Chemical ingredients for DuPont's Dycril printing plates are placed in rolling mill in early stages of production at the company's new plant for the light sensitive plates at Parlin, New Jersey.
Manufacturing Processes of Finishes- Automotive, 'Duco', Enamels, Lacquers, Paints
Weighing liquid ingredients in preparation for loading one of the roller mills in the manufacture of paint at the Philadelphia Plant of the DuPont Company.
Ingredients for black powder are relatively inert when unmixed. Years ago, sodium nitrate replaced saltpeter as the key ingredient in black blasting powder. This improved powder was developed by Lammot, grandson of the founder of the DuPont...
Manufacturing Process of Dynamite including historic methods
Dynamite ingredients are carefully weighed and mixed for the powder lines in the dope house at the Repauno, New Jersey plant of the DuPont Company. Operator is dumping ammonium nitrate into a bin mounted on scales.
Manufacturing Process of Dynamite including historic methods
Dynamite ingredients are carefully weighed and mixed for the powder lines in the dope house at the Repauno, New Jersey plant of the DuPont Company. Operator is dumping ammonium nitrate into a bin mounted on scales.
Manufacturing of Synthetic Rubbers-Neoprene, 'Nordel', 'Viton'
Warm filtered water de-ices the neoprene as it goes through water troughs at the DuPont Company's Louisville Works. The company produces neoprene only as a raw material. It I sold to rubber products manufacturers who compound it with other...
Manufacturing of Synthetic Rubbers-Neoprene, 'Nordel', 'Viton'
Viton' fluoroelastomer, DuPont's new fluorine-based elastomer is milled into sheets, the final step in its manufacture at the Deepwater Point, New Jersey plant. At this stage, it is a translucent, light colored gum which rubber companies compound...
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...
Neoprene is manufactured around the clock in this DuPont plant at Louisville, Kentucky. The company sells the crude neoprene to rubber product manufacturers who combine it with other ingredients to make a variety of finished goods. When DuPont...
Corfam poromeric material, a unique DuPont development, made its debut in 1963 as a new shoe upper material. One of the basic ingredients of the new material is polyester fiber. Here in a new plant at Old Hickory, Tennessee, the man made material...
Manufacturing Processes of Finishes- Automotive, 'Duco', Enamels, Lacquers, Paints
Solvent refining area where the liquid ingredients required in the manufacture of lacquer are refined and prepared for use at a typical finishes plant of DuPont.
A Pigments Department research metallurgist at DuPont's Experimental Station is manipulating a water cooled electrode which extends into a vacuum melting chamber. An electric arc between the electrode and the metal charge fuses the contents within...
The DuPont Companys Belle Works stretches for more than a mile along the Kanawha River near Charleston WV. Plant products familiar to the consumer include antifreezes, fertilizers and a mold retardant for baked goods. Other chemical products are...
Studying effects of chemicals on laboratory animals
A new shampoo ingredient is inserted in rabbit's eye. Careful examination showed no harmful effects to the animal's eye, thus showing ingredients harmless to human eyes. After numerous other tests the compound got approval of DuPont research staff...
The DuPont Companys Belle Plant stretches for more than a mile along the Kanawha River near Charleston WV. Plant products familiar to the consumer include antifreezes, fertilizers and a mold retardant for baked goods. Other chemical products are...
About two dozen constituents, besides terpineol, combine to make synthetic lilac perfume. Mr. Theodore Hoffman, director of the DuPont perfume laboratories and an outstanding authority on perfumes, is shown at the scales of his laboratory...
Some perfumes are compounded from as many as sixty ingredients. The number of items in a compounding laboratory many reach into thousands. The young woman shown here is not only an expert on which of these items can be used successfully for...
A chemical test at the DuPont Company's Eastern Laboratory in Gibbstown New Jersey determines moisture content in dynamite ingredients. Here a chemist boils a sample with carbon tetrachloride and measures the amount of water. At Eastern Laboratory,...
