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Item
Title
A66071-3
Date(s)
- 1952-04-11 (Creation)
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Name of creator
(1919-1980)
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Interior of new ammonia plant at Hooker Electrochemical. The $2 million anhydrous ammonia plant was completed in May of 1952. Anhydrous ammonia is ammonia in the form of a gas. It is used by firms such as the Pacific Northwest's pulp and paper mills and fertilizer and explosives manufacturing companies. By completion of the plant, the entire production was already contracted for and the plant was set for another $6 million dollar expansion to be competed by the fall of 1953. (TNT 10-19-1952)
Hooker Electrochemical Co. (Tacoma); Chemical industry--Tacoma--1950-1960;