The World Trade Center
in conjunction with
Homesite, Inc. of Baton Rouge
presents

Satellite Industrial Maps

River Industries Maps - order

Section I - Baton Rouge
Section II - Plaquemine
Section IIIa - St. Gabriel
Section IIIb - Geismar
Section IV - Donaldsonville
Section V - Gramercy/Reserve
Section VI - Norco/Taft
Section VII - New Orleans

2002-2003 Petrochemical Directory - order

Directory of Petrochemical Industries. A Petrochemical Industry Directory for Lower Mississippi River, with facility information (including feedstocks and finished products), addresses and aerial photographs. $75.00 ($67.50 for WTC members)

Satellite Maps and Petrochemical
Directory Now Available on CD

Now get clear color photographs and maps of the Mississippi River Petrochemical Corridor that can be used on your computer! Download maps into your computer and then make custom changes. Create custom files to use in sales reports or other in-house reports. The PowerPoint maps are marked with company names as well as major route numbers. If a company’s name changes, it can be easily edited.

  Satellite Maps CD - order
Requires PowerPoint 97 or better and a "photo" program to open jpegs
$115.00 each ($95.00 for WTC members)

Includes aerial photographs of

Baton Rouge

Plaquemine

St. Gabriel

Geismar

Donaldsonville

Norco/Taft

New Orleans

and "Drawn Overview Maps" of river industries - Baton Rouge to New Orleans
(Overview maps are in both letter and poster-sized PowerPoint format)

  2002 Petrochemical Directory CD - order
Requires PowerPoint 97 or better
$115.00 each ($95.00 for WTC members)

A Petrochemical Industry Directory for Louisiana’s River corridor, with facility information (including feedstocks and finished products), addresses and aerial photographs as PowerPoint Presentation slides.

Formats

Satellite maps are in both jpeg and PowerPoint format. For easy manipulation, the PowerPoint slides contain maps scanned at a lower resolution while retaining fine detail. The JPEG files are scanned at very high resolution which enables you to see more photographic detail at larger sizes.

PowerPoint images - 150 dpi
JPEG images - 500 dpi

A New 226-Page Publication Available from the World Trade Center

"Giants On The River" - order
by R.W. Peterson

A Story of Chemistry and the Industrial Development on the Lower Mississippi River Corridor

Contents Include

• Early Industry: "In the industrial beginning - cotton and sugar cane"
• Outside Influences: "Is Louisiana a Banana Republic?"
• The Discovery of Oil: "The granddaddy of them all"
• Salt Domes: "We will 'probably never' run out of salt"
• Sulfur and Sulfuric Acid: "The king of chemicals"
• Oil Refining: "Like a big city - never finished"
• Infrastructure: "Transportation, Government, & Supplies"
• Tetraethyl Lead: "Kettering's 1913 Cadillac"
• High Octane Gasoline: "Baton Rouge & the Battle of Britain"
• Synthetic Rubber: "December Seventh"
• Lubricating Oils
• Chlorine: "From bleach to plastic"
• Aluminum: "Henry J. Kaiser"
• Dow: "A new neighbor on the river"
• Ethylene: "The prince of chemicals - From laboratory curiosity
• to billion-pound plants "
• Downstream: "Mining process streams for useful products "
• Air Separation: "Barges full of air "
• Synthesis Gas: "Route to Ammonia, Methanol, Hydrogen "
• Fertilizers: "To feed the world "
• Plastics: "The engine of growth"
• Paper: "Renewable Resources "
• Specialty Chemicals: "Insecticides, Herbicides, Refrigerants & More"
• Environmental: "Primitive beginnings & cost recovery "
• Environmental: "Common sense & diminishing returns "
• A look at the future