At the DuPont Company's Experimental Station near Wilmington, Delaware a Film Department chemist exposes a new experimental film to extreme conditions of temperature and ultraviolet radiation. The study is part of the company's fundamental research...
Control room at the DuPont Company's plant at Circleville, Ohio where Mylar polyester film is now in commercial production. Mylar, a product of DuPont research, has many unusual, physical electrical properties.
Although Mylar polyester film was introduced by DuPont more than 12 years ago, research on this product continues. Here in the Film Department's Research and Development Laboratory at the Circleville, Ohio plant, a research chemist makes a modified...
The chemical building at the DuPont Company's plant for the manufacture of Mylar polyester film at Circleville, Ohio is an intricate maze of pipe and equipment. A product of the company's research program, Mylar has an unusual combination of...
The chemical building at the DuPont Company's plant for manufacturing Mylar polyester film at Florence, South Carolina operates 24 hours a day to product the polymer from which the film is made.
A scene at the Arlington, New Jersey plant where Pyralin cellulose nitrate plastic sheeting is fabricated. The large press cuts the cellulose product to the specifications of the customer.
Conveyor showing crystal urea, a product of the Belle, West Virginia plant on its way to the dryers. Crystal urea is an important material in the plastics industry , among others.
An orchid made of Plastacele cellulose acetate plastic is shown here. The flower is tinted to match nature's delicate colors and looks fresh and attractive after repeated wearings. Plastacele, a DuPont product, is sold to manufactures of finished...
An orchid made of Plastacele cellulose acetate plastic is shown here. The flower is tinted to match nature's delicate colors and looks fresh and attractive after repeated wearings. Plastacele, a DuPont product, is sold to manufactures of finished...
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 vulcanizing into final form.
This is dry neoprene, the form in which part of the product made at DuPont's Louisville works I shipped, Neoprene first sold for $1 a pound; now, as a result of continual research and process improvements, price is down to 39 cents.
Nordel is a new type of synthetic rubber resistant to sunlight, weathering and ozone determination. DuPont is producing it in a recently completed plant at Beaumont, Texas. The new rubber, a product of the company's pioneering research program, is...
Automatic control of polymerization of acrylic rein is possible with these specially designed polymerization kettles at the DuPont Company's new plastics plant at Parkersburg, West Virginia. Automatic weighing and timing insure consistent product...
Neoprene is manufactured around the clock in this DuPont plant at Louisville, Kentucky. The company sells the crude neoprene to rubber product manufacturers who combine it with other ingredients to make a variety of finished goods. When DuPont...
Resurfacing material is made by mixing neoprene latex with a special kind of water setting cement and an aggregate of finely crushed stone. Man with brush is applying a prime coat of neoprene latex to secure a tight bond to the old concrete....
Ink distributor rollers made of 'Lucite' methyl methacrylate resin have been used to replace rollers of other materials on duplicators and off-set presses because the plastic is durable and easily cleaned. Operator is shown cleaning a roller made...
A loading and shading operation in the manufacture of paint, consisting of the mixing, shading and thinning of the finished product at the Philadelphia Plant of the DuPont Company.
Ludox colloidal silica, a product of DuPont research, is rapidly being adopted by the carpet industry as a soil retardant. It is easily applied at the mill by a multiple spray method, as shown here. Tiny, smooth particles of the Ludox fill up the...
Aerial view of DuPont's pigments plant at new Johnsonville, Tennessee. The 1,500 acre site on Kentucky Lake was acquired in 1952 and the plant was formally opened in September, 1959. Land once covered with brush and scrub is now attractively...
