Chemical Service Company

Many large water treatment chemical service companies have entered the ozone marketplace, primarily in response to customer inquiries, and have linked up with ozone equipment manufacturers in one way or another. For some service companies, these moves have probably been more of a way of being in contact with ozone market developments and warding off any real threat to their core business, rather than positively embracing the technology. 

The selection of chemicals that will provide the refiner or oil producer with a cost-effective emulsion-breaking program that meets or exceeds all performance parameters is usually the function of a chemical service company. The selection process has historically been viewed as a black art that produces as many failures as successes. This assessment of the situation has been realistic. However, with an ever-increasing understanding of emulsions and emulsion-breaking chemicals, the development of new test procedures and devices, and a well-organized method of chemical selection, many of the failures can be eliminated. 

Profile This privately held company was founded in 1972. It is a full-service drug synthesis and chemical services company that performs a variety of laboratory, process scale-up, and manufacturing tasks including development of processes and synthesis routes for new medicinal products, validating bulk pharmaceutical processes, and authoring Drug Master Files. The company also has a pilot plant/small volume manufacturing site in North Andover, Massachusetts. 

From the spring of 1942 until the summer of 1943 seventy-five CWS troop units composed of Negroes were activated at various installations throughout the country. The seventy-five units consisted of the following 12 chemical mairitenance companies (aviation), 7 chemical depot companies (aviation), i chemical company (air operations), 20 chemical decontamination companies, 3 chemical processing companies, 30 chemical smoke generator companies, and 2 chemical service companies. Forty-one of those companies were eventually assigned to duty overseas. ... 

Three new chemical service companies were activated in 1940 for duty with ground forces, in accordance with the recommendation of the Service Units Board. These were ... 

Rapid expansion of air power after 1940 necessitated activation of many additional chemical platoons for the Air Corps. Cadres and fillers for these units in most instances came from Edgewood Arsenal. In March 1941 a chemical service company, aviation, was set up for each numbered air force. Thereafter the separate chemical platoons serving bases within the air force area were drawn into the company organizations. 

The MTP used initially was unsatisfactory. It was designed to produce replacements for chemical weapons companies, although few such companies were then in existence and War Department policy did not then contemplate the formation of additional units of this type. Rather, the need was for fillers and loss replacements for chemical service companies and platoons, which required very different technical training from that provided for weapons units. 

The timing of the mobilization of these chemical service companies viewed against the full background of the war was excellent. Their primary mission was to limit the effectiveness of hostile gas attack such secondary functions as they undertook were quite incidental to this principal purpose. By the time the War Department General Staff activated them, it had be-... 

Activated as 14S Chemical Composite Company, redesignated, 20 Apt 45. as the 245 Chemical Service Company converted, 6 May 45, at the 245,263,264, and 265 Chemical Service Platoons. 

Service Platoons 245, 263, 264, and 265 activated in conjunction with reorganization and convenionafthe24S Chemical Service Company, 6 May 45. f Activated at 251 Chemical Composite Detachment (Supply) redesignated 251 Chemical Supply Detachment, on dale shown in Column II. 

Uniu 266 through 270 organized in eon junction with the disbanding of the 90 and 243 Chemical Service Companies. 20 Apr 4S. 

In addition to the laboratory facilities in the United States the CWS had field laboratories in operation overseas. The chemical laboratory companies and laboratory sections of chemical service companies, whose mission was the surveillance of CWS materiel and examination of enemy agents and equipment, were initially supplied with a field laboratory designated as model Ml, standardized in 1936 and in service until the latter part of 1943. Its 21,000 pounds of equipment, comprising 88 footlockers, 20 boxes, and 15 crates of laboratory materials, as well as a truck-mounted machine shop, had to be transported on seven 1 VS-ton trucks. Edgewood manufactured eleven Ml laboratories before the model was discarded in 1943. 

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