NAVAL STORES BECOME CHEMICALS 



crude gum in a central store can be a commercial com- 

 modity, a safe security, and a quick asset/' 



Today the Glidden plant operates the year 'round 

 and so successfully that a duplicate has been built at 

 Valdosta, Georgia. At Jacksonville seventy-five thou- 

 sand good dollars have been invested in a ninety-eight- 

 foot stainless steel column fitted with the latest control 

 gadgets in which Dr. Bain is making exciting experi- 

 ments in the chemical possibilities of gum products. 



Others have followed these leaders. Having no desire 

 to be left out of the new picture, several old, established 

 factors have put up the money to build centralized 

 processing units and more and more of them are culti- 

 vating the chemical side of the business. A newcomer, 

 the Filtered Rosin Products Company, for example, has 

 five of its own modern stills at strategic points in 

 Georgia whence they ship pure rosin and turpentine 

 to the supercentralized chemical plant at Brunswick. 

 Here a startling new synthetic shellac, christened Chem- 

 lac, has been perfected in cooperation with Corn Prod- 

 ucts; a logical alliance since Chemlac is made from 

 rosin and zein, a by-product of corn starch. 



The hurricane of progress that is uprooting the old 

 uses of naval stores will leave the piney woods of the 

 South dotted with deserted fire-stills, picturesque relics 

 of a romantic chapter in our industrial past. But these 

 stormy changes are not driving the gum collectors into 

 cyclone cellars quite the reverse, they are stepping 



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