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Rapid Industrial Plastics Co Inc company history timeline

1956

1956 - Reliant Regal 111, first commercially successful all glass-reinforced-plastic bodied car goes on sale

1956 - DuPont files patents for first acetals (POM)

1958

1958 - First production of polycarbonates (Bayer and General Electric)

1960

1960 - Ethylene-vinyl acetate co-polymers launched by DuPont

1965

1965 - Kevlar® is first developed by DuPont

1966

1966 - Development of vinyl wall coverings for better interior hygiene

1970

1970 - First Yellow HDPE pressure pipes for gas introduced into UK by Wavin/British Gas.

1976

1976 - Plastics in its great variety of forms becomes the most used type of material in the world

1979

1979 - Introduction of first commercial mobile/ portable ‘phones

1980

1980 - First Blue HDPE pressure pipes for potable water introduced into UK.

1989

1989 - First light-emitting polymers (poly-ethyne) discovered in Cambridge

1994

1994 - Smart car with lightweight flexible integrally coloured polycarbonate panels introduced

2000

2000 - First commercial metallocene catalysed polyolefins introduced.

2003

2003 - A sustainable European PVC recycling system, Recovinyl, was established

2005

2005 - NASA explores the advantages of a polyethylene based material RFX1, as the material for the spaceship that will send man to Mars

2011

2011 - VinylPlus, a new industry sustainability programme established

2013

2013 - Recovinyl recycles more than one million PVC-U window frames per year in the UK

2022

The future (2022) - The 2022 FIFA World Cup Qatar Showcase Stadium has been designed to use super reflective, triangulated PVC fabric to create a zero carbon, sustainable stadium providing comfortable playing conditions

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1955
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