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Knowing that it must export to survive, Aluminium is now experimenting with a radically new process that could make it even more competitive. Scheduled to start producing next year at Arvida is a new .plant designed to produce aluminum directly from bauxite, without first converting it into saltlike alumina. If successful, that process alone would cut production costs...
Acetylene, deuteroacetylene, methyl and dimethyl acetylenes are strongly chemisorbed on alumina even at room temperature. The first three can also exist in a weakly adsorbed state. The strongly held species are held perpendicular to the surface through the acetylenic hydrogens, except dimethyl acetylene, which is held parallel to the surface. All the weakly held acetylenes are held parallel to the surface. The sites responsible for the strong chemisorption of acetylenes are different from those responsible for the strong adsorption of dimethyl acetylene. Surprisingly, no strong chemisorption of either acetylene or dimethyl acetylene was observed with silica...
...error regarding our activity in Cameroon. The aluminum plant belonging to the Compagnie Cam-erounaise de l'Aluminum Pechiney/Ugine is exclusively in the hands of French and Belgian shareholders [not shared with Olin-Mathieson]. On the other hand, Olin-Mathieson is an important shareholder of FRIA, which produces alumina from local bauxite in Guinea; other shareholders in the company, in addition to our French group, are English, German and Swiss producers...
...Guinea's ties with the French franc, announced Guinea henceforth would have its own currency which, by terms of his own decree, has no value in foreign trade. Dismayed, Shell, Texaco and Socony Mobil were mulling over whether it was worth it to stay. At the big Fria Alumina Works (48.5% owned by the U.S.'s Olin Mathieson Chemical Corp.), 300 European workers went on strike, halting production, seeking some guarantee that their paychecks would really be worth enough any more...
FIRST AFRICAN ALUMINUM source will be developed by Canada's Aluminium Ltd. at cost of $100 million for plants, mines, railroad, port facilities. World's second-biggest aluminum producer (first: Alcoa) will exploit bauxite mines in wilds of French. Guinea, begin reducing bauxite to alumina...