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Title: Production of cellophane
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Progress continues after product is on the market. Moisture proof cellophane was developed three years after DuPont had plain film. Today there are more than 50 types and 5,000 uses for sheets like that inspected in Buffalo research laboratory by Hal Charch, inventor, and chemist Russell Clark and Jim Mitchell.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_1654
Collection: DuPont Company product information collection

Title: Cellophane plant at Clinton, Iowa
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Aerial view of the DuPont Company's Clinton, Iowa cellophane plant. This plant started production in 1941, was substantially enlarged in 1947 and today is being still further expanded.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_1656
Collection: DuPont Company product information collection

Title: Production of cellophane
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Mill rolls of cellophane, containing up to five miles of film, are placed in storage racks by electric hoist at DuPont's Clinton, Iowa cellophane plant, before being slit into smaller rolls to meet customers' specifications.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_1630
Collection: DuPont Company product information collection

Title: Viscose ripening room
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Viscose ripening room at DuPont's Clinton, Iowa cellophane plant. Viscose, made from chemically treated wood pulp is aged to control molecular weight and then is extruded through a hopper into an acid bath to form the cellophane sheet.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_1618
Collection: DuPont Company product information collection

Title: Cutting cellophane
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Cellophane is slit into rolls of various sizes to meet customers' specifications at the DuPont Company's Clinton, Iowa cellophane plant.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_1632
Collection: DuPont Company product information collection

Title

Expansion of Du Pont Plant Facilities

Date(s)

1950

Contributor(s)

E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator), E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. Carney's Point Works E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. Niagara Falls Plant E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. Chambers Works E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. Waynesboro Plant E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. Washington Works E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. Belle Plant E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. Chattanooga Nylon Plant E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. Clinton Plant E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. Experimental Station E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. Pigments Department E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. Edge Moor Plant E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. Martinsville Plant E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. May Plant E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. Sabine River Works E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. Seaford Nylon Plant E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. South San Francisco Plant E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. Victoria Plant E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. Houston Works E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. James River Works E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. Toledo Plant (associated name)

Description

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 Wilmington, Delaware;

construction of a nylon plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee;

construction of the May Orlon plant in Camden, South Carolina;

expansion of a neoprene plant in Louisville, Kentucky;

construction of a chemicals plant in Victoria,...
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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 Wilmington, Delaware;

construction of a nylon plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee;

construction of the May Orlon plant in Camden, South Carolina;

expansion of a neoprene plant in Louisville, Kentucky;

construction of a chemicals plant in Victoria, Texas;

construction of the Sabine River Works chemicals plant in Orange, Texas;

construction of the Washington Works chemicals and plastics plant in Parkersburg, West Virginia;

construction of the Houston Works agricultural chemicals plant in La Porte, Texas;

construction of the James River Works sulfuric acid plant in Richmond, Virginia;

construction of a formaldehyde plant in Toledo, Ohio;

expansion of the Martinsville, Virginia nylon plant;

expansion of the Seaford, Delaware nylon plant;

expansion of a chemicals plant in Niagara Falls, New York;

expansion of the Waynesboro, Virginia acetate rayon plant;

expansion of the Edge Moor pigments plant in Wilmington, Delaware;

expansion of the Clinton, Iowa cellophane plant;

expansion of the Deepwater Plant at Deepwater Point, New Jersey;

expansion of the South San Francisco paint plant; expansion of the Belle, West Virginia chemicals plant;

expansion of the nitrocellulose unit at the Carney's Point Works in Carney's Point, New Jersey.

Item 20 of 23 from DuPont Plant Histories scrapbook.
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Collection ID

f HD9651.9.D94 A28b

Hagley ID

fHD96519D94A28b_020

Collection

DuPont plant histories scrapbook