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- BUSINESS, Page 49Business NotesCHEMICALSPreparing for The Worst
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- No one wants Iraq to fulfill its threat to use chemical
- weapons in the Middle East. But for some U.S. companies, that
- unwanted possibility has been an unexpected economic boon. To
- meet Pentagon needs, firms that make equipment and medical
- supplies to prevent casualties from chemical warfare are
- stepping up production. Last week Survival Technologies Inc.,
- a medical-supply company in Bethesda, Md., received a $2 million
- order for special syringes filled with a nerve-gas antidote.
- Trilling Medical Technologies in Carlstadt, N.J., has its plant
- operating overtime to meet demand for Water-Jel, an emergency
- burn-care product that also reduces injuries from exposure to
- white phosphorus. In Oklahoma, Sac & Fox Industries has
- received a $30 million contract to produce 500,000
- chemical-warfare suits, which may bring as many as 500 new jobs
- to the state.
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