This historic promo film from Olin Mathieson entitled “Quality Controls the Sale” demonstrates how the company produced high quality chemical products — through extensive testing and quality control. The tests shown in the film, which uses antifreeze as an example product, include Ph balance, freezing point, specific gravity, reserve alkalinity, boiling point, plus corrosion studies.

The Olin Corporation is an American manufacturer of ammunition, chlorine, and sodium hydroxide. Based in Clayton, Missouri, it traces its roots to two companies, both founded in 1892: Franklin W. Olin’s “Equitable Powder Company” and the “Mathieson Alkali Works”. Olin Industries and Mathieson Chemical merged in 1954 to form the Olin Mathieson Chemical Corporation. The new company had 35,000 employees, 46 domestic and 17 foreign plants. The company manufactured phenoxy herbicides and anti-crop agents for Fort Detrick under contract to the U.S. Army Chemical Corps.John Olin retired in 1963. The company became the Olin Corporation in 1969 .After being headquartered for many years in Stamford, Connecticut, it is now headquartered in Clayton, Missouri.

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