Duriron Corporation Historical Collection Records 1912-1992

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Duriron Corporation Historical Collection Records 1912-1992

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Materials in this collection consist of advertising and sales literature, annual reports, product bulletins, a complete set of the company's newsletters, sales records, press releases, historical documents, application manuals, photographs, and copies of advertising art. Duriron began operation in Dayton in the early 20th century as a supplier of corrosion-resistant castings for the chemical industry. They have since diversified into manufacturing pumps and valves and producing cooling and filtration systems for the brewing industry.

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Wright State University, Special Collections and Archives

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The Duriron Company was founded in 1912 by a Dayton foundryman, Pierce D. Schenk, and two associates, J. Richman Pitman, a DuPont explosives production engineer and William F. Hall, a New York Financier. The company derives its name from a high silicon cast iron alloy, Duriron, which rapidly became an industry standard for handling extremely corrosive materials. Duriron "denitrating towers" were in high demand during the First World War for safe handling of hot mixtures of Nitric an...

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