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This is a list of Superfund sites in Missouri designated under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) environmental law. The CERCLA federal law of 1980 authorized the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to create a list of polluted locations requiring a long-term response to clean up hazardous material contaminations. [1]
The Chicago metropolitan area – also known as "Chicagoland" – is the metropolitan area associated with the city of Chicago, Illinois, and its suburbs. [2] With an estimated population of 9.4 million people, [ 3 ] it is the third largest metropolitan area in the United States [ 4 ] and the region most connected to the city through geographic ...
In 1994, the company invested $19.7 million in a physical plant, increasing its capacity to produce specialty chemicals. [4] In 1995, OM Group and Dainippon Ink & Chemicals created a Japan-based joint venture. OM hoped that its cooperative enterprise would capture 15 percent of the $470 million Japanese market for cobalt-nickel inorganic ...
The whole company was acquired shortly after. In 1939, Wishnick-Tumpeer built its first true chemical manufacturing plant in Chicago, which produced industrial chemicals and asphaltic products. [2] [3] The beginning of World War II meant increased business for Wishnick-Tumpeer as chemicals were vital in the war effort. However, much of company ...
Kenneth Aldred Spencer (January 25, 1902 – February 19, 1960) was a Kansas coal mine owner who transformed a government surplus factory into the world's biggest ammonium nitrate producer.
In 1958, it became owned by American Potash and Chemical Company (AMPOT), [11] which at one point had a 'Lindsay Chemical Division.' [4] In 1967, AMPOT, and thus the facility, were bought by Kerr-McGee. The Rare Earths Facility were closed by Kerr-McGee in 1973.
The company was founded by Rudolf Fuchs on May 30, 1931. It initially traded under the name Rudolf Fuchs, but was then renamed Rudolf Fuchs Mineraloelwerke in 1939. [7] [8] The company's Guaranteed Pennsylvania Motor Oil, under the brand Penna Pura, was produced and bottled in the Mannheim slaughterhouse and distributed to transport companies in the port of Mannheim. [6]
After the war, the Olins acquired the Mathieson Chemical Corporation—also founded in 1892. [7] [8] [9] Long before its association with Olin, Mathieson Alkali Works began business in Saltville, Virginia, and a year later acquired its neighbor, the Holston Salt and Plaster Corp. Saltville became a quintessential company town, where they produced chlorine and caustic soda, and in the process ...