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New plant at Bartlctt, Calif., has three times the capacity of unit it replaces
New Plant, More Soda Ash Columbia-Southern replaces facilities with larger, more efficient plant
C_yOLl M H l V - S o i T U k H N CllKMlCAL. llUS replaced its soda ash and sodium sesquicarbonate plant at Bartlett. Calif., with completely new and more efficient facilities. Soda ash capacity of the new plant is three times that of the unit it replaces. Haw material for the plant is a saturated liquor drawn from wells sunk 6 or 7 feet helow the dried up surface of nearby Owens Lake. This liquor contains principally soda ash. sodium chloride, sodium sulfate, and some borax.
Clear liquor is carbonated in tall towers under carefully controlled conditions to give- a slurry of sodium sesquicarbonate. Carbon dioxide for this step comes partially from the calcining operation and partially from scrubbed stack gases from the oil-fired boilers.
Separation of the sesquicarbonate crystals is followed by washing to remove adhering mother liquor, and careful drying to produce a technical grade of white sesquicarbonate crystals—sold by Columbia-Southern under the name of Pacific Crystals.
The remaining sesquicarbonate and anv sodium bicarbonate that has been
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formed in the process arc then converted to soda ash by high temperature calcining. This soda ash is then further refined by a process developed by Columbia-Southern, which isn't saying what the process is. The resulting product, says the company, is a high-density soda ash which is free-flowing, dustless, and uniform.
Raw material for the plant appears to he inexhaustible. Beneath the dried sin face» of Owens Lake (located between Mt. \Vhitnc\ and Death Valley-highest and lowest points in continental U. S.) is a tremendous reservoir of liquor saturated with salts.
Soda ash goes principally into glass, chemicals, detergents, and mineral processing. Sodium sesquicarhonate finds its largest markets in cleaning and water softening compounds.
• Foote Mineral expects it will have to cut back on production of lithium hydroxide next summer. Reason: Shipments to AEC should be completed by May 1. and industrial markets, though growing, do not yet justify capacity operation. Foote has been supplying lithium h> dioxide to the AEC for several \ ears, but the commission at present does not plan to negotiate for further supplies when present contracts expire, says Foote chairman Gordon H. Chambers. Nevertheless,
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he adds, Foote expects lithium operations will continue to help Foote's growth.
• Reichhold Chemicals is p lanning a $4 to $5 mi l l ion plant to produce phenol at Tacoma. Wash. Work on the 6 0 mi l l ion pound-a-\ ear plant is expected to start du r i ng the latter hal f of 195*) and he completed in one year.
• Air Reduction adds a S"S()().()()() laboratory to its H& l ) facil i t ies in Mur ra \ H i l l . N . J. Kinphasis in the new lab wi l l be on developing polvmers for paints, adhesives. plastics, coatings, films, and texti le treat ing agents.
• Monsanto Chemical increases i ts vani l l in capacity by 25 ' '< at Seattle. Wash. , mak ing the th i rd vani l l in ex-
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t United Wallpaper completes its third sNnthetic resin p lan t : Steen Resin & Chemical, Chicago Ileiuhts. 111.
Financial · . · • Nuclear-Chicago t inned in record sales and earnings tor its liscal >ear ended Aug. 31 . Sales hit nearK S3.9 million, up 49'* from the \ e a r before. Kariiings totaled S4 12.252 ι S i . I l a share) , a gain of 7 5 ' . Present sinus point to a further gain in sales and earnings in the current \ c a r . president James M. Phelan claims. Nuclear-Chicago is building a new NSOO.OOO plant northwest of Chicago .uni h.is borrow etl S6()().()()() from an uisiuaiiee eompan> to help finance tin· expansion.
• Procter & Gamble nrtteil s 2 U> milium during its first fiscal cpiarter einleil Sept. 3<>. learnings It >r the three months equaled S1.1 β a slum·, u p Ι β ' . ίηιιιι the like period of last \ear.
• Heyden Newport 1 ias huh ed its < pi.u -terly dividend to 10 cents ι share with the p;i> ment due D e c 1 " to more realistically reflect earnings." So far this \ ea i \ Heyden Newport bas netted -10 cents a share, with third quar ter net ;-Mial to 14 cents a sliaiv. Through the first nine months of 1^)57. earnings totaled 89 cents a shaiv.
• Rohm & Haas déchues a 2 ' / stock dividend, payable l>ec. 29 . Last xear. the company paid stockholders a 3 ' < dividend at the end of the year. Because the market price of compam stock is higher than a year ago but earnings are down, the company could not declare a dividend at last year's rate and still adhere» to its practice of limiting dividends to an amount that can be covered by earnings.
• Freeport Sulphur has completed the sale of its Lake Washington, La., oil and gas interests t o Magnolia Petroleum (Cc\EN. Jul\ 2S, page 17). Price: approximately $100 million in cash.
• Atlantic Chemical Corp. is b u y i n g a cont ro l l ing interest i n AAocromol Corp. Macromol produces macromolecular chemicals and polystyrene resin at Matawan, N . J., also bui lds polystyrene units here a n d abroad under license.
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