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Los Angeles, and Ryan Industries Inc, of Cleveland, Ohio, two leading manufacturers of cryogenic equipment. The vessels built by CAFL at the Ondaine Works at Firminy will be marketed exclusively by a new "selling" company, Societe Francaise des Techniques Butterfield (SFTB) created specifically for this purpose by Butterfield in partnership with Cosmodyne (who have recently acquired Ryan) and with CAFL. The new company's registered offices will also be at Firminy. These developments represent an extension of CAFL's own policy for the continuing development of techniques governing the distillation, liquefaction and fractionating of gases. The vessels they will make will be of stainless steel with high vacuum insulation, specially designed for the storage and transport of liquefied gases such as oxygen, nitrogen and argon: such vessels are being increasingly used by various branches of industry and scientific development including steel making and refining, chemical processes, metal fabrication, plastics and paint manufacture, atomic energy and medical applications. The managing director of SFTB is Monsieur Paul Chave, who is also manager of the chemical engineering department of CAFL. French contract for Durafloat unsinkable boats Simms Group Member, Clearex Products Limited, has announced through its subsidiary company Durafloat Limited that a licensing agreement worth approximately £200,000 has been signed with Acome Siege Social of Paris. The agreement is for the purchase of 9,500 pairs of Durafloat vacuum formed skins over the next three years. The patented foaming process (see V A C U U M News, January 1967) will be applied to the skins by the French Company at its own works in Mortain. Fifty ton superconductor contract Receipt of a contract for fifty tons of superconductors has been announced by Norton Company's subsidiary, National Research Corporation. The approximately half million dollar contract was awarded by the Argonne National Laboratory, near Chicago. The superconductors will be used in a 16-foot diameter magnet wrapped around a 12-foot diameter bubble chamber. This bubble chamber will be used in conjunction with high energy physics programmes at Argonne National Laboratory. This type of particle detector is one of the most advanced instruments used by physicists to study the nature of matter. More than 25 miles of niobium-titanium superconductor strip will be used in the chamber which will be the world's biggest such device. The contract is believed to be the largest ever let for superconducting materials. Future demand for process plant The first report of the Process Plant Working Party of the National Economic Development Office, 21/41 MiIlbank, London SWI was generally released on the 6th February 1967. This programme was initiated in August 1966, since it was felt that the shortage of process plant was likely to be aggravated by still greater future demand. The report confirms that the UK supply capability as existing in 1966, needs to be increased. Charts show a sharp continuing rise in demand with declines in one industry being offset by rises in others. Total capital expenditure in the process and allied industries and in the plant hardware component are both forecast to rise by 20 to 30 per cent, taking 1967 and 1968 together compared with 1965 and 1966. In addition, more supply capability is required to increase direct exports, to reduce imports and to reduce the heavy volume of work in hand. Contrary to some recent forecasts relating to manufacturing industry as a whole, manufacturers and contractors in process plant have to raise their 1966 level of output sharply. Failing this, the prospect presented by this report is of capital investment programmes getting further into arrear, exports lagging and imports continuing to rise to fill the supply gap. Substantial increases in output have been achieved in each of recent years but more is required. This involves solving a host of problems--on profitability, productivity, human relationships, organization and so o n - - b u t the Working Party considers that there are great opportunities for energetic suppliers. It is hoped that success will be achieved by U K industry, not by importers.
Conferences and symposia Call for Fourteenth National Vacuum Symposium papers The American Vacuum Society will hold its Fourteenth Annual Symposium at the Muehlebach Hotel in Kansas City, Missouri on 25, 26 and 27 October 1967. The Thin Film Division of the Society will hold its annual symposium on 24 October preceding the general meeting. Papers involving high vacuum and its application are invited. Informative abstracts of not more than 150 words should be submitted in triplicate to the Programme Committee Chairman: Professor E E Donaldson, Department of Physics, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington 99163. The deadline for abstracts of papers is 1 July 1967. Vacuum coaters conference A Conference organized by the Society of Vacuum Coaters, PO Box 3095, Cleveland, Ohio, USA took place on the 1st and 2nd March 1967. On the first day, independent sessions on Functional and Decorative Coatings were held and the second day devoted to a general session of panel discussions on coatings, equipment, process problems and evaporation sources. The first day sessions consisted of the following presentations: Functional Coatings: Measurements on the composition of residual gases in coaters, by Dr G Rettinghaus and Dr W K Huber (Balzers AG); Techniques for gallium arsenide thin film deposition, by Mr R S Steinberg (Bendix Research); Semi-continuous sources for vacuum deposition, by Mr A H Plaisted (Sylvania Electric Co); Methods monitoring, by Mr G Lynch (Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Co); Measurements of materials in an evaporant stream, by Dr J T Dougherty (Bendix Research); Thin film design considerations, by Mr M DeVries (Donnelly Mirrors Inc); Electron beam evaporation source, by Mr R Denton (Denton Vacuum). Decorative coatings: A review of patents in decorative and functional vacuum mctallizing since January 1965, by P Langdon (Metals & Plastics Publication Inc, Westwood, New Jersey); Effect of neutral salts on second surface, hot stamped metallized parts, by R E Dunning (Thermark Corporation, Hammond, Indiana); Cost cornparisons--electroplating