http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification 720 https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/search?f1-objectType%3Dbiography Results for your query: f1-objectType=biography Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/5623.eac.xml <p>Abbeyhorn is one of the oldest and most successful English horn works.  It has manufactured animal horn products since it was founded by the Humpherson Family of Bewdley, in 1749.  The family maintained ownership for 171 years. </p> <p>In 1912, Humpherson horn works moved to Gloucester, and around 1920 the works were sold to Mr. Grove, a relative of the Grove family of Halesowen, a center of the horn button industry.  In 1923, Grove sold to Percy Leresche who renamed the company "The Abbey Horn Works" after Llanthony Abbey.  In 1932, Leresche moved the works to Kendal, Cumbria, and merged the firm with the horn comb works owned by James Troughton and Sons, making Jim Troughton a partner.</p> <p>In 1955, Abbey Horn Works was sold to Mr. and Mrs. John Barnes, but Percy Leresche continued to work with John Barnes until his death a few years later. The export market expanded and the company name was changed to "Abbey Horn... https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/5623.eac.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/5540.eac.xml <p>James Anthony Abbiati is an American engineer and businessman who directs the Extrusion Division of Cincinnati Milicron (now Milicron Plastics Technologies).</p> <p>Abbiati has degrees in Industrial Technology and engineering and an MBA from the University of New Haven.</p> <p>Before joining Cincinnati Milicron in 1994, Abbiati spent fifteen years at Davis-Standard’ Extrusion Division in Connecticut where he served as Vice President and Executive Committee member, promoting a new technology center focus on medical extrusion lines, statistical process controls and resin-based screw development. At Cincinnati Milicron, Abbiati played an important role in the reorganization of the company’s Extrusion Division of which he is president.</p> <p>Abbiati has been active member of the Society of the Plastics Industry (SPI), having served on the Machinery Division Board and on SPI’s Planning, Strategic Management, statistical and Global Business... https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/5540.eac.xml Wed, 01 Jan 1941 12:00:00 GMT https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/5120.eac.xml Producer of Abson ABS resin. https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/5120.eac.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/5626.eac.xml <p>Long Island City, NY, custom molding company founded by Leo Adenbaum in 1928.</p> https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/5626.eac.xml Sun, 01 Jan 1928 12:00:00 GMT https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/4595.eac.xml <p>The Camden, New Jersey company is one of the oldest full line fastener dealers in operation.  Among its many recognizable products is the Ace Liner stapler, also known as "The Executive's Stapler", produced continuously for more than 40 years.</p> <p>See:</p> <p><a href="http://www.acefastener.com/index.html">Ace Fastener Corp. company website</a></p> https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/4595.eac.xml Tue, 01 Jan 1952 12:00:00 GMT https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/5369.eac.xml Achhammer served as President of the Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE) in 1967. During his long association with SPE, he served as president of the Baltimore-Washington Section in 1958, councilor from 1962 to 1965, vice chairperson of SPE's Engineering Board in 1964, vice chairperson of the SPE Administrative Board in 1965, and vice president, engineering, in 1966. Achhammer was honored by NASA for his work on fire-resistant materials for aircraft while managing their polymer research program. https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/5369.eac.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1920 12:00:00 GMT https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/4977.eac.xml <p>Robert W. Ackley is an American engineer and businessman. He started his career at Davis-Standard immediately after high school graduation in 1959. Attending night school, he earned his Mechanical Engineering degree from Mitchell College and an MBA from the University of New Haven in 1980. In his 46 years with Davis-Standard, Ackley held several key positions within the corporation including design engineer, group leader, manager of technical engineering, field service manager, sales product manager, and spare parts manager.</p> <p>While working in the engineering department of Davis-Standard, Ackley developed and patented a "self-aligning seal tip" to solve an expansion problem on extrusion systems for insulating medium and high voltage power cables.</p> <p>He also served as Vice President of Operations, Vice President of Engineering and Research Development and he was awarded a patent for an apparatus used in curing crosslinked polyethylene. In 1979, Mr. Ackley was... https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/4977.eac.