The Times: Liquefaction Of Coal

AN INTERNATIONAL COMBINATION

Announcement is made of the organization of the International Hydrogenation Patents Company, Limited, representing a fusion of the interests of the Standard-I.G. Company, Royal Dutch/Shell Group and Imperial Chemical Industries in the hydrogenation process for the liquefaction of coal and the refining of oils in all countries of the world outside the United States and Germany. The seat of the new company is in Vaduz, Liechtenstein, and the directors are:-F. Godber (London), P. IHurl (London), H. .Tacobson (The Hague), .T. B. A. Kessler (London), Dr. August von Kniieriem (Manuheim), J. E. F. de Kok (The Hague), J. A. lMowvinckel (Paris), Lieutenant-Colonel G. P. Pollitt, D.S.O. (London), H. von Riede- mann (Zurich), and H. G. Seidel (Paris). There will be organized in the near future an International Hydrogenation Engineering and Chemical Company, having its seat at The Hague, the staff of which will be drawn from the technical staffs of the interested companies; this will be the channel through which the skill and experience of these groups and of all licensees will be made available to all users of the hydrogenation process for the design and operation of plants. The International Hydrogenation Patents ind Engineering Companies will have full working arrangements for the exchange of patent rights and experience with corresponding companies in tho United States organized last year in which the same groups are also indirectly interested, the U.S. companies being controlled directly by the principal units of the American oil industry. German inventions and experience will be available to the new company through the Standard-I.G. Company, representing the original fusion of hydrogenation interests between I.G. Farben- industrie and Standard Oil Company (New Jersey). LIQUEFACTION OF COAL AN- INTERNATIONAL COMBINATION