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General Bakelite Company

Baekeland in America obtained his first patent for materials prepared from these two compounds. In 1910 he founded the General Bakelite Company to exploit this development, in the process making phenol-formaldehydes, the first synthetic polymers to achieve commercial importance. [Pg.14]

We learned much from nature with these early attempts to produce useful polymer products based on modified, or reconstituted ( semisynthetic ) natural polymers, and many of these processes are still in use today. The first of the purely synthetic commercial polymers came with the small-scale introduction of Bakelite in 1907. This phenol-formaldehyde resin product was developed by Leon Baekeland. It rapidly became a commercial reality with the formation of The General Bakelite Company by Baekeland, and construction of a larger plant at Perth Amboy, New Jersey, in 1910. At about this time styrene was being combined with dienes in the early commercialization of processes to produce synthetic rubber. Polystyrene itself was not a commercial product in Germany until 1930 and in the U.S.A. in 1937. The only other purely synthetic polymers that made a commercial appearance during this early development period were polyvinyl chloride and polyvinyl acetate, both in the early 1920s. [Pg.670]

The thermosetting plastic was first made commercially in 1910 by General Bakelite Company (later called Bakelite Corporation), which Union Carbide acquired in 1939. [Pg.6]

Leo Hendrik Baekeland s process for the phenol-formaldehyde polycondensation resin that he called Bakelite was patented in 1907 and commercialized by his General Bakelite Company, established in Perth Amboy, New Jersey, in 1910. A British factory, a subsidiary of Bakelite s German holding company, was opened at Cowley, Middlesex, in 1914. Baekeland also coined the name Novolac, which at one time was used as the trade mark for Novolak phenol-formaldehyde resins, following his observation that they behaved like lac resins. Phenol-formaldehyde resins were found to be thermosetting (hard and unmouldable when heated), and formed by condensation ... [Pg.179]

The first truly synthetic polymer was a densely cross-linked material based on the reaction of phenol and formaldehyde see Section 14.2. The product, called Bakelite, was manufactured from 1910 onward for applications ranging from electrical appliances to phonograph records (16,17). Another early material was the General Electric Company s Glyptal, based on the condensation reaction of glycerol and phthalic anhydride (18), which followed shortly after Bakelite. However, very little was known about the actual chemical structure of these polymers until after Staudinger enunciated the Macromolecular Hypothesis in 1920. [Pg.20]

During the first decade of the twentieth century, Leo Baekeland developed the first practical process for making molded objects from phenol-formaldehyde resins. The company he formed was named General Bakelite Co. and he called his product bakelite. The development of these early materials was largely an art because very little was known about the chemistry and physical changes that led to the final products. In the mid-1920s Hermann Staudinger hypothesized that... [Pg.624]


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