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...exports of important fibers from Britain, and is now producing at capacity in most of the 20 countries where it manufactures. The company's viscose division, which controls 10% of the world production of that staple of rayon making, increased earnings 60%, winning out over competing nylon makers in securing three-quarters of the British market for rayon tire cords. Courtaulds has expanded its acetate sales for cigarette filters, increased its output of paints, packaging films and aerosol cans...
Last May, Courtaulds and I.C.I., which commonly own British Nylon Spinners Ltd., formally healed their split by bidding jointly for an interest in a Lancashire textile mill, Tootal Ltd. Fast-expanding Courtaulds has already bought another Lancashire mill, is negotiating for two more...
...I.C.I. The company is setting up operations to buy crude oil from British companies, remove valuable petrochemicals and sell the rest as gasoline or fuel oil. It is spreading out from simply supplying plastic to molding plastic products. It now sells 12,000 different items from alkali to nylon zippers and intends to expand its finished-product lines. Such adventuresomeness seems only natural to a company whose birth certificate is a piece of steamship stationery...
...Nolan Nylon. Nolan's subject matter may be rugged, but his paintings almost always turn out to have an unusual delicacy-the happy result of a technique that Nolan developed by using his wife's discarded nylons. "It is a process of putting on layers of color and then burnishing them off with the stocking until I get the translucent quality I want...
...material" (meaning full of microscopic holes) until it can decide on a trademark name. The shoe material is made in two or three layers: outside is a polyvinyl chloride film that can be treated to look like any leather, from cordovan to suede; next is either a layer of nylon or orlon (Du Pont) or one of polyurethane foam (Arnav); the shoe's inside layer is one of the standard lining materials...