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Plastic Suppliers history
Plastic Suppliers company history timeline
1949 - First Airfix self-assembly model initially made of cellulose acetate and later polystyrene
1949 - High impact polystyrene introduced as a commercial plastic
1949 - Launch in US of Tupperware made from low density polyethylene
1953 - Commercialisation of polyester fibres introduces the concept of ‘drip dry’ and ‘non-iron’
1954 - Polystyrene foam (introduced by Dow Chemical Co.)
1955 - First production of high density polyethylene in UK
1956 - Eero Saarinen’s Tulip Chair launched, consisting of seat made of glass-fibre-reinforced plastic.
In 1957, on a small plot in Anaheim, California, the powerful chemical and synthetics manufacturer Monsanto—working with two MIT architects—constructed the first all-plastic house.
1957 - First production of polypropylene by Montecatini using Ziegler-Natta catalysts
1958 - First production of polycarbonates (Bayer and General Electric)
By 1960, plastics surpassed aluminum, and became one of the largest industries in the country.
1960 - Ethylene-vinyl acetate co-polymers launched by DuPont
1965 - Kevlar® is first developed by DuPont
1970 - First Yellow HDPE pressure pipes for gas introduced into UK by Wavin/British Gas.
In 1974, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration issued its first major regulatory decision—a restriction on worker exposure to vinyl chloride after sixteen American and ten European vinyl laborers died from angiosarcoma, a rare liver cancer.
Amidst huge lines at the gas pump and surging oil prices, the first polyethylene terephthalate (PET) disposable soda bottle was introduced in 1975.
1976 - Plastics in its great variety of forms becomes the most used type of material in the world
1979 - Introduction of first commercial mobile/ portable ‘phones
1979 - First PVC-U double glazed windows installed in the UK
1980 - First Blue HDPE pressure pipes for potable water introduced into UK.
Star Plastics has its origin in parent company SDR Plastics, which was formed in 1988 as a post-industrial recycling company.
1989 - First light-emitting polymers (poly-ethyne) discovered in Cambridge
1994 - Smart car with lightweight flexible integrally coloured polycarbonate panels introduced
2000 - First commercial metallocene catalysed polyolefins introduced.
2004 - First window manufactured from 100% post-consumer recycled PVC
2005 - Polycond project established to look at the potential of conductive polymers
2013 - Recovinyl recycles more than one million PVC-U window frames per year in the UK
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| Company name | Founded date | Revenue | Employee size | Job openings |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Progressive Converting | 1991 | $83.3M | 200 | - |
| Taber Extrusions | 1973 | $19.9M | 100 | 18 |
| Jones Plastic | 1961 | $1.4B | 1,310 | - |
| New Process Steel | 1906 | $70.0M | 1,000 | - |
| New York Wire | - | $26.0M | 200 | - |
| Tara Materials | 1966 | $8.5M | 150 | - |
| Mapes Piano String | 1912 | $45.6M | 200 | - |
| Great Southern Industries, Inc. | - | $18.6M | 50 | 9 |
| The Plastics Group of America | 1973 | $2.6M | 35 | - |
| All Weather Insulated Panels | 2007 | $19.0M | 114 | 21 |
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