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Engineered Carbons, Inc. seems to have been a company that produced carbon black in southeast Texas. I have had a difficult time locating corporate info on the internet. They don't seem to have a web site. Unlike their affiliate partner, Degussa, they don't seem to have operations outside of North America, the location of the 50/50 joint venture. If anyone can correct this, I would gladly place a link to ECI. Degussa Corp. and Engineered Carbons Inc. have merged their North American carbon black manufacturing facilities as of January 1, 2002 to form a new company called Degussa Engineered Carbons LP. Plants in the venture are located in Aransas Pass, Baytown, Borger and Orange, Texas; Ivanhoe, Louisiana and Belpaire, Ohio. It is not certain which plants came from Degussa and which ones came from ECI, however, the Ivanhoe, LA plant was a Degussa plant (previously Ashland and United) and the Borger, TX plant is presumabley formerly ECI since they are listed as having been headquartered there.

It seems that a majority of the cars operated by ECI were acquired second hand from JM Huber at some point after 1986 when JM Huber and Sid Richardson split the remaining Phillips cars.

ROSTER INFO:

	

	ECQX 4708+4726		orig. PSPX 4708-4726; then to JMHX in 1986
	ECQX 4774+4853		orig. PSPX 4774+4853; then to JMHX in 1986
	ECQX 5116-5117		orig. PSPX 5116-5117; then to JMHX in 1986
	ECQX 8009		orig. PSPX 8009; then to JMHX in 1986
	ECQX 8017+8029		orig. PSPX 8017+8029; then to JMHX in 1986
	ECQX 8030+8071		orig. PSPX 8030+8071; then to JMHX in 1986
	ECQX 8078+8099		orig. PSPX 8078+8099; then to JMHX in 1986
	ECQX 41367+41385	prev. JMHX 41316-41385
	ECQX 46386+46423	prev. JMHX 46386-46429
	ECQX 47001-47100
	ECQX 57424+57626	prev. JMHX 57424+57626
	ECQX 72701-72741	prev. JMHX 72701-72741 (ECQX 72714 not listed in UMLER on 2/8/06)

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