At this plant near Victoria, Texas, the DuPont produces nylon intermediates, polyethylene and ammonia in open type buildings. The plant was built in 1951 and has expended several times. Its initial product was adiponitrile, a nylon intermediates....
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Aerial view of the big Yerkes plant, foreground, at Buffalo, New York where cellophane, polyethylene film, Teflon FEP-fluorocarbon film and Tedlar polyvinyl fluoride film are manufactured. At upper left is new unit for manufacture of Tedlar.
A modern extruder-laminator in the Polychemicals Sales Service Laboratory. This machine is used for coating Alathon polyethylene resin on any web, such as paper, cloth, metal foil or cellophane. The DuPont laboratory is located at Chestnut run new...
DuPont's operations at Richmond, Virginia involve the manufacture of both film for packaging and textile fibers. The principal film manufacturing facilities are at the right. These units make cellophane, polyethylene and acetate films. The fiber...
DuPont's operations at Richmond, Virginia involve the manufacture of both film for packaging and textile fibers. The principal film manufacturing facilities are at the right. These units make cellophane, polyethylene and acetate films. The fiber...
Lobby of DuPont's Plastics Technical Service Laboratory in Chestnut Run showing one of the displays featuring uses of plastic products. Illumination in this area is supplied through the ceiling panels of extruded Lucite acrylic resin. Floor tiles...
A modern extruder laminator in the Plastic Department's Technical Service Laboratory. This machine is used for coating Alathon polyethylene resin on any substrate, such a paper, cloth, metal foil or cellophane. The DuPont laboratory is located at...
A technician in DuPont's new Polychemicals Sales Service Laboratory at Chestnut Run near Wilmington, Delaware checks blown film in tubular form made from Alathon polyethylene resin.
Test pieces being removed from an injection molding machine in the Plastics Department's Technical Services Laboratory. These machines are used in molding sample parts made from Zytel nylon resins, Alathon polyethylene resins and Lucite acrylic...
A general view of the main floor at the Plastics Department's Technical Service Laboratory. Behind the derrick truck used for transporting rolls of film is a variety of injection molding machines used in processing Zytel nylon resin, Alathon...
Huge valves at Sabine River Works, Orange, Texas, control flow of gases and liquids under pressures that often reach fantastic levels. This DuPont plant makes, among other things, Alathon polyethylene resin, a plastic used in packaging film, dishes...
in these giant columns, which rise 146 feet above the ground at DuPont's Sabine River Works, crude ethylene under great pressure e, is refined to pure ethylene. After this, it becomes Alathon polyethylene plastic resin.
Spectacular night shot shows operators coming to work for midnight shift at DuPont's Sabine River Works, Orange, Texas. Plant works around the clock to turn out such things as intermediates for nylon yarn or Zytel nylon resin; methanol for...
Built on a 1,000 acre site three miles south of Orange, Texas, the Sabine River Works employs more than 2,500 mean and women, was part of DuPont's postwar expansion. In addition to methanol, the plant makes intermediate chemicals for nylon and...
Industrial tools are what make America so enormously productive. DuPont uses many thousands of tools, ranging in size form the common needle to this big ethylene refining unit at its Sabine River Works near Orange, Texas. Operated by the company's...
This is a nylon intermediates unit at DuPont's Sabine River Works where modern high pressure techniques convert products of Texas' oil industry into chemicals used by other DuPont plants in the manufacture of nylon yarn and plastics. In the...
Control board at DuPont's plastics plant near Parkersburg, West Virginia. This automatic device allows the operator to keep close control over complicated manufacturing processes and thus make better plastics more efficiently. The plant makes...
Test pieces being removed from an injection molding machine in the Polychemicals Sales Service laboratory. These machines are used in molding sample parts made from Zytel nylon resins, Alathon polyethylene resins and Lucite acrylic resins The...
