1909 | Casein plastics, derived from milk, developed by Erinoid. |
1910 | stockings made of viscose (CA) begin to be manufactured in Germany |
1915 | Queen Mary sees casein products at the British Industries Fair and orders several pieces of jewellery made from it |
1916 | Rolls Royce begins to use phenol formaldehyde in its car interiors and boasts about it |
1919 | Eichengrun produce first cellulose acetate moulding powder |
1921 | Beginning of rapid growth of phenolic mouldings especially for electrical insulation, with addition of phenolic laminates in 1930 |
1922 | Staudinger publishes his work that recognises that plastics are composed of long chain molecules – leading to Nobel prize in 1935 |
1924 | Rossiter at British Cyanide develops urea thiourea formaldehyde resins, subsequently commercialised as the first water white transparent thermosetting moulding powder. |
1926 | Harrods hosts first display of new coloured thermosetting plastic tableware produced by Brookes and Adams, The Streetly Manufacturing Company and Thomas De La Rue and Co. |
1926 | Eckert and Ziegler patent first commercial modern plastics injection moulding machine. |