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/5257.eac.xml Information on this company is not currently available. https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/5257.eac.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/5432.eac.xml Information on this company is not currently available. https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/5432.eac.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/5685.eac.xml <p>Acro-matic Corp. is a Leominster, Massachusetts full serivce custom injection molding company. The company specializes in insert molding, medical molding and structural foam molding.  Products include automotive parts, medical equipment, and kitchen gadgets.  Acro-matic provides a wide range of production solutions, such as welding, painting, assembling, packaging, and shielding.</p> https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/5685.eac.xml Mon, 01 Jan 1973 12:00:00 GMT https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/4596.eac.xml English company. https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/4596.eac.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/4600.eac.xml Aladdin Industries evolved from the Western Lighting Company, founded in 1907 in Chicago by Victor S. Johnson, Sr. and incorporated in 1908 as the Mantle Lamp Company.  In 1914 The Mantle Lamp Company created a wholly owned subsidiary named Aladdin industries to develop and sell thermos bottles and other temperature conserving items.  In 1949 the two companies merged taking the subsidiary company name, Aladdin Industries, and moved to Nashville, Tennessee at which time the company began to develop the production of metal lunchboxes, and was the maker of the first character lunchbox, using images of Hopalong Cassidy in 1950.  In the 1980s and 1990s the company developed foam insulated mugs and other beverage containers.  Today Aladdin is a vendor of lunchboxes, kerosene lamps, stoves and thermal food storage containers.   The company makes recycled and recyclable plastic mugs and food containers under the name eCycle. Since 2002 Aladdin is a brand of privately-held Pacific Market ... https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/4600.eac.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1914 12:00:00 GMT https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/4553.eac.xml <p>This Newark, New Jersey, company was the first American manufacturer of casein plastics, which were introduced to the United States around 1919, mostly for use in buttons and dress ornaments, but also, according to an advertisement "in radio, for novelties, fountain pens, pencils, cigarette holders, beads and combs." <em>Plastics</em> (Feb. 1930, 66)</p> <p>The same ad touted the Aladdinite product as a "strong, druable, workable materials that is inexpensive, non-inflammable and sanitary.  It machines easily because it is made form the finest quality of improted casein."</p> <p>Casein plastic was made using the enzyme rennet, which precipitated casein out of skim milk. The casein was washed, filtered, dried and ground and then mixed with plasticizers. The resulting compound was then pressed into cakes or extruded into profile shapes which could then be fashioned into specialized products by machine, which in America were then sold unde... https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/4553.eac.xml Wed, 01 Jan 1919 12:00:00 GMT https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/4559.eac.xml <p>Founded as the Hyatt Billiard Ball Company, the Albany Billiard Ball Company was one of the first productive plastics companies in the world. The small company was first housed in the home of Peter Kinnear in Albany, New York, a friend of celluloid inventor John Wesley Hyatt, for whom the company was originally named. Hyatt had begun to experiment with combinations of material for a new type of billiard ball when in 1863 Phelan and Collender,  the leading billiards manufacturer, offered a $10,000 reward for a replacement material for ivory in billiard balls.  Hyatt succeeded in creating the new mateiral he would dub "celluloid," and also to created billiard balls using a mix of materials.  There is no eveidence, hwoever, that he ever claimed the prize.  In 1875, the Albany Billiard Ball Company was organized, succeeding Hyatt's original manufacturing company.