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The Associated Press
CHARLESTON, W.Va. —
Some major chemical manufac
turers plan to suspend operations
on New Year’s Eve as a precau
tion against toxic accidents and
production foul-ups caused by
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said they will idle some North
American plant operations on
the weekend when the calendar
turns from 1999 to 2000.
“We feel secure that we’re
Y2K-compliant, but we made a
decision that where prudent, we
will not produce,” said Tom
Dover, support manager at the In
stitute, W.Va., plant where
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isocyanate — the chemical that
leaked from a pesticide plant at
Bhopal, India, in 1984 and killed
3,000 people in the world’s worst
industrial accident.
He added: “We’re not going to
operate those processes that have
some of our highly hazardous
materials in them.”
For the same reason, Rhone
Poulenc is also planning to elimi
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year, Dover said.
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day of the year.
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plants will not operate from Fri
day night until Monday morning
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Monsanto will halt production
for about eight hours before and
after midnight on Dec. 31, said
John Ogens, director of the com
pany’s Global Year 2000 Project.
Paul Couvillion, global direc
tor for DuPont’s Year 2000 Pro
ject, said managers at each of the
company’s 321 production units
worldwide will decide whether
to idle all or portions of the
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