Originally the major use for cellulose sponges was in car washing. In recent years, they have become increasingly popular for dish washing, cleaning walls and windows. Cellulose sponges are also available in mop form.
Cellulose sponges are tailored to meet the customer's needs and desires at DuPont's plant on the Duck River near Columbia, Tennessee. More than 50 sizes are made. A typical block yields hundreds of sponges of the popular home sizes.
Specially made fine grain sponges are used by amateur and professional photographers for removing excess moisture from photographic film that has just been developed and washed. DuPont makes these cellulose sponges at Columbia, Tennessee.
Packaging is the final step at DuPont's Columbia, Tennessee plant. The machine wraps and seals 4,000 sponges an hour. Cellophane wrapper, which requires the same basic raw materials, adds sales appeal to the sponge.
Packaging is the final step at DuPont's Columbia, Tennessee plant. The machine wraps and seals 4,000 sponges an hour. Cellophane wrapper, which requires the same basic raw materials, adds sales appeal to the sponge.
Man made sponges are usually buff in color, but they are also made in pastel shades of blue, green, coral and yellow for bath and other home uses. They are made by DuPont at Columbia, Tennessee.
A cellulose sponge can absorb up to twenty times its weight in water and is compressible to 10% of its original size. The 28 ounce sponge block this operator is holding can absorb 17 1/2 quarts of water in about 90 seconds. DuPont makes cellulose...
"Description of the process of selecting, cleaning (by women workers), sorting, and selling sponges from the importer of sponges from the Ottoman and Greek Archipelago. Cover half-tone shows Laloux's Sponge Exhibit."--bookseller notes.
Final inspection of the cellulose or man made sponge manufactured at the Buffalo plant of E.I. du Pont Nemours & Company showing another diversification of the chemical industry. This sponge has found uses in industry and in the home where the...
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Solvent recovery unit in Elvanol polyvinyl alcohol area at Niagara Falls NY plant of DuPont's Electrochemicals Department. This versatile product finds use as a water resistant adhesive, textile warp size, paper size, emulsifying agent,...
Aerial view of the Yerkes plant at Buffalo, New York where viscose rayon yarn and staple, cellophane, cellulose sponges and cellulose bands are manufactured by E.I. du Pont Nemours & Company.
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As a scientist Carter Litchfield (1932-2007) studied and specialized in edible
fats. During the mid- to late 1950s Litchfield worked in the Edible Research Section of
the Chemical Division of Proctor & Gamble. His work there centered on...
