In the early morning hours of November 25, 1943, Thanksgiving Day, a thunderclap disrupted the quiet holiday sunrise as the retaining wall of Allied Chemical’s Solvay Process Division’s sludge bed No.

It was probably the most unusual Thanksgiving in Central New York history. Just after 3 a.m. on Nov. 25, 1943, an air depot guard was finishing up his patrol and was returning to his post near the ...

Solvay plans to sell its process materials business to Composites One, a composites distributor and services firm. The business makes equipment used to manufacture parts such as carbon fiber–epoxy ...