</p> <p>According to local Albany historian Carl Johnson,  by 1871, Hyatt had... https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/4559.eac.xml Mon, 01 Jan 1866 12:00:00 GMT https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/4564.eac.xml Founded by John Wesley Hyatt and Isaiah Hyatt for the manufacture of celluloid dental plates, the firm soon produced knife handles, piano keys, and various other items resembling ivory. The Hyatts also supplied celluloid tubes, sheets, rods, and blocks to other manufacturers. In 1872 the firm moved to Newark, New Jersey, and was renamed the Celluloid Manufacturing Company (or Celluloid Company) and shifted to making unprocessed celluloid, which other manufacturers purchased to transform into products. See: Raymond B. Seymour and George B. Kauffman, "The Rise and Fall of Celluloid," Journal of Chemical Education 69, no. 4 (April 1992), pp. 311-314 See: John Wesley Hyatt Collection, Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/4564.eac.xml Sat, 01 Jan 1870 12:00:00 GMT https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/5451.eac.xml Artistic Latex Form Company, now out of business.  They manufactured resin-based decorations such as nativity sets, ship figureheads, and Indian statues. https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/5451.eac.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/5565.eac.xml <p>Turner Alfrey, Jr. was a noted teacher and research, who in more than thirty years at Dow Chemical Company as a research chemist explored a wide variety of chemical problems including polymerization kinetics, organic polymer chemistry, reactions on polymers, swelling and diffusion behavior, colloid chemistry, mechanics, property-structure relationships, rheology, and fabrication technology.</p> <p>Alfrey was born in Siloam Springs, Arkansas and grew up in Muskogee, Oklahoma. He graduated from Muskogee high School in 1934 and went on to receive a B.S. in chemical engineering from Washington University in St. Louis in 1938 and an M.S. in physical chemistry in 1940.  He received his Ph.D. in polymer chemistry from Polytechnic Institute in Brooklyn in 1943.  He worked for two years as a research chemist for Monsanto Chemical Company and then returned to the Polytechnic Institute as a member of the faculty of the Polymer Institute, where he completed his well-known reference ... https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/5565.eac.xml Tue, 01 Jan 1918 12:00:00 GMT https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/5299.eac.xml Information on this company is not currently available. Company catalogue available in Irwin Casper Collection of Brush Product Literature. https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/5299.eac.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/4962.eac.xml Allied Chemical produced several lines of dinnerware including 'artisan,' 'Meladur,' 'Sun Valley,' and 'Galaxy.' In the 1970s Allied produced Epiall epoxy, Capron nylon, Phenall phenolic, and Paxon polyethylene. See: Society of the Plastics Industry, Inc. Facts and Figures of the Plastics Industry, 1979 edition (New York, 1979). Wahlberg, Holly. Everyday Elegance: 1950s Plastic Design (Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing, Ltg., 1999), 97. https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/4962.eac.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/5265.eac.xml Information on this company is not currently available. https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/5265.eac.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/4567.eac.xml The American Acrylic Corporation was founded to manufacture attractive reinforced acrylic sheets for lighting and decorative applications. Today, the company continues to manufacture reinforced flat plastic sheets in a compression-molding process where liquid resins and reinforcements are combined and molded into reinforced flat sheets at elevated temperature and pressure. Some of the company's original technology resulted from research and development at the DuPont Company in Wilmington, Delaware. The offices and manufacturing operation were located in East Farmingdale, New York until 1980. The company then moved to larger quarters in West Babylon, New York, and nearly doubled its production capacity. Capacity to manufacture sheets five feet wide was added in 1985. According to the company website, American Acrylic Corporation today manufactures four distinct product lines: LUMAsite® Sheets and Diffusers - Reinforced acrylic sheets and diffusers marketed under the LUMAsite™ trade name for construct... https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/4567.eac.xml Wed, 01 Jan 1964 12:00:00 GMT https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/5751.eac.xml <p>Coschochton, Ohio company.  Active as printer in celluloid in the 1920s.</p> https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/5751.eac.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/4601.eac.xml <p>American Cyanamid Co. was incorporated in 1907.  In 1916 it purchased the entire stock of the Ammo-Phosphate Corp. in Warners, New Jersey.  By the 1940s it had grown to have six subsidiaries and one affiliate company.  