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Re: Crolite factory Germany wanted to destroy
Posted by:
Joseph Kazanjian
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Date: December 08, 2005 02:42AM
Here's the location I didn't think the LINK would be so long.
Facility Background
The approximately 25-acre site property located along the Delaware River shoreline in Cornwells Heights, Bensalem Township, PA was first developed by a concrete shipbuilding company in 1917. This company reportedly went out of business shortly after World War I. The next known operator at the site was the Penn Salt Refining Company, which purchased the property in 1940 and used it primarily for warehousing of its products. From 1943 through the end of World War II, the U.S. Government owned the facility and used the property for sulfuric acid, hydrogen fluoride and cryolite production, as well as aluminum refining. Penn Salt, which later became the Pennwalt Corporation, repurchased the property from the U.S. Government shortly after the war.
Facility Background
The approximately 25-acre site property located along the Delaware River shoreline in Cornwells Heights, Bensalem Township, PA was first developed by a concrete shipbuilding company in 1917. This company reportedly went out of business shortly after World War I. The next known operator at the site was the Penn Salt Refining Company, which purchased the property in 1940 and used it primarily for warehousing of its products. From 1943 through the end of World War II, the U.S. Government owned the facility and used the property for sulfuric acid, hydrogen fluoride and cryolite production, as well as aluminum refining. Penn Salt, which later became the Pennwalt Corporation, repurchased the property from the U.S. Government shortly after the war.
Subject | Written By | Posted |
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Crolite factory Germany wanted to destroy | Joseph Kazanjian | 12/08/2005 02:27AM |
Re: Crolite factory Germany wanted to destroy | Joseph Kazanjian | 12/08/2005 02:42AM |
Re: Cryolite factory Germany wanted to destroy | danodenweller | 12/08/2005 02:45AM |
Re: Cryolite factory Germany wanted to destroy | Joseph Kazanjian | 12/08/2005 10:27PM |