National Distillers and Chemical Corporation

U.S. Industrial Chemicals Co., VINYL ACETATE MONOMERS HANDBOOK. National Distillers and Chemical Corporation, New Yoric, NY (1978). 

Solvents are available in 190° and anhydrous conditions. Ethyl Alcohol Handbook, U.S.l. Chemicals, 1981 by National Distillers and Chemical Corporation. 

National Distillers and Chemicals Corporation, 181 Natural gas, feedstock and ... 

National Distillers and Chemical Corporation Rhizopus 1958 Lubowitz and La Roe (1958)... 

FIGURE 14.1 Cross section of a typical extruder. (Data from U. S. I. Chemicals/Quantum, Petrothene Polyolefins A Processing Guide, 5th edn., National Distillers and Chemical Corporation.)... 

By 1960, Dow, Monsanto, and Union Carbide had also joined the billion dollar club , and chemical companies among the top 100 in that year included W. R. Grace and Co. and National Distillers Chemical Corporation, two conglomerates which had only recently entered the chemical industry. In 1975, the chemical industry ranked third, accounting for 9.3% (40.8 billion dollars) of the assets of the top 100. Du Pont, Dow, and Union Carbide were the largest corporations in the chemical industry, and all placed within the top 20 industrials. But even with more than five billion dollars in assets each, they were still a fraction of the size of Exxon, General Motors, Texaco, IBM, or Mobil - the top five corporations in 1975. The petroleum industry was still the front-runner in that year, with 35.5% (more than 156 billion dollars) of the assets of the top 100. 

The petrochemical industry reveals how rapid postwar growth attracted entrants from other industries see III, Petrochemicals , 1955, and III, Chandler, 1962, 350-362. On the Shell and Standard Oil petrochemical ventures, see III, Beaton, 1957, 502-547, 615-617, 676-684 and III, Larson et al., 1971, 765-770. Another company which diversified into petrochemicals in the early 1950s was National Distillers Chemical Corporation see III, Berenson, 1963, 134-141. On the history of Goodyear s chemical division, see III, Dietz, 1955. W. R. Grace s postwar transformation into one of the largest chemical corporations in America is discussed in III, Bernstein, 1978. 

Midforming [Middle-range distillate forming] A process for converting lower olefins to transport fuels. The catalyst is either a ZSM-5-type zeolite in which some of the aluminum has been replaced by iron, or a hetero-poly acid. Developed in the 1980s by the National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, India. To be piloted by Bharat Petrochemical Corporation, Bombay, and Davy Poweigas. 

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