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...great has been the demand that the company has had to put all Kaycel customers on rations; since there is not enough to go around, manufacturers are turning to Du Font's Ree-may, a "spunbonded" polyester, and are also using Kendall's Webril, a nonwoven rayon. Kaycel marketing experts calculate current expenditures for disposable goods made from Kaycel and similar materials at $50 million per year, think the figure could reach $300 million within five years...
Prodded by the press, by state governments and by Congress, which is holding hearings on a tire-safety bill, the rubber companies are rolling out a whole batch of new tires that have some of the most important changes since the introduction of rayon cord (1938), nylon cord (1947) and tubeless tires (1947). Compared with existing tires, they wear longer, are less likely to blow out, grip the road more strongly, and keep their shape better...
...timber, which the Japanese then cleverly turn into musical instruments. France's Pechiney has a contract for an aluminum plant at Slatina; Sweden's ASEA is building $10 million worth of electric locomotives to replace Rumania's wheezing steam behemoths. Chatillon of Milan has a rayon-cord-tire factory in the works near Brăila, while Italy's Carle & Montanari will add to Rumania's already ample waistlines with a chocolate works in Bucharest...
Available next week throughout the U.S. for the easily disposed of price of $1 will be Scott Paper Co.'s easily disposable paper dress. Made of a flexible triple-ply, fire-resistant paper reinforced with rayon scrim, the dress is a sleeveless shift with two pockets, comes in four sizes and a choice of design-gay bandanna print or eye-arresting...
...Frenchman created rayon back in 1884, and European textile makers began weaving fabrics out of nylon a year after Du Pont developed it in 1938. But the havoc of World War II and a certain resistance to wash-and-wear and wrinkle-free clothes made Europe lag behind the switch to synthetic fibers that swept the U.S. in the 1950s. Now Europe is making up for lost time. Synthetic fibers have become a $2.6 billion business in Western Europe v. $2.4 billion in the U.S. Close to two dozen new chemical-based fiber plants are being built in Europe...