Repauno, New Jersey plant (historical) dynamite plant
In 1880, the first charge of nitroglycerine was produced at the Repauno dynamite pant in a building similar in architecture and construction to the one above-as waste acid building. This structure was still in operation until 1954 when the company...
Mechanical development is one of the most important functions of DuPont's sales development and technical service laboratory at Chestnut Run, near Wilmington, Delaware. The standard packaging machine shown here has been modified to seal Mylar...
Mylar polyester film, produced at DuPont's Circleville, Ohio plant is wound up in large mill rolls, which are then carried to the storage areas on overhead conveyors.
Operator checks Mylar polyester film taken from a capacitor that has just been given a high voltage test on the apparatus at left. This is part of the complete facilities for testing capacitors in the Film Department's sales development and...
Paper thin new conveyor belting made of Mylar polyester film provides glossy finish for chocolates at the Goldenberg Candy Company in Philadelphia PA. Shown is end of 128 foot belt which carried candies through cooling tunnel.
Because of its strength and resistance to oils and greases, new conveyor belting made of Mylar polyester film as been adopted by many bakeries. Here the new belting carries freshly cooked doughnuts to powered sugar bin at the General Baking Company...
Table of Contents: Cronar bows in; Polyester family has triplets; Blinds and drapes combine; Home of the year; Ground was broken yesterday; To solve solvent problems; Work horse for work clothes; DuPont show of the month; Selling the soft touch;...
The Carothers Research Laboratory at the DuPont Company's Experimental Station near Wilmington, Delaware. One of the Textile Fibers Departments four research laboratories in this area, it is here where work is done on nylon and Dacron polyester...
DuPont's Kinston, North Carolina plant is one of two plants where Dacron polyester fiber is made. The other is located at Old Hickory Tennessee. Bothe Kinston and Old Hickory plants maintain a textile laboratory. The view here shows part of the...
This roving frame in the staple processing laboratory at DuPont's Kinston, North Carolina plant where Dacron polyester fiber is made, is spinning yarn from this fiber. The roving frame is the third step in spinning staple fiber into yarn and this...
At DuPont Kinston, North Carolina plant where Dacron polyester fiber is made, the company also maintains a complete textile laboratory, part of which is shown here. The purpose of the laboratory is to enable the plant to keep a check on how Dacron...
DuPont's Kinston, North Carolina plant is one of two plants where Dacron polyester fiber is made. The other is located at Old Hickory Tennessee. Bothe Kinston and Old Hickory plants maintain a textile laboratory. The view here shows part of the...
These are wound cakes of DuPont's Dacron polyester fiber just off the spinning machines. Workman is shown inspecting them at the pilot plant at Seaford, Delaware. Dacron is now produced at Kinston, North Carolina and Old Hickory, Tennessee.
In the processing of continuous filament Dacron polyester fiber, the yarn must be drawn to give it added strength and elasticity. This rack of yarn has just been drawn on the machines in the background and is on its way to the inspections station...
Final inspection of Dacron polyester fiber is carried out at both DuPont's Kinston, North Carolina and Old Hickory, Tennessee plants prior to shipping, Here inspector checks for uniform size, damage and any sign of defective yarn. When all check...
