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The company added branches across the country, including a cleaning products plant at East Chicago, Indiana, built in 1909. [3] In 1911, the company's headquarters were relocated from Omaha to Chicago. [3] Cudahy Packing Company's Delrich brand of margarine used a "color berry" to color its white vegetable based margarine yellow.
In 1975, Purex liquid laundry detergent was introduced. Purex liquids began the use of its distinctive blue plastic bottle in 1981. In 1981, Purex acquired the food and household brands of A. E. Staley Manufacturing Company , among them, Cream Corn Starch, Staley Pancake and Waffle Syrup, Sta-Puf fabric softener, Sta-Flo liquid starch and Sno ...
Malathion is an organophosphate insecticide which acts as an acetylcholinesterase inhibitor. In the USSR , it was known as carbophos , in New Zealand and Australia as maldison and in South Africa as mercaptothion .
Ajax's success as the so called "White Tornado" forced Procter and Gamble to introduce its own ammoniated cleaner, Top Job, in 1963. Other products by Ajax included Ajax Bucket of Power, an ammoniated power floor cleaner (1963); Ajax Laundry Detergent (1964); and Ajax Window Cleaner with Hex ammonia (1965). The last successful Ajax line ...
Since the 1830s, when Chicago enjoyed a brief period of importance as a local milling center for spring wheat, the city has long been a center for the conversion of raw farm products into edible goods. [2] Since the 1880s, Chicago has also been home to firms in other areas of the food processing industry, including cereals, baked goods, and ...
Magikist lips sign formerly located alongside the Kennedy Expressway at Montrose Avenue in Chicago. Magikist was an American rug cleaner manufacturer and cleaning company. . After the parent company went out of business in 2001, the name was sold and is currently used by a Canadian manufacturer of pressure wash equip
After the war, the Olins acquired the Mathieson Chemical Corporation—also founded in 1892. [8] [9] [10] Long before its association with Olin, Mathieson Alkali Works began business in Saltville, Virginia, and a year later acquired its neighbor, the Holston Salt and Plaster Corp. Saltville became a quintessential company town, where they produced chlorine and caustic soda, and in the process ...
The formula for Gold Dust washing powder was developed and refined by industrial chemist James Boyce working at the Chicago, Illinois [7] research lab of the company. [ 6 ] While working at the research facility, Boyce developed an industrial hydrogenation procedure, which, when applied to cottonseed (and other plant materials), was a ...