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Fiber glass used as insulation still accounts for 70% of sales, but the development of other products has been stepped up by the invention of a double-nozzle spray gun that shoots fiber and liquid resin simultaneously, thus creating an easy and inexpensive method of spraying fiber glass onto molds. One new product, in fact, almost wrecked the industry. Boats made of plastic reinforced with fiber glass became a quick success, and before long, dozens of boat companies were building them. The supply of fiber glass got so scarce that it had to be allocated while the firms rushed...
...well as ideas Aronson turns to the past. "In a sense, I'd have been at home if I'd lived 600 years ago," he says. He is the U.S.'s foremost master of the ancient and dangerous medium of encaustic, a blend of wax, resin, varnish and oil fused together by heat. His paintings always burst into flame. Says he: "It's like working on a hot griddle, scrambling eggs." The result is a warm, waxy panel more durable and more translucent than oils...
...times E.D.T. him in bow resin for years to come...
...board itself-commonly a polyurethane foam strip coated with Fiberglas and glossed with polyester resin-used to be cut to order, depending on the user's height, weight and skill, at a cost of $115 to $150. Now popular demand has brought readymade "pop-out" models for $70, even finish-it-yourself "blanks" that sell for as little as $30 wholesale. This year dealers expect to sell at least 30,000 boards, and rentals are booming...
...supplied with fresh milk. In 1875 the company moved into fresh milk, lapped up so many smaller dairies in the late 1920s that it was soon the biggest U.S. milk distributor. It did not spread far beyond milk products until the mid-1930s, when it developed its own synthetic resin glues for plywood, furniture and. eventually, automobile brake linings. After World War II, it moved on to other chemical products, including thermoplastic glues, and into plastics and formaldehyde (of which it is the biggest U.S. producer). It now turns out 800 chemical products and has worldwide chemical sales...