovery problems Crane has the engineering and product sophistication to solve them most economically With specified or packaged Cochrane systems from demineralizers to deaerators exchangers to 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 write Crane Co Dept. 012 4100 South Kedzie Avenue Chicago Illinois 60632 CRANE VALVES PUMPS ' FITTINGS ' WATER TREATMENT PIPING PLUMBING s HEATING + AIR CONDITIONING What separates your customers from the weather ORONITE POLYBUTENES the great betweens Caulk and Sealant properties improve dramatically when ORONITE Polybutenes become the base for your formulations These oxidation stable materials have a high degree of tackiness They maintain flexibility 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 1 Imagine what ORONITE Polybutenes can do for your formulations and profits Better yet write us and get Compounds For ur Imag- ination our comprehensive 30 page brochure on the character and versatility of these mate- rials Let's dream together CHEVRON CHEMICAL COMPANY Part of the great group of CHEVRON companies ORONITE DIVISION 200 Bush Street San Francisco California 94120 52 CHEMICAL WEEK September 10 1966 ORONITE ENGINEERING used in new syndet manufacturing process. steers these Herefords Herefords used Tallowate from from Sucrose Sucrose Ester Prospects Prospects Prospects Prospects of Brighter than Prospects of pro- lights quarter the wave lengths pro- emulsion process pylene These dispersed dispesrsuedgapr rA o-nd way A opens glycol solution solution tallowates surfactants in esters to sugar this according to Osipow the tallowates What way react with sucrose sucrose much detergents detergent detergent proc- cially available synthetic One big they would the two products products were would used Biodegradability ess choice synthetic synthetic detergent selling point dimethyl mutual mutual solvent been way If the State Nebraska gets plain both edible is that the surfactants are commercially formamide formamide used Nebraska Nebraska Nebraska relationship relationship will be are nonionics and biodegradable They Although glycol mutual solvent . recove Nebraska producer producer both cattle nonionics compatible with other distillation be recov recov fairly and seeking patents patents new process beets aaniodnidcsitives e.g could used used food food by distillation dispenses with fairly pos- process process making surface- surface- active active as emulsifiers in in cosmetics well simple This dispenses dispenses with pos- & from sucrose beef in paint conventional conventional trouble with & Food & a tallow And offer the royalty willing surfactant jobs paint drying . Administration Administrationappar- csn t process process processors processors printing and of feels dimethyl formamide who'll build in free to household and industrial industrial range range fully removed and that can't can't process been worked The Nebraska officials industrial detergents hazard hazard to users solvent for Nebraska Nebraska by Lloyd gradability question regarding regarding hiode- residue mixture of methyl methyl Rosenblatt of Osipow and William Rosenblatt far answered house- Tallowates and palmitates palmitates Foster Snell Inc. New consulting detergents industry industry has answered though plus some tallow are put put firm process is York even sulfates switched derived from by by And the convinced convinced be from alkylbenzene based sulfonates into the highly dispersed form and linear piloted piloted Osipow is sulfonate soap soap detergent detergent and micelles not only overcomes overcomes major major draw- it Several Switches Switches Osipows and with the glycol The micelles previously offered draw- it backs previously but also be Rosenblatt's stirring method incorporates earlier sugar of with the the tallowates into soap carry the suitable siitable factants factants processes competitive proc- proc- economically economically competitive derivatives . changes proces es switch switch avoid- processes The to bring bring suspension Among and and agents alkyl sulfates esses petroleum derivatives petroleum new that indus- solvent in order togeththee ra sugar and tallowate tallowate oleate organic sodium syndels sodium can recovered recovered as ts technique evaluations evaluations have made together the sugar and oleic acid oleate cases-- <ascs- case- other But forerunner the new reactants in needed needed studies studies foreruner forerunner new making household syndets syndets Re- processes for the Sugar search estimates estimates estimates for transparent but twist is --the emulsion of the --the agent need be removed removed . transparent transparent have that sugar based Foundation bear emulsions based syndets can compete compete tallowate transparent transparent emulsion of the droplets droplets smaller product transparent have on cost lo present commer- commer- in diameter diameter government government complaint sugar selfs siyiar on basis droplets false with Pea) ise government doeg complaint BT complaint complain. that sugar-hased ayndets can compete smaller in diameter inte. droplets jeter e bop basis with present commer: 53 53 WEEK ona cost September 10, CHEMICAL ENGINEERING been known for some time Osipow and Rosenblatt say in their patent specification that they are the first to use water transparent emulsions in a chemical reaction the esters 5 of the tallow fats react with sugar dis- solved in propylene glycol . a Another important factor in the t Resenblatt process the su- i crose ester formed by the reaction . between the fatty ester and the sugar is usually a surfactant with emulsifier properties Thus the product of the reaction can form additional soap micelles which also act to incorpo- rate the dispersed fatty ester into a transparent emulsion The patent ap- plication says that this is observable a temporarily turbid emulsion will become transparent as the reaction takes place : In adapting their process for tood and cosmetic applications Osipow and Rosenblatt suggest potassium or MARASPERSE THE Universal DISPERSANT One minute please We assure you we don't know how a MARASPERSE could be used to put a space ship in orbit but that's no reason why we shouldn't tell you some of the things we know a MARASPERSE will do for you here on Earth sodium soaps of fatty acids These soaps are inexpensive and hontoxic they can be removed by the use of ion exchange resins and they can be converted by acidulation of fatty acids that have entirely different solubility characteristics than those of : the soaps Distillation Reaction According to examples in the patent application the State of Nebraska's new process For example With MARASPERSE low cost more effective dispersants you can - could most readily be expanded from laboratory to plant scale by means of 1. Increase the fluidity of a mass while maintaining the same solids content a batch distillation tower operating out of a reaction kettle The 2. Increase the solids content of a mass without reducing fluidity or increasing viscosity 3. Make uniform stable dispersions of insoluble solids in water and 4. Stabilize water emulsions soap tallowate 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 And these are only a few of the many uses for the MARA- SPERSES For more information about the economy and ver- satility of the Marasperses and other Marathon Chemicals from Wood write for your copy of Bulletin No. 130. Use the coupon below TM Reg American Can Company AMERICAN SRO CAN COMPANY MARATHON CHEMICAL PRODUCTS AMERICAN CAN COMPANY MARATHON CHEMICAL Please send Information File No. W.4 and samples PRODUCTS NEENAH WISCONSIN "| of Marasperse for use in the following application NAME wee ceeeentae cares COMPANY 7171E ADDPESS . Please pinn pinn O we oe om ettep W that the actual formation of the sugar ester occurs during the distillation of the last 107 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 form a transparent emulsion containing sodium oleate 8.4 wt.7 suercise 21.7 wt and methyl stearate 6.4 wt The transparent emulsion is formed by stirring and heating to about 270 F. Then the system is put under vacuum and the propylene glycol distilled out 54 CHEMICAL WEEK September 10 1966 \ On stream in less than 10 months Occidental's 1.5 million ton per year rock beneficiation plant turnkeyed by 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 Occidental's rock beneficiation plant was on strm the first plant in the newly opened phosphate rock fields of northern Florida Working closely with Occidental engineers Oliver's Murphy Division designed constructed and completely equipped all battery limits and sites of the plant It will feed phosphate rock to Occidental's new multi lion dollar fertilizer plant located one mile away Oliver turnkeyed that plant too Oliver's experience and know made possible ~> ~> Oliver means total responsibility Experience Oliver has had over 25 years experience in the field We've designed constructed and equipped more than a dozen rock and beneficiation plants washing And we've completed 100 similar for the nearly jobs fertilizer industry Our engineers have worked out effi- eth cient solutions to just about every problem could arise 20 that the operation of a plant Responsibility Oliver can take total turnkey responsibility All the way from prospecting through laboratory and pilot plant : evaluation design criteria engineering equipment pro- - curement and construction sites included We'll even help you select your plant location And we'll we'll train your operating personnel Delivery Oliver puts plants stream in the minimum time 100 design capacity is reached almost immediately That means owner profits start sooner O gets repeat orders on the strength of first per- beneficiation formance Are you planning a rock plant or a complete fertilizer complex Or anythingiin n between? Plan on getting O performance Talk to our engineers Contact Murphy Division Oliver Incorporated Stamford Connecticut or Bartow Florida : c= ENGINEERING der reflux as the pressure is gradu- ally reduced to one millimeter of mercury and the temperature brought to a final 350 F. There remain many ...... processing _ hurdles before such bench proc- esses can be brought to the most eco- nomic commercial design is now working on this and Snell Bids on Biodegradability Nebraska's big hope is for a commercial plant to tion of measure use sucrose esters in produc- household detergents One of the potential comes from a manufacturing cost estimate prepared by The Lummus Co. New York and a '64 market study pre- pared by Com Inc. Philadel phia for the Sugar Research Foun- dation New York which sought to commercialize a previous Osipow process Lummus calculations assume sugar supplied at 10 and methyl tallowate at 12 A detergent mix containing 10 of the sugar tallowatc sucrose -and said to equal commercial packaged syndets in effectiveness be manufactured at 13.5 in a plant having capacity for 10 million lbs./year Cost would drop to 7.744 in a plant having a capacity for 100 million lbs./year Snell says it expects its new process to be even less expensive than the process evaluated by Lummus According to the Com report the nonionic sucrose ester detergents are compatible with anionic surfac- tants 30 which make up as of over 2 billion of detergents produced in much as year the U.S. And the sucrose ester detergents are far more easily broken down in scw- age treatment processes than are the alkylbenzene sulfonate detergents Since Com made its report however the soap and detergent industry switched from alkylbenzenesulfonate adopted linear alkane sul- fonate LAS as the basic component of the detergent mix Now there are reports that LAS is not completely broken down in the starved conditions prevalent in most house- hold cesspools Sugar and tallow de- tergent proponents hope that this will open the way to widespread commercialization of sucrose syndets Long Island Test One study of In addition to the aded detergent contains lium poliosphates poliosphates poliosphates sulfate etc. LAS material the com- such other chemicals slim silicate lim ESE Breathe easier . i The odds aren't posted yet on the last man that gambled on oxygen compressor design Whether you are pushing oxygen over the fence to steel mill or really ramming it into a process at 500-600 or even 800 psi we can give you a hundred reasons to consider Clark oxygen compressors and they are all 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 centrifugal compressor of compound design will do the job best if the pressure ratio across the case isn't too high In other applications a Clark isothermal centrifugal compressor is right That gives cooling between individual stages horsepower holds down temperature Pressures of 250 p i can be handled the isothermal way Higher pressures usually call for an isothermal and a compound unit They are both good machines Same finesse 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 consider odds there aren't any Breathe easier So your insurance man can too Say Clark CLARK BROS CO Division ul DRESSER DRESSER Industries Olean New York A CLARK CLARK CLCARLKARK we . POWER COMPRESSION VACUUM September 10 1966 CHEMICAL WEEK 59 ees i | stadiums construction 60 