Allied Corp. was a major American company with operations in the chemical, aerospace, automotive, oil and gas industries. It was initially formed in 1920 as the Allied Chemical and Dye Corporation as an amalgamation of five chemical companies. In 1958, it was renamed Allied Chemical Corporation when it diversified into oil and gas exploration. Allied Chemical then became Allied Corporation in 1981. In 1985, Allied merged with the Signal Companies to become

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. AlliedSignal would eventually

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in 1999 and then adopt its name.

History

During

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controlled much of the world's chemical production. This resulted in critical shortages of certain

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s and especially

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, a vital compound used to make fertilizers and explosives.

Allied Chemical and Dye Corporation

In 1920, publisher Eugene Meyer and noted chemist William Henry Nichols founded Allied Chemical and Dye Corporation in order to address this shortcoming in American industrial production. Allied was an amalgamation of five existing companies with a total capitalization of $175,000,000, including Barrett Chemical Company (est. 1858),

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(est. 1899), National Aniline & Chemical Company (est. 1917), Semet-Solvay Company (est. 1895), and the Solvay Process Company (est. 1881). All manufacturing was consolidated in Buffalo, and much attention was given to improving the processes hastily introduced during

. Allied's first venture into new markets was the construction of a

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plant near

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in 1928. This would soon become the world's largest producer of ammonia.History of Allied Corporation at the Honeywell, Inc. website
retrieved 08-05-2012 National Aniline and Chemical Works had been formed in 1917 by the merger of Schoellkopf Aniline and Chemical, Beckers Aniline and Chemical of Brooklyn, and the Benzol Products Company. Included also were certain facilities of Semet-Solvay, the Barrett Company, and the General Chemical company that made coal tar intermediates. The executives were

Jacob F. Schoellkopf Jr. Jacob Friedrich Schoellkopf Jr. (February 27, 1858 – September 9, 1942) was an American business executive, founder of Allied Corp., Schoellkopf Aniline and Chemical Works, and member of the Schoellkopf family who were involved in hydroelectric ...

, C. P. Hugo Schoellkopf, I. F. Stone, and Dr. William G. Beckers. Henry Francis Atherton joined as Secretary of the National Aniline and Chemical Company in the 1920s and served as president of Allied Chemical and Dye Corporation from 1934 to 1946. He was also chairman of the board from 1935, until his death in 1949.

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After

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, Allied began manufacturing other products, including

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and plastic

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. The company name was simplified to reflect this diversification, becoming Allied Chemical Corporation in 1958. It also moved its headquarters to

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. In 1962, Allied bought Union Texas Natural Gas. Allied initially regarded Union as a

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supplier of raw materials for its chemical products. However, CEO John T. Connor, secretary of commerce under president

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, sold many of Allied's unprofitable businesses in the 1970s and invested more heavily in oil and gas exploration. By 1979, Union Texas was generating 80% of Allied's revenue. Between 1978 and 1979, Allied funded '' The MacNeil/Lehrer Report'' on public television.

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As the company sought to further diversify its operations, it was renamed Allied Corporation in 1981. Its next acquisition, in 1983, was

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, an aerospace and automotive firm. By 1984, Bendix was generating 50% of Allied's income, while oil and gas generated 38%. Between 1964 and 1984, the

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s used to identify Allied Chemical's

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on the

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network was ''NLX''.Railroad reporting marks, N
retrieved 08-05-2012. At one point in 1985, Allied funded ''

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'' on PBS.

AlliedSignal

In 1985, Allied merged with the Signal Companies to become

. The company would eventually

in 1999, and adopt its name.

References

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