BAYPORT INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT 38 companies hold 5,204 acres Total investment over $700 million Total permanent, full-time workforce in Bayport: 1,900 February 1976 Listing of Firms Company, Products / Acres Anchortank, Inc. (owned by Steuber Company, Incorporated) / 76 / Construction underway on a liquid terminaling and storage facility. Arco Chemical Company (Div. of Atlantic Richfield Company) / 60 / No building plans announced. Armak Company: Peroxydicarbonates and Hydrodesulfurization Catalysts / 100 / Construction completed in 1975. Both plants in operation. Atlantic Richfield Company / 169 / Plans announced for crude oil storage facility. Also announced is a marine dock facility at Bayport Division, Port of Houston. Bayport Molding, Inc.: Molded plastic products / 4 / Plant in operation; plant size doubled in past year with addition of 650-ton, 70-ounce injection molding machine. Big Three Industries, Inc.: Air separation -- liquid and gaseous oxygen, nitrogen and argon. Also sales office, warehouse and truck fleet maintenance headquarters / 200 / Plant in operation; steam and air separation capacities doubled in past year. Acquired 154 additional acres. 75 acres leased to Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company. Blemmer Chemical Corp.: Producing glycidyl methacrylate (a liquid coating for plastic and metals) / 1 / (Under supervisory control of Dixie Chemical Company.) Plant in operation. Browning-Ferris Industries Inc. / 6 / Warehouse; 10,000 square feet office building and maintenance shop under construction Calgon Corporation: Industrial water treatment chemicals / 10 / Plant in operation Celanese Chemical Company: Annual production capacity of 3 billion pounds. Products: acetaldehyde, ethylene oxide, ethylene glycols, vinyl acetate, acetic acid, methanol, acrylates / 1,100 / Plant and deep water liquid terminal facility in operation. Have announced plans for a 600 million pounds per year acetic acid unit to be in operation by 1978. Choate Chemical Company: Polypropylene Glycols / 71 / Urethane grade for the urethane foam industry; Specialty chemicals, including custom propoxylates and ethoxylates for use in the oil field, water treatment, cosmetics and other industries. Dart Industries, Inc. / 6 / No building plans announced. Dart Industries, Inc. and El Paso Company / 551 / Rexene Polymers Company utilizing 5O acres. Remaining acreage to be held for possible future expansion by the joint venture, or the two companies individually. Dixie Chemical Company: Custom and contract manufacturing. Produces certain glycols, ketones, specialty olefins and epoxides; distributor of heavy industrial chemicals. / 32 / Plant in operation. Exxon Pipeline Company (2 sites) / 7 / Office-warehouse in use. / 54 / Site for future liquid, cargo terminal handling, and storage facilities. FMC Corporation: Synthetic glycerine, epoxidized soybean oil, allyl alcohol, acetic acid, and other chemicals. / 447 / Plant in operation. Good Year Tire & Rubber Co.: Hydroquinone / 75 / Plant in operation. Graver Tank and Manufacturing Company: Large scale metal fabricating. / 19 / Plant in operation. Haldor Topsoe, Inc. (U.S. subsidiary of Danish firm): Ammonia catalyst / 30 / Plant in operation. Hercules Incorporated: Polypropylene / 156 / 400 million pounds-per-year propylene manufacturing facility in operation. Houston Lighting & Power Company / 21 / Construction underway on permanent substation. Hudson Oil Company / 608 / Announced plans for a $500 million oil refinery with a 200,000 barrel capacity. ICI United States, Inc. (Subsidiary of Imperial Chemical Industries Limited of London, England) / 250 / Construction underway on a $70 million paraquat herbicide plant scheduled for completion in 1977. Liquid Air, Inc.: Air separation — liquid and gaseous oxygen, nitrogen and argon / 16 / Plant in operation. Liquid Carbonic Corporation (A subsidairy of Houston Natural Gas Corporation): Industrial gases, nitrogen, oxygen, argon, hydrogen, acetylene, specialty gases / 5 / Plant in operation Lockheed Aircraft Corporation / 50 / No building plans announced. Lone Star Industries, Inc.: Ready-mix concrete / 9 / Plant in operation Lonza, Inc. / 221 / Have announced construction of an organic chemicals plant scheduled for completion in 1977. Lubrizol Corporation: Petroleum additives and specialty chemicals / 237 / $11 million plant in operation. Oxirane Chemical Company: Propylene oxide, propylene glycol / 123 / Plant in operation. Expansion announced to raise annual production capacity to more than 900 million pounds. Purechem Company (A division of Dart Industries, Inc.): Titanium trichloride catalyst / 11 / Plant in operation. Quaker Oats Company: Furfural and furfuryl alcohol / 60 / Construction continues on 1,000 tons per day plant, to be completed in early 1976. Rexene Polymers Company (A division Of Dart Industries, Inc.): Polypropylene / 50 / Construction continues on a 150-million pounds-per-year plant expected to be operational in 1976. (Plant is being constructed on a portion of the 551 acres owned jointly by Dart Industries Inc. and El Paso Company). Southwest Latex Company (A division of Dart Industries, Inc.): Styrene butadiene latexes / 10 / Plant in operation. Southwestern Bell Telephone Co.: Equipment station / 3 / In operation. Trust-Kote, Inc.: Industrial paint and sandblasting / 5 / Plant in operation Velsicol Chemical Corporation (Subsidiary of Northwest Industries, Inc.): Proprietary agricultural chemicals, phosphate based insecticides / 102 / Plant in operation. Service Facilities Complete: The Bayport Division of the Port of Houston coonects Bayport to 29,000 miles of lntracoastal waterways and navigable rivers, as well as the Gulf of Mexico, and ports throughout the world. The $23 million expansion project that converted the old barge channel to a deep water port is complete. The new port extends approximately 1.8 miles inland and has a 300-foot bottom width which is engineered for widening to 400 feet if the 40-foot depth should be increased to 45 feet. The new turning basin is approximately 1,600 by 1,600 feet. 9 miles of roads complete. Southern Pacific has a main line plus 5 1/2 miles of loop track with lead tracks to individual plant sites. Two switch engines provide daily service to Bayport. Electrical service, including redundant 138 and 12 KV services. Capability of 138 KV transmission supply facilities to Bayport doubled during 1972. Operational water, drainage, and waste disposal systems, central waste treatment plant. By mid-1976, the Coastal industrial Water Authority is scheduled to have the capability to supply 90 million gallons of water per day to Bayport industries. Natural gas. Houston telephone and mail service. --- You may notice that there is a listing for Quaker Oats Company involved in furfural production, which is a byproduct from drying oat hulls, but there's another food company on the list had this been made about a decade later, Dart Industries, which merged with Kraft (as in Velveeta) in 1980. Already by 1982 there were changes as Purechem was sold to Phillips Chemical, a subsidiary of Phillips Petroleum Company. [http://archive.is/kGEt4]