EEK Ista September 1966 ferric, September , Se in SeptembSeerptember 1966 si eWalks, EL Igy 10, 1965 doints, sheet and: "ombatibitityO,hdtaatian,ing : CHEMICAL INDUSTRY NEWS from Dow Corning Chemistry turned end as Dow Corning develops new aids for plastics processing Going to extremes to find answers to plastics processing questions is commonplace at Dow Corning For example whether you want to make a foam or make another foam disappear we can help you do it better Or if you need to make something slick or make it stick our researchers have developed efficient ways to do both Details For foam or no foam we have the answer as shown in the illus- trations If unwanted foam is the problem one of our foam control agents stops it quickly speeds production cuts costs reduces waste By using one of our Dow Corning silicone surfactants urethane foams rigid or flexible gain uniform controlled cell size stable dimensions processing advantages }H Is slick or stick your goal Dow Corning materials aid both One of our silicone release agents applied to molds extrusion presses or other plastic processing equipment assures quick clean release cycle after cycle Still another group of our products reactive organosilicon chemicals provides an excellent means of coupling organic resins to inorganic surfaces such as glass paper fabrics Tighter stronger lasting bonds are assured At Dow Corning we specialize in many such end developments ... finding new uses for our products new answers for your problems We'ldlo it even if we have to develop a new material Why not let us try for you Just write us on your letterhead a LL Release coating talks turkey The lid is off sticky packaging problems with this new cover coated with a Syl foodgrade silicone coated release coating Developed by Dow Corning and applied by a converter this coating prevents the frozen boneless ready turkey roast from sticking to the lid even after cooking at 425 F. The foil won't delaminate or pull meat away from the roast Such coatings applied to a wide range of hoard and paper stocks won't mi- grate transfer or contaminate Write for a brochure with coated samples We welcome the opportunity to keep you abreast oflatest news on the development and applications of materials . . . to help you use them most effectively in your products processes production Please make all inquiries on your letterhead and address them to Dept. 2109 Chemical Products Division Dow Corning Corporation Midland Michigan 48640 : ; DOW CORNING where experience guides exploration CHEMICAL September 10 1966 ~fl WEEK 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 commercial 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 lack of syndet biodegradability can lead to contamination of water supplies Some industry observers are expecting dramatic disclosures from the Suffolk work But because of the complexity of the waste it's likely that the Suffolk studies will not provide any specific data for or against any products So the future of sugar tallowate detergents seems tied to the work now being done to make the products and processes commercially attractive Acid Purifier What happens to bag problem when you call Westvaco It disappears Westvaco's Technical Service Department can often work magic with multiwall bag problems Just ask for it Westvaco Packaging Audit We'll make an depth study of your bagging operations then present detailed analyses and recommendations If this is the kind of service you want it's time to call in West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company 230 Park Avenue N.Y. N.Y. 10017 W West Virginia ! Pulp and Paper t Toyo Soda Manufacturing Co. Ltd. has developed a new solvent process for concentrating and purifying wet- process phosphoric acid The firm now has this technique in operation and is offering it for license The process makes an acid that is about 85 wt Cc phosphoric acid H,POH,PO 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 furnace process So called furnace acid is widely used in the U.S primarily to make sodium phosphates in detergents and capacity for phosphorus furnaces con- tinues to grow at over 1007 / year although the furnace process is fun- damentally more expensive wet process used in making grade phosphorus acid than the fertilizer- The additional expense of the fur- nace method stems primarily from the cost of electric power about 5.240 kwh of phosphorus pent- oxide and of of carbon silica 1.27 0.60 tons ton tons ton How- ever the high purity of the acidwhich results from burning the clemental phosphorus produced in the furnace and then hydrolizing this phosphorus pentoxide to the acidgives furnace acid an edge over wetprocess acid in nonfertilizer applications And since the phosphorus fur- 62 CHEMICAL WEEK September 10 1966 Bright New Ideas in Bright New Silicates by Allegheny There's new completely new thinking in silicates at Allegheny New grades ... . new quality new handling techniques the ultimate result of new processes and new thinking For instance new spray sodium silicates that dissolve faster controlled by computer automation New liquid silicates delivered crystal clear at standard prices They earned their name Brite " Synthetic magnesium silicates BriteSorb with far adsorptive capacity than natural grades New ultrafine BriteSorb 40 Also new ways to store and handle silicates that offer you savings or > 2 it use of quality grades you couldn't afford before And most important new ultra modern production capacity join ing our fast growing facilities Keep in touch with Allegheny for bright ideas in bright new silicates : ALLEGHENY AMERACE INDUSTRIAL ~ CHEMICAL * DIVISION BOX 786. 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Phone 399-1894 Corrugating Company STEEL SHIPPING CONTAINERS Warren Ohio 44481 Tel 216-399-1894 66 CHEMICAL WEEK September 10 1966 naces must operate at full capacity for optimum economy the furnace acid actually competes with proc- ess acid in fertilizers Solvent Solutions The key to Toyo Soda's new route is a parallel solvent recovery system that lets it extract phosphoric acid from the unconcentrated green acid 31.7 wt H.PO produced by the conventional wet process Although Toyo Soda has not dis- closed its solvent says the process is proprietary company is known to have licensed from Israel Mining Industries the extraction techniques covered in U.S. patent 2.880.063 IMI uses aliphatic alcohols as solvents for extracting phosphoric acid from solu- tions of calcium chloride According to flowsheets released by Toyo Soda its solvent is used to separate two grades of phophoric acid fertilizer grade and a food grade is recovered from dilute solutions of solvent and phosphoric acid in water In the over process crude wetprocess acid is first decanted to set- the out impurities brought from the : process plant | Then the clarified acid is fed into the first stage of extraction where it is brought into contact with the recycling solvent Here the solvent extracts the bulk of the phosphoric acid At the same time some of the solvent also dis- solves in the crude water- and acid 1 Solution of solvent in crude dilute acid is sent to a solvent recovery sys- tem believed to employ activated carbon and the recovered solvent is recycled as the dilute crude acid is sent on to processing for fertilizer uses Meanwhile the extract of phosphoric acid in solvent is washed with pure water This results in a purified solution of phosphoric acid and sol- vent in the water And this solution can be treated in the parallel recovery system to separate solvent for recycle from a purified acid which is then evaporated and finally purified to the grade product Over yields of purified and crude acid are on the : order of 976 Although investment costs are not revealed operating costs appear to be nominal : floors HYAMINEfi HYAMINEfi3500 is bad news for swimming pool algae These enemies of a pool's beauty just can't exist in the presence of this powerful algaecide HYAMINE quickly clears up such algal problems as clogged filters and drains decaying odors staining of walls and and water discoloration _ Swimminigs far more enjoyable when you use HYAMINE 3500. Less chlorine is needed Water on a fresh clear and clean takes . appearance A five ppm dosage of HYAMINE does the job con- and lesser centrations every 5 to 7 days prevent algae ROHM oe en flareups For further in- H~RAAOS HM formation write us today PHILADELPHIA PENNSYLVANIA Remember two years ago June when you needed pulp and ordered Weyerhaeuser P. H. Sulphite If you need P. H. Sulphite this year and order it again it'll be exactly the same ' We make the same pulp year in and year out and we make it extraordinarily uniform in 36 grades 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 Weyerhaeuser WORLD ROUNDUP Soviet gas industry shows rapid growth According to information monitered from Soviet sources by Radio Liberty output of natural gas in the U.S.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 & 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 capacity will be built by four members of the Mitsui group Toyo Koatsu Industries Mitsui Petrochemical Industries Toyo Rayon and Chemical Industrial The four firms had originally planned to build separately as they generally do but opted for the economy of scale At the same time Mitsubishi Petrochemical is planning to build a styrene monomer plant of 80,000year capacity Details haven't been 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 year could be extracted Valuc 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 member of the consortium Saudi Arabia's Petromin would supply sour gas at cost Occidental would receive a management fee as operator of the project It expects the sulfur to be used mostly for the manufacture of phosphate fertilizers in the Mediterranean area Europe Australia and the Far East Long supply contracts to be negotiated would serve as the basis for financing the million project The first export shipment has been made from Kuwait's new million fertilizer complex at Shuaiba It went to Iraq under an agreement made earlier this year by the plant's operator Kuwait Chemical Fertilizers 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 of ammonia 550 tons of urea 500 tons of ammonium sulfate and 400 tons of sulfuric acid KCFC handles its own sales to neighboring areas with sales further afield handled under a three agreement by a group consisting of Olin Mathieson UK R. G. Shaw London and Woodward & Dickerson Philadelphia Chemicals pace Italian recovery Italy's economy continues its slow steady recovery Official statistics for the first six months of '66 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 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 3.7 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 will double capacity of Australian ammonia plant . Kwinana Nitrogen Co. Pty Ltd. 80 owned by BP Australia Ltd. is blueprinting a 100,000 ammonia plant at Kwinana Western Australia instead of the 50,000 unit originally planned The million refinery associated with the project should be onstream within 18 months A 90,000 nitric acid plant and a 110,000 ammonium nitrate unit will complement the ammonia plant Planned ammonia capacity was doubled as a result of market surveys indicating a anticipated 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 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 Chisso Corp. will help Korea Plastics Co. build a 3.6million 6.600 plant Shin Chemical Industry Co. Ltd. has a deal with Kongyung Vinyl Co. Septmber 10 1966 CHEMICAL WEEK 69 WORLD ROUNDUP for a million 6,000 year unit Nippon Carbide Industries Co. Inc. will build a 15,000 plant for an unidentified Korean firm A fourth Japanese chemical company to be chosen by the Japanese trading firm Toshoku Ltd. will build a million 10,000year plant for Samchok Industry Co. Because South Korea has no 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 this year In West Germany however while investment will continue rising this year the increase will be at a slower rate this year compared with a rise of 16 in 65. Reduced profit margins and tighter credit and capital are blamed The Common Market has also published the guide- lines under which exclusive distributor agreements will be permitted by EEC's antitrust department Effect of the regulation will be a sweeping shot authorization of some 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 may be rewritten so they will come under the exempt category Qualifying for exemption will be exclusive dealer agreements containing prohibitions against carry- ing competing products or prospecting for customers outside an exclusive sales territory and an obligation to use certain trademarks No automatic approval will be granted agreements containing export prohibitions agreements on trademarks or price fixing that would : hamper exports Border Chemicals to build Euratom facing sizable deficit U.K. acrylonitrile plant in 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 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 million surplus from earlier programs and getting the remainder of funds from the two governments Border Chemicals Ltd. will