Israel is fast becoming one of “the great industrial centers in the Middle East,” it was reported here last night at the annual conference of the Association of Consulting Chemists and Chemical Engineers.
Dr. Maurice S. Sage, of Sage Laboratories, told the meeting that the Israelis are eager to obtain assistance from chemists in the United States. The needs of Israel are “gigantic” in the fields of petroleum, higher organic chemicals, foods, water, irrigation, agriculture, dairy, sewage and sanitation, as well as in more specialized fields such as paints, metals and plastics, he said.
Dr. Sage pointed out that Israel was strategically located with respect to sources of raw material for an expending chemical industry, including many chemicals from the Dead Sea and such items as oil, cotton and phosphates from surrounding countries.
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