Metal Degreasing with 'Triclene' D Trichlorethylene
Metal degreasing at DuPont's Electrochemicals Sales Service Laboratory at Chestnut Run. Metal soiled with lubricants and dirt picked up during fabrication enter one end of degreaser and emerges from the other thoroughly clean, dry and ready for...
A guide to primary material at the Hagley Museum and Library. For access to the contents of this collection contact Hagley at research@hagley.org or 302-654-2800.
Adiponitrile area at DuPont's Victoria plant, ten miles south of Victoria, Texas. Butadiene and natural gas are among the raw materials used in the plant in making adiponitrile, a chemical employed at an early stage of nylon manufacture. This plant...
Lobby of DuPont's Plastics Technical Service Laboratory in Chestnut Run showing one of the displays featuring uses of plastic products. Illumination in this area is supplied through the ceiling panels of extruded Lucite acrylic resin. Floor tiles...
DuPont's Textile Fibers Department's Orlon acrylic fiber manufacturing facilities are shown in this aerial view of the May plant located at Camden , South Carolina. The plant went into commercial operation in May of 1952.
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;...
This is a nylon intermediates unit at DuPont's Sabine River Works where modern high pressure techniques convert products of Texas' oil industry into chemicals used by other DuPont plants in the manufacture of nylon yarn and plastics. In the...
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...
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...
Dry cleaning at DuPont's Electrochemicals Sales Service Laboratory at Chestnut Run. Garments are first cleaned with Perclene perchlorethylene in unit on left; then transferred to recovery unit on the right. Here the last trace of the cleaning...
Mass pigmentation of textile fibers at DuPont's New Pigments Sales Service Laboratory. Here single end spinning machine is used for making viscose rayon pigmented with a new fade resistant 'Monastral' red. In this technique, color is put into the...
