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...wasn't until two years later that Camden discovered that E. I. du Pont de Nemours had picked the town as the site for a $17 million plant for processing Orion, a new synthetic fiber...
...Whirl. Camden's changes have only begun. By mid-1952, Du Pont will complete an additional $25 million expansion of its Orion plant (one of 20 Du Pont plants in nine Southern states), will hire about 1,900 more workers, and start Camden's spiral whirling again by paying out an additional $7,300,000 a year in wages...
Even while Du Pont expanded its nylon production, it built a $17 million plant at Camden, S.C. whose product may partially eclipse nylon itself. This fiber is Orion, a cousin of nylon but far stronger, more resistant to sunlight. The U.S. textile industry is already using it in men's summer suits and spun hose, women's dresses, auto tops and a wealth of new decorator fabrics. (But Du Pont will get stiff competition from Union Carbide's Dynel, an Orion-type fiber...
...research dollars go. It spends only 15% to 20% of its research budget on fundamental (i.e., "pure") research which, while unpredictable, is also productive of the biggest strikes (e.g., nylon). It concentrates most heavily on applied research - the further development of processes already known - which have now brought Orion out of the same test tubes where nylon was found. The greatest problem, says Greenewalt, is to be patient enough to carry a seemingly losing proposition for five or six years, but at the same time be hard-boiled enough to know when to quit. ("No scientist ever wants...
Burlington, which calls Orion "one of the most significant textile developments in the past ten years," thinks that manufacturers may soon be turning out men's all-year suits which can be washed along with the family laundry (Orion's resistance to sunlight and mildew also makes it suitable for auto tops, awnings and shower curtains). But most U.S. consumers will have to wait for Orion until Du Pont gets into volume production later this year...