Condea Vista Company

In 1983 the On-Purpose Technology was first realized in a 10.000 mt commercial unit in Brunsbuttel, Germany. A second On-Purpose plant, commissioned in 1991, expanded the Brunsbuttel capacity by another 10.000 mt. Meanwhile the On-Purpose capacity has been increased to a total of 30.000 mt. In combination with the Ziegler capacity in Lake Charles (now CONDEA VISTA Company) and Brunsbuttel, the CONDEA group today offers a capacity of approx. 60.000 mt of alkoxide derived aluminas. In order to overcome current shortages in the alumina markets a third On-Purpose plant is currently under construction in Brunsbuttel and scheduled to be commissioned the first half of 1998. 

In 1990, Vista Chemical Company (now CONDEA Vista Company) devel-... 

Michael F. Cox Research and Development, CONDEA Vista Company, Austin, Texas... 

For example BPS, Inc., West Helena, Arkansas (1997), with three fatalities Condea Vista, Baltimore, Maryland (1998), with five injured Whitehall Leather Company, Whitehall, Michigan (1999), with one fatality and Concept Sciences, Inc., Allentown, Pennsylvania (1999), with five fatalities and 14 injured. 

Some companies that are not very green make the news. Condea Vista was found guilty of wanton and reckless disregard of public safety by a Louisiana jury for a leak of... 

This process is currentiy used by Vista Chemical, successor to Continental Oil Company s chemical business, and by Condea. In the Ethyl Corporation process dilute sulfuric acid is used in place of water in the hydrolysis step producing alum rather than alumina. 

Colloidal alumina is sold under the trade names Catapal, Dispal, and Disperal by Vista Chemical Company (or Condea). 

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