American Cyanamid made chemicals for minig, agricultural, and industrial purposes include many source materials for plastics and plastics process including alkyd resins, Casein, melamines, phenolic resins and urea. </p> <p>Tradename plastics included Akco, Aero Brand Ester Gum, Beetle, Ketonone, Melmac, Phenac, Rezyl and Teglac,</p> <p>In the 1970s American Cyanamid was producer of Cymel and Melmac Melamine, and Cypor and Trak-less unsaturated polyester,</p> <p> </p> <p>See:</p> <p>Simonds, Herbert R. and Ellis, Carelton. <em>Handbook of Plastics</em> (New York: D. Van Nostrand Co., 1943), 10. </p> <p>Society of the Plastics Industry, Inc. <em>Facts and... https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/4601.eac.xml Tue, 01 Jan 1907 12:00:00 GMT https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/5122.eac.xml In 1979, SPI listed American hoechst as producer of Beckipex EP epoxy, Resamin melamine, Fosta nylon, Alftalat and Alpolit unsaturated polyester and Alkyds, Hostalen polyethylene, Alprodur and Hostalen polypropylene, Fostafoam, Fostalite, Fosterene and Fosta Tuf-Flex polystyrene and Rasamin urea. See: Society of the Plastics Industry, Inc. Facts and Figures of the Plastics Industry, 1979 edition (New York, 1979). https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/5122.eac.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/5463.eac.xml The American Hospital Supply Company, based in Evanston, Illinois,  was one of the leaders in the development of one-use disposable plastic objects in the early 1960s.  In 1962 the comapny created injection molded polystyrene razors, thumb forceps and suture cutters.  See: "Throw-aways for hospitals," Modern Plastics (July 1962), 109. https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/5463.eac.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/4576.eac.xml The American Insulator Company was established by Emile Hemming, Sr., who while in France developed the art of cold molding, producing the first record disc there in 1900. He came to America in 1908 and pioneered the use of cold-molded plastics in electrical insulation where they were popular because of their resistance to heat. https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/4576.eac.xml Sat, 01 Jan 1916 12:00:00 GMT https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/4901.eac.xml The Instrument Division in Buffalo, NY developed the Spencer Hb-Meter to give physicians a method of making hemoglobin determinations in less than three minutes.   Compression molded Lucite acrylic was used for the two halves of the meter case, the light button, the plug receptacle shell, the female plug on the cord, and the two halves of the accessery case. Rag-filled Melmac was used for the transformer case. Vinyl film was used for the carrying case.  All the molded parts were made at the American Optical plant in Southbridge, Mass. See: "Measuring Hb," Modern Plastics (May 1950), 62. https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/4901.eac.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/4974.eac.xml <p>American Plastics Corp. produced Ameroid and Karolith casein.</p> <p>In the 1950s American Plastics Corp. produced the Spaulding line of melamine dishes.</p> https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/4974.eac.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/4612.eac.xml <p>Information on this company is not currently available.</p> https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/4612.eac.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/5429.eac.xml Information on this company is not currently available. https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/5429.eac.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/4618.eac.xml Information on this company is not currently available. https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/4618.eac.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/4625.eac.xml <p>The  American Stationery company based in Peru, Illinois, has been a leading provider of personalized stationery and related products direct to the consumer.  American Stationery is a manufacturer, not a re-seller, with a brick and mortar facility in Peru, Indiana.</p> <p>In the 1920s American Stationery sold fine paper and other writings supplies packaged in elegant boxes made of phenolic thermoset plastics</p> <p>See:</p> <p><a href="http://www.americanstationery.com/">American Stationary Company website</a></p> https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/4625.eac.xml Wed, 01 Jan 1919 12:00:00 GMT https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/4584.eac.xml Invented in 1892 by Sir James Dewar, the "vacuum flask" was not manufactured for commercial use until 1904, when two German glass blowers formed Thermos GmbH, which in 1907 sold the Thermos trademark rights to three independent companies: The American Thermos Bottle Company of Brooklyn, NY; Thermos Limited of Tottenham, England; Canadian Thermos Bottle Co. Ltd. of Montreal, Canada. The American Thermos Bottle Company moved in 1910 from Brooklyn, NY to Manhattan to triple output and then moved again in 1912 to Norwich, CT, again to increase output. In 1925 Thermos merged with a small competitor, the Icy-Hot Bottle Company of Cincinnati, Ohio. While most of the development and improvement of Thermos bottles focused on products made of glass and metal, as early as the mid-1920s Thermos, Ltd. in England produced a thermos with a multi-faceted molded Bakelite form. The company more and more utilized a variety of phenolic plastic parts for thermos containers and accessories. In 1935 celebrated industrial designer H... https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/4584.eac.xml Tue, 01 Jan 1907 12:00:00 GMT https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/5613.eac.xml <p>The American Zylonite Company was founded in 1881 in the agricultural village of Howland, the northernmost village of Adams, Massachusetts, to manufacture cellulose nitrate plastic products under license from Daniel Spill's British Xylonite Company.  