Atlanta, Oct. 17, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Bakelite Synthetics, a leading global integrated producer of thermoset specialty resins, systems and engineered thermoset molding compounds, is featuring an ...

Made of a combination of phenol and formaldehyde, Bakelite is a type of plastic that became popular during the 1930s and 40s as a material not only for jewelry, but for other consumer goods like ...

Bakelite is the seminal precursor of modern-day plastics, developed in the early 1900s by a Belgian chemist named Leo Baekeland. It includes natural wood flour and heat-set phenol formaldehyde resin, ...

When Leo Hendrik Baekeland invented Bakelite in 1907, he changed the world — ushering in the Age of Plastics and transforming the way people lived. The phenolic resin took off first as a superior, ...

Bakelite - or phenol-formaldehyde - is famous because it was the first synthetic plastic material that could be mass-produced. The Victorians discovered natural plastics - such as shellac and gutta ...

New York, Jan. 04, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Reportlinker.com announces the release of the report "Phenolic Resins Global Market Report 2022: Ukraine-Russia War Impact ...

Baekeland was hardly alone in his quest for a better varnish. The shellac issue was one of the hot topics of chemical research at the turn of the century. The sole source of shellac was the excretions ...