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Article: Plants find right security chemistry.(Intelligence)
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- Security Management
- Article date:
- August 1, 2006
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WHEN CHEMICAL manufacturer PVS Technologies stopped having chlorine gas delivered by rail car, instead building a direct pipeline from a nearby chlorine producer, it protected 300,000 residents of Augusta, Georgia, from the dangers of filling, moving, and unloading large vessels of the toxic substance.
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Similarly, Calgon Carbon Corporation aided 120,000 residents around its Neville Island Plant near Pittsburgh when it changed its manufacturing process to eliminate anhydrous (commercial-grade) ammonia, a caustic chemical. And by moving a facility out of downtown Los Angeles, Hill Brothers Chemical Company freed 500,000 nearby ...