BOC's Richmond, Calif., plant celebrates 25 years of safe operations.Business Editors MURRAY HILL Murray Hill may refer to one of the following places:
In 1978, when the BOC (Bell Operating Company) One of 22 companies that was formerly part of AT&T and later organized into seven regional companies. See RBOC. carbon dioxide carbon dioxide, chemical compound, CO2, a colorless, odorless, tasteless gas that is about one and one-half times as dense as air under ordinary conditions of temperature and pressure. (CO2) production facility in Richmond, California was commissioned, Jimmy Carter was president, the first Sony Walkman(R) was introduced, and cell phones and PCs had yet to be invented. In the intervening 25 years, no BOC Richmond employee has missed a single day's work (Naut.) the account or reckoning of a ship's course for twenty-four hours, from noon to noon. See also: Day due to work-related injury. Jim Kelly For other persons named Jim Kelly, see Jim Kelly (disambiguation). James Edward Kelly (born February 14, 1960 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is a former American football quarterback in the NFL for the Buffalo Bills. , Richmond plant manager, said, "Over the last 25 years, the Years, The the seven decades of Eleanor Pargiter’s life. [Br. Lit.: Benét, 1109] See : Time Richmond plant has processed more than four million tons of liquid product without a single lost-workday accident. This amazing record was achieved because the employees are well trained and place safety first each and every day." Charlie Koehler, director, safety, health, environmental, and quality for BOC Process Gas Solutions, North America, said, "This is an outstanding achievement, even for a company as safety-conscious as BOC. It raises the bar of safety performance for all of us at BOC, and demonstrates what can be accomplished when safety is the first priority. Congratulations to all the people at Richmond who made this record possible." The Richmond facility purifies and liquefies the gaseous CO2 it produces and ships it in bulk to other BOC facilities for distribution to beverage manufacturers, where it is used for carbonation, or to food processors, for freezing and chilling applications. CO2 is also used for water purification and wastewater treatment, and has many other industrial applications. Over the past 100 years, BOC has earned an unparalleled reputation for quality and dependability in supplying high quality and cost-effective CO2 to customers around the world. We supply more than 3 million tons of CO2 a year to more than 5000 customers worldwide from more than 90 plants located in more than 25 countries on 6 continents. The BOC Group (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :BOX), the worldwide industrial gases, vacuum technologies and distribution services company, serves two million customers in more than 50 countries. It employs 46,000 people and had annual sales of some $6 billion in 2002. Further information about The BOC Group may be obtained on the Internet at http://www.boc.com. |
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