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Drew Chemical Launches $2-Million Expansion Program

Drew Chemical Corporation, a leading pro- ducer of marine and industrial chemicals, has launched a $2,000,000 year-long expansion and modernization program at its Kearny, N.J., plant, designed to help the company meet sharply increasing demands from domestic cus- tomers. Drew, which has its executive offices in Parsippany, N.J., is a subsidiary of the

United States Filter Corporation.

Dr. Emilio Savinelli, president, said that the

Kearny project is one phase of wide-ranging development plans to be carried out over the next 10 years. The total program, he said, will give prime stress to further improving the company's product development capacity and further increases in manufacturing effi- ciency.

The Kearny project, already under way, will be concerned with the 4.2-acre site and plant buildings at 1106 Harrison Avenue in that city, which Drew purchased three and one-half years ago.

M. Piergrossi, assistant vice president and director of manufacturing, stated that bulk raw material storage capacity will be enlarged by 90 percent.

The plant serves a major portion of the do- mestic market, stores and ships more than 200 products, and handles particularly chemicals used for water and waste treatment, marine requirements, and specialized industrial chemi- cals.

Power And Controls Group

Of American-Standard Names

Benson As Marine Specialist

Ronald H. Benson has been named marine specialist for the Marine Department of the

American-Standard Power and Controls Group, according to Paul S. Tilton, marine sales mana- ger. The Marine Department is headquartered in Houston, Texas.

Mr. Benson is ibased at 185 Chamberlain

Street, Holliston, Mass. He will cover the

East Coast and Great Lakes areas, and will handle contract work with U.S. Governmental agencies, including the U.S. Navy Bureau of

Ships, the American Bureau of Shipping and the U.S. Coas't Guard. He will also handle sales to the general maritime industry in these market areas of American-Standard head ex- changers and WAB'CO fluid power products.

These products include marine heat exchangers of various sizes and types, pneumatic valves and accessories, pneumatic and hydraulic cyl- inders, and WAIBOO Panelmaster® and Logic- master® propulsion control systems.

Mr. Benson holds a B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Penn State University and is a member of Penn State Alumni Association.

He joined American-Standard in 1962, and has held numerous held sales positions with the company, including sales engineer, senior sales engineer and district manager.

The American-Standard power and Con- trols Group includes the American-Standard

Industrial Products Division in Dearborn,

Mich., the American-Standard Heat Transfer

Division in Buffalo, N.Y., the WABCO Fluid

Power Division in Lexington, Ky., and Ameri- can-Standard Industrial Products Ltd., Bra- malea, Ontario.

Nervy Asks Bids To Build

Utility And Personnel Boats

Requests for proposals for the construction of twenty to forty 18-foot utility boats with engines has been submitted to various ship- yards by the Naval Ship Systems Command,

Washington, D.C. These vessels would be delivered to Portsmouth, Va., and San Diego,

Calif.

NSSC is also requesting proposals for the construction of five 40-foot MK4 personnel boats, under invitation N00024-74-B-0557. Bids to build 33 utility boats with 85-horsepower outboard engines have also been requested.

Invitation number is P066.

CONGO BOUND: The first of two Equity 65-foot Standard

Water Taxis is shown loaded aboard the S/S Delta Para- guay destined for Port Gentile, Congo, via Dakar. The

Sirene is for the account of Union des Remorqueurs de

Dakar. The company maintains its headquarters in Da- kar, with offices in Paris. The Sirene will operate under

Senegalese flag and registry. The company also owns and operates other Equity vessels. Equitable Equipment

Company builds various types of offshore support vessels, self-propelled drilling ships, pipelaying barges, and other marine equipment for the petroleum and related indus- tries worldwide, and is one of the world's largest builders of tugs, supply vessels and barges, including barges for both the LASH and SEABEE systems for ocean/inland cargo movement.

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