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Diversey Corporation was founded in Chicago in 1923 by August and Herbert Kochs as a division of their Victor Chemical Works cleaning products company. [6] It was named after nearby Diversey Avenue and became independent in 1950. In 1978, Diversey was acquired by Molson. [7] Herbert Kochs retired the next year.
An image from John Dalton's A New System of Chemical Philosophy, the first modern explanation of atomic theory.. This timeline of chemistry lists important works, discoveries, ideas, inventions, and experiments that significantly changed humanity's understanding of the modern science known as chemistry, defined as the scientific study of the composition of matter and of its interactions.
In 2012, Ecolab entered an agreement to acquire Champion Technologies and its related company Corsicana Technologies, global specialty chemical companies. [20] The $2.2 billion transaction closed in April 2013. [21] In 2014, Ecolab, working with TruCost, launched the Water Risk Monetizer. [22] Ecolab's headquarters in Saint Paul, Minnesota [23]
Bettye Washington Greene (March 20, 1935 – June 16, 1995) was an American industrial research chemist.She was one of the first few African American women to earn her Ph.D. in chemistry and she was the first African American female Ph.D. chemist to work in a professional position at the Dow Chemical Company.
He founded the Linde plc, the world's largest industrial gas company by market share and revenue. In 1883, Svante Arrhenius developed an ion theory to explain conductivity in electrolytes. [98] In 1884, Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff published Études de Dynamique chimique (Studies in Dynamic Chemistry), a seminal study on chemical kinetics. [99]
The name of the company was changed to Witco Chemical Corporation in 1968. In 1969, Witco started a company to produce detergents in Israel ; by the 1970s it grew to become the largest detergent operation in that country. 1970 was marked by a fire at the Franklin , Pennsylvania refinery; the facility had to be closed as a result, but at the ...
DuPont de Nemours, Inc., commonly shortened to DuPont, is an American multinational chemical company first formed in 1802 by French-American chemist and industrialist Éleuthère Irénée du Pont de Nemours. The company played a major role in the development of the U.S. state of Delaware and first arose
By the end of January 2007 Chemtura completed stock acquisition and ownership of Kaufman Holdings Corporation with an all-cash transaction. [6] [21] [22]The corporation operated as a debtor-in-possession (DIP) under the protection of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York from 10 March 2009 through 10 November 2010.