The staff of Chattanooga State’s Wacker Institute created a special course to train MFG personnel in the operation of computer controlled distillation prior to the startup on new equipment at MFG Chemical, LLC’s Kimberly Park plant in Dalton, GA. The group of eighteen MFG employees was made up of operators, chemists and chemical engineers. According to Tim McGhee, dean of...
MFG Chemical, Inc. has modified two 6500 gallon stainless steel reactors to enhance their distillation capacities. An 18 inch by 20 foot structured packed column with an estimated 22 theoretical plates has been added to one of the 6500 gallon reactors. It will initially be used for making products that have a mixture of volatiles where it is desirable to separate...
MFG Chemical, Inc. is pleased to announce the hiring of Andrew Bell, a junior in the Chemical Engineering Program at Auburn University, as a co-op student. Bell will work this semester, January to May, in the engineering group at MFG. He will be assisting MFG’s engineers and chemists in running studies, tests and mechanical assessments. Bell is the first of two co-op...
