Night and day, the Sabine River Works of the DuPont Company, built on a 1,000 acre tract three miles southwest of Orange, employs 1,700 men and women in the manufacture of chemical intermediates for nylon as well as methanol (synthetic wood...
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...
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...
Typed caption: "This unit of DuPont's Sabine River Works at Orange, Texas produces nylon intermediates -- hexamethylene diamine and adipic acid. One of seven large DuPont units manufacturing nylon for textile and plastic uses, it is typical of the...
Typed caption: "[DuPont's] big ethylene refining unit at its Sabine River works near Orange, Texas. Operated by the company's Polychemicals Department, the Sabine River Works employs more than 1500 men and women in the manufacture of 'Alathon'...
Air conditioned control room of one of the processes for making nylon intermediates at DuPont's Sabine River Works at Orange, Texas. The dials tell operator what is going on inside the tanks and distillation towers elsewhere in the plant. These...
Night and day, the Sabine River Works of the DuPont Company, built on a 1,000 acre tract three miles southwest of Orange, employs 1,700 men and women in the manufacture of chemical intermediates for nylon as well as methanol (synthetic wood...
Big control room at Sabine River Works, near Orange, Texas from where a DuPont operator, remote from production units, keeps a trained eye on the flow of processes, interfering only when flashing lights or clanging bells signal an emergency.
Typed caption: "Built on a 1000-acre site three miles south of Orange, Texas, the Sabine River works employs more than 2,500 men and women, was part of DuPont's postwar expansion. In addition to methanol, the plant makes intermediate chemicals for...
