The Penn's Grove record., 1916-07-07
INDUSTRIES WILL CONTINUE
DUPONT Company Manufacture Many
Products Besides War Munitions

war in Europe to continue developing
the business of L. |. dupont de Nemours
and Co., so that when the war ends that
business may continue with minimum
interruption.
Chemists, engineers and craftsmen are
scheming, contriving and conceiving ways
by which the company may more active
ly engage in the manufacture of Pol dis
tinct commodities, as at present, and add
others to the list.
The manufacture of dyes at Carney's
Point. n. j.. on such a large scale as to
continue that plant full blast, is being
considered, but so are many other pos
sibilities and it will probably not be I'M
til after the war business of the New
Jersey plant is ended that definite de-
termination as to the future use of that
plant will be reached.
$4,000 Employed Now.
The company has on it's p~ayrolls to-
day approximately $1,000 men and
women, of whom $4,000 are engaged in
the manufacture of munitions. The com
pany hopes and expects to find employ
ment for a great many of this num-
Der, and the only question is what COM
modities they shall be employed to make
in the place of munitions.
The effort of the company to con-
stantly increase the lines of commodi-
ties which it handles is evident from
frequently occurring additions to its
plants. Some time back the Arlington
Company, manufacturers of ivory and
shell substitutes in toilet specialities and
Havih1a vuinAauvS ff o.rtOunnbilo a,rks1a
was taken over. Thereby the dupont
Co. was enabled to add, to its already
long list of commodities manufactured.
scores of others. More recently the
Fairfield Rubber Co., at Fairfield, Conn,
was added. That concern engaged in the
manufacture of a coated textile, similar
to fabrikoid, which is one of the i'm
portant products handled by the DUPONT
organization. Here, too, is offered fur
! Their opportunity for extension of the
enormous peace-time commercial bust
ness of the DUPONT Co., which is said
by the company, to be vastly more inn
portant than its business in military
powders.
Two OF 81 Plants Make Munitions.
Only two of the company's 81 plants
in this country and Canada will be af-
fected by the close of the European
war, the rest being used for commercial
purposes. These two plants are at Hope
well, Va, where 10000 men have been
employed in making guncotton and at
Carney's Point. where $4,000 are making
smokeless powder and other explosives.
The duPonts are the largest Ameri-
can manufacturers of anaesthesia ether,
which makes possible the wonders of
modern surgery. The company sells in
carloads the basic material of which
moving picture and hand camera films
are made. Fabrikoid, a leather substi-
tute, is one of the principal products.
1t is used in upholstering automobiles.
in the manufacture of furniture, car
riages, boats, trunks, bags, novelties and
many other commodities. The company
is also turning out large quantities of
dyestuff Intermediates and chemicals,
the list including nitrocellulose solvents,
patents or split leather solutions, amyl
acetate, refined fusel oil, sulphuric
ether, bronzing liquids, mantle dips, belt
cement, wood and metal lacuuers and
others.
Other Things Beside Munitions.
Ordinarily the mention of picric acid,
one of the deadliest of explosive charges,
would convey only the impression that
is were used for war purposes. 1t is
used in bursting charges for high ex-
plosive shells but it is also used very
extensively as a yellow dye for silk
and wool. Hence, the manufacture of
picric acid is not for the munition bust
ness alone but also for commercial pur-
poses and it must be turned out in peace
time as well as while war is raging.
Charcoal, that most harmless COM
modify, until fire is applied to make it
burn, is one of the company's products
and is used not only by powder makers
to make blasting powder but is also
used in making disinfectants, paint,
medicines, crayons, inks, for fuel and
other purposes.
Wood -four, another produce of the
company, is made into linoleums and
wall paper and is one of the many pro-
ducts, which in finished state, goes into
the many homes of the land.
Nitrate of soda, which is made by
the company is used in preserving meats,
making acids and drugs.
SaItpetre's Many Uses.
Mention saltpetre to anyone and the
only impression conveyed is that it is
one of the constituents in gunpowder.
Here are some of the other commodities
which it enters into, however: Fire
works, paper, fertilizer, snuff. brick,
cigarettes, stock food, and it is also used
to cure meat, for blasting and sporting
powders, for chemical mixtures and for
bluing metal used in gun barrels.
Another product which has many in
teresting uses is pyralin. 1t enters into
the manufacture of wind shields, novel
ties, knife handles, crystals for watches,
clocks and scientific Instruments, bag
gage tags, flexible windows in lap robes
nd curtains, t~riangles and L squares
and many others.
just 159 different kinds of customers
deal with the DUPONT Co. and this num-
Der represents the general classiications
such as Contractors and merchants
under which scores Of other branches of