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Title: Fifty pound bags of Delrin acetal resin
Date(s): 1960/1969, 1960, 1969
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Delrin acetal resin 50 pound bags ready for shipment to customers from DuPont's Washington Works at Parkersburg, West Virginia. Commercial development of Delrin in January, 1960 followed 12 years of research and development and the expenditure of $50 million by DuPont/.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_2402
Collection: DuPont Company product information collection

Title: Hank cutter for nylon brush bristles
Date(s): 1930/1939, 1930, 1939
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: One of the many newly developed machines at the DuPont Company's new plastics plant at Parkersburg, West Virginia is this hank cutter for nylon brush bristles. Long hanks of filament are cut to proper size for industrial, household and paint brushes.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_1247
Collection: DuPont Company product information collection

Title: Control room for Delrin acetal resin at DuPont's Parkersburg, West Virginia plant
Date(s): 1960/1969, 1960, 1969
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Control room for Delrin acetal resin at DuPont's Parkersburg, West Virginia plant has scores of dials and gauges on huge panel board. The instruments tell the operator what is going on inside the tanks and towers elsewhere in the plant. These devices help prevent waste and improve the quality of the product by allowing better control. A product of the company's fundamental research program, Delrin represents a new concept in thermoplastic engineering materials that bridge the gap between...
Show moreControl room for Delrin acetal resin at DuPont's Parkersburg, West Virginia plant has scores of dials and gauges on huge panel board. The instruments tell the operator what is going on inside the tanks and towers elsewhere in the plant. These devices help prevent waste and improve the quality of the product by allowing better control. A product of the company's fundamental research program, Delrin represents a new concept in thermoplastic engineering materials that bridge the gap between metals and plastics.
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Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_2397
Collection: DuPont Company product information collection

Title: Control board at DuPont's plastics plant near Parkersburg, West Virginia
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: 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 Teflon fluorocarbon resin, an industrial plastic highly resistant to chemicals and heat; Lucite acrylic resin, the crystal-like plastic; Alathon polyethylene resin, used in the electrical, chemical, packaging and housewares industries; and Zytel nylon,...
Show moreControl 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 Teflon fluorocarbon resin, an industrial plastic highly resistant to chemicals and heat; Lucite acrylic resin, the crystal-like plastic; Alathon polyethylene resin, used in the electrical, chemical, packaging and housewares industries; and Zytel nylon, tough plastic cousin of the nylon stocking.
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Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_2414
Collection: DuPont Company product information collection

Title: Chemical control laboratory at Parkersburg, West Virginia
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: In the modern and completely equipped chemical control laboratory of the DuPont Company's new plant in Parkersburg, West Virginia, production runs are continuously checked to maintain quality standards.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_2420
Collection: DuPont Company product information collection

Title: Polymerization kettles
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Automatic control of polymerization of acrylic resin is possible with these specially designed polymerization kettles at the DuPont Company's new plastics plant at Parkersburg, West Virginia. Automatic weighing and timing insure consistent product quality.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_2416
Collection: DuPont Company product information collection

Title: Sabine River Works for the production of intermediates at Parkersburg, West Virginia
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: 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 alcohol) and plastic molding powders known in industry as the Alathon polythene resins. The nylon chemicals are shipped to other DuPont plants for further processing into yarn, monofilaments for brush bristles and plastic molding powders. Methanol, a basic...
Show moreNight 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 alcohol) and plastic molding powders known in industry as the Alathon polythene resins. The nylon chemicals are shipped to other DuPont plants for further processing into yarn, monofilaments for brush bristles and plastic molding powders. Methanol, a basic industrial chemical is the principal ingredient of Zerone anti-freeze. The Alathon resins are frequently found in such things as squeezable cosmetics bottles, food wrappers, electrical insulation and chemical containers. The plant, operated by the company's Polychemicals Department, has modern laboratories, fully staffed medical building, cafeteria and air conditioned offices and production control room. D.B. Campbell is the manager.
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Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_1869
Collection: DuPont Company product information collection

Title: Polymerization of nylon salt
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: In this bank of autoclaves in the nylon building of the DuPont Company's new plant at Parkersburg, West Virginia nylon salt is polymerized for the production of nylon molding powder and nylon filament.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_2499
Collection: DuPont Company product information collection

Title: Control board at DuPont's plastic plant near Parkersburg, West Virginia
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: This automatic device allows the operator to keep close control over complicated manufacturing processes and thus make better plastic more efficiently. The plant makes Teflon fluorocarbon resin, an industrial plastic highly resistant to chemicals and heat; Lucite acrylic resin, the crystal like plastic; Alathon polyethylene resin, is used in the electrical, chemical, packaging and house wares industries and Zytel nylon, tough plastic cousin of the nylon stocking.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_2501
Collection: DuPont Company product information collection

Title: Washington Works plastics plant at Parkersburg, West Virginia
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: An air view of the DuPont Company's plastic plant at Parkersburg, West Virginia. Called the Washington Works, the plant has grown steadily since the start up in 1948. As a result, well over 1,000 new jobs have been created. The plant manufactures Lucite acrylic resin, Zytel nylon, Tynex nylon monofilament, Teflon fluorocarbon resins and Delrin acetal resin. Nylon plastic is unusually tough, a factor which makes it ideal for mechanical parts or appliance gears. In filament form it is used in...
Show moreAn air view of the DuPont Company's plastic plant at Parkersburg, West Virginia. Called the Washington Works, the plant has grown steadily since the start up in 1948. As a result, well over 1,000 new jobs have been created. The plant manufactures Lucite acrylic resin, Zytel nylon, Tynex nylon monofilament, Teflon fluorocarbon resins and Delrin acetal resin. Nylon plastic is unusually tough, a factor which makes it ideal for mechanical parts or appliance gears. In filament form it is used in hair brushes, street sweeps or fishing line. Teflon is in demand for fuel lines and electrical parts for rockets and missiles because of its resistance to high temperatures and virtually every chemical including liquid oxygen.
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Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_1868
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

Title: Irénée du Pont, 'Plastics and the Environment' speech (May 1973)
Date(s): 1973-05
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (associated name), McCoy, Charles Brelsford, 1909-1995 (associated name), Du Pont, Irénée, 1920- (originator), E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. Public Affairs Department (associated name), E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. Washington Works (associated name)
Collection ID: Charles Brelsford McCoy papers (Accession 1815)
Hagley ID: MSS_1815_36_01_002
Collection: Charles Brelsford McCoy papers