Polychrome
acquires Cellofilm By Mr. Bob Gumbinner
In
1961, we also acquired the Cellofilm Co., located in Woodridge, NJ.
The sales manager of Cellofilm, Stanley Eysmann, was appointed
President. His father had started Cellofilm in the 1920s to remove
the silver from used photographic film. We had bought the reels of
the nitrocellulose from which the silver had been removed for the
stencil coating solutions and most users preferred to buy it
dissolved. One of the biggest customers used it to make plastic
wood. It was also used in nail polish. Cellofilm also received rent
for storing rolls of news film in brick vaults. In 1965, a plant to
make the nitrocellulose solutions was established in Chicago a few
miles from Midway to make these solutions. Later, Cellofilm obtained
the exclusive rights to import nitrocellulose from Europe.
Unfortunately, during a shut-down when the clean-up crew was sweeping
the floor they did not wet it with water as instructed and there was
a fire and several workers were critically injured.