Word: chattilon
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Overlooked by laymen is the fact that the Tubize plant at Hopewell made nitrocellulose rayon, not the more adaptable and durable acetate rayon upon which the present position of the industry (and that of Tubize Chattilon itself) is each day more firmly dependent. Many chemical engineers would have risked even money on the line that, even if labor had been willing to operate the plant at a collective wage of $0.00 a week, manufacture of nitrocellulose yarn at the plant would have ceased by August 1936. They would tell you, too, that it is probably as cheap to build...
...final product is not cellulose but cellulose acetate. Viscose rayon leads in U. S. production; the costlier acetate rayon?of which Du Font's much publicized fabric "Acele" is an example?is second. Most industrial chemists feel that nitrocellulose rayon is technologically obsolescent if not quite obsolete. Tubize Chattilon was the only plant in the world making nitrocellulose when it ceased operations...
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