World's First Nylon Plant, Seaford, Delaware (Delmarva Penninsula)
The former DuPont facility (now Invista) in Seaford, Delaware is an unusual and historically interesting site. It was the. fIrst nylon manufacturing faciliity in the world, located on the otherwise sleepy, agriculturally dominated Delmarva Peninsula. When nylon was discovered in the late 1930s, it was a "miracle fabric", and immediately found application in manufacture of nylon stockings, parachutes, tents, etc. Dupont sold the business eventually, but retained the real estate and the liabilities associated with environmental monitoring and cleanup.
World's First Nylon Plant, Seaford, Delaware (Delmarva Penninsula)
The former DuPont facility (now Invista) in Seaford, Delaware is an unusual and historically interesting site. It was the. fIrst nylon manufacturing faciliity in the world, located on the otherwise sleepy, agriculturally dominated Delmarva Peninsula. When nylon was discovered in the late 1930s, it was a "miracle fabric", and immediately found application in manufacture of nylon stockings, parachutes, tents, etc. Dupont sold the business eventually, but retained the real estate and the liabilities associated with environmental monitoring and cleanup.