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- American_Viscose_Corporation abstract "American Viscose Corporation was an American division of the British firm Courtaulds, which manufactured rayon and other synthetic fibres. Established in 1909, it became the largest supplier of rayon and the first company to make artificial silk in the United States.American Viscose had plants at Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania (established 1910), Roanoke, Virginia (1916), Lewistown, Pennsylvania (1920), Parkersburg, West Virginia (1927), Meadville, Pennsylvania (1929), Nitro, West Virginia, and Front Royal, Virginia (1940). After a 1946 merger with Sylvania Industrial Corporation (not to be confused with lighting and electronics manufacturer Sylvania), it gained a plant at Fredericksburg, Virginia.The company changed names and ownership several times. It was founded as a division of Courtaulds and began production as \"The Viscose Company\" in 1910. In 1937 it changed to \"American Viscose Corporation\". In 1941 the company was sold off by order of the British government in order to raise money for purchase of munitions and other supplies from the Americans. The company passed into the control of the Monsanto Corporation after the war. (Courtaulds resumed manufacture of rayon in the United States in 1952). In 1963 it was purchased by FMC Corporation, which sold off the division in 1976 to its employees. It was then renamed Avtex Fibers.In 1974, two years before FMC Corporation sold off the division to its employees, the plant in Parkersburg, WV was closed.In 1980 Avtex Fibers closed their plant in Nitro, West Virginia that manufactured rayon staple. In 1983, Avtex Fibers was the largest US manufacturer of rayon fiber, as well as operating plants that made polyester and acetate yarn.Certain of its closed plants have become Superfund pollution cleanup sites. The former plant site at Front Royal, Virginia was used for manufacturing from 1940 until 1989, when the discovery of emissions of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) into the nearby Shenandoah River led to the plant's closure. The site is currently being restored by FMC in conjunction with the United States Environmental Protection Agency.The company made rayon fiber for fabric and also rayon cord for reinforcement of pneumatic automobile tires. Declining sales and high internal costs caused Avtex to close its rayon operations in 1988, briefly restarting to produce fiber for the aerospace industry, and then permanently closing in 1990 for economic and environmental reasons.".
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- American_Viscose_Corporation wikiPageWikiLink Courtaulds.
- American_Viscose_Corporation wikiPageWikiLink FMC_Corporation.
- American_Viscose_Corporation wikiPageWikiLink Fredericksburg,_Virginia.
- American_Viscose_Corporation wikiPageWikiLink Front_Royal,_Virginia.
- American_Viscose_Corporation wikiPageWikiLink Lewistown,_Pennsylvania.
- American_Viscose_Corporation wikiPageWikiLink Marcus_Hook,_Pennsylvania.
- American_Viscose_Corporation wikiPageWikiLink Meadville,_Pennsylvania.
- American_Viscose_Corporation wikiPageWikiLink Monsanto.
- American_Viscose_Corporation wikiPageWikiLink Nitro,_West_Virginia.
- American_Viscose_Corporation wikiPageWikiLink Parkersburg,_West_Virginia.
- American_Viscose_Corporation wikiPageWikiLink Polychlorinated_biphenyl.
- American_Viscose_Corporation wikiPageWikiLink Rayon.
- American_Viscose_Corporation wikiPageWikiLink Roanoke,_Virginia.
- American_Viscose_Corporation wikiPageWikiLink Shenandoah_River.
- American_Viscose_Corporation wikiPageWikiLink Superfund.
- American_Viscose_Corporation wikiPageWikiLink Sylvania_Electric_Products.
- American_Viscose_Corporation wikiPageWikiLink United_States_Environmental_Protection_Agency.
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- American_Viscose_Corporation wikiPageWikiLinkText "American Viscose Corporation".
- American_Viscose_Corporation wikiPageWikiLinkText "American Viscose".
- American_Viscose_Corporation wikiPageWikiLinkText "The Viscose Company".
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- American_Viscose_Corporation subject Category:American_companies_established_in_1910.
- American_Viscose_Corporation subject Category:Companies_of_the_United_Kingdom.
- American_Viscose_Corporation subject Category:FMC_Corporation.
- American_Viscose_Corporation subject Category:Textile_companies_of_the_United_States.
- American_Viscose_Corporation hypernym Division.
- American_Viscose_Corporation type Organisation.
- American_Viscose_Corporation comment "American Viscose Corporation was an American division of the British firm Courtaulds, which manufactured rayon and other synthetic fibres.".
- American_Viscose_Corporation label "American Viscose Corporation".
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- American_Viscose_Corporation wasDerivedFrom American_Viscose_Corporation?oldid=692684567.
- American_Viscose_Corporation depiction American_Viscose_Plant_Front_Royal_VA_postcard.jpg.
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