H.C. STARCK INC

摘要

The History of H.C. Starck Inc, Newton, Massachusetts, U.S.A. Information was recently received from Dr. Christopher J. B. Fincham, former Executive Vice President of NRC, Inc concerning the history of the operations at Newton, Massachusetts, a company with its beginnings in 1940. We are pleased to bring you this detailed history of a company from the early days of the tantalum and niobium industry which is still important today. Richard S. Morse, a young physicist, convinced William A. Coolidge, an investor, that vacuum technology represented a very significant process technology for the future. Morse, with the major funding share from Coolidge, established National Research Corporation in Boston, Massachusetts, moving later to Cambridge. Vacuum processes were developed for the coating of lenses, metallizing of plastics and paper, the manufacture of instant coffee and the production of frozen orange juice concentrate. Profits from the sale of these technologies financed further development of process technologies and applications.