Company History: One of the later comers into the Cambridge industrial field is the Dewey & Almy Chemical Co., occupying an acre and a half of land at the end of Harvey street, North Cambridge Junction. Operations were begun in November, 1919. The personnel of the firm includes Col. Bradley Dewey, late of the gas defence division of the United States army, who was awarded the distinguished service medal, and Lieut-Col. Charles Almy, sou of Judge Charles Almy. of this city. These gentlemen are chemical engineers and were classmates both at Harvard and Technology. They graduated from the latter with the class of '09. Col. Dewey is a son of Prof. Davis R. Dewey, of Technology, and before entering the U. S. service was director of research for one of the subsidiary companies of the U. 3. Steel corporation. Lieut.-Col. Almy was for seven years manager of the Virginia Red Oil Products Co.
The factory, 90x93 feet, is of steel and continuance sash construction with a monitor. The company is capitalised at $180,000, and at present employs 25 men. The principal products, which find a market throughout New England and in Chicago and Baltimore, include a special adhesive for sticking cork discs into bottle caps; rubber vulcanising cement for brushes; a shellac substitute for "doping" seams of food containers; and "Grippit," an entirely new adhesive designed for universal use. The two distinguishing features of "Grippit" are that it cannot wrinkle tissue paper and the smears around the edges are easily cleaned off with the lingers without soiling them. Plans are now forming for a large increase of the firm's products in the near future. At present it ia doing a volume of business at the rate of 8125,000 a year.
From the Cambridge Tribune, 1920
The factory, 90x93 feet, is of steel and continuance sash construction with a monitor. The company is capitalised at $180,000, and at present employs 25 men. The principal products, which find a market throughout New England and in Chicago and Baltimore, include a special adhesive for sticking cork discs into bottle caps; rubber vulcanising cement for brushes; a shellac substitute for "doping" seams of food containers; and "Grippit," an entirely new adhesive designed for universal use. The two distinguishing features of "Grippit" are that it cannot wrinkle tissue paper and the smears around the edges are easily cleaned off with the lingers without soiling them. Plans are now forming for a large increase of the firm's products in the near future. At present it ia doing a volume of business at the rate of 8125,000 a year.
From the Cambridge Tribune, 1920
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