Word: plaskon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This was due partially to Plaskon Co. which became a Libbey-Owens division in April...
...fertile laboratories are those of the spectacular plastics industry. Nine years ago Mellon Institute presented Toledo Scales Co. with a urea-formaldehyde resin which combined the best features of two earlier plastics, cellulose acetate (translucent, colorable) and phenolic resin (heat-resistant, hard). Toledo Scales formed Plaskon Co., Inc., began using its plastics to replace the porcelain-enameled iron housing of its scales. But Plaskon's uses multiplied like rabbits, soon invaded gardens sacred to glass. Transparent, less shatterable, more easily molded than glass, some plastics are already used for airplane windshields. Toledo Scales' big neighbor...
Last week L-O-F President John David Biggers (famed unemployment census taker, now on the Defense Advisory Commission) met the threatened invasion head on. L-O-F bought out Toledo's 70% control of Plaskon for some $2,500,000, became the first glass company to enter the plastics field. When plastics automobile windows are built, L-O-F may well build them...