A partnership between engineering consultancy Hatch and furnace component engineering and production company Thos Begbie & Company will form an integral part of a China-based project to build the ...

On March 21, 2011, an explosion at the Carbide Industries, LLC calcium carbide manufacturing plant in Louisville, Ky., took offline the largest calcium carbide furnace in the Americas. Carbide ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - On March 21, an explosion and fire occurred at a Carbide Industries LLC calcium carbide manufacturing plant, in Louisville, Ky. The conditions within the furnace building resulted in ...

Chemical applications of calcium carbide have been the focus of recent research, advancing the idea of diverse acetylene chemistry on the basis of carbide technology. Using a proposed approach, cheap ...

The Chemical Safety Board's chair, Rafael Moure-Eraso, said the March 21, 2011, explosion that killed two of the Louisville company's employees is a textbook case. Repeated overpressure events and ...

Acetylene, Coke, and calcium carbide are no longer part of the vocabulary of chemists and chemical engineers working at most modern industrial sites. But in China, these materials, dating back to the ...

Thos Begbie Corporate Profile. Camerawork and Editing: Shane Williams and Darlene Creamer. A partnership between engineering consultancy Hatch and furnace component engineering and production company ...