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[[File:Auburn Mill DE.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|Former NVF paper mill in the [[Auburn Mills Historic District]], near Yorklyn, Delaware.]]
'''NVF Company''', formerly known as '''National Vulcanized Fiber''',<ref>{{cite news
|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1979/04/15/archives/corporate-names-a-tendency-toward-alphabet-soup-from-letters-to.html
|title=Corporate Names: A Tendency Toward Alphabet Soup; From Letters to Words
|first=Sally
|last=Urang
|date=April 15, 1979
|page=F3
|newspaper=The New York Times
|quote=... Company (formerly the National Vulcanized Fiber Company) had expanded its holdings in the APL Corporation (once called Admiral Plastics Corporation). ...
|accessdate=July 3, 2011}}</ref> was a private company based in [[Yorklyn, Delaware]]. One of its original products, a sheet-like material called [[Forbon]], was commonly used on [[guitar pickup]]s.<ref>{{cite web
|url=http://www.nvf.com/forbon/forbon.htm
|title=Forbon® Vulcanized Fibre
|publisher=NVF Company
|accessdate=July 3, 2011}}</ref> NVF also made a product called Yorkite, another [[vulcanized fibre]], that has wood grain printed directly on the material.
At one time, the company generated an estimated $42.2 million in sales and had about 550 employees.
NVF stopped manufacturing Vulcanized Fibre in Yorklyn after a flood in 2003 damaged the equipment. Corporate offices continued to operate until 2009, when they declared bankruptcy and dissolved the company,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/local/2015/04/22/nvf-yorklyn-brownfield/26174575/|title=Optimism grows for Yorklyn factory rebirth|website=delawareonline|language=en|access-date=2019-06-12}}</ref> including the [[Kennett Square, Pennsylvania|Kennett Square]] facility which made Industrial Plastic Laminates. At that point, NVF Company ceased to exist.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.dvdc.com/Kennett-NVF/|title=Kennett NVF|website=www.dvdc.com|access-date=2019-06-12}}</ref>
==History==
The company was formed by the merger of American Vulcanized Fiber Company, the [[National Fiber and Insulation Company]] and the Keystone Fiber Company on January 1, 1923.<ref>{{cite news
|url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/chicagotribune/access/353981602.html?dids=353981602:353981602&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Dec+28%2C+1922&author=&pub=Chicago+Tribune&desc=FINANCIAL+NOTES.&pqatl=google
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121107084337/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/chicagotribune/access/353981602.html?dids=353981602:353981602&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Dec+28,+1922&author=&pub=Chicago+Tribune&desc=FINANCIAL+NOTES.&pqatl=google
|url-status=dead
|archive-date=November 7, 2012
|title=Financial Notes
|newspaper=Chicago Tribune
|date=December 28, 1922
|quote=Announcement is that the American Vulcanized Fiber company, the National Fiber and Insulation company and the Keystone Fiber company have arranged to consolidate on Jan 1 The new concern will be known as the National Vulcanized Fiber company ...
|accessdate=July 3, 2011}}</ref>
Company president Warren Marshall's 1936 salary was included in a list of "highest salaries paid in nation" released in 1938 by a Congressional committee.<ref>{{cite news
|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1938/01/09/archives/highest-salaries-paid-in-nation-in-1936-are-listed-by-house.html
|title=Highest Salaries Paid in Nation in 1936 Are Listed by House Committee; Salaries of $50,000 or More as Listed for 1936 in Other States
|newspaper=The New York Times
|date=January 9, 1938
|accessdate=July 3, 2011}}</ref>
In 1946, the company's shares began trading on the [[New York Stock Exchange]].<ref>{{cite news
|url=https://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FB0812F93E5D177A93C0AB178AD85F428485F9
|title=Stock Exchange Notes
|newspaper=The New York Times
|date=January 22, 1946
|quote=New York Stock Exchange admitted yesterday to the list and dealings the $1 par value common stock of National Vulcanized Fiber Company.
|accessdate=July 3, 2011}}</ref>
In the 1990s, the company was controlled by financier [[Victor Posner]].<ref name="nyt2011_11_11" />
NVF was involved in a dispute with the city of [[Holyoke, Massachusetts]] about unpaid taxes on a paper factory there which was later destroyed by fire.<ref>{{cite news
|url=http://www.masslive.com/chicopeeholyoke/republican/index.ssf?/base/news-14/120893491452440.xml
|title=Holyoke upheld in claim case
|date=April 23, 2008
|first=Ken
|last=Ross
|newspaper=The Republican
|location=Springfield, Massachusetts
|accessdate=July 3, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.masslive.com/hampfrank/republican/index.ssf?/base/news-2/1213168888173190.xml
|title=Arson suspected in Holyoke mill fire
|date=June 11, 2008
|first=Jeanette
|last=DeForge
|newspaper=The Republican
|location=Springfield, Massachusetts
|accessdate=July 3, 2011}}</ref>
An NVF facility in [[Kennett Square, Pennsylvania]] was found to be contaminated by [[polychlorinated biphenyl]]s.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.epa.gov/reg3hwmd/super/sites/PAD107214116/index.htm |title=Mid-Atlantic Superfund. National Vulcanized Fiber (NVF) |publisher=Environmental Protection Agency |accessdate=July 3, 2011 }}</ref>
A former NVF manufacturing site in [[Newark, Delaware]] has been redeveloped by the Commonwealth Group of [[New Castle, Delaware]].<ref name="nyt2011_11_11">{{cite news
|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/11/realestate/a-historic-delaware-mill-is-transformed.html
|title=A Historic Delaware Mill Is Transformed
|first=Maureen
|last=Milford
|date=November 11, 2001
|newspaper=The New York Times
|accessdate=July 3, 2011}}</ref>
==References==
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==External links==
*{{Official website|http://www.nvf.com/}}
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