There's always this stuff...........
Posted on 10/01/2012 8:35:28 AM PDT by Red Badger
OSAKA — Explosions at a chemical plant in Hyogo Prefecture on Saturday killed a firefighter and injured dozens of people, the Japan Times reported, citing local fire department and police officials said. Global production of diapers could be affected because the plant made a key ingredient in a resin used in them, Japanese media reported.
A fire broke out about 2 p.m. after an abnormal chemical reaction at Nippon Shokubai Co.'s plant in Himeji, the Japan Times said.
The first explosion occurred about 2:40 p.m. as firefighters were spraying an acrylic acid tank with water, and the second followed shortly afterward, the Times said, citing Nippon Shokubai. The blasts set ablaze a fire engine.
A 28-year-old firefighter was killed and at least 30 people were reported injured.
Nippon Shokubai is one of the world's biggest makers of acrylic acid, the main ingredient of a resin called SAP, which is used in diapers.
The plant produces about 20 percent of the world's SAP and 10 percent of global output of acrylic acid.
Operations at the plant are likely to be halted for a long time and other makers of SAP resins are operating on a full-production footing, leaving little room for back-up production, the Nikkei business daily said on Sunday.
Jim, Is is coincedencs that this story was followed by “this one”?
>http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2938651/posts<
I suspect more diapers are made in Wisconsin than in Japan.
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This is too bad. And with the debates coming up!!
I wonder what the democrats will do.
I tried twice to post a link to the Subsequent FR post with this title, but it wouldn’t take:
>600,000 manufacturing jobs go unfilled due to applicants lack of ‘soft skills’<
There’s an adolecent correlation there.....
Where it was available, native Americans used sphagnum moss to line diapers. Free for the taking, sanitary, and easily burned — what more could you want?
Sphagnum (peat) moss has also been used for centuries to dress wounds. It was also used for feminine hygiene (sanitary pads). Johnson & Johnson sold sanitary pads lined with processed sphagnum moss, in the early 1990’s.
There's always this stuff...........
Diaper Shortage !!
What will the muzzies use on their heads?
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