This became possible when an 1875 patent case concerning the formulation of pyroxylin plastic brought by Daniel Spill of England against John Wesley Hyatt was settled in Spill's favor by Judge C. J. Blatchford in 1880. Spill then sold his patents to Leroy L. Brown who established American Zylonite.  Brown was the owner of paper mills in Adams. Unlike the celluloid Manufacturing Company, which  used cellulose from wood pulp, American Zylonite used cellulose from cotton fiber, extracted from cloth paper acquired from the LL Brown paper mills. </p> <p>The Zylonite operation was managed by German-born chemist Dr. Emil Kipper with George M. Mowbray as technical director. Mowbray was one of the world's leading&am... https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/5613.eac.xml Sat, 01 Jan 1881 12:00:00 GMT https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/5127.eac.xml Produced Avi-sun, Olane, Olefil, oleflo, Oleflow, Oleform, Olemer, oletremp and Olex polypropylene. See: Society of the Plastics Industry, Inc. Facts and Figures of the Plastics Industry, 1979 edition (New York, 1979), 139. https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/5127.eac.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/4717.eac.xml <p>Samuel A. Amorosi was born May 9, 1913 in Somerville, MA, the son of George and Marietta (Ciprotti) Amorosi. The family moved to Leominster, MA when Samuel was young. He graduated from the School of the Worcester Art Museum in 1932.</p> <p>George and Samuel worked at Standard Pyroxoloid Company in Leomister, MA, where they designed mirrors and combs for vanity sets during the 1930s. He went on to become one of the first employees at Banner Mold & Die Company where he worked as a tool and die maker for 32 years, retiring in 1979.</p> <p>The SU Special Collections Research CenterPlastics Collection contains pencil drawings of comb designs presumably drawn by George and/or Samuel Amorosi and bound volume of photocopies of sketches.</p> <p><a href="http://library.syr.edu/digital/guides/a/amorosi_fam.htm">See Amorosi Family Collection</a></p> https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/4717.eac.xml Wed, 01 Jan 1913 12:00:00 GMT https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/5568.eac.xml <p>J. Lawrence Amos was born in New Matamoras, Ohio.  As a young man he worked in road construction to earn money toward his educational expenses at Marietta College, from which he recieved as BS degree in chemistry in 1928. He attended Case Institute of Technology in Cleveland, Ohio, where he earned his MS degree in chemical engineering in 1930.</p> <p>Amos joined Dow Chemical Company in Midland, Michigan in 1930 and began work  in the physical research laboratory. Throughout his long career at Dow, he was involved with research, development, and production of petrochemicals and of plastics made from those petrochemicals. Amos was actively involved in the invention synthetic rubber, Styrofoam, and plastic film, and is credited as inventor or co-inventor on 64 patents, 236 disclosures, and 106 applications in connection with foreign patents. He retired from Dow in 1971.</p> <p>During World War II, Amos was recognized for distinguished service to the Naval Ordnan... https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/5568.eac.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/4588.eac.xml Amos-Thompson Corp. Like many early plastics companies, the Amos-Thompson Corporation began as something else and gradually moved into the plastics field as demand for plastics materials and manufacturing technology improved. Amos-Thompson had its origins as the Amos Lumber Co. founded by Roy and Jack Amos and Henry Wertz in Edinburgh, Indiana that in the 1920s expanded to specialize in the production of veneers. Amos Lumber Co. operated from 1912 to 1914. In 1915 Jack and Roy Amos, Dr. R.C. Mayhall and Walter O'Neal formed the A.M. & O. Handle Co. to make handles. This was added to the earlier sawmill business. In 1916 the Amos' bought out their partners and renamed the company Amos Lumber Co. During the World War I the Amos Company furnished walnut gun stocks and walnut lumber for airplane propeller blades to the United States Government. The company built a veneer plant in 1925 and expanded this line of business to serve the furniture industry through the purchase of the W.T. Thompson Veneer Co. of nea... https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/4588.eac.xml Tue, 01 Jan 1929 12:00:00 GMT https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/5276.eac.xml Information on this company is not currently available. https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/5276.eac.