Pennsylvania Salt's new plant in Calvert City, KY was completed and began making hydrofluoric acid.
1940
In Monrovia, CA, Pennsylvania Salt began manufacturing post-harvest agrichemicals. Pennsylvania Salt acquired the Cornwell Heights, PA plant.
A division of the Rohm and Haas Company began manufacturing Plexiglas® acrylic resins in Bristol, PA.
Pennsylvania Salt constructed a plant in Portland, OR to produce chlorates and commodity chemicals.
1929
Pennsylvania Salt opened its caustic soda and liquid chlorine plant in Tacoma, WA.
1918
Goldschmidt Detinning changed its name to Metals and Thermit Company.
1911
Home of the Wire Mills Production Department, the Homer, NY plant of R. H. Miller Company began operations.
1908
The Goldschmidt Detinning Company was formed.
1898
Theodore Armstrong, one of the principals of the Pennsylvania Salt Manufacturing Company, purchased the "Wyandotte" property in Riverview, MI for an operating facility. The 100-acre property contained large salt deposits, estimated as able to supply 180,000 tons a year for 150 years. The first product manufactured at this facility was caustic soda (lye) and chlorine as a byproduct. In addition, salt was also mined and sold to the meatpacking industry.
1860
Pennsylvania Salt shipped 500 barrels of oil to London, the first refined petroleum exported from the United States.
1850
The Pennsylvania Salt Manufacturing Company was organized by five Quakers in Philadelphia.
