New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-19

browns. and yellows for calico printing,
and for wool; paracolors for lakes or
pigments, vat dyes sometimes called
indigoidsl for cotton shir,irn and
ginghsms. synthetic indigo, rhodsnins,
patent blue, and Biebrich scarlet
Vegetable Colors and Extract,
Present production and new develop
ments contemplated include black, and
greens in natural colors for calico
printers, a special locwood blue, sp.'
cial mordants for dyeing new shades
in direct cotton colors, khaki dyes
clutch, archil, and logwood extracts,
and cudbesr powdered, orange, and
lemon favines, Usage orange in a Va
riety Of shades, American sumse e.
tract, indigotin, and natural indigo
shades. Il is stated by several plann
that their output depends on the 90
nestle demand, ample facilities beng
available for a largely increased pre-
duction at any time. Some operate 81
half capacity while others are running
twenty-four hours day.
One firm is making sulphur brown
mot a coal-tar product on an exter'
siYe scale, while another company IS
producing mineral colors in stsndan
shades for wool.
Soluble Prussian blue, Chinese blue
pigment brown, lakes in all the prlh'
cipal colors, paratoners, dry coler'
and dyes for lake makers are speelAl'
ties handled b. different manufae'ur'
ers.
Photographic Developers, Etc.
The urgent demand for photographs
developers since the war began "a,
greatly stimulated the production o.
hydroquinone, p-amidophenol, me'0'
amidol, and reducin. Single hrms n
port monthly outputs Of 1000 TO 10y"
pounds each of hydroquinone.
Manufacturers OF coal-tar oy.pI'',
ucts are also marketing QUANTITIES %
salicylic acid and its deriyatres-pH
ticularly acetyl-salicylic acid aspirin
-phenacetine, acetLhenetidln, scsF
tanilide, and other medicinals.
One maker Of intermediates IS p,s.
ducing the synthetic perfumes nef0,a
and bromelia. Another firm ineiuo.'
vanillin, used in Aavoring extracts,
its list of products, and also sacen'''-'
New Plants Contemplated
Announcement has been received :.
the entrance into the dyestun lhousn.
of the leading company msnufsetSit
explosives, fully equipped with 8 ens.s
ical and engineering stan, plant 20
laboratory facilities ard, an adeq'ss
commercial organization to meet ~.
demand for colors on vast sesH'
Other new plants in process o. .to,,
struction or 10 begin operations O' ~.
1918 are two for coal tar cruces, V ~.
for anthracene, one for glaclal a. 81.
acid, four new buildings Tor am.
dyes, one for chrysoidine and meth'ri
blue, one for nigrosine, induline siy
nagents and one for nigrosine 80
A producer Of direct, acid ana enIv,
colcrs expects TO double his pI.J,
output of nearly half million p'Ion a.,
annually inside Of twelve monVh' Lar.
plant making methylene dyes ~.
ming TO double its capacity i"o III,
making aniline colors will also ooS
their capacity shortly, one No,
facturer expected 20 have paten' Irlv.
and fuchsine on the market si'ei nov
one OF the larger corporations Is ae :.
making auramine and lsnsfuensna,
q small scale and installing eqSa,hsr
for an increased output, and mir.
contemplates the manufacture o. nro.
uline in considerable quantity nj h
Queer of high grade colors iof ,.r.
enlsrging his factory ana S.;rs
plates the early production OF ss. ..,.iys
and a suitable plant for the e'
manufacture of aniline dyes ,,sn
Dyes and dyestuFs exported Yea, year
the United States during the hsea 4,
ended June 30, 1917, were ssio2.-
slI.7iO,Ss7, as compared win yy~iv /.
0O2 Tor 1916. Beginning WIN s,thlJ
1917. the classification for m i..sluds
statements of exports vii, in md.
under dyes and dyestuhs the -,,.ets
visions aniline dyes, logwood
and all others shown sepsrass'% :,