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Chlorination of Phenol Bearing Rubber Wastes
W.  D.   SECHRIST
Chief Chemist
Pequanoc Rubber Company Butler, New Jersey
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Technical Service Division ( -    .        Wallace and Tiernan Company, Inc.
Newark, New Jersey
The Pequanoc Rubber Company has its plant and main offices located in Butler, New Jersey. The plant occupies a 21 acre site which is bounded on two sides by the Pequannock River, a tributary of the Passaic River. At this location the company manufactures reclaimed rubber and custom compounds all types of elastomers and some types of plastics.
Today, Pequanoc Rubber represents a typical medium sized rubber company which has grown from its small beginning in 1901 to one of the largest independent rubber reclaiming companies in the country. From 1901 until 1942 its principal products were produced by the acid and pan methods of reclaiming rubber. In 1942 production facilities were expanded to include the latest development, the digester process, of reclaiming rubber. As World War II progressed, a serious shortage of crude rubber developed and the availability of crude rubber was only beginning to return to normalcy when the Korean situation again tightened the supply. These factors have maintained the plant at a record rate of output which in turn has increased the volume of trade wastes.
RUBBER   RECLAIMING   PROCESS
In all modern day reclaiming plants, the classified scrap rubber such as tires, inner tubes, etc., are received by rail or truck. During unloading from the car or truck the scrap is further sorted according to size, e.g., passenger tires or truck and bus tires.   This sorting procedure is
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