Southland firms take the lead in making non-toxic solvents.Two Los Angeles-area corporations separately announced last week developments on environmentally safe stripping agents. Hughes Aircraft Hughes Aircraft Company was a major aerospace and defense company founded by Howard Hughes. The group was based near Ballona Creek, in Culver City, California, USA, on the Pacific Coast. Hughes Aircraft was acquired by General Motors in 1985. Co. said it has begun using a non-toxic substitute in cleaning electronics after soldering. Traditional solvents used contained CFCs, or chlorofluorocarbon-based chemicals, which deplete de·plete v. 1. To use up something, such as a nutrient. 2. To empty something out, as the body of electrolytes. the ozone layer of the earth's atmosphere. Hughes engineers expect the new solution, called HF1189, can remove up to two-thirds of the CFC-based solvents required by the giant military-electronics maker, amounting to some 300,000 pounds a year. Pasadena-based Jacobs Engineering Group Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (NYSE: JEC), a publicly traded company with annual revenues approaching $7 billion, provides professional technical services. Headquartered in Pasadena, CA, Jacobs offers support to industrial, commercial, and government clients across multiple Inc. officials said they won a contract to design and build a multimillion-dollar stripper Stripper Slang for an individual homeowner who strips the equity out of his or her home through mortgage refinancing. Proceeds are generally not re-invested, but spent on consumer goods. Notes: Most people get rich by saving and investing wisely. system for a General Electric plastics plant in West Virginia. Jacobs will engineer a system that employs a GE stripping technology that removes contaminants from latex substances with less potentially harmful emissions of acrylonitrile acrylonitrile /ac·ry·lo·ni·trile/ (ak?ri-lo-ni´tril) a colorless halogenated hydrocarbon used in the making of plastics and as a pesticide; its vapors are irritant to the respiratory tract and eyes, may cause systemic poisoning, and are into the environment. The value of the Jacobs contract was not disclosed. |
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