The Penn's Grove record., 1917-07-06
DUPONT MAKING DYES
A New Industry On The Della
ware Brought by War

The dupont Company has made a
public announcement that they are ready
to enter the coal tar dye industry.
Their plans include the manufacture of
synthetic dyestuffs and kindred pro-
ducts.
1t has been an open secret that the
great explosives and chemical company
has been investigating the dye situation
for a long time. Before the wal its
chemists were at work; when the for
eign supply was cut off their efforts
were redoubled and success, from a lab
oratory standpoint. was soon attained.
There remained only to find the solution
Of the commercial problems involved and
this apparently has been found.
llans for constructing a factory for
making dye stuifs were put under way
more than a year ago and it has been a
year since buildings and machinery were
completed IN Deep Water Point where
chemicals were made for war industry
that can also be used for dyes. Sew
eral more buildings have been con
s%tructed there and more are planned
for. While only a few buildings are
used now for the manufacture of dyes,
others will be turned to that use when
the needs of war materials cease.
Back of the Company's simple an
nouncement is the compelling force of
the country's need. At the outbreak of
the war thousands of American indus
tries. that were dependent on Germany's
Ives. We're seriously crippled. The few
American dye plants and a great number
of the chemical manufactl rers set to
work at once to remedy this condition.
The DUPONT Company enlarged its staff
of chemists and went at the solution of
he problem in earnest.
Explosive-making plants and dye-mak.
ing plants are to a large extent inter-
Manageable and a great number of pro-
IictS which are classed as intermedi-
ties in the dye industry are used in the
Explosive industry as we'll. These are
derived from benZol. toluol. napthalene
etc. HI DUPONT Company was already
.argely interested in the manufacture of
shese intermediates and had the physi-
cal equipment with which to begin in
earnest work in the dye industry. Both
industries are highly scientific and both
require large technical and commercial
organizations. The DUPONT Company
has both of these as well as ~unequalled
laboratory facilities and enormous plants
already equipped. which does away with
the necessity for the delay of compli-
Gated building operations.
The necessary raw materials are vir-
tually all products of this country so
that American manufacturers need be
dependent in no way upon Europe. The
Company has made an elaborate survey
IF the needs of the various consuming
ndustries-cotton. calico. printing. wool.
lik, leather. paper. paints. printing
INKS. etc. and has laid its plans to meet
the requirements of each of these in due
time.
There is every prospect that the time
will not be long. for it is a well known
fact that Germany's great dye plants
we're turned almost in a day into factor
les for the making of explosives to be
used in the present wOrld-war. Re-
7ersing this process the dupont Com
pany can go into the dye-making business
as easily as the Germans could 60 into
explosive industry. Its plants are al
ready turning out the basic and inter-
mediates from which coal tar or aniline
Ives are made. A part of the Com
pany's announcement of its entry into
the .dyestuff industry which bears on this
subject says:
sour development during recent years
in the explosive and in several other
branches of the chemical industry,
brings us now to the logical result of tln-
iertaking in a broad and comprehensive
way the manufacture of Synthetic Dye
stuifs and kindred products"
The Delaware river is the finest and
best in America for manufacturing pur-
poses. The great impetus given to shir
building should now make it equal to
the Cldye in Scotland.
The river Rhine in Germany is noted
for its large dye industries from which
the United States cotton. wooden and
wall paper industries got many of their
colorings. They wanted a high tariff on
their products but a low tariff on what
they bought. Necessity is the mother of
invention. Now they will take Ameri-
can dyes.
The American dyes have been tried
and found to be good, and fast as Ger
man dyes. The announcement of the
duPonts that they are now ready to sup
ply the market with d~yestuff will give
renewed assurance that there will be nc
great collapses in their great industries
when the war closes and that the manu-
featuring industries along the Delaware
will continue to give employment to
hundreds of men and support many fam
lilies.