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Title: Circleville Plant supervisory staff
Date(s): 1950/1959, 1950, 1959
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Members of the supervisory staff of the new Circleville, Ohio plant for manufacture of Mylar polyester film held their first meeting recently in Buffalo, New York where the film is being made in experimental quantities. The Circleville plant is now approaching 25% completion and is expected to start operations in the latter part of 1954.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_1795
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: First meeting of DuPont's Circleville, Ohio plant staff
Date(s): 1950/1959, 1950, 1959
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: 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; Dr. Jake T. Nolan, assistant plant manager; Peter J. Meshoff, works engineer; Dr. Leroy K. McCune, technical superintendent and Bascom B. Deffenbaugh, employee relations superintendant.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_1796
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Chemical building at DuPont Circleville, Ohio plant
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: The chemical building at the DuPont Company's plant for the manufacture of Mylar polyester film at Circleville, Ohio is an intricate maze of pipe and equipment. A product of the company's research program, Mylar has an unusual combination of properties which make it suitable for a wide range of electrical and industrial uses.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_1800
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Storing Mylar
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Mill rolls of Mylar polyester film are placed in storage racks by means of an electric elevator at the DuPont Company plant at Circleville, Ohio.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_1739
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: At wind up end of the production line
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: At wind up end of the production line, rolls of Mylar polyester film are removed by overhead hoists at DuPont's plant at Circleville, Ohio.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_1735
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Mylar polyester mill rolls
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Mylar polyester film, produced at DuPont's Circleville, Ohio plant is wound up in large mill rolls, which are then carried to the storage areas on overhead conveyors.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_1734
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Researching Mylar
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Although Mylar polyester film was introduced by DuPont more than 12 years ago, research on this product continues. Here in the Film Department's Research and Development Laboratory at the Circleville, Ohio plant, a research chemist makes a modified sheet of Mylar film on a laboratory stretcher. It will be evaluated by marketing specialists for possible commercial introduction. In recent years, the film has been modified by DuPont to create 50 types and thicknesses to meet a range of...
Show moreAlthough Mylar polyester film was introduced by DuPont more than 12 years ago, research on this product continues. Here in the Film Department's Research and Development Laboratory at the Circleville, Ohio plant, a research chemist makes a modified sheet of Mylar film on a laboratory stretcher. It will be evaluated by marketing specialists for possible commercial introduction. In recent years, the film has been modified by DuPont to create 50 types and thicknesses to meet a range of industrial applications.
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Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_1789
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Keeping the production areas clean
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: In the manufacture of DuPont's Mylar polyester film, such rigid control is required that all doors leading to production areas at the Circleville, Ohio plant have signs like this.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_1742
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Model of Circleville, Ohio plant
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Walter O. Simon (left) director of production and John L. Brill, technical director of the DuPont Company's Film Department, inspect a scale model of the chemical building which will be part of the $10 million plant which the company will build near Circleville, Ohio for the manufacture of Mylar polyester film. The chemical building, of open steel frame construction, will be five stories high. Construction is to start early in 1953 and the plant is expected to go into production early in 1955.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_1794
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Production of Mylar
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Mylar polyester film emerges at the end of the manufacturing operation in a continuous sheet and is wound up in large mill rolls, which are later slit on machines like this to customer's specifications in widths from 1/2 inch to 54 inches. The film is made at the DuPont Company's plant at Circleville, Ohio.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_1738
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Chemical building at DuPont Circleville, Ohio plant
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: The DuPont Company's plant for the manufacture of Mylar polyester film at Circleville, Ohio operates on a 24 hour basis. This is the five story chemical building.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_1802
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Chemical building at DuPont Circleville, Ohio plant
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: The chemical building at the DuPont Company's plant for the manufacture of Mylar polyester film at Circleville, Ohio operates around the clock to produce the polymer from which the film is made.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_1804
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Measuring the width of film
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: At DuPont's plant for the manufacture of Mylar polyester film at Circleville, Ohio, an operator measures width of film as it comes off wind-up end of the production line.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_1732
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Chemical building at DuPont Circleville, Ohio plant
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: The chemical building at the DuPont Company's plant for the manufacture of Mylar polyester film at Circleville, Ohio operates around the clock to produce the polymer from which the film is made.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_1803
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Production of Mylar
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: DuPont's plant for making Mylar polyester film is located at Circleville, Ohio. Here an operator demonstrates the sparkling clarity of the film as it goes through the production process.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_1736
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Production of Mylar
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: DuPont's Mylar polyester film emerges in a continuous sheet at the end of the manufacturing process at the Circleville, Ohio plant. It is then wound on large mill rolls, which are later slit in widths from 1/2 inch to 54 inches. The film is carried on overhead conveyors to the shipping room.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_1740
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Circleville, Ohio plant control room
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Control room at the DuPont Company's plant at Circleville, Ohio where Mylar polyester film is now in commercial production. Mylar, a product of DuPont research, has many unusual, physical electrical properties.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_1743
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Checking Mylar polyester film
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: An operator at DuPont's Circleville, Ohio plant for the manufacture of Mylar polyester film, checks product as it comes off the production line.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_1731
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Measuring the width of film
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: At DuPont's plant for the manufacture of Mylar polyester film at Circleville, Ohio, an operator measures width of film as it comes off wind-up end of the production line.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_1733
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Production of Mylar
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: DuPont's Mylar polyester film is made in big mill rolls, then cut and shipped in widths from 1/2 inch to 54 inches wide, from the plant at Circleville, Ohio.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_1741
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Chemical building at DuPont Circleville, Ohio plant
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: The five story open construction chemical building, which produces the polymer from which DuPont's Mylar polyester film is made, houses a vast array of specially designed and built equipment. The plant is located at Circleville, Ohio.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_1801
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Circleville, Ohio plant under construction
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: The DuPont Company's new $10 million plant for manufacture of Mylar polyester film, under construction near Circleville, Ohio is more than 50% completed and is expected to start operations in the latter part of 1954. This will be the first full scale commercial plant for manufacture of Mylar, a new film with unusual strength, heat resistance and electrical properties, which makes it suitable for a wide range of electrical and industrial uses.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_1798
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Circleville, Ohio plant under construction
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: The DuPont Company's manufactures Mylar polyester film, at a plant at Circleville, Ohio. The five story open construction chemical building rises in the background and the manufacturing area, offices and laboratory are in the low brick structure in the foreground.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_1799
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Better Living (May/June, 1965)
Date(s): 1965-05
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. Public Relations Department (originator), Emanuel, Myron (editor), Henderson, Alex G. (photographer)
Collection ID: f HD9651.9.D94 A14
Hagley ID: Better_Living_19_03
Collection: Better Living magazine