American Viscose Corporation

Finally, American Viscose Corporation (61) has obtained a patent on graft copolymers from cellulose crystallites using ceric ion initiation. 

The major part of this review was written at the Centre de Reoherches sur les Macromol cules, Strasbourg, France. The author is indebted to Professors C. Sad-ron and H. Benoit and their colleagues for their valuable assistance and warm hospitality during his stay there. It is a pleasure to thank Professor J. T. Edsall for helpful criticism and numerous suggestions of the manuscript. Thanks are also due the management of the American Viscose Corporation for providing the author the opportunity to complete his work on viscosities (1956-1959). 

Fiber Samples. The fiber samples used were viscose rayon monofils. They had smooth, approximately round cross sections, and each filament had a mass-length ratio of roughly 15 denier. The fibers are made by the American Viscose Corporation and marketed under the name Tufton. 

Finally, we appreciate the generosity of the American Viscose Corporation, which supplied the fiber sample, and of the Organic Chemicals Department, E. I. du Pont de Nemours Co. Inc. which supplied the dye. 

Hoxie HM, inventors American Viscose Corporation. US patent 2,577,763. 1951. 

American textile manufacturers were clearly aware of the impact of war on both the supply of unprocessed fibres and the type of textiles required. Wickliffe Rose of the American Viscose Corporation made a speech to the 1944 American Association of Textile Chemists and Colorists (AATCC) convention in which he identified three aspects of this process substitution of man-made for natural fibres, modification of industrial practice as a result of shortages of natural fibres and intense research into new fibres to satisfy military requirements, which had the effect of restricting supplies available for the civilian market. What was available was of poorer qualify. A 1944 survey undertaken by the Bureau of Human Nutrition and Home Economics showed how essential fabrics were downgraded during the war . ... 

Then, in the 1960s, its management caught the conglomerate bug, purchasing in 1963 American Viscose, a U.S. first mover in rayon, and in 1968 the Link Belt Corporation, a first mover in the belting material on which as-... 

CPI companies do not have a guaranteed place in the economy, as evidenced by the disappearance of once-dominant companies through acquisitions or mergers, as noted earlier in this book. For example, Virginia Carolina Chemical Company and American Viscose Company failed to maintain their commanding positions in a rapidly changing world and were absorbed by more adaptable and successful companies. Parts of major companies have been spun off, such as Albermarle from Ethyl Corporation and Solutia from Monsanto, supposedly to let each entity focus on the operation of the line of business. 

AVI CEL Applications Bulletin, FMC Corporation, American Viscose Division, AVICEL Sales, Marcus Hook, Pa., USA. 

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