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Booklet documenting the expansion of E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company's manufacturing facilities during the post-World War II period. Includes information and images related to the following projects: expansion of the Experimental Station in...
DuPont's Textile Fibers Department's Orlon acrylic fiber manufacturing facilities are shown in this aerial view of the May plant located at Camden, South Carolina. In the foreground is the large plant which makes Orlon fiber in staple form and the...
Excerpt from a special rayon-themed issue of the trade journal, "Textile World," announcing the commencement of rayon production at DuPont's Old Hickory, Tennessee plant. Vol. LXVIII, No. 13, pages 59 to 60. September 26, 1925. Includes two...
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....
Manufacturing operations at DuPont's Victoria, Texas plant take place in outdoor buildings such as these. The plant makes adiponitrile from butadiene, a petroleum product. The plant's entire output is shipped to the company's big Sabine River...
Emory F. Ridlon, plant managers, points out features of the DuPont's new plant to members of newly appointed plant staff. Left to right are: Lloyd E. Horning, accounting superintendant, William C. Eddy Jr., manufacturing superintendent, Mr. Ridlon;...
Night view of DuPonts Memphis TN plant. Plant produces sodium cyanide, hydrogen cyanide, potassium cyanide and hydrogen peroxide, essential in the manufacture of a variety of products. It also makes acrylonitrile, a raw material for Orlon acrylic...
In 1880, the first charge of nitroglycerine was produced at the Repauno dynamite pant in a building similar in architecture and construction to the one above-as waste acid building. This structure was still in operation until 1954 when the company...
DuPont Company's Rayon Department acetate textile fibers plant in Waynesboro, Virginia. Text from caption: "Aerial view of the 'Orlon' acrylic fiber, acetate yarn and 'Lycra' spandex fiber plants of E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company at Waynesboro,...
Booklet summarizing the construction of the Savannah River Plant in Savannah River, South Carolina, built by DuPont on a contract from the United States Atomic Energy Commission. Item 16 of 23 from DuPont Plant Histories scrapbook.
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Booklet describing the construction of DuPont's Old Hickory, Tennessee munitions plant, which was built on a government contract during World War I. Item 11 of 23 from DuPont Plant Histories scrapbook.
Newsletter documenting the history of DuPont's Newport, Delaware pigments plant. Lithographed by Cann Printing of Wilmington, Delaware. Item 9 of 23 from DuPont Plant Histories scrapbook.
Armco Steel Corporation, Ashland, Kentucky, water clarification plant . Aerial photograph of the plant from the southeast. A booklet was prepaired for the dedication of the new facility from which the following illustrations and photos were...
Pipelines and towering adiponitrile process units at Niagara Falls Plant dramatize the $25,000,000 which has been invested over the past two decades in new processes, new buildings and plant alterations. Adiponitrile is a nylon intermediate made...
Pipelines and towering adiponitrile process units at Niagara Falls Plant dramatize the $25,000,000 which has been invested over the past two decades in new processes, new buildings and plant alterations. Adiponitrile is a nylon intermediate made...
Aerial view of the Victoria Plant ten miles south of where the DuPont Company uses products of the petroleum industry, chiefly butadiene and natural gas, to manufacture a chemical knows as adiponitrile, employed in the manufacture of nylon....
Adiponitrile area at DuPont's Victoria plant, ten miles south of Victoria, Texas. Butadiene and natural gas are among the raw materials used in the plant in making adiponitrile, a chemical employed at an early stage of nylon manufacture. This plant...