build a new acrylonitrile plant in Britain expanding its capacity to 100,000- 120,000 long year at Grangemouth The com- owned jointly by British Petroleum Distillers Co. Ltd. and Imperial Chemical Industries 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 for early '69 : : The company's rapid step of capacity stems from inability of the initial Border plant the first in Britain About to keep up with soaring demand 5 million worth of acrylonitrile will be imported this year and imports may rise to 20 million by '69 Border now EEC capital market : sell acrylonitrile to Courtaulds and Chemstrand } strong in France and Italy i South American oil firms ; Capital makers selling to France and Italy t should find business brisker this year than last but pro- discuss joint petrochemicals 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 Netherlands 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 % . owned oil companies of Venezuela Colombia Chile Ecuador and Peru will 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 the countries central banks have discussed reciprocal credit agreements : 70 CHEMICAL WEEK September 10 1966 ETHYLENE First of its kind in Mexico this plant is designed to produce 60 million pounds per year of ethylene with a purity of at least 99.9 _ will POLYETHYLENE Also Mexico's first this plant is designed to produce 24,000 tons per year of 99.9 pure polyethyl- ene pellets for use in plastics ! McKee serves these Process Industries PETROLEUM CHEMICALS STEEL IRON NONFERROUS METALS MINERALS ORE AGGLOMERATION FOOD PROCESSING McKee continues to serve Mexico's Process Industries The two new plants at Reynosa connected by a seven storage pipeline were placed in operation early in 1966 These are the latest in a long list of projects for Mexico's petroleum 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 i PARIS ARTHUR G. McKEE & COMPANY 2300 Chester Avenue Cleve Ohio 44101 CLEVELAND NEW YORK + UNION PITTSBURGH CHICAGO - HIBBING SAN FRANCISCO CANADA + MEXICO CITY + SAO PAULO . BUENOS AIRES > SANTIAGO + - MADRID Excellent temperature viscosity stability from 100 to 550 without solidifying smoking melting or chaming is achieved in General Electric silicone grease utilizing CAB as the thixotropic medium Good adherence maximum coverage and chemical mertness reCOMmend use over a wide spectrumi of industrial products WLIK September 10 1960 A great selling surface with beauty that lasts con- tributes to the popularity of the Boston Whaler pro- duced by Fisher Co. Inc. The exceptionally tough durable and color fast SHELL coats contain ing CAB are produced Advance by minster Coatings West Mass shake.well shake.well Gain a before of use competitive advantage for your product by eliminating the using Capitalize on the customer satisfaction stemming from ease by keeping solids in suspension Win customer preference with better shelf appearance Avoid having your quality formulations regarded as cheap or inferior because of settling Keep your product uniform Improve stability of emulsions with CAB , Very often just a little CAB will do the job Less than % keeps silver polish ingredients in suspension Contents of a quart jar of art colors retailing for 3.25 can be kept in suspension for only No pigment settling occurred after 6 months in an interior enamel paint and an alkyd resin primer containing 0.08 lb. CAB per gallon In tranquilizer capsule pellets in corn oil settled a few weeks only % CAB plus 0.1 glycerol within suspension maintained Let CAB enhance your reputation the settling problem No elaborate time to try a sample Send for for quality and uniformity by helping solve program is needed It takes so little CABOT CORPORATION aecantnens OXIDES DIVISION Dept. CW 125 High Street Boston Mass 02110 Considered by Acushnet Process Company New Mass Bedford as the most reinforcing of all light colored materials CAB contributes ten- sile strength increased modulus values elongation purity and aids in processing various poly mers for molded products ! Send literature I am especially interested in Send tree saniple of CAB ! : 1 Please call me for appointment Tel : : Nante Fitle Company Address City Stabs INTERNATIONAL \ these curves ~ =: fascinate BATON ROUGE CPI men A Good Year for Fertilizer in Canada ! Unless the rail strike interferes with and they look even better close up the shipments of wheat now being harvested in the Western provinces Canadian growers should have a good year And this means increased fer- tilizer sales next spring Canada expects a record mil- lion wheat crop this year already has firm export sales of 500 million bu - including million to the U.S.S.R. 90 million to Red China and 250 million to traditional mar- kets e.g. Britain NEW ORLEANS Fertilizer consumption by prairie farmers had been estimated at 585 000 tons for '66 but ^ boxcar short- age during last spring probably will keep the figure at 550,000 tons Fer- A close look will reveal tilizer demand has been rising at a 20 annual for five years - from 30 new CPI plants built or build- ing along the strip between Baton Rouge and New Orleans Trained employes are plentiful Twenty free vocational schools train 30,000 persons a year Louisiana ranks No. 2 in petroleum and natural 137,000 tons in '60 in terms of nu- trient content 21,700 tons of nitro- gen 44.800 tons of phosphoric acid '65 to 463,800 tons in 84,200 tons of nitrogen 135,200 tons of phos- phoric acid Early season estimates for 66 Manitoba up 38 to 103,000 . gas and produces a good share of the world's sulphur Salt is unlimited and lime abounds For water Mississippi's 300 billion gallons and plentiful other surface and ground sources The state's 16 million acres of timber doesn't shrink expands tons Saskatchewan 25 to 172.- 23 000 tons Alberta up 000 tons to 310 amonium phosphate Three new ammonium plants went onstream last fall Western operative Fertilizers Ltd.'s unit at Calgary Alta Sherritt Gordon Mines Add to these assets the services of the No. 1 U. S. north and south railroad a mild climate and excellent educational and recreational facilities Also a location close to Latin American and world markets installation at Fort Saskatchewan Alta and Cominco's plant at Regina Sask But the additional capacity of fertilizer 385,000 tons of including some op ammonium nitrate didn't . L Do these facts suggest asking us for more details Your inquiry will be kept in strict confidence result in any oversupply Much fertilizer output in Western provinces is for export to the U.S. Also Sherritt Gordon's production J.S. FROST Director of Industrial Development 135 Eleventh Pl Changes III 60695. Phone 312 922-4811 MAIN LINE OF AMERICA Se ILLINOIS defective was limited by equipment in its new ammonia plant ! Price Cutting Both Cominco and Sherritt Gordon complained in their midyear reports that reductions in sell- ing price hurt earnings Said Sherritt 74 CHEMICAL WEEK September 10 1966 CENTRAL RAILROAD | Cordon Our fertilizer marketing ar- satisfactorily rangements with the grain companies have worked very and hy the end of the fertilizer year our in- INTERNATIONAL ventory was negligible Price cutting by some of our competitors resulted in a general reduction in the price of ammonium phosphate fertilizers and in our opinion did not result in any increase in the total quantity sold in Western Canada One source says most of the price cutting was started by one of Com- inco's major customers Imperial Oil Ltd. The Standard Oil Co. New Jer- say affiliate is a major entry in the prairie market as is Shell Canada Ltd. working with some 300 distrib- utors There are persistent reports that either Imperial or Shell will be the next fertilizer maker on the prairies Price discounting varied but cuts exceeded the usual ton discount for bulk fertilizer Whether '67 will ~ see a repetition of this price cutting is a moot question The only new producer will be Simplot Chemical whose Cornwallis Man plant should be op- erating by year Most of the pro- duction 220,000 tons of ammonium phosphate 35,000 tons of urea 90 000 tons of nitrogen will be mar- keted in the U.S. But some will be sold in Manitoba and Saskatchewan The only other fertilizer plant on the horizon is a discussed unit that would be built in the Regina area in conjunction with a pyrites- sponge installation by Hudson Bay Mining & Smelting Co. How Big a Future Best estimates are that wheat acreage will expand % year while fertilizer demand should continue to climb 20 D. A. Sim chief executive officer of Western operative Fertilizers Ltd. said in a talk fertilizer use on the last year that prairies could reach 3 million tons by '75 He predicts 550.000 tons in '66 700,000 tons in '67 850,000 tons in '68 and over 1 million tons 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 in '75 could reach 3 million tons he adds Sim points out that farmers in the U.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. Bentley of the University of Alberta told the Canadian Fertiliz er Assn last August that he could see FE / / YY ! there are are| 5,784 uses ae for _ which yours? 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When quality and service count ao No MATTER WHAT KIND OF DRUM OR PAIL YOU NEED YOU CAN GET IT FROM U.S.STEEL PRODUCTS AND BE SURE OF CONSISTENT QUALITY (EE USS U.S. Steel Products . + Syndicate King Features Syndicate Inr Dinsion of United States Steel COBALT a en ; SALTS ACETATE for your particular needchoose from our complete line of metallic salts or contact us about custom ~~ synthesis High volume pro- - duction on all products | Write wire or phone collect for technical informa- tion samples and prices Telephone 513 731-1110 ACETYLACETONATE CARBONATE CHLORIDE HYDRATE NAPHTHENATE NITRATE OCTOATE PROPIONATE . SULFATE SHEPHERD THE MANUFACTURES CHEMICAL COMPANY MANUFACTURERS OF QUALITY CHEMICALS COLORSCOLORS SINCE 1916 CINCINNATI OHIO 45212 76 CHEMICAL WEEK September 10 1966 no prospect of fertilizer sales increas- ing to the level of 1.6 million tons 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 by other lush crops and small delivery quotas fertilizer sales by '75 may be only 507 greater than in '65 Saskatchewan is the key to increased fertilizer sales to prairie farmers and D. A. Rennie of the University of Saskatchewan argues that yields per aere in that province could be in- creased an average of about 50 by full utilization of technical informa- tion concerning moisture conserva- tion greater use of fertilizers soil management and control of weeds and diseases i More Wheat - If There are differences of opinion on whether Canadian wheat production can continue at the record rate of 750 million bu One observer says Canada has heen fortunate to have good moisture con- ditions four years in a row Even if acreage is upped and more fertilizers and chemicals are used lack of moisture could mean reduced yields On the other hand Rennie has predicted that Saskatchewan alone will even- tually increase production by 188.6 million bv by expanding acreage de- creasing the amount of fallow land by about 5 million acres and increasing stubble crops by 10 million acres ~fl U.S. and Canadian representatives at the Kennedy Round of trade- tariff talks at Geneva have clashed over wheat demand and supply R. Hedges a key U.S. trade negotiator at Geneva is said to be demanding that Canada adopt controls on acre- age production and marketing and agree to minimum and maximum prices Canada doesn't have extensive support programs like those in effect in the U.S. the Canadian government pays for some storage erop insurance and subsidizes rail shipment to the East Canada feels it avoids overproduction by refusing to take for stor- age any grain not committed to sale Recent rains have made this year's crop look good and the big export markets seem firm forse some years to come All conditions promise a hig fertilizer market next year ~~ if the trains run and it doesn't hail Congratulations It's bound to be the industry's selling fabric Staying on the top is no cinch Not in fabrics any more than in chemical polymers pharma- ceutical tablets soap suds or what nated Designed Chemi- ne cals at their disposal@ These specialty chemi- jim arncals will be handled only iim by our Designed Chemi- I cals Group men who really know ingredients And know how to help you search out that mys- So how do you protect a lead Take advantage of your lead time by taking advantage of all the help you can get Including us We recognize there's room for improvement in most formulations and processes And that improved specialty chemicals signed say to thicken stabilize or suspend better snuff out microbes more effectively or completely control metal ions often cut costs as well as turn out better products For this reason we've taken a new slant on formulating and processing problems One that involved organizing a unique problemoriented marketing team And putting an equally selective group of chemicals desig- terious missing chemical Perhaps just the one that'll give your product of process that new competitive edge How much of a lead in terms of time and a tg-|market do you have on ae your competition ber your mar / mkarekett ' relationship can change almost overnight Where