Sugar manufacturing and refining -- Equipment and supplies
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Atlas Powder Company records
Incorporated in 1912, Atlas Powder Company functioned as an independent explosives and chemicals company until 1971, when it was purchased by Imperial Chemical Industries Limited (U.K.) and became its American affiliate under the name ICI Americas, Inc. The collection consists of minutes, reports, and correspondence from Atlas in addition to both predecessor and subsidiary companies.
Sugar Apparatus Manufacturing Company records
The Sugar Apparatus Manufacturing Company of Philadelphia was typical of many of the small specialty manufacturers of the region. S. Morris Lillie, the company president, patented his single and multiple effect evaporators and began marketing them in 1893. The evaporators were primarily used to recover crystallized sugar from solutions made from sugar cane or sugar beets. The bulk of the records cease in 1933, leaving no indication of the firm's fate. By 1964, the records and drawings were in the possession of Ford Bros. & Co., coppersmiths and machinists of Philadelphia., which apparently had been building Lillie evaporators for a number of years.
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