Rising like a giant stack topped vat this solvent scrubbing tower, located on the site of DuPont's Camden, South Carolina plant for the manufacture of Orlon acrylic fiber, recovers certain chemicals used in the Orlon process. Completed in 1952,...
Control room for the solvent recovery stills in the Butacite polyvinyl butyral resin plant of E.I. du Pont Nemours & Company at Arlington, New Jersey. Butacite is sandwiched between sheets of glass in making automotive safety glass.
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...
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.
This modern outdoor industrial unit is the solvent recovery portion of DuPont's acetate yarn plant at Waynesboro, Virginia. Its function is to recover the acetic acid and ether which are used in the production of acetate fiber. Aside from...
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Table of Contents: Florida harnesses its wild water; Nobel's potent mixture; Beating the bantamweight rustlers; Custom colors for modern living; News scene to TVscreen in 30 minutes by film; New tarps for tough jobs; Can Mylar do a job for you;...
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Table of Contents: The Midas touch of Mylar; there's more to this yarn; THF, super solvent; Big rock salt mountain; Latest approach to automobile safety: packaging the passenger; What is it; Mighty-mite: big punch in a small tool; Two new...
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;...
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...
Production of nylon is a complex art requiring super cleanliness and rigid control of temperatures and pressures. In the manufacture of yarn at the textile fiber plants, the nylon salt solution is first piped into evaporators where much of the...
Production of nylon is a complex art requiring super cleanliness and rigid control of temperatures and pressures. In the manufacture of yarn at the textile fiber plants, the nylon salt solution is first piped into evaporators where much of the...
Dr. Paul W. Morgan of DuPont's Textile Fibers Pioneering Research Laboratory demonstrates the making of nylon, instantaneously, at room temperature, without any apparatus other than a drinking glass, a small jar or beaker. Practical commercial...
Production of nylon is a complex art requiring super cleanliness and rigid control of temperatures and pressures. In the manufacture of yarn at the textile fiber plants, the nylon salt solution is first piped into evaporators where much of the...
Production of nylon is a complex art requiring super cleanliness and rigid control of temperatures and pressures. In the manufacture of yarn at the textile fiber plants, the nylon salt solution is first piped into evaporators where much of the...
Production of nylon is a complex art requiring super cleanliness and rigid control of temperatures and pressures. In the manufacture of yarn at the textile fiber plants, the nylon salt solution is first piped into evaporators where much of the...
Picture above is a section of the adiponitrile storage area at the Niagara Falls plant of DuPont's Electrochemicals Department. During the manufacture of this nylon intermediate, furan, tetrahydrofuran and 1,4 dichlorobutane are produced. These...
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...
Band saws are often used for cutting curves of large radius in Lucite methyl methacrylate resin. Because of the length of band saw blades, they dissipate heat more rapidly than do circular saws. Accordingly, they operate at lower temperatures and...