you stand tomorrow depends on the move you ! make today Call our De- isigned Chemicals Group The Dow Chemical Com- pany Midland Michigan For a month Or two months Or maybea bit longer | They'll Do It Every Time COMPANY 77-- | f YOU MOVE OUT AT W 8:30 WITH A LOAD OF DRUMS FOR AJAX HE'S THE BEST DELIVERY MAN BACK HIM UP 8 MINUTES SINCE DR DAFOE LATER WITH A TRUCKLOAD .. HASN'T \ OF PAILS FOR ATLAS INDUSTRIES / I KNOW HE HASN'T MISSED A DELIVERY IN 12 YEARS BUT DOES HE HAVE TO GO TO THAT MUCH TROUBLE ? By Jimmy Hatlo | HE NEEDS A COMPASS TO GET TO THE FRONT GATE BUT HE GETS THOSE ORDERS TO THE CUSTOMERS ON TIME << 4 HE THINKS VIA AIR MAIL IS A STREET IN ROME ! INTERNATIONAL no prospect of fertilizer sales increas- ing to the level of 1.6 million tons 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 by other lush crops and small delivery quotas fertilizer sales by '75 may be only 507 greater than in '65 Saskatchewan is the key to increased fertilizer sales to prairie farmers and D. A. Rennie of the University of Saskatchewan argues that yields per acre in that province could be in- creased an average of about 50 by full utilization of technical informa- tion concerning moisture conserva- No MATTER WHAT KIND OF DRUM OR PAIL YOU NEED YOU CAN GET IT FROM tion greater use management and and diseases More Wheat - of fertilizers soil control of weeds ' If There are dif- U.S.STEEL PRODUCTS AND BE SURE OF CONSISTENT QUALIT..Y.. ferences of opinion on whether Cana-Canadian wheat production can continue at the record rate of .750 million bu USS U.S. U.S. Steel Products One observer says Canada has been i Duision of United States Steel fortunate to have good moisture con- ditions four years in row Even if acreage is upped and more fertilizers and chemicals are used lack of mois- When quality and service ture could mean recited recited yields On the other hand Rennie has predicted that Saskatchewan alone will even- count tually increase production by 188.6 million bu by expanding acreage de- creasing the amount of fallow land by about 5 million acres and increasing stubble crops by 10 million acres : U.S. and Canadian representatives at the Kennedy Round of trade- for your particular needchoose from our complete line of metallic salts or contact us about custom synthesis High volume pro- ductioon all products or phone Write Write Write wiwriree phone coi-coi- lect for technical informa - . tion samples and prices Telephone 513 731-1110 ACETATE ACETYLACETONATE CARBONATE CHLORIDE HYDRATE NAPHTHENATE NITRATE ' OCTOATE PROPIONATE SULFATE tariff talks at Genev^ have clashed over wheat demand and supply I. 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Hedges a key U.S. trade negotiator at Geneva is said to be demanding that Canada adopt controls on acreage production and marketing and agree to minimum and maximum prices Canada doesn't have extensive support programs like those in effect in the U.S. the Canadian government pays for some storage crop insurance and subsidizes rail shipment to the East Canada feels it avoids overpro- duction by refusing to take for stor- age any grain not committed to sale THE 7 MANUFACTURES SHEPHERD SHEPHERD CHEMICAL COMPANY MANUFACTURERS OF QUALITY CHEMICALS & COLORS SINCE 1916 CINCINNATI OHIO 45213 76 CHEMICAL WEEK September 10 1966 Recent rains have made this year's crop look good and big export markets seem firm for some years to promise come All conditions a big fertilizer market next year ~ - if the trains run and it doesn't hail Congratulations It's bound to be the industry's selling fabric Staying on the top is no cinch Not in fabrics any more than in chemical polymers pharma- ceutical tablets soap suds or what So how do you protect a lead Take advantage of your lead time by taking advantage of all the help you can get Including us We recognize there's room for improvement in most formulations and processes And that improved specialty chemicals signed say to thicken stabilize or suspend better snuff out microbes more effectively or completely control metal ions often cut costs as well as turn out better products For this reason we've taken a new slant on formulating and processing problems One that involved organizing a unique problemoriented marketing team And putting an equally selective group of chemicals desig- nated Designed Chemi- gage cals at their disposail These specialty chemicals will be handled only iim by our Designed Chemi- JN cals Group men who really know ingredients| And know how to help you search out that mys- terious missing chemical Perhaps just the one that'll give your product or process that new competitive edge How much of a lead in terms of time and = ke | market do you have on a4 your competition / - ber your marmkarekett . relationship can change almost overnight Where you stand tomorrow depends on move you make today Call our De- signed Chemicals Group The Dow Chemical Com- pany Midland Michigan For a month Or two months Or maybea bit longer Round hoppers don't fit square | clearances For the highest payloads within the shortest lengths Hoppers go square with PS Covered By Standard A DIVISION OF PULLMAN INCORPORATED 78 CHEMICAL WEEK September 10 1966 MARKET Newsletter CHEMICAL WEEK SEPTEMBER 10 1966 Alpha prices have been slashed sharply by Gulf Oil Products having chain lengths varying from C. to C20 will sell for 14 under Gulf's new schedule The same tag will apply to any combination of C20 fractions as well as to the C30 fraction Previous prices of individual olefins and fractions ranged as high as 25 No change howeverwas madein the 6.25 price for C. product Commercial application of olefins in detergents and specialty chemicals is expected to be stimulated by the alkneenywl Intensive developmental work is already under way on polymers price cut sulfonate detergents derived from olefins Alkenyl sulfonates may ultimately compete on a performance basis with linear alkylate sulfonate now the major household surfactant CW Market Newsletter April April 30 ; Phenolic resin price increases continue to spread Reichhold Chem- effective icals will boost phenol formaldehyde resin tags lb Oct. 1. The a effective increase to be prorated on resin solids basis and will app3,to most of tertiary Reichhold's line follows similar hikes recently posted for phenol phenol and phenolic molding resins Lithium carbonate prices are holding at 38.5 for most con- tracts despite confusion in recent weeks concerning packaging differentials CW Sept. 3 p 83 Some months ago Foote Mineral established a price of carbonate 37 but only for shipped on yearlyhopper 200,000 lbs or more In addition a 35.5 bulk price contracts of cars both delivered was established for the large orders By now standardin the industry for big orders prices are * s ! stockpiled basis Efforts to block sale of nickel on a bid are being made by the National Assn of Metal Finishers The House of Representatives lbs is now considering legislation that would release 24.5 million 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 plating business although large lots wereacquired 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 sources prevailing market price rather than bid sellingis suggested Nickel scarcity has forced some shops to purchase nickel from market at twice the normal 80 price : MARKET Newsletter Two Wulff process acetylene plants will go onstream this month in Great Britain They will be the first in the world to use naphtha feedstock The units to be operated by British Oxygen at Maydown Northern unit Ireland and the other by British Geon Ltd. Barry South Wales have a 30,000 year capacity British Oxygen's output will be sold over the fence to Du Pont product ethylene from the plant will probably feed a 50,000-1.t year ethylene dichloride 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. a DistillersCelanese venture is also building a Wulff plant at Hull Considerable economies are expected to stem from the naphtha- based Wulff units Some British sources estimate that the initial United King- dom acetylene cost from naphtha will be 7-7.5 Acetylene from the old carbide route costs 8.5-10 depending on factors depreciation ' Future British naphtha prices however are a question mark in the past year the naphtha price increased from 18 metric ton to over ton because as of growing demand 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 stage flame process may upstage the naphtha route ; scale cumene production has resumed at Gulf Oil's 300- million-lbs./year 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 Gulf's output contributed greatly to tightness of supplies of phenol and acetone and helped spark price increases Shell Chemical will increase epoxy prices effective Oct. 1 The tag on liquid Epon resins 815 820 826 828 830 and 834 will go The up 2.5 Tank quantities of Epon 828 will sell for 50.5 under the new schedule Solid prices will be hiked lb for Epor 1001 1002 1004 1007 and 1009. Comparable changes will also be made in solution prices Price differentials between bulk truckload and truckload quantities however are not being changed Epoxy prices have fallen precipitously over the past 14 months and a recent attempt by Giba to partly restore the cuts was unsuccessful e density Shipping price differentials for high- and polyethylene will be revised by Monsanto next month to reflect the trend bulk toward 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 density product Boxed shipments will command lb. premium The 1.25c discount for a 0.25 minimum hopper shipments will be trimmed to le lb. The 1.25 lb. discount however will be offered on shipments of 160,000 lbs and greater 80 CHEMICAL WEEK September 10 1966 What's so | different , about our Citric Acid | Stepan Citric Acid is only different to begin with Our raw material is blackstrap molasses Because this is the most a abundant and economical of all carbohydrate it suspopulriceers it+ is an assurance to you of our dependability as a Through our unique fermentation process black,,trap molassesis transformed into Citric Acid which meets or exceeds the most exacting purity and mesh requirements Available in U.S.P. anhydrous granular fine granular or powder Telephone or write for samples STEPAN CHEMICAL COMPANY Northfield Edens & Winnetka Illinois Telephone 312-416-7500 Lank. OL Ek OREG CBR. LL 101-1.881 101-1.881 1:03 1:03 1:03 ao 8 BL Bh 212.25 212.25 212.25 we BY 159 159 BELJ a... nH .85808 ^ - - AROOR GEARUST BONER WB Ly AROOR ARBENA to <oe q AS - | oe oo BEES- .SHES E ... REE GH ROLE ROLE BL ... LUSED 10.1 10.1 12987 L gaan LEBE ..... 201 201 201 hat WeDRBB.. LS aoe, 1-85 1-85 12..1 .. cerome BUN | BL, REBE it~} WwW and the building already occupies occupies as much space as is practical If building isthe Carbide building left Under ( right center : 299 Park right includes ; Laboratory Great Lakes W. Plastics Industry bishi cal B. Godrich Cil Chemical Witco Hess Cil & Chemical Lever Bros. and Palmolive Palmolive The street by . Operated by Vice Lo rule out Park Avenue as a location Carbide 2 billion sales has ac- quired large neighb-oer.sg. Hooker Chemical 244 million sales and Witco 146 millio-n 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. F. Goodrich Chemical Monsanto Mis- subishi and Witco have offices in the similarly styled and relatively new Chemical Bank New York Trust Co. building across the street When Stauffer moves into 209 Park it will have as a neighbor Westvaco which is switching over from 230 Park : This spring Great Lakes Chemical moved its sales offices from Fifth Ave. into 250 Park Travel is critical at Great Lakes its president is stationed in Los Angeles research is located in Indiana and plants are in Arkansas and Michigan Saas is waste 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 ianncdretaosteally How it helps reduce your waste cut your costs your profit i We'll send you a sample of one of our broad line of Dow Corning industrial defoamers matched to your operation But first we must know what how you handle it what your sysytoeumr ifsoaming pi roblem is So help us to help you ! Equalizer Ruling The International Chemical Workers Union is calling a new Equal Employ- ment Opportunity Commission ruling " veritable Magna Carta for Southern workers EEOC has sustained the first complaint ever filed by a union under the employment provisions of the Civil Rights Act of '64 Earlier EEOC stirred nationwide interest when it agreed to consider ICWU's complaint CW May 28 p 49 after first declining to do so EEOC says Planters Manufacturing Co. Clarksdale Mass violated the law in a number of ways most notably by paying Negro workers lower wages than paid to white workers The next step is to conciliate the differences between Planters and the union ICWU President Walter Mit- chell says he is willing to meet with the company any time to work out an agreement Before the commission had handed down its ruling the union filed a suit in federal court accusing Planters of discrimination The suit is still pending Mail this coupon today to stop your foaming problems ' tomorrow | DOW CORNING | (Ow none ee ee ee or ey ce ce ee Dow Corning Corporation Chemical Products Division Dept. 2145 Midland Michigan 48640 Se NS ee ee OS