on plastics vs vacuum plating by F Kaim (Superior Plating Inc, Minneapolis, Minnesota) and D R McClain (Spartek, Incorporated Sparta, Wisconsin); A new products survey, by P Cohen (Premier Vacuum Process, Maspeth, New York); First annual industrial survey, by H B Hebblc Jr (Stokes Equipment Div, Pennsalt Chemicals Philadelphia, Pa); Expansion considerations and problems as related to metallizing, by T J LaBounty (Midwest Technical Service, Downers Grove, Ill); Present state of the odds in metallizing, by G Mackertish (National Research Corp, Newton, Mass). LEED symposium-workshop and vacuum technology seminar The Vacuum Division of Varian Associates, Palo Alto, California, USA have sponsored a combined symposium-workshop on low energy electron diffraction in New York City on 12-14 April 1967. A formal programme of four lectures was scheduled for Thursday, 13 April: Dr E G McRae, Bell Telephone Laboratories, speaking on "Approaches to the theoretical description of the LEED process"; Dr E J Seheibner, Georgia Institute of Technology, on "Inelastic scattering of low energy electrons from surfaces"; Dr P J Estrup presenting a review of LEED contributions to the study of surface structure and surface reactions, and Dr K R Lawless, of the University of Virginia, on the related subject "High energy electron diffraction studies of surface structure". Informal optional laboratoryworkshop sessions were scheduled for both the 12th and 14th April, where Varian LEED equipment was in operation for demonstration and experimentation. The Vacuum Division's Fifth Annual Vacuum Technology Seminar took place on 10-12 April 1967 at the Warwick Hotel in New York City. Previous Vacuum Technology Seminars have been held in California and in Turin, Italy. The Seminar programme, non-commercial in orientation, was addressed to engineers and scientists who use vacuum as a working tool in research, production or testing. Fundamental information was presented and other prominent topics included: cryopumping, titanium sublimation pumping, partial pressure analysis, very low pressure measurement and getter-ion pumping. S Ruthberg, chief of the vacuum measure239
Los Angeles, and Ryan Industries Inc, of Cleveland, Ohio, two leading manufacturers of cryogenic equipment. The vessels built by CAFL at the Ondaine Works at Firminy will be marketed exclusively by a new "selling" company, Societe Francaise des Techniques Butterfield (SFTB) created specifically for this purpose by Butterfield in partnership with Cosmodyne (who have recently acquired Ryan) and with CAFL. The new company's registered offices will also be at Firminy. These developments represent an extension of CAFL's own policy for the continuing development of techniques governing the distillation, liquefaction and fractionating of gases. The vessels they will make will be of stainless steel with high vacuum insulation, specially designed for the storage and transport of liquefied gases such as oxygen, nitrogen and argon: such vessels are being increasingly used by various branches of industry and scientific development including steel making and refining, chemical processes, metal fabrication, plastics and paint manufacture, atomic energy and medical applications. The managing director of SFTB is Monsieur Paul Chave, who is also manager of the chemical engineering department of CAFL. French contract for Durafloat unsinkable boats Simms Group Member, Clearex Products Limited, has announced through its subsidiary company Durafloat Limited that a licensing agreement worth approximately £200,000 has been signed with Acome Siege Social of Paris. The agreement is for the purchase of 9,500 pairs of Durafloat vacuum formed skins over the next three years. The patented foaming process (see V A C U U M News, January 1967) will be applied to the skins by the French Company at its own works in Mortain. Fifty ton superconductor contract Receipt of a contract for fifty tons of superconductors has been announced by Norton Company's subsidiary, National Research Corporation. The approximately half million dollar contract was awarded by the Argonne National Laboratory, near Chicago. The superconductors will be used in a 16-foot diameter magnet wrapped around a 12-foot diameter bubble chamber. This bubble chamber will be used in conjunction with high energy physics programmes at Argonne National Laboratory. This type of particle detector is one of the most advanced instruments used by physicists to study the nature of matter. More than 25 miles of niobium-titanium superconductor strip will be used in the chamber which will be the world's biggest such device. The contract is believed to be the largest ever let for superconducting materials. Future demand for process plant The first report of the Process Plant Working Party of the National Economic Development Office, 21/41 MiIlbank, London SWI was generally released on the 6th February 1967. This programme was initiated in August 1966, since it was felt that the shortage of process plant was likely to be aggravated by still greater future demand. The report confirms that the UK supply capability as existing in 1966, needs to be increased. Charts show a sharp continuing rise in demand with declines in one industry being offset by rises in others. Total capital expenditure in the process and allied industries and in the plant hardware component are both forecast to rise by 20 to 30 per cent, taking 1967 and 1968 together compared with 1965 and 1966. In addition, more supply capability is required to increase direct exports, to reduce imports and to reduce the heavy volume of work in hand. Contrary to some recent forecasts relating to manufacturing industry as a whole, manufacturers and contractors in process plant have to raise their 1966 level of output sharply. Failing this, the prospect presented by this report is of capital investment programmes getting further into arrear, exports lagging and imports continuing to rise to fill the supply gap. Substantial increases in output have been achieved in each of recent years but more is required. This involves solving a host of problems--on profitability, productivity, human relationships, organization and so o n - - b u t the Working Party considers that there are great opportunities for energetic suppliers. It is hoped that success will be achieved by U K industry, not by importers.
