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Polymer Corporation was a Canadian federal crown corporation established in 1942 to produce artificial rubber to substitute for overseas supply cut off by World War II. After the Japanese captured the Dutch East Indies in 1942, most of the world's supply of natural rubber was out of Allied hands. [ 1 ]
The A.O. Polymer manufacturing site is located in Sparta Township, New Jersey. This facility created special polymers, plastics, and resins. It was also used for reclaiming spent solvents. The facility's poor waste handling led to serious contamination of the ground. It also contaminated the water in the ground with volatile organic compounds ...
Name City Industry Fortune 500 rank (2009) Notes ACE USA: Philadelphia: insurance: Arkema: Philadelphia: chemicals: AstraZeneca: Wilmington, DE: pharmaceuticals
Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) No. PA-1528, "Philadelphia and Reading Railroad, Terminal Station, 1115–1141 Market Street", 10 photos, 1 color transparency, 3 photo caption pages Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) No. PA-417, " Reading Terminal, 11th and Arch Streets ", 17 photos, 1 color transparency, 2 photo caption pages
Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia engaged in a tax competition for the plant. In 2012, Pennsylvania structured a deal requiring Shell to invest at least $1 billion in Pennsylvania and create at least 2,500 construction jobs in exchange for a 25-year tax incentive of $66 million per year and tied to production, reducing Shell's tax by up to 20 per cent.
Thiokol was an American corporation concerned initially with rubber and related chemicals, and later with rocket and missile propulsion systems. Its name is a portmanteau of the Greek words for sulfur (Greek: θεῖον, romanized: theion) and glue (Greek: κόλλα, romanized: kolla), an allusion to the company's initial product, Thiokol polymer.
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