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Show New nitric acid plant at Geneva completed, ready for operation Products sold from the plant ! include anhydrous a m monia and nitric acid as liquids, and ammoniated nitrate in both liquid and solid forms. A large portion of the nitrogen nitro-gen plant products goes to the fertilizer industry. Nitrogen fertilizers produced aat Geneva Works are sold to independent distributors throughout the In-termountain In-termountain Area and through U.S. Steel's chain of Farm and Ranch Service Centers in Oregon, Ore-gon, Idaho, Colorado, Wyoming, Montana and Nebraska. People do not always determine deter-mine age by calendar years. Occupations have something to do with it. A United States Senator and a prominent baseball base-ball player were among guests at a dinner recently. The newspapers news-papers referred to the 38-year old ball player as "aging" and the 42 year old senator as "boyish." Alcoholism costs Utahns annually an-nually an estimated $5,800,000 in lost wages, accidents, welfare, wel-fare, medical, law enforcement, and custodial care. Completion if a major expansion ex-pansion of chemicals operations at U.S. Steel's Geneva Works, designed to increase Geneva's participation in the growing western market for nitrogen products, was announced recently re-cently by George A. Jedenoff, general superintendent. Construction of the new nitric ni-tric acid plant at Geneva started star-ted six months ago. In announcing the start of operations, Mr. Jedenoff emphasized em-phasized that the addition will boost by nearly 50 percent, Geneva's capacity to produce nitric acid and ammonium nitrate. ni-trate. Frank E. Adams, regional sales manager for the USS Chemicals office in Salt Lake City, said the new facility will help to meet the demand for nitrogen fertilizers that is growing at a steady rate of some 5 to 10 percent annually. Besides expansion of Genevas nitric acid ammonia plant, the new addition includes a new cooling tower cell, an ammonium ammon-ium nitrate evaporator and other oth-er new auxiliary facilities and equipment. |