DALLAS, TX — When W.E. Eustis started Eustis Smelting Works in Virginia in 1899, he could not have conceived that 100 years later the offspring — Virginia KMP — would be a supplier of air conditioning and refrigeration components and products.
So how did the company transform from a copper smelting operation to serving the hvacr industry? During the 1920s, it developed a process to produce dry sulfur dioxide (SO2) and methyl chloride, which became the refrigerants of choice for domestic refrigerators until the advent of DuPont’s Freon, according to the company.