Special 25th Anniversary edition of the Cellophane News plant newspaper documenting the history of the DuPont Spruance Film Plant in Richmond, Virginia. Vol. 5, No. 20. Tuesday, November 1, 1955. Item 17 of 23 from DuPont Plant Histories scrapbook.
Report by the U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Employment and Occupational Outlook Branch. Discusses the disposition of plants built on government contracts during World War I, with significant attention given to DuPont's Old...
Artificial rubber industry; Chemical industry; Explosives; Factories; Nylon; Paint industry; Plastics industry; Rayon; Research; Textile industry
Booklet documenting the expansion of E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company's manufacturing facilities during the post-World War II period. Includes information and images related to the following projects: expansion of the Experimental Station in...
View of the James River works of the Grasselli Chemicals Department of the DuPont Company. This modern plant (near Richmond, Virginia) makes an old line product-sulfuric acid. The textile, fertilizer, petroleum, iron and steel, paint and pigment,...
The DuPont Company's Fort Hill Works near Cincinnati, Ohio represents the latest technological advances in sulfuric acid production. The Leonard-Monsanto unit pictured her produces five different grades of acid for the steel, soap, chemical,...
DuPont's Wurtland, Kentucky plant supplies sulfuric acid to customers in the Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia area. Originally build in 1926, the plant was completed modernized in 1960.
Sulfuric acid is a basic chemical used by industry on a large scale. The fertilizer, petroleum, textile, iron and steel, paint and pigment, chemical, explosives and other industries use millions of tons of it every year. The DuPont Company has been...
Sulfuric acid unit at the East Chicago, Indiana Works of the DuPont Company's Industrial and Biochemicals Department is the world's largest, capable of turning out more than a trainload of acid a week. This unit was brought into commercial...
This sulfuric acid production unit at the Cleveland Works of the DuPont Companys Industrial and Biochemicals Department is a striking example of the high investment per employee required in the modern chemical industry. Completed in 1949 at a cost...
Efficient combustion of this modern sulfuric acid unit at the Cleveland Works of the DuPont Companys Industrial and Biochemicals Department insures that objectionable fumes will not be discharged in the air. Control instruments so sensitive that...
Text from back of photo: "A Naval seaplane from Hampton Roads, Va. carrying Lieuts. G.R. Fairland and R.G. Caughlin, crashed into the James River at Richmond, Va. other day, from a height of 350 feet in the air. The officers were in Richmond to...
Caption text on photo: "DuPont's operations at Richmond, Va., involve the manufacture of both film for packaging and textile fibers. The principal film manufacturing facilities are at the right. These units make cellophane, polyethylene, and...
