History and market today

The first acrylic emulsion polymer was already introduced in 1931 by the German I.G. Farben Industrie for leather finishing. But the large-volume applications occurred not imtil the 1960s when new water-borne adhesives and paints were introduced. 

Polyvinyl acetate dispersions were produced on industrial scale in the 1930s and used as wood glues and later for high-speed packaging. In the 1950s latex house paints were introduced. 

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