Portland Industrial Park to allow chemical producer
[2008-5-19]
U. MT. BETHEL TWP. | Supervisors decided to let a chemical producer build in the Portland Industrial Park even though its New Jersey headquarters caught fire earlier this year.
Township officials pressed chemical producer Voltaix about the dangers its business could pose but agreed to let the company build as long as it guards against hazards. Voltaix, which would create as many as 175 jobs, makes chemicals such as germanium, silicone and boron, which are used in semiconductors and solar cells. Its Branchburg, N.J., location was the site of a fire and explosion Feb. 25 that injured one person and is under investigation, said Mark Wilkenson, the company's executive vice president.
But Wilkenson said that is one of only two serious safety problems the company has had since it was founded in 1986. As supervisors asked about the dangers of the chemicals, Wilkenson said they are lessened by layers of safety systems.
"I don't want to say there's no risk" of fire or explosion, Wilkenson said, adding that safety measures include an on-site emergency response team, an incident manager and training and safety gear for employees. "There would have to be a sequence of failures on several levels."
The other serious safety problem was in 1991, he said, when a heating blanket caught fire and damaged a building. He said neither the 1991 nor February fires spread from Voltaix property.
Of the more recent fire, he said, "It's clearly a failure of a system somewhere. We just have to figure out what went wrong."
Township officials pressed chemical producer Voltaix about the dangers its business could pose but agreed to let the company build as long as it guards against hazards. Voltaix, which would create as many as 175 jobs, makes chemicals such as germanium, silicone and boron, which are used in semiconductors and solar cells. Its Branchburg, N.J., location was the site of a fire and explosion Feb. 25 that injured one person and is under investigation, said Mark Wilkenson, the company's executive vice president.
But Wilkenson said that is one of only two serious safety problems the company has had since it was founded in 1986. As supervisors asked about the dangers of the chemicals, Wilkenson said they are lessened by layers of safety systems.
"I don't want to say there's no risk" of fire or explosion, Wilkenson said, adding that safety measures include an on-site emergency response team, an incident manager and training and safety gear for employees. "There would have to be a sequence of failures on several levels."
The other serious safety problem was in 1991, he said, when a heating blanket caught fire and damaged a building. He said neither the 1991 nor February fires spread from Voltaix property.
Of the more recent fire, he said, "It's clearly a failure of a system somewhere. We just have to figure out what went wrong."
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