Monday, March 11, 2019

New carbon black plant opens in Panhandle

Carbon black worker, Sunray, TX
(Library of Congress)
(Texas Day by Day) On this day in 1926, the Texas Railroad Commission allowed the Phillips Petroleum Company to construct a carbon black plant in the Panhandle. ...
Carbon black, produced from natural gas that has more than 1 ½ grains of hydrogen sulfide, became in demand in the early twentieth century, especially in the production of automobile tires. Continued

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