2523.     ---------------.  [OIL AND GAS JOURNAL.]  Future of German Synthetics Industry. Vol. 47, No. 51, 1949, p. 122.

        United States, British, and French military governors have agreed on the security limitations to be imposed upon West German industry.  The production of synthetic rubber and butadiene is prohibited, and all facilities for producing butadiene at the Hüls, Ludwigshafen, and Leverkusen plants are to be removed or destroyed.  The production of styrene is limited to 20,000 tons per year.  The production of petroleum, oil, and lubricants directly or indirectly from coal or brown coal by the Bergius hydrogenation process, the Fischer-Tropsch synthesis, or analogous processes also is prohibited except, temporarily, to the extent inseparable from the production of hydrocarbon waxes for the manufacture of synthetic fatty acids for the production of detergents.  Production of synthetic waxes is to cease by December 31, 1949, and the 2 Fischer-Tropsch plants engaged in this are to be removed or destroyed at that time.  All other Fischer-Tropsch plants are to be removed or destroyed immediately, as are all Bergius plants except that at Wesseling, which is to be retained for refining natural petroleum, for hydrogenating heavy residues from such refining, and for the synthesis of NH₃ and MeOH.