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Guide to the Calgon Corporation Records 1919-1997
Metadata Details
- Title
- Calgon Corporation records 1919-1990
- Subject
- Kaufman, Charles, Hagan Chemicals and Controls, Inc., Calgon Corporation., Calgon Carbon Corporation., Water--Softening, Water--Purification
- Description
- The Calgon Corporation Records document the history of the company and its products and equipment, and consists of compiled histories of the company; newsletters and publications; product information and advertisements; equipment descriptions; employee training manuals and technical guides; photographs and correspondence focused on Calgon engineer Charles E. Kaufman; 35mm slides of products and equipment; and photographs and negatives of company functions and facilities. The Calgon Corporation Records consist of 17 boxes and are separated into six series: I. Corporate History, II. Publications, III. Products and Equipment, IV. Media, V. Technical Manuals, VI. Charles E. Kaufman. Additionally there are two oversized items associated with this collection: two photographs from the second annual sales conference in 1955, and a book of presentation charts from Robert Newcomers The Challenging Problems of Water product campaign., Calgon Corporation records, 1919-1990, MSS 0693, Thomas and Katherine Detre Library and Archives, Senator John Heinz History Center, Cataloging of this collection was funded by a Basic Processing grant from NHPRC., Calgon Corporation Gift 1997 1997.0235, Robert Newcomer Gifts 2006, 2012 2006.0242, 2012.0020., Anthony Pizzuto Gifts 2006, 2011 2006.0241, 2011.0121, In 1918 John M. Hopwood and Thomas A. Peebles co-founded the Hagan Corporation in Pittsburgh, Pa., which designed and sold automatic controls to regulate the supply of fuel and air to boiler furnaces in industrial facilities and ships. The chemical Calgon, which prevents calcium build-up and the formation of insoluble lime soap, was developed in 1926. Calgon soon became the foundation for the Hagan Corporations residential, commercial, and industrial types of water conditioning solutions. Between 1920 and 1959 Hagan Corporation acquired several smaller chemical companies and laboratories, expanding their product line and opening new facilities throughout United States and internationally. The Calgon Corporation acquired Pittsburgh Activated Carbon Company (formerly Pittsburgh Coke and Chemical Company, Inc.) in 1965 and took over the manufacture of granular activated carbon for the removal of impurities from liquids. Through a merger in 1968 Calgon Corporation became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Merck & Co., Inc. After a buyout of the activated carbon business and its assets in 1985, Calgon Carbon Corporation was formed. Calgon Carbon Corporation remains a publicly-traded member of the New York Stock Exchange and is a global competitor in water management, paper chemicals, surface treatments, and specialty chemicals., Gifts of the Calgon Corporation, Robert Newcomer, and Anthony Pizzuto, Processed MSS 0693 01/2011 A. Toner, Collection level finding aid available. A preliminary inventory was created by a HSWP volunteer in 1997.
- Contributor
- Calgon Corporation, Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center (depositor)
- Date
- 1919-1990
- Type
- Collection, Text
- Format
- print, manuscript, 16.0 linear ft.
- Identifier
- oclc:801258342, pitt:US-QQS-mss693
- Language
- eng
- Relation
- http://digital.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/f/findaid/findaid-idx?c=hswpead;cc=hswpead;rgn=main;view=text;didno=US-QQS-mss693
- Rights
- Copyright Not Evaluated. The copyright and related rights status of this Item has not been evaluated. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use., http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/
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