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DuPont's Pack industrial x-ray film is used in x-raying welds of huge cylinders in plant of Herrick L. Johnston, Inc. in Columbus, Ohio, manufacturer of ground handling equipment for major rocket and missile programs. The resulting radiographs are...
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.
A step in the manufacture of Butacite polyvinyl butyral resin, which is used as the inner layer of laminated safety glass for automobiles. Here Butacite is being cut to widths ordered by the customer to fit his requirements for windshields and...
Butacite' polyvinyl butyral resin is used as inner layer of safety glass. Sheeting manufactured from this resin is of excellent clarity and color and is particularly resistant to the deteriorating influences of prolonged exposure to heat, light and...
This is another view of the manufacture of continuous sheeting of Butacite polyvinyl acetal resin, which is used as interlayer in modern laminated safety glass. As it passes onto a wind up roll, as shown in this picture, its unusual flexibility is...
Caption text on photo: "'Butacite' polyvinyl butyral resin is used as inner layer of safety glass. Sheeting manufactured from this resin is of excellent clarity and color and is particularly resistant to the deteriorating influences of prolonged...
Caption text on photo: "This is another view of the manufacturing of continuous sheeting of 'Butacite' polyvinyl [butyral] resin, which is used as interlayer in modern laminated safety glass. As it passes onto a wind-up roll, as shown in this...
Caption text on photo: "A step in the manufacture of 'Butacite' polyvinyl butyral resin, which is used as the inner layer of laminated safety glass for automobiles. Here 'Butacite' is being cut to widths ordered by the customer to fit his...
Image caption from article 'The Birth of a Building' from The Seagram Spotlight: A member of the architectural and designing staff is shown in the workshop preparing a special model so that the problems of window and spandrel connections can be...