Dewey Almy

In the United States, Du Pont and PPG had a long-established reputation in industrial and consumer paints. W. R. Grace since buying Dewey Almy, and Rohm Haas because of its age-old tradition in acrylics, drew substantial profits from their specialties. This was also true of American Cyanamid (additives for plastics, cosmetics) and of Monsanto (products for rubber, special polymers). Since its withdrawal from the tire business, BF Goodrich, aside from its PVC lines, is concentrating now on specialties. 

For Davison Chemicals and Dewey Almy, see Haynes, American Chemical Industry, vol. 6, pp. 94-96, 99-101. 

Includes proprietors and partners of private consulting laboratories or firms and chemist-entrepreneurs who worked in companies which they or their families had established (e.g., A. D. Little, Inc. Bakelite Corporation Dewey Almy Chemical Company William H. Nichols Company and Powers-Weightman-Rosengarten Chemical Company). 

In the autumn of 1940 Bradley Dewey, president of the Dewey and Almy Chemical Company, who had headed the Gas Defense Production Division, CWS, in World War I and had kept up an active interest in the service in the peacetime years, suggested that a new CWS development laboratory be established at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The following February the proposition was discussed at a conference of high ranking CWS officers and outstanding scientists in Washington. The... 

Another serious complication encountered in early manufacture was that the lead tubes into which the ointment was filled contaminated the product. Tubes made from aluminum or even from tin would have been preferable, but those metals were in short supply. The Dewey and Almy Chemical Co., Cambridge, Mass., developed a satisfactory lining for the tube, consisting of a combination of wax and synthetic rubber. This tube was put into production by several manufacturers, including the Peerless... 

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