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...
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 toweres elsewhere in the plant. These...
Standing on a pile of many thousands of feet of Delrin acetal resin pipe, an employee of the DuPont Company's pipe plant at Tulsa, Oklahoma easily handles one hundred feet of the two inch diameter plastic pipe which will ultimately find its way...
A technician at DuPont's pipe manufacturing plant at Tulsa, Oklahoma adjusts extrusion equipment as it produces endless footage of Delrin acetal resin pipe for ultimate use by the oil and gas industry. The two inch diameter light weight, corrosive...
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Table of Contents: Countdown on Delrin; Solely for silicon; High style for the jets; Sounding out of the marketplace; Beautiful brushes; Beautiful locks, too; Umpire chemists of the Mesabi; The success of sweet smell; Now they're heating with...
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Table of Contents: Latest silicon successes; New horizons in housing; Supermarket shopper; Tough new packaging film; Free-flowing dense nitrocellulose; Tots in Orlon; Service in shipping; Innovators with Delrin; Recording the heartbeat of the X-15;...
Table of Contents: Cronar grows up; Housing a new drill in nylon; Foams for the reefers; why they insulate with Titanate; Testing ten thousand tires; 2-in-1: a prime poly for produce; Traveling with a tape recorder; Fabrics cover 50 years; Taking...
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Table of Contents: More magic from the miracle worker; Doodling in delrin; Erasin aromas underground; Spunbonded brainstorming; Framed for good reasons; From highways to skyways; The sweet smell of success; Bright with foam; What's new.
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...
