Titanium dioxide, the whitest white pigment know, is bagged for shipment from DuPont's pigments plant at New Johnsonville, Tennessee. The plant has capacity of 125 tons of titanium dioxide a day. The pigment is widely used in the manufacture of...
This complicated physical apparatus at the Experimental Station of DuPont determines the total surface area of particles of finely divided materials. These determinations are important in developing pigment for finishes and other products base on...
Better goods satisfy customers and build markets. Quality tests during the development of a new pigment are charted above in a laboratory of the DuPont Company. DuPont carries on extensive research, both applied and fundamental.
Better goods satisfy customers and build markets. Quality tests during the development of a new pigment are charted above in a laboratory of the DuPont Company. DuPont carries on extensive research, both applied and fundamental.
Image of 'Ti-Pure' titanium dioxide-'The Whitest White from Blackest Black'-the strongest white pigment yet devised. It is derived from coal black ilmenite ore.
Typed caption: "Pigment is mixed with paint vehicle at DuPont's Pigments Sales Service Laboratory at Chestnut Run. Here operator feeds mixture into three-roll mill, which grinds the pigment and disperses it uniformly through the paint vehicle. The...
Caption text on photo: "Plastics extruder in operation at DuPont's new Pigment Sales Service Laboratory at Chestnut Run. The plastics industry is a growing market for both titanium dioxide white pigment and many types of colored pigments. Here...
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Table of Contents: Tough jobs are their dish; Set them, forget them; News lens, mirror of mankind; A painter's paint; The chameleon pigment; New look for the clippers; Our 20,000 year old crop; The chemical fly swatter; Fish that's really fresh;...
Table of Contents: What stimulates packaging progress; Stretch plus strength; Why the crowd stops; A big year and bright prospects; Bright new faces for U.S. shoppers; Boat refinishing; Papermakers trim pigment waste; Cold facts for a cool...
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Table of Contents: A little industry's big impression; Eyeing the big needle; Turning over: a new leaf; Mr. Pink's amazing mattress; A new pass at Donner; No rest for the dreary; Lost laborsavers; They climb impossible mountains; Tankers aweigh;...
Table of Contents: They founded an industry; Ammunition by Peters, a story of progress; Prepare your car for winter driving; Lithopone, a versatile pigment; Cotton cloth can be wool-finished; A new star in the shooting world; New freshness...
Plastics extruder in operation at DuPont's new Pigments Sales Service Laboratory at Chestnut Run. The plastics industry is a growing market for both titanium dioxide white pigment and many types of colored pigments. Here pigmented plastics are...
Plastics colorations studies at DuPont's new Pigments Sales Service Laboratory, at Chestnut Run Laboratories. The panel the technician is working on is called draw-down. Pigment samples are cured in an oven, then tested for heat and light stability...
Testing pigmented plastics at DuPont's new Pigments Sales Service Laboratory. Here operator loads plastic resin into an extruder, while extruded plastic material is cooled in water bath at lower left. In this operation pigment in the plastic is...
A pad steam process developed by the DuPont Company's Dyestuffs Division, provides an economical method for continuous application of vat dyes to relatively small quantities of fine fabrics. A working model of the apparatus is here being...
A ball grinding machine used for grinding pigments for inks. The pigment is placed in the jar with the stainless steel balls and the jar is then clamped in the machine and revolved for a number of hours to obtain a fine grinding. The ball grinding...
Protected by asbestos hat, mask and gloves, an operator lights the fire in a laboratory calciner, or kiln for calcining experimental batches of pigment at the Edge moor , Delaware pigments plant of the DuPont Company,
Aerial view of the Baltimore, Maryland pigment plant of the DuPont Company. Manufactured here are titanium dioxide pigments-the whitest white pigments ever made. By a complicated chemical process, this white material is made from ilmenite, a coal...
Aerial view of DuPont's pigments plant at new Johnsonville, Tennessee. The 1,500 acre site on Kentucky Lake was acquired in 1952 and the plant was formally opened in September, 1959. Land once covered with brush and scrub is now attractively...
