H.C. Starck Newton facility — MIT vacuum metallurgy spin-off

Cited as an example of how WWII-era vacuum metallurgy at MIT spun off into commercial reactive-metals firms. Now a Bayer Chemical subsidiary.

There's a firm out here in Newton, built in the sticks, now in the residential suburbs, called H.C. Starck. It's a spin-off indirectly of MIT. Now it's a subsidiary of Bayer Chemical — Bayer aspirin. The Sloan School is in the National Research building, and National Research was one of the spin-offs of this vacuum metallurgy; they developed a good vacuum furnace.