Du Pont General Motors

Hounshell and Smith, Science and Corporate Strategy, 78-81 A. D. Chambers to R. R. M. Carpenter, July 26, 1915, recorded in USA v. Du Pont, General Motors, et al. Civil Action No. 49 C 1071, 1948, Defendants Trial Exhibits, vol. 1, DP 78, Hagley Museum and Library, Longwood Manuscripts, Group 10, Series A, File 418-26, box 417. 

Du Pont on Motor Growth, New York Times, January 15, 1922, p. 87 Du Pont Co. Earned 41,113,938 in Year, New York Times, January 28, 1928, p. 21 ( 47 million in total income 41 million in net income) Chandler and Salsbury, Pierre S. du Pont and the Making of the Modern Corporation, 429-36, 583 Stocking, The Du Pont-General Motors Case and the Sherman Acf Hounshell and Smith, Science and Corporate Strategy, 155-57. 

Stocking, George W. The Du Pont-General Motors Case and the Sherman Act. Virginia Law Review 44, no. 1 (January 1958) 1 0. 

Ethyl gasoline is developed by General Motors Laboratories in the United States. Du Pont and Commercial Solvents begin synthetic methanol production in the United States. 

To develop the chemical, General Motors once again formed a partnership with a chemical company, in this case Du Pont. And again, Midgley became vice president of the firm, named Kinetic Chemicals, Inc. He was... 

After Midgley announced the discovery of Freon-12 in 1930, General Motors and the Du Pont Chemical Company combined to form a new company. Kinetic Chemicals, Inc., for the purpose of making and selling the new product. Midgley was appointed vice president of the new company. Although he continued to hold that title for many more years, much of his later research was conducted in the laboratories at Ohio State University. 

Selected for development by Midgley and his coworkers in the late 1920s, CFC-12 (CF2CI2) was considered to be the ideal refrigerant to replace sulfur dioxide and ammonia.The outstanding properties of CFC-12 quickly led to the search for other CFCs. Kinetic Chemicals, a joint venture between Du Pont and General Motors, was formed to manufacture the new materials, and later it became part of the Freon Division of Du Pont. ... 

Advanced Micro Devices, 429 Amoco Chemical Company, 67 AT T Bell Laboratories, 57,101,127,192,220 BP A (Technology and Management) Ltd., 470 Dexter Corporation, 375 Dow Chemical Company, 199,397,405 Dow Corning Corporation, 230,275 E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, 93 Eastman Kodak Company, 1 Emerson Cuming/W. R. Grace and Company, 268 Ford Motor Company, 249,321,337 Foster-Miller, Inc., 446 General Electric Company, 1,140,386... 

Material ASA classification General Motors Du Pont Monsanto American Cyanainid Union Oil American Potash Chemical (proposed)... 

On American business abroad in the 1920s, see Wilkins (ref. 7). This book has data on Du Font s overseas activities Du Pont invested abroad in niches where it had special expertise (some of these were supplies for General Motors business abroad, i.e., artificial leather for car seats and finishes for car exteriors). In the United States and abroad, Du Pont was not involved in petrochemicals, but it kept well informed on everything about I.G. Farben s relationships with Standard Oil of New Jersey and with Shell. 

Within five years of 1930 through the medium of Kinetic Chemical Corporation, a joint venture of General Motors and Du Pont, DuPont developed processes for a total of five refrigerants and Introduced them to the market. 

By 1960, Dow, Monsanto, and Union Carbide had also joined the billion dollar club , and chemical companies among the top 100 in that year included W. R. Grace and Co. and National Distillers Chemical Corporation, two conglomerates which had only recently entered the chemical industry. In 1975, the chemical industry ranked third, accounting for 9.3% (40.8 billion dollars) of the assets of the top 100. Du Pont, Dow, and Union Carbide were the largest corporations in the chemical industry, and all placed within the top 20 industrials. But even with more than five billion dollars in assets each, they were still a fraction of the size of Exxon, General Motors, Texaco, IBM, or Mobil - the top five corporations in 1975. The petroleum industry was still the front-runner in that year, with 35.5% (more than 156 billion dollars) of the assets of the top 100. 

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