OR pe I'd like to evaluate a Dow Corning silicone defoamer designed for the following conditions OS ND Fy i A f i i My foaming product is __ 4 we, : t I'm working with an oil system | aqueous system 8 My process is i . . j ited i I must apply the foamer manually :. | by metering .. In my operation the foam controller must ' prevent formation of foam as an antifoamer | ] : eliminate already foam as a defoamer 1 Please send me | silicone your new brochure covering Dow Corning i defoamers applications for ! food applications for J) industrial ! : i Name Poo, . Title i Company ; } Address i City - sm, State j | TO ea Lok Zip fee j ae ce ee et My ons 1 ee ee sa wes ae Septmber 10 1966 CHEMICAL WEEK 83 specialization . that's the word for PCA- we're specialists dedicated to producing top quality potash products and only potash Dedicated also to giving you the kind of service you want PCA customers have learned to expect the best so why not join the ranks of the many friends of Chief Two and his Canadian cousin It'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 caking in storage flowing in automatic systems Next time you need potash call the specialists call PCA For super service phone wire or telex us at New York 212-581-1240 Telex 710-581-5030 Potash Company of America eca Mines at Carlsbad New - Mexico Saskatoon Saskatchewan = General Sales Office 630 Fifth Avenue New York 10020 Midwestern Sales Office First National Bank Building Peoria III 61602 SALTSAMULRITATE MURIATE Southern Sales Office 1776 Peachtree Building N. W. Atlanta Ga 30309 Canadian Sales Office 4800 Dundas St. W. Islington Ontario America's CHIEF Supplier of Potash SULPHATE Anhydrous YOUR PARCELS SALT CAKE PRIOR CHEMICAL CORPORATION CHEMICAL 420 Lexington Avenue New York 17 Y. 1. Packaare gsheippsed 2. They are handled fewer times 3. There is less chance of damage ZIP Codes keep pastal costs down but only if you use them 84 CHEMICAL WEEK September 10 1966 KEY CHANGES Robert W. Sterrett to general man- ager in charge of Zonolite Dewey and Almy Chemical Cambridge Mass W. R. Division Division Grace & Co. C. H. Gehret to president and general manager Refractories Division Conshohocken Pa Howmet Corp. G. Keith Brewin to director International Dept. T Glidden Co. Alan T. Knight to chief executive officer and chairman Catalytic Construction Co. Philadelphia John Corcoran to president C. Howard Hardesty Jr. and L. James Huegel to executive presidents Consolidation Coal Co. Pittsburgh O. R. Wiebe to president and L. E. Quiram to executive assistant to the president Central Farmers Fertilizer Co. Chicago Thomas M. Smylie to presi- dent Ethyl Corp. New York John A. Witting treasurer Mead Johnson & Co. Evansville Ind E. O. Rohardt to assistant general manager Hostachem Division Amer- Corp ican Hoechst N.J. Mountainside Walter G. Gibbons general man- ager The Montrose Co. New York division of Millmaster Onyx Corp. Morton M. Grub : to assistant to 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 Petrolcum Corp. Baltimore Md Robert D. Evans to president and technical manager Vectra Co. Odenton Md fibers maker William H. Collins to president of sales Trent Tube Division Crucible Steel Co. Pittsburgh Richard C. Richter to presi- dent Superior Zinc Co. Bristol Pa and Nopco Chemical Co. Pittsburgh Nopco subsidiaries of Newark N.J. Chemical Co. i Edward W. Callahan to manager of business development Allied Chemical Corp. New York Edward V. Hagopian to general manager Hoover Chemical Products Division Hoover Ball and Bearing Co. Whitmore Lake Mich Louis S. M. Armandias to director of business development in European countries ACF Industries Inc. New York Joseph A. Paciello to assistant to the president Berkshire Color Division Reading Pa Tenneco Chemicals Inc. Irvin R. Linnard Frank Markoe Jr. and Thorwald H. Smith to senior vice - presidents Warner - Lambert Pharmaceutical Co. Morris Plains N.J. Ralph E. Davies to president of administration Applied Radiation _ Corp. Walnut Creek Calif 1 Donald H. Hartmann to presi- dent of Dresser Industries Dallas and president of Magnet Cove Barium Corp. Houston John A. Kennedy to president American Mineral Spirits Co. Wes- tern Los Angeles Dwight N. Wait to executive vicepresident Consumer Products Di- vision Union Carbide Corp. James B. Prendergast to president and Edward J. Korbel to executive president Nitrogen Division Wes- ley E. Gatewood to executive vice- president Barrett Division Chemical Corp. New York Allied William A. Smithers to presi- dent and general manager Pittsburgh branch Fisher Scientific Co. Charles E. Peck Franklin R. Winnert and Richard E. Trumbull to vice- presidents Corning Fiberglas Corp. Toledo O. Fred Dwyer and Martin Solomon to presidents Thermoformed Plastics Flushing N.Y. division of Loral Corp. Edward J. Bolka to president and treasurer of Vancouver Plywood Co. Portland Ore subsidiary of Skelly Oil Co. Charles G. Goebel to corporate technical director H. Fred Oehl- schlaeger to director of research Or- ganic Chemicals Division Enery Industries Inc. Cincinnati first self- priming pump still builds . the best LABOUR PUMP COMPANY ELKHART INDIANA Area Code 219-522-7365 219-52-7365 219-522-7365 - TELEX LABOUR EKR 025926 September 10 1966 CHEMICAL WEEK 85 was a nobody 86 CHEMICAL WEEK September 10 1966 TOMORROW'S CONTAINERS TODAY sales power * copolymer F.D.A. approved Ask your Bennett representative to dem- onstrate the Galaxee Century 21 or call or write our Customer Service Department today call for BENNETT pails and drums ALTA LOMA CALIFORNIA YUkon 7-1755 Calls from TECHNOLOGY Newsletter CHEMICAL WEEK SEPTEMBER 10 1966 A new process for making aromatic derivatives of fatty compounds developed by Archer Daniels Midland Minneapolis will sharply cut the price of phenylstearic acid and will bring a number of new chemicals onto the market phenol thiophene and naphthyl acids aryl alcohols amines quaternaries and some esters ADM plans to sell phenylstearic made by the process for less than lb. Present price 4-5 The material is used in semifluid 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 . :J . designed A kilogauss magnet the world's biggest is being at the National Magnet Laboratory at Massachusetts Institute of Technology Coil material for the huge electromagnet will be Amzire zirconium copper a strength conductivity copper alloy made by Arican Metal Climax Power needed will be 41 megawatts Superconductive magnets would eliminate this power requirement but the largest magnetic fields obtained from them are about 100 kG The National Magnet Laboratory has 14 magnets that can produce fields ranging from 100-225 kG Five others in- cluding the 300 unit are in design : e } Penicillamine may find use in treatment of arthritis rheumatism and other collagen diseases according to University of Southern California researchers Lucien Bavetta and Marcel Nimni In their animal studies the skin two physicians used the chemical to render collagen in the less fibrous and more soluble This reverses the trend taken by the material found in tissue bones and teeth during aging or disease No adverse effects have been noted The USC team is investigating how the penicillamine causes the change National in the collagen molecule The work is supported by the Health Institutes of e Pressures of centrifugal compressors keep moving up Nuovo Pignone Florence Italy has successfully completed a week continuous test run under industrial conditions with its new Model 2 BCL 306 b operat- ing at 290 kg./sq.cm 4,125 psi Ordered by 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- for turers have had the ability to design special centrifugal units pressures up to 5,000 psi CW May 9 '59 p 106 most units operating at pressures this high have been reciprocating 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 ; 89 TECHNOLOGY Newsletter Several U.S. compressor makers have been testing centrifugals in the 5,000 range with success although at least one is believed to be experiencing some problems * Questions remaining in the minds of process designers concern the operating safety of the new units and the improvements in process that will be needed to justify their cost More technology on the production of melamine from urea is Stamicarbon N.V. revealed in a recent Canadian patent 737,474 to Accord- ing to one claim of this patent the technology appears to cover improving fron yields by quenching a hot containing gas mixture a urea melamine reaction in a virtually constant amount of water Water is vapor- ized and makeup water is added to compensate After the melamine is con- densed the remaining gas mixture is discharged from the cooling zone with at least 90 of the ammonia supplied This processing step appears to run parallel to quench technology revealed in Canadian patent 737,475 to Chemical Construction Corp. Stamicarbon along with Chemico and Osterreichische Stickstoffwerke AG is offering new melamine processes that are said to reduce the manufacturing cost of melamine to about 10 CW Aug. 27 p 100 A novel ceramic lightweight body armor has resulted in a million contract for U.S. Rubber from the Army Materiel Command's Natick Mass Laboratories The contract covers front and back torso armor for Army pilots and air crewmen , ' The ceramic composed of aluminum and silicon oxides is said polyester to completely stop shells rather than fragmenting them as do older types The armor is backed with fabric of reinforced resin General Electric is girding to go after process contrui computer business even more actively than it has already The company has set up a separate Industrial Process Control Division to take care of the growing business formerly handled by groups within GE's big Information Systems , Division GE took over Bunker Ramo's share of the process control computer pertoleum market in May '65 by buying access to BR's patents and know when BR closed up shop At that time BR had an estimated 80 of the and chemical process control computer business i Now GE is one of the leading vendors in this segment of puter industry although business is booming the company losing equipment division division money on its process control will Indications are division will soon be operating operating in in the black 1 the has the com- been new 90 CHEMICAL WEEK September 10 1966 THE PRACTICE OF MULLING Fig 1. Jumbled mass of aggregates Fig 2. Mixture of aggregates Does your mixing Mixing Has Been Defined- Fig 3. Mixture of aggregates and ultimate particles particles Fig 4. Controlled dispersion ultimate paprartictles icles particles problemproblem look like this as the manipulation of a hetero- geneous mass of two or more materials so that a homogeneous product is obtained which is uniform both as to analysis and structure Put another way an ideal mix of solid solids or liquid is one which has intimate uniform controlled dispersion of properties Aggregates and clusters are broken up and one material is actually combined or coated with another Aggregates Ultimate Particles Fig 1 shows a random mass of aggregates as introduced into a mixer Fig 2 shows this same mass of aggregates mixed But the aggregates have not been released or combined into the ultimate particles necessary In Fig 3 some of the aggregates have been com- bined with the ultimate particles Fig 4 illustrates the ideal controlled dispersion of ultimate particles Intensive Mixing- Simpson MULLERfi Batch Simpson Mullers are available for either batch or continuous processing in 12 sizes ranging from 24 inch to . pan diameters and in productive capacities up to 300 tons per hour principles combines the mechanical needed to combine aggregates or agglomerates . . . rather than placing them next to each other In A Simpson mulling is accomplished on the pan Muller wheels roll over and through the material to produce an intensive kneading smearing spatulate action Plows turn and fold the batch into the path of the mullers Discharge is by action of the plows alone through a bottom door No power is wasted in hefting heavy material burdens The result A strictly uniform mixhomogeneous and thorough thorough A mix without hot spots balling uneven and wasteful dispersion Power re- quirements are low wear Power of parts is exceptional Disperon Controlled Dispersion If your present mixing methods are giving you less than uniform con- trolled dispersion you're wasting valuable raw material Why not ask for as produced by friction and pressure test at the National Performance Lab- forces sufficient to break down the oratory Without investing a cent in aggregates is necessary to achieve the new equipment you can find out in controlled dispersion indicated by Fig 4. Of all mixing methods now in use for L blending mulling alone Simpson MULL^ Continuous advance exactly what a Simpson MixMuller or continuous Mullfi can do A new booklet fully describes this new service Write for it today ILLINOIS HALL NATIONAL ENGINEERING COMPANY 642 MACHINERY CHICAGO , 60606 SIMPSON MULLER ' DIVISION : Pa af r) Ld . he o ay Send for 2, Lab Test wt Brochure , September 10 1966 CHEMICAL WEEK 91 Emorganics Can your low temperature plasticizer system pass the frigid guillotine test? The bar samples below that failed this test