Conferences and symposia Call for Fourteenth National Vacuum Symposium papers The American Vacuum Society will hold its Fourteenth Annual Symposium at the Muehlebach Hotel in Kansas City, Missouri on 25, 26 and 27 October 1967. The Thin Film Division of the Society will hold its annual symposium on 24 October preceding the general meeting. Papers involving high vacuum and its application are invited. Informative abstracts of not more than 150 words should be submitted in triplicate to the Programme Committee Chairman: Professor E E Donaldson, Department of Physics, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington 99163. The deadline for abstracts of papers is 1 July 1967. Vacuum coaters conference A Conference organized by the Society of Vacuum Coaters, PO Box 3095, Cleveland, Ohio, USA took place on the 1st and 2nd March 1967. On the first day, independent sessions on Functional and Decorative Coatings were held and the second day devoted to a general session of panel discussions on coatings, equipment, process problems and evaporation sources. The first day sessions consisted of the following presentations: Functional Coatings: Measurements on the composition of residual gases in coaters, by Dr G Rettinghaus and Dr W K Huber (Balzers AG); Techniques for gallium arsenide thin film deposition, by Mr R S Steinberg (Bendix Research); Semi-continuous sources for vacuum deposition, by Mr A H Plaisted (Sylvania Electric Co); Methods monitoring, by Mr G Lynch (Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Co); Measurements of materials in an evaporant stream, by Dr J T Dougherty (Bendix Research); Thin film design considerations, by Mr M DeVries (Donnelly Mirrors Inc); Electron beam evaporation source, by Mr R Denton (Denton Vacuum). Decorative coatings: A review of patents in decorative and functional vacuum mctallizing since January 1965, by P Langdon (Metals & Plastics Publication Inc, Westwood, New Jersey); Effect of neutral salts on second surface, hot stamped metallized parts, by R E Dunning (Thermark Corporation, Hammond, Indiana); Cost cornparisons--electroplating on plastics vs vacuum plating by F Kaim (Superior Plating Inc, Minneapolis, Minnesota) and D R McClain (Spartek, Incorporated Sparta, Wisconsin); A new products survey, by P Cohen (Premier Vacuum Process, Maspeth, New York); First annual industrial survey, by H B Hebblc Jr (Stokes Equipment Div, Pennsalt Chemicals Philadelphia, Pa); Expansion considerations and problems as related to metallizing, by T J LaBounty (Midwest Technical Service, Downers Grove, Ill); Present state of the odds in metallizing, by G Mackertish (National Research Corp, Newton, Mass). LEED symposium-workshop and vacuum technology seminar The Vacuum Division of Varian Associates, Palo Alto, California, USA have sponsored a combined symposium-workshop on low energy electron diffraction in New York City on 12-14 April 1967. A formal programme of four lectures was scheduled for Thursday, 13 April: Dr E G McRae, Bell Telephone Laboratories, speaking on "Approaches to the theoretical description of the LEED process"; Dr E J Seheibner, Georgia Institute of Technology, on "Inelastic scattering of low energy electrons from surfaces"; Dr P J Estrup presenting a review of LEED contributions to the study of surface structure and surface reactions, and Dr K R Lawless, of the University of Virginia, on the related subject "High energy electron diffraction studies of surface structure". Informal optional laboratoryworkshop sessions were scheduled for both the 12th and 14th April, where Varian LEED equipment was in operation for demonstration and experimentation. The Vacuum Division's Fifth Annual Vacuum Technology Seminar took place on 10-12 April 1967 at the Warwick Hotel in New York City. Previous Vacuum Technology Seminars have been held in California and in Turin, Italy. The Seminar programme, non-commercial in orientation, was addressed to engineers and scientists who use vacuum as a working tool in research, production or testing. Fundamental information was presented and other prominent topics included: cryopumping, titanium sublimation pumping, partial pressure analysis, very low pressure measurement and getter-ion pumping. S Ruthberg, chief of the vacuum measure239