A chemical spill into a Port Orange sewer plant led to evacuation and shelter ... cloth and in manufacturing solvents, pesticides, synthetic rubber and refrigerants," according to the agency's ...

The U.S., which got into the synthetic-rubber business during ... Chemical Co., which jointly bought the big (197,000 tons yearly) plant at Port Neches, Texas. Each company also bought a smaller ...

Within its plant, TPC Group turns petroleum into substances like cancer-causing 1,3-Butadiene, which is sold to companies making synthetic ... TPC Group facility in Port Neches in 2019, which ...

PORT NECHES — A warehouse fire at an industrial plant that sent thick ... Facebook page indicating the product that burned is liquid latex, used in making synthetic rubber, according to ...

The answer was the production of synthetic rubber from a process developed by Bayer, in Germany, in the 1920s. B.F. Goodrich helped to build a plant at Port Neches, Texas, capable of manufacturing 1.4 ...

Its plant in Port Neches was first owned by United States Rubber Co. (later Uniroyal Chemical). It opened in 1942, part of the massive U.S. Synthetic Rubber Program during World War II that started ...

The federal government built the plants in Port Neches during World War II, searching for a substitute for rubber supplies that ... athletic fields made with synthetic turf expose children to ...

The TPC explosion was a chemical plant ... unit at its Port Neches facility, which utilizes 1,3-butadiene, a highly flammable and highly reactive liquid used in the production of synthetic rubbers ...

Related: Layoffs to hit blast-damaged TPC Group plant The company announced ... an essential monomer used to create synthetic rubber. Before the explosion, the Port Neches site produced about ...

After almost 80 years of history in Port Neches, the chemical plant that has been the premier ... producers of consumer-level plastics and synthetic materials in the world — stepped in.