described at right were made from a vinyl that cost a few cents less but which could cost a fortune in lost customers If you're not sure of the low temperature performance of your vinyls you should take a good look at the test sample at the top of the photo Plastolein 9058 DOZ Plasticizer helped this vinyl retain its flexibility down to a chilly 60 and below In addition Plastolein 9058 DOZ is the only low temperature plasticizer offering this fine balance of properties " longer lasting LT flexibility good compatibility low volatility " superior heat and light stability outstanding extraction resistance fine hand and drape All these qualities that influence your customers to buy again and again are yours at less than a cent per pound more than formulations using average low temperature plasticizers Isn't this a paltry premium to pay for customer satisfaction every time If you haven't already added the safety factor of Plastolein 9058 DOZ to your vinyl formulations why not send for evaluation samples and complete information today Use convenient coupon ASTM D746 BRITTLE POINT TEST 50 samples are cut from 75 mil plastic sheeting A Scott Brittleness Tester is employed using methanol cooled with dry ice as the heat transfer medium Five samples at a time are clampedin tester holder and immersedin the fluid for 2.5 minutes at the given test temperature After impact solenoid activates a guillotine which delivers a single blow to the samples The samples are for failure examineTdemperatures failure being defined as breaking of the sample are selected to produce a range between no failure and com- plete failure Brittleness temperature is defined as that tem- perature where 50 of the samples break PLASTOLEIN PLASTICIZERS 9051 DHNZ 9055 DGP 9057 DIOZ 9058 DOZ Plasticizer Concentration phr 45 45 50 45 9066 LT 45 9078 LT 45 Brittle Point C Below -60 Below -60 -60 Below -60 Below -60 Below -60 i -57 -57 DOP 50 -29 92 CHEMICAL WEEK September 10 1966 Significant developments from Emery oleochemical research Emery offers low odor polyamide resins for printing inks There's no longer any need to special order low odor polyamide resins for flexographic or rotogravure inks Low odor is a uniformly dependable characteristic of all Emerez Polyamide Resins Film and foil printed with inks based on Emerez 1538 1535 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 Emerez Polyamides offer excellent color improved pack resistance and adhesion to polyolefin films rub blocking and smearing resistance high gloss and good compatibility with other forming resins For detailed information write for Technical Bulletin 446 Emerez Polyamide Resins in Flexographic and Rotogravure Inks Quality Esters for textile lubricants Emery oleate esters widely used in specialty lubricants reflect the outstanding color odor and oxidation sta- bility of the Emersol Oleic Acid from which they are derived ; Emery's methyl propyl and glyceride esters because of their oily corrosive nature and low pour points are used in textile oils as bases for sulfurized lubricants and in the compounding of specialty lubricants When sulfated they exhibit interesting surface active properties which have led to their use as wetting agents Another Emery ester glyceryl oleate is a long chain mono With its unique oil solubility small amounts of glyceryl oleate add rust preventative properties to mineral lubricating oils Technical Bulletin 434A contains specifications and properties of Emery Oleate Esters ' ; Three additional Emery quality esters are well worth investigating for use as textile lubricants and as com- ponents of textile softeners and finishing compositions Emerest 2322 Butyl Stearate Very low odor and water white color Request Data Sheet No. 104 Emerest 2320 Butyl Stearate Priced below 2322 for applications having less stringent odor and stability requirements Request Data Sheet No. 104. : Emery 3989 Ethylene Glycol Distearate a white moderately melting wax exhibits good light heat Emery INDUSTRIES INC Organic Chemicals Division Dept. 137. Carew Tower Cincinnati Ohio 45202 Western Operations Santa Fe Springs California Emery Industirs Canada Ltd London Ontario Unilever Enery V Goula The Netherlands Export Division Cincinnati Name Company Street City ~ State Please send OC Plastolein 9658 puz evaluation sample Emerz Resins in and Rotogravure Bulletin 146 Polyamide Flexographic Flexographic Data Sheet 105 Emery 3989-1 Ethylene Glycol Glycol Distearate Title : Zip September 10 1966 CHEMICAL WEEK 93 ! i) . L Pretty ordinary stuff That's the way most makers tend to treat it We don't At Wyandotte caustic is a key chemical This makes it mandatory for us to think of caustic as something special And to treat it accordingly That's why we're so fussy about its quality ... ... about the economy efficiency and speed of its distribution Why we are continuously expanding our manufacturing facilities to pace our customers needs for quality 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 All Wyandotte customers benefit from it We don't take anything for granted Send in the coupon ... we'll provide complete price and shipping information as well as technical consultation : : : : ; : . : : : WYANDOTTE WYANDOTTE CHEMICALS ; INDUSTRIAL CHEMICALS GROUP WYANDOTTE MICH a me me meee INDUSTRIAL CHEMICALS GROUP WYANDOTTE CHEMICALS CORPORATION DEPARTMENT 476 WYANDOTTE MICHIGAN 48192 NAME FIRM ... ADDRESS 20 0 |, use anhydrous caustic4 } 50 quid 73 liquid Please send me Caustic Soda Book Send price and shipping information for _ carload [ truckload less carload quantities Have your representative contact me This request for _ immediate use _j use within next 6 months - 1 } reference only 1 Second Try for DMSO A meeting to be held early next month in Washington may help decide the pharmacological fate of di- methyl sulfoxide DMSO The chemical has been widely praised as a miracle among miracle drugs but clinical testing of DMSO was virtually halted late last year by the Food & Drug Administration after researchers here and abroad reported some adverse side effects in animals treated with the material On Oct. 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- ence was arranged at the request of Representative Robert Duncan D. Ore many of whose country constituents are keenly interested in the fate of DMSO Reason in the U.S. DMSO is a wood chemical It's de- rived commercially from the lignin waste produced in pulping wood chips FDA won't say what sort of dis- cussion it expects at the coming meeting A spokesman for FDA Commissioner James Goddard comments only that We'll listen to what they have to say But one of the physicians who plans to attend Dr. Arthur Scherbel of the its Cleveland Clinic tells CW he expects a thorough review of DMSO history the problems that led to the discontinuation of testing and what we can do to get it back into clinical testing A thorough review of DMSO is a big order During the three years since the first reports of its extraordinary behavior in living organisms DMSO has been the subject of considerable controversy and considerable bally- hoo It has also been credited with an almost unbelievable spectrum of medicinal actions relieving headaches 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 externally 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 scems able to carry other substances with it as it courses through living tissues Finally the permeating action of DMSO seems to be completely reversible i.e. there is no permanent effect on membranes once the DMSO has passed through them All 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 Her- schler of Crown Zellerbach Corp.'s San Francisco Research Center at Camas Wash First reports of these extraordinary properties 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 DMSO Ameri- can Home Products Geigy Merck Schering Squibb and Syntex 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 Jan. '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 had become convinced that it could help them were treating themselves DMSO with industrial By '65 more than 1,000 doctors in the U.S. were trying DMSO and -as even the staunchest supporters of the drug concede situation had gotten out of hand Then several reports of adverse reactions to DMSO caused alarm in Washington Most important of these researchers here anti^n England had found that heavy doses of DMSO caused changes in the lenses of the eyes of experimental animals The doses used were much larger than CZ holds number of DMSO patents enver ing production use The chemical industrially as solvent for a wide is use materials including polymers variety of synthetic fiber producers use it in quantity You'll make better zinc dust paints with this electronic watchdog working for you ' Smaller zinc particles one of the secrets of producing better zinc dust their greater paints Smaller particles with surface area per unit of volume increase contact between the zinc dust and the substrate Result improved conductivity and increased corrosion resistance ' Both Federated's No. and No. 555 zinc dusts are electronically monitored to ensure that their particle size will average between 5 and 7 microns oxide The electronic monitor controls the high purity and low oxide content of No. 11 and No. 555 zinc dusts This ensures full reproducibility of oil absorption specific gravity and color Your benefit uniform results with your zinc dust paints and primers Is it worth the effort to produce zinc dust . under the exacting requirements of our electronic monitor We think so And so customers invite jou - to test these zinc dusts in your samples own formulations For or informative literature write Federated Metals Division of ASARCO Asarco 120 Broadway York N.Y 10005 ASARCO New : { : AMERICAN } SMELTING AND REFINING COMPANY ! September 10 1966 CHEMICAL WEEK 95 lower costs too @ If you have a water clarification problem consider the benefits to be secured by using an efficient low cost DARLING'S Improved Animal Glue Not only cleaner water but in instances the recovery of process materials will save you money DARLING'S Improved Animal Glue used as a flocculant has demonstrated its efficiency and economy 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 much to gain Check with your Darling representative or write or phone collect to Glue Division 927-3000 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 persons had been treated with the drug in the U.S. alone It has become clear that crackdown on DMSO is one FDA's of the most unpopular moves the agency has ever made Physicians who believe that the compound has great clinical promise are afraid that large testing may never be resumed They also question whether FDA is any longer in a position to make an objective 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 are being allowed to use DMSO on some 100 patients who have threatening diseases multiple sclerosis and scleroderma FDA won't tell who these sponsors are but one is Cleveland Clinic's Scherbel He 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 Scherbel his patients have received frequent eye examina- tions in the course of DMSO treatment and none has shown any ocular abnormality thought to be 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 experimental drug And there the matter stands Stanley Jacob now engaged in animal experimentation on the use of DMSO an an adjunct in the treating of arterial diseases he hopes some washback of data and clinical experience from Europe may help bring a break in the present stale- male DARLING & COMPANY GLUE DIVISION 4201 South Ashland Avenue Chicago Illinois 60609 Indeed Europe will he holding the attention of DMSO experts ip the months ahead Early in November a conference at the University of Vienna will be devoted to the drug and 10 European doctors experience with it More important by year's end DMSO will have reached the market as a prescription drug in West Ger- many and Austria 96 CHEMICAL WEEK September 10 1966 Our competitors make white mineral oils just as good as ours in every way Brand X Sontex : Brand In fact ~ you couldn't tell the difference if you didn't see our name on the drum All of us have to meet FDA requirements We maintain elaborate quality 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 .ovide Local Availability i SONTEX brand white mineral oils are available from strategic stock points Who can equal this MINERAL OIL REFINING CO Dickinson Texas DISTRIBUTED LOCALLY BY MCKESSON & ROBBINS CHEMICAL DEPARTMENT TIMET titanium makes practical This light titanium tube will outlast iron tubes three to one text . Solvay Titanium Titanium |Titanium Titanum i replaces cast iron in ammoniastills for lower costs , longer service reduced maintenance | Titanium replaced inch diameter x inch wall cast iron tubes in am- monia stills and enabled Allied Chemi- cal to significantly reduce costs in 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 longer service life This is expected to reduce retubing labor costs extend header sheet life and minimize downtime Maximum economic performance is vital in soda ash manufacture with its high fixed investment and tight profit margins After an intensive metals cvaluation program Allied specified titani- um tubes in ammonia recovery on a company 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 12 OD x .030 wall CodeWeld ti- tanium tubing Redesigned titanium heat exchangers have higher heat transfer efficiency are more compact cost less to install and maintain Bonus Savings in Steam Tests at Allied's Syracuse N.Y. plant suggest that titanium tubes will offer a % savings in process worth 1500 per month- because of its superior transfer One half million lineal 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 corrosion problems with titanium Titanium Metals Corporation of America's Application Development Center can assist you with chemical metallurgical or engineering data a testing program prototype fabrication assistance and technical to your com- mercial fabricator All you have to do is ask Ask too for TMCA's Design Data Book for the Chemical Processor titanium TITANIUM METALS CORPORATION OF AMERICA 233 Broadway New York N.V. 10007 YORK - CLEVELAND . 