Caption text on photo: "'Nordel' is a new type of synthetic rubber resistant to sunlight, weathering and ozone deterioration. DuPont is producing it in a recently completed plant (background) at Beaumont, Texas. The new rubber, a product of the...
Caption text on photo: "Dr. Wallace H. Carothers, shown here with neoprene, first commercially successful synthetic rubber, came to the DuPont Company the year after it launched its program of fundamental research in 1927. Dr. Carothers, who...
Caption text on photo: "Warm filtered water de-ices the neoprene as it goes through water troughs at the DuPont Company's Louisville Works. The company produces neoprene only as a raw material. It is sold to rubber products manufacturers who...
Caption text on photo: "Neoprene sheet becomes a 'rope' prior to cutting and packing. Here, a DuPont foreman checks texture of the material at the 50-million pound neoprene plant near Montague, Michigan. The only general-purpose synthetic rubber...
Caption text on photo: "A laboratory technician inspects a sheet of 'Viton' fluoroelastomer. As shipped by DuPont from its plant at Deepwater Point, NJ, 'Viton' is a translucent, light-colored gum. This new special purpose rubber, is a result of...
Caption text on photo: "'Viton' fluoroelastomer, DuPont's new fluorine-based elastomer, is milled into sheets, the final step in its manufacture at the Deepwater Point, New Jersey, plant. At this stage it is a translucent, light-colored gum which...
Typed caption: "Dr. Wallace H. Carothers, shown here with neoprene, first commercially successful synthetic rubber, came to the DuPont Company the year after it launched its program of fundamental research in 1927. Dr. Carothers, who directed the...
Caption text on photo: "An operator draws a sample of neoprene latex from a 400-gallon polymerization kettle. Sample is used for production control tests. A part of the plant's production is shipped from DuPont's Louisville Works in the form; the...
Caption text on photo: "This is dry neoprene, the form in which part of the product made at DuPont's Louisville Works is shipped. Neoprene first sold for $1 a pound; now, as a result of continual research and process improvements, price is down to...
Caption text on photo: "Neoprene, a product of DuPont's research program, is shipped to customers in the form of chips from this plant near Montague, Michigan. Further processing includes milling with additives to get desired compound and...
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