Corn Products Company

The key innovations in turning optical waveguides (fibres) into a successful commercial product were made by R.D. Maurer in the research laboratories of the Corning Glass Company in New York State. This company was also responsible for introducing another family of products, crystalline ceramics made from glass precursors - glass-ceramics. The story of this development carries many lessons for... 

G. R. Dean, Corn Products Refining Company, Argo, Illinois. 

During the first World War, the Corn Products Refining Company attempted to improve the methods of manufacturing dextrose to obtain a pure product at low cost. A process was developed in 1918 by Porst which produced chemically pure dextrose but cost of production was still high. 

Corn Rootworm Management Insights from the Experts. Union Carbide Agricultural Products Company, 1985, 18 pp. 

Virtually the only important use of fructose is as a sweetener and preservative in a number of food products. In most cases, it is now used in the form of a substance known as high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS). HFCS was first introduced in the 1970s after scientists at the Clinton Corn Processing Company in Clinton, Iowa, developed a method of converting the sugar in corn into glucose and fructose. The Clinton... 

The formation of the a-hydroxysulfonic acids is influenced by concentration of the reactants (carbonyl compound and bisulfite), temperature, and pH. The rate of association as influenced by the relative concentration of bisulfite, aldehyde, and sugars was investigated early by Kerp (1904) and his collaborators and others, and more recently by Ingram and Vas (1950b) and by the Corn Products Refining Company. The effect of pH and temperature on dissociation of the sulfonic acids has been investigated also for some of the compounds (see the review by Suter,... 

The Chemical Division of the Corn Products Refining Company investigated the effect of temperature, concentration, alcohol, and free sulfurous acid on the degree of association of glucose and sodium bisulfite in aqueous solution in connection with the research sponsored by the Subsistence Section of the QMC Research and Development Branch during World War II on browning. 

In 1808, Sir Humphry Davy reported the production of Mg in the form of an amalgam by electrolytic reduction of its oxide using a Hg cathode. In 1828, the Fr scientist A. Bussy fused Mg chloride with metallic K and became the first to produce free metallic Mg. Michael Faraday, in 1833, was the first to produce free metallic Mg by electrolysis, using Mg chloride. For many years, however, the metal remained a laboratory curiosity. In 1886, manuf of Mg was undertaken on a production scale in Ger, using electrolysis of fused Mg chloride. Until 1915, Ger remained the sole producer of Mg. However, when a scarcity of Mg arose in the USA as a result of the Brit blockade of Ger in 1915, and the price of Mg soared from 1.65 to 5.00 per lb, three producers initiated operations and thus started a Mg industry in the USA. Subsequently, additional companies attempted production of Mg, but by 1920 only two producers remained — The Dow Chemical Co (one of the original three producers) and. the American Magnesium Corn. In 1927. the latter ceased production, and Dow continued to be the sole domestic producer until 1941. The source of Mg chloride was brine pumped from deep wells. In 1941, Dow put a plant into operation at Freeport, Texas, obtaining Mg chloride from sea-... 

Taco Bell and other food companies recalled 300 products (150 brands of corn chips, taco shells, corn dogs, corn bread, breakfast cereals and polenta), but decided to continue selling taco shells obtained from the same supplier. 

The second topic addressed is that of the American farmer. The remarks of one farmer at the Com Utilization Conference in November, 1988 (Columbus, Ohio) defined the situation "The soil and rainfall on my farm in Colorado are not good enough to compete with those in South America we have to find new applications for agricultural products". Perhaps because he was not a traditional farmer (he had entered farming as a result of land acquisitions and resigned from a marketing position with an electronics company), he clearly saw the marketing need. One of the objectives of the annual Corn Utilization... 

The phenols (no. 30a, 30b, 32) are used as reactants to synthesize several of the company s products, including the benzotriazoles. The 2-chloro-4,6-bls-isopropylam-ino-s-triazine (no. 13) are herbicides the chloro compound is used to control weeds and grass in corn and in milo, and the methoxy compound is used for general plant control. Several esters of 3-(3 ,5 -di-t-butyl-4 -hydroxyphenyl) propionic acid were identified, the most abundant being the octadecyl and methyl esters. 

High fructose corn syrup (MFCS) has emerged In recent years as an alternative nutritional sweetener to sucrose. However, the use of HFCS has been confined to those applications suited to liquid syrups, In particular the beverage and canning sectors of the market. The manufacture of fructose as a crystalline product would open up further market opportunities for the sweetener. One company In the USA Is producing crystalline fructose In commodity quantities (1), but at a higher price than sucrose. 

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