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( Pittsburgh sole producer of sulfatemodified strontium ferrite ceramic permanent magnets It is Blairsvile com- pleting an expansion at its Blairsville Pa plant This will hike its magnet capacity from approximately 1.5 mil lion to 4 million lbs./year CW Mar- magnets made by pressing and sin- tering powdered ferrites his com- mercial stride about five years ago By opening new markets in a range of products power tools and kitchen appliances to office cy ipment and automobiles have shared 407 of PM sales already Sales of ceramic magnets are now estimated at 15-18 million year : lion year level Getting ready for this sales spurt are ket Newsletter Oct. 23 '65 Stackpole Carbon Co. St. Marys Pa This company has roughly dou- The boomis gaining strength large- ly because of the automotive indus- try When Detroit's industrialists be- Crucible Steel Corp. Pittsburgh bled its magnetic powder plant ca- gan using small electric magnet It produces both the relative new ce- pacity at Kane Stackpole sells motors in autos a few years ago most ramic magnets and the well estab- both ferrite powders and sintered magnet people foresaw no big market lished alnico metal types and has just barium ferrite magnets potential But the auto makers have dedicated a new multimillion Indiana General Corp. Val- recently committed themselves to permanent magnet plant at Elizabeth- paraiso Ind IGC which claims to more motors in autos were 19 ville Ky Management has already he the largest manufacturer of mag- different magnet motorisn some '65 approved plans toexpand the material ceramic netic materials and first to produce ceramic magnets commercially in the Chryslers operate car windows fans seats washer pump motors etc. U.S is doubling permanent magnet Also ceramic magnet motors are capacity replacing many electrofield motors ramic for magnets meores color TV and in in sets computers ferrites antema rol These expansions are all to boost output of ceramic magnet materials -those that depend on electromag- nets The new motors have greater September 10. 1966 CHEMICAL WEEK 101 SPECIALTIES Workman prepares new 200 press for operation 102 CHEMICAL WEEK September 10 1966 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 long lengths are needed ceramics can be made into flat plates that have a large surface The ferrites are brittle and lower in ten- sile strength alnico is better for magnets that must operate at elevated temperatures and where shock resis- tance is a prime requirement Right now about 95 of ceramic magnets sold in this country are bari- um ferrite types Although Westinghouse is going in heavily for a sulfate type modified strontium Both alnico and ceramic magnets are truly long lasting Portus M. Wheeler president of Crucible Steel Magnet Division says a PM retains more than 97 of its magnetism practically forever It loses about % of its magnetism as soon as it's ener- gized and 0.2 during the next 12 months for a total loss of approxi- mately 1.2 during the first year And our best guess is that it loses only another % during the next 100.000 years 1 Long After Lodestone The natural- ly occurring iron ore magnetite or lodestone was the first known per- manent magnet material But the first made PMs were made commer- cially by magnetizing high carbon steel Tungsten magnet steels were de- veloped next followed by chromium alloy steels Next came cobalt steels The alloy element contents in these later steels add to their ability to remain magnetic carbon steels are readily magnetized but lose their force field quickly Big improvement in the 30s with development of alnico a metallic alloy of aluminum with cobalt copper or titanium added in certain cases This alloy is cast in molds to near finished shape and ground to specific tolerances Such alloys soon became the wonder metals of magnetism Until 1960 when the ceramic permanent hoom began alnico and per- manent magnet were synonymous This is no longer the case The big reason for the ceramics success is that they are cheaper A ceramic material suitable for door latches costs about SPECIALTIES 1.10> a comparable alnico mag- net about 2.80 Keyed to Chemical Process Ceramic magnets involve a true CPI process . The processes for permanent ce- ramic magnets originated with a . Dutch company Philips of Eind- hoven in '56 but North American Philips Co. New York owns the .U.S patents 2,762,777 ed and 2,762,778 which it licenses to magnet producers in the U.S. NAP purchased all the Dutch firm's patents including futures which were put into trust in the U.S. by the Dutch company in '39 Westinghouse has a U.S. patent on the sulfate- modified ferrites The ceramic types are made from alkaline carbonates e.g. barium 7 An intermediate for thepharmaceutical industry Also used by the chemical industryin the produc- tion of dyestuffs emulsifiers resins corrosion inhibitors and additives toimprove the performance performance of rubber coatings and resins strontium lead mixed with iron oxide and calcined for about three hours The resulting ferrite is then ground to a fine powder pressed into shape and fired in a kiln at 2000- 2300 .. called oriented grades are ground into powder with water and wet- pressed partlyoriented and non- oriented grades are pressed then fired Oriented means controlled posi tion of the molecules all point the same way in the magnet nonorient- ed is random When the ferrite pow- der is wet or pressed into the Now availablthee U.S. PLEASE CONTACT BASF COLORS & CHEMICALS INC . 845 THIRD AVENUE YORK NEW YORK 10022 MU 8-7420 Telephone 212 if you'rsehipping | your bread and | designated shape in a die the grains of the magnetic compound are aligned in a magnetic field The ability of a permanent magnet to support an external magnetic field results from locked positions of small magnetic domains These don't spread = locked positions once established by initial magnetization are held until it thinme acted upon by forces exceeding these ee tel locked forces Coercive force of a magnet reflects its resistance to de- se magnetization A magnet's coercive force is measured in oersteds In alnico magnets coercive force values are 400-1,800 oersteads in ceramics 2,000-4,000 i bg Gauss is the unit term for residual induction on a square inch basis BH max denotes peak energy product B stands for flux density H for coercive force gauss and oersteds Nonoriented ceramic magnets produce about a 1 million energy product BH max oriented consistently produces 3.5 million BH max Power Package These high levels CHIC/ CAHIGCAOGOBake Immediate delivery from warehouse stock 1 to 16 gallon capacities Bellwood linings All closures and styles VULCAN CONTAINERS INC Illinois PHONE 312-626-7660 312-626-7660 September 10 1966 CHEMICAL WEEK 103 SILICOLOGY Silicones is a household word Silicones mean extra value to the housewife That's why it pays to put silicones in your product and to put Silicones on the label Because she looks for the extra performance silicones bring to many products Lubrication for Shaving Cream The razor doesn't drag the skin doesn't resist when a silicone smoothes the way Ironing Ease for Aerosol Starches Add a silicone to a spray starch formulation and it migrates to the iron face then makes its presence felt by measurably improving ligh- tlieghntienningg the ironing chore Deep Gloss for Polishes Buffing up a deep luster is easier because the silicone lubricates wax crystals without softening them imparts water repellency Water Repellency for Cosmetics Plus soft smooth feel for creams sunscreen compatibility for suntan lotions ... lubric- ity for mascara and lipstick gloss im- provement and softening for hair sprays chemical ine,, tnessfor products that touch the skin Release for Oven Protectants Silicone treatment makes oven surfaces resist hard sticking of overenthusiasticallycooked casseroles Wiping replaces scraping UNBREAKABLE QUALITY Silicones work all these improvements at very low concentrations and so are often handled as emulsions to disperse their potency equably While the viscosity of the silicone oil to be 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 skillful emulsification for which Union Carbide has long been known Our emulsions resist freeze breakage through repeated cycles and can be heavily water diluted to as low as 0.3 solids without creaming under reasonable storage conditions Mild agitation restores victims of unreasonable conditions This quality means more reliable performance for your product Have you investigated what silicones can do for your products in the product on the label We offer formulation assistance in the development of new products and the improvement of old Take advantage of us with the coupon below CARBIDE SILICONES CARBIDE -- CARBIDE ey Union Carbide Corporation t Silicones Division } 270 Park Avenue Dept. 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Title _ | Company | Address 1 City State Zip Zip SPECIALTIES of magnetic force mean motors made with ceramic magnets have high efficiency These motors up to 14 h.p. are operated on direct current and have made cordless batteryoperated appliances a practical household reality But PM motor application is not limited to DC operation Where light weight and small size are 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 feels that ceramic magnets are so im- portant to its operations that it may put in its own making fa- cilities The shortage of copper now makes PM motors look even more attractive to the automotive people In a window lift motor for example thirds of the motor's copper is in the stator coils that supply the magnetic field Such wound electromagnets can be replaced with ceramic magnets The magnet is cheaper and there's no labor cost for winding the field coil Ceramic Uncertainties Not all ce- ramic magnet makers agree on the best recipe for a magnet Westinghouse holds a patent U.S. 3,113,927 for sul- modified strontium ferrite composition It claims magnets made of this have the highest coercive force of any of the currently popular production products Westinghouse says that in laboratory experiments with sulfatemodified strontium ferrite it has gone up to as high as 5,300 oerstads and repeatedly averages 4,500 oersteds Allen Bradley Corp. Milwaukee largely discounts the strontium fer- rite magnet at least for the near future And it also rates lead ferrite the third ceramic type of higher coercive quite low AB says the lead compound is difficult to handle although 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 accounts for costs Arnold Engineering which has worked with both barium and strontium ferrites says both are competitive in price and magnetic _ properties Prices are dependent on size and complexity of the piece part as well as on quantity desired by the user : Magnets have to compromise be- tween cost and properties Some ma- terials can make excellent magnets but usually at too high a cost Arnold Engineering Co. Marengo III makes a costly platinum cobalt magnet for example that is used for mi- crominiature application Improvements Coming The need for ceramic mag will more than double in 10 potential is not nearly exhausted In '65 ceramic magnet production was about 7 million lbs including barium strontium and lead ferrites Better materials will help sustain magnet growth Indiana General says it has achieved in laboratory samples intrinsic coercive force of 12.000 oersteds out strontium Theoretically maxi- mum intrinsic coercive force has been calculated by Dutch scientists to be 17,000 to 18.000 oersteds bar- ium or strontium ferrites Ceramic magnets that are now being mass pro- duced have a force of about 4.000 oersteds 1 With or without improvements the list of uses for magnets is growing and ceramics go into most of the new products One potential application Use of opposing magnets to act as spring cars for trains Ceramic mag- nets will never totally replace alnico but the field of PMs would not be growing so fast now if is were not for the ceramic permanent magnets It all adds up toja time hoom for magnetic materials Foam Control Agent A Z Products Inc. Eaton Park Fla manufacturer of ore flotation reagents has developed a new chemical defoaming agent The new prod uct Defoamer 15 is a balanced liquid fatty acid blend reinforced with special additives It is suggested for control of foam in the manufacture of phosphoric acid by the wet process It can be added to the acid train as 100 active concentrate or can be dispersed in water of any desired concentration Stable emulsions can be produced by slight mechanical agitation or by bubbling air through the defoamer: water mixture 104 CHEMICAL WEEF September 10 1966 fe lather Silicones bring better performance values to many cosmetics and A household specialties better performance in use better performance on the shelf To improve the selling power and working power of your products see the SILICOLOGY opposite proving ground Will our silicones | help you win the marketing battle the product the label functional fluids from CARBIDE SILICONES September 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 the form you need precisely when you need Whether you're formulating | pilot batches .