SOME RECENT TRIUMPHS 



"The Piano d'Orta works contains six furnaces 

 for the manufacture of cyanamide, each furnace con- 

 taining five retorts for absorption of the nitrogen by 

 the carbide. A retort is capable of working off three 

 charges of 100 kilograms (220 pounds) of carbide per 

 day of 24 hours, the weight of the charge increasing 

 to 125 kilograms by the nitrogen absorbed. The pres- 

 ent carbide consumption of the Piano d'Orta factory 

 is, therefore, at the rate of about 3,000 tons per annum, 

 and the output of calcium cyanamide is about 3,750 

 tons per annum. The company controlling the manu- 

 facture at Piano d'Orta is named the Societa Italiana 

 per la Fabbricazione di Prodotti Azotati. Extensions 

 of the factory at this place to a capacity of 10,000 tons 

 per annum are already in progress. Another company 

 is also planning the erection of similar works at Fiume 

 and at Sebenico, on the eastern borders of the Adriatic 

 Sea. The additional electric power required will be 

 obtained by carrying out the second portion of the 

 power development scheme on the river Pescara. A 

 fall of 235 feet, equivalent to 22,000 horse-power, is 

 available at the new power station, which is being 

 erected at Piano d'Orta." 



After stating that companies to operate the Frank 

 and Caro process have been organized in France, in 

 Switzerland, in Germany, in England, and in America, 

 the last-named plant being at Muscle Shoals, Ten- 

 nessee River, in Northern Alabama the writer con- 

 tinues: 



"These facts prove that the manufacture of the new 

 nitrogenous manure will soon be carried on in all the 