-. new products >* production | present products made better remember Reichhold for basic chemicals REICHHOLD [isp Reichhold Chemicals Inc. RCI Building White Plains N. 10602 Methanni Organic Peroxides * Melamine Pentaerythritol + Phenol Ortho . Sodium Pentachlorophenate 'Maleic and Phthalic Anhydrides Hydrochloric and Sulfuric Acids ' Formaldehyde + Synthetic Resins Chemical Colors Industrial Adhesives * Benzyl Chlorophenol COUNTDOWN minute summary of this week's new products NEW EQUIPMENT SUPERVISORY CONTROL Motorola Instrumentation and Control Inc. P.O. Box 5409 Phoenix Ariz 85010 has developed a command supervisory control system for plant pipeline electric and water utility applications The packaged system enables installation by the user eliminates custom engineering The solid system called TM10 controls and monitors breaker and relay positions reclosure actuators alarms for pressure level temperature current etc. positions for valves operations of compressors and pumps FILTER HOLDER Millipore Filter Corp. Bedford Mass 01730 has come up with an improved Millipore filter holder for withstanding 10,000 inlet pressure Typical applications are filtration of ultraclean liquids and gases in pressure lines The unit holds a mm.diameter filter Dimensions 33 in diameter 113 in high CONDENSATE RECOVERY Graver Water Conditioning Co. Union N.J. 07083 now has a new process for economical refining of condensate for reuse as boiler feedwater in installations where complete condensate demineralizers are not necessary The system called GRF combines sodium cycle ion exchange and filtration to remove soluble and suspended impurities The process removes water hardness copper and iron at temperatures to 300 F. Cation resins have been developed to withstand these temperatures without breakdown COLD PIPE JOINT Tube Turns Division of Chemetron Corp. Louisville Ky is offering a new pipe joint that permits aluminum and stainless steel piping to be used in the same installation The joint is especially suited for cryogenic uses is made of aluminum and stainless steel which are metals that cannot be joined satisfactorily by conventional welding EPIDIASCOPE Jarrell Co. 590 Lincoln St. Waltham Mass 02154 is the agent for Metals Research Ltd.'s England new epidiascope which can be used with an image analyzing computer for examination of large solid objects Typical applications the examination of brickwork concrete and metals for flaws porosity granular size the study of crack density in ceramics and analysis of fibers It can also be used to analyze electron micrographs photographs negatives and transparencies A large area can be covered and 25 samples can be analyzed NEW SPECIALTIES ENCAPSULANT Emerson & Cuming Inc. Canton Mass is marketing a new part epoxy casting resin Stycast 2050 is said to have low viscosity and long pot can be cured at 140-150 F in three hours or at room temperature in two or three days The product is supplied in container kits in 2- 10- and 50 sizes at approximately $ lb BUTYL BEDDING ADHESIVE A butyl elastomeric polymer compound is offered by Steelcote Mfg Co. 3418 Gratiot St. Louis ACID NEUTRALIZATION ... without scaling or sludge formation and at costs comparable to lime de- pending upon the process ... ... ... these benefits are inherent in MAGOXfimag- nesium oxide for acid efient efient neutrali- zation reaction with mineral acids and pH adjustment t Cane sugar mills find MAGOX a scale- eliminating saving substitute for lime Magnesium Bisulfite pulp mills rely on MAGOx Magnesium compounds utilize Macox for the magnesium component Acids are neutralized with MAGOX at 1.85 times more efficiency than with hydrated lime and with the rate of reactivity adjustedadjusted to improve process performance MAGOX is unlimited supply avail- able in bulk or bags anywhere in the world It is produced from purity selectively natural magnesite in 90 to 95 MgO purities in 13 standard grades 1 neutralization For acid contact Technical Field Service at Basie Chemi- cals 845 Hanna Building Cleveland Ohio 44115 phone 216-241-5000 twx 810-421-8277 t BASIC DIVISION OF BABIC September 10 1966 CHEMICAL WEEK 107 . Chemical Week Reprints Oxidative Dehydrogenation $ depth study of the new technique that promises to open up cheaper route to olefins and diolefins 12 pg Ethylene in two parts 1.50 Penetrating look at the worldwide ethylene industry with emphasis on the technology behind the giant new plants 25 pg Ammonia Here's the latest box score on the burgeoning U.S. synthetic ammonia industry 16 pg The Challenge to Research $ Research productivity is declining at a time when the nation's scientific effort faces a mighty challenge to support swelling populations 20 pg Phosphates 1.50 Detailed examination of the market factors that are pushing phosphate rock production to new highs 24 pg Sulfur Frasch sulfur is outdistancing recovered sulfur in the competition for world markets 16 pg Detergents How the switch to soft detergents | is revolutionizing the glant U.S. surfactant industry 16 pg Pesticides in two parts Study of the U.S. pesticide industry with comprehensive directory of products and producers Part : Insecticides Miticides Nematocides Rodenticides Part II Fungicides and Herbicides Malling address Chemical Week Reprint Dept. | 330 W. 42nd Street New York N.Y. 10036 Please send me the CW Reports checked above Enclosed is $ Send price of copies Bulk prices on request ee ttt ttt 108 CHEMICAL WEEK September 10 COUNTDOWN Mo. 63103 for bondingglass to wood or aluminum in windows and doors The premium compound is claimed toprovide a waterproof seal and to withstand contraction and expansion It is packaged in 1- and gal pails and gal drums for use with pumping equipment POLYESTER SIZING AGENT General Aniline & Film Corp. 140 West 51 St. New York 10020 is offering Polectron 130 a vinylpyrrolidone acrylate copolymer emulsion for use in combination with latexes to make polyester filament yarn sizes According to GAF the new emulsion 40 solids content and submicron particle size- is stable to mechanical shear has good frccze resistance and is compatible with many commercial latexes tolerates high levels of pig- ment and filler loading SOLUBLE LANOLIN A soluble form of lanolin for toiletries cosmetics and consumer product formulations is being marketed by Alcolac Chemical Corp. 3440 Fairfield Rd Baltimore Md 21226 Sipon LLS a blend of lanolin alcohol ethoxylate sulfate and lauryl alcohol ethoxylate sulfate is said to give good foaming properties water stability and low cloud point Sample experimental or multi- drum quantities are available t AN ISTICK RUBBER COATING National Milling & Chemical Co. 4601 Flat Rock Rd Philadelphia 19127 has developed a new slab compound release that adheres to coated rubber stock JM com- pound comes in an aqueous colored paste that is diluted in water before use the suds solution can be used for dipping spraying or coating natural or synthetic stock The compound is packed in gal head lever lock nonreturnable drums 1 NONSPREADING INSTRUMENT OIL A new synthetic lube fluid Fulchem Oil 461 that stays where it is applied in fine instruments timepicces and electronic equipment has been introduced by William F. 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Box 927 New Bedford Mass 02742 Fulchem is a viscosity oil that flows easily at temperatures as low as -20 yet will not migrate or creep at 200 F or higher The oilis stabilized to pre- vent oxidation or gumming and inhibited to prevent corrosion of the metals usedin instrument construction PLASTISOL MODIFIER RESIN Goodyear Chemical Division Niagara Falls N.Y. is marketing a new plastisol modifier resin for expanded vinyl compounds in which low plasticizer level is desired e.g. in flooring and fabric coatings According to the company the low molecular weight of Pliovic 50 gives plastisols low melt viscosities and low fusion temperatures The new resin is also suggested for use in automotive caulks and sealants rotationally cast dolls and other toys etc. MELT ADHESIVE Instant Lok 34-2900 a versatile melt adhesive for ice cream cartons bacon cartons and bagi lip seals has been introduced by National Adhesive Division 750 Third Ave. New York 10017 Final bonds are said to withstand temperatures from subzero to over 140 F. 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Parkans Co. 4189 Bellaire Blvd. Houston Texas 77025 September 10 1966 CHEMICAL WEEK 111 BUSINESS BENCHMARKS MONEY SHORTAGE CUTS HOUSING STARTS Residential building is in a sharp depression says Charles Young di- rector of Economic Services and Market Research of the Western Wood Products Assn even though demand factors for new homes- family formations and income . are good Big reason for the drop the shortage of mortgage money The main sources of mortgage money are savings banks and savings and loan associtions But higher interest rates have attracted savers elsewhere Result savings deposits growth has declined at a rate of 20 billion from $ billion in quarter '65 to less than 3 billion in quarter 66. And savings and loan associations have had net withdrawals in second ter 66 Residential mortgages totaling 216 billion bring in annual repayments of 8-11 billion plus 10 billion in interest payments - al 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 starts will total 1,190.000-1,227.- 000 1 Since '66 totals include the effects mortgages However compared with of some earlier commitments for the billion annual decline in mortgages A outlook for new deposit growth this relief is relative- housing starts in half '67 ap- ly insignificant Other possible forms of govern- pears highly unfavorable By next summer more funds should be avail- ment help include legislation providing additional home mortgage funds and federal rulings setting interest rate ceilings to divert savings back to deposits in savings institutions able and housing starts might total 1.140.000 for the year An increase in housing shortages will likely be the upshot of the com- bined maximum 2,420.000 hous- 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- ing starts this year and next This will probably spur the market for mobile homes and the remodeling . of existing homes Mobile homes are already being produced at an _ gage situation Young estimates housing starts in second | 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 1,287,000 and possibly a low of 1,250,000 vs. 1.520.000 last year Excluding 35.000 publicly owned housing starts and 25,000 farm homes private annual rate of more than 200.000 units These developments are possible in a money period because mobile homes and remodeling projects involve shorter and higher- yield loans than do mortgages and funds are likely to be available for these loans even in highly competi- tive money markets t 8 THE CW INDEXES 200 I j CHEMICAL OUTPUT INDEX 190 oe 110 : CHEMICAL PRICE INDEX i 105 + 180 beg 1966 170 1965 eee 100 eee . 1966 95 __ , : JAN FEB 160 JAN FEB MAR APR bled teed MAY JUNE JULY AUG SEPT OCT NOV DEC '57= 100 1 . t te li te JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUNE JULY AUG SEPT OCT NOV DEC '62 = 100 BUSINESS INDICATORS CW cutput index CW wholesale price index Latest Week 195.8 99.6 = Preceding Week 195.4 99.6 Year Ago 174.8 98.7 PRICE INDICATORS All commoditiescommodities } '66 f July + . '66 June '65 July '65 Steel ingot output 1,000 tons Electric power million kwh Crude oil condensate daily av 1,000 bbls 2,560 22,828 8,245 2,501 23,698 8,249 2,414 21,269 7,786 Industrial chemicals : Paint Drugs cosmetics Fats oils inedible Fertilizer materials 95.9 106.8 94.3 : 106.6 : 104.2 95.8 106.8 94.3 101.6 1.04.8 95.0 105.7 94,0 110.3 103.3 112 CHEMICAL WEEK September 10 1966 4 Want excitement Then puton this AMF- Voit gear dive See underwater worldin masks ~ NATSYN provides the resilience needed for and flipper thrust action - Makes adds kickingpower straps strong TIED Sty, Neen commsiesvseiroonsetd commissioned paints forfor impressionsotnhee impressions of series chemical chemical specially industry HESS HESS PETROCHEMICAL PETROCHEMICAL PETROCHEMICAL PETROCHEMICAL CORPORATION PETROCHEMICALDIVISION AVENUE pani ead F yorRK, NEW YORK: AVENUE, NEWw 2%e 26 4 ; -aond- we