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/5258.eac.xml Information on this company is not currently available. https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/5258.eac.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/5253.eac.xml Information on this company is not currently available. https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/5253.eac.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/5433.eac.xml Information on this company is not currently available. https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/5433.eac.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/5367.eac.xml <p><strong></strong>Paul G. Anderson is Director of Process Technology for Coperion Corporation in Ramsey, NJ., where he is responsible for Process Engineering and New Technology Development for Twin Screw Extrusion/Compounding within Coperion Corporation, and R&D coordination between Coperion in Europe and the U.S.</p> <p>Anderson received his BS in Theoretical & Applied Mechanics from Cornell University and Ph.D. in Materials Science from Northwestern.</p> <p>He has more than 30 years of experience in industrial polymer development and processing experience.  Anderson's primary areas of technical experience have been reactive compounding, and devolatilization.  Anderson holds patents in both of these areas as well as patents on screw element design for improved mixing. He has also worked extensively on compounding of multi phase engineering polymers, including nanocomposites and fiber reinforced materials. More recently the focus of... https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/5367.eac.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/5244.eac.xml Information on this company is not currently available. https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/5244.eac.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/4973.eac.xml This Erie, Pennsylvania company manufactured the 'Restraware' and 'Suburban' melamine kitchenware lines. https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/4973.eac.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/4632.eac.xml Information on this company is not currently available. https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/4632.eac.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/4633.eac.xml Information on this company is not currently available. https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/4633.eac.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/5460.eac.xml In the early 1960s Archer Daniels Midland Company's ADM Chemicals  produced 12 Admex vinyl plasticizer products, especially popular for vinyl flooring such as the Tessera Corlon line by Armstrong.  See: Ad, Modern Plastics, (April 1962), 137. https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/5460.eac.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/4638.eac.xml Information on this company is not currently available. https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/4638.eac.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/5296.eac.xml Information on this company is not currently available. https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/5296.eac.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/5121.eac.xml Maker of Dylel ABS resin. https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/5121.eac.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/4963.eac.xml Information on this company is not currently available. https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/4963.eac.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/4598.eac.xml In 1885 the Cellonite Company relocated from Newark, New Jersey, to a small factory in Arlington, New Jersey, where chemist Joseph France manufactured a high quality of pyroxylin plastic, which the company named Cellonite. The company reorganized for the production of the pyroxylin plastic, now renamed Pyralin, and the firm was also renamed the Arlington Manufacturing Company. The facility was destroyed by a devastating explosion and fire in 1887, illustrating the dangers in manufacturing the highly flammable cellulose nitrate plastics. By 1888, however, a new plant was built. In 1893 the company merged with the Arlington Collar and Cuff Company to become the Arlington Company of New Jersey. See: Keith Lauer and Julie Robinson. Celluloid Collectors Reference and Value Guide (Collector Books, 1999), 265-66. https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/4598.eac.xml Mon, 01 Jan 1883 12:00:00 GMT https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/5214.eac.xml Information on this company is not currently available. https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/5214.eac.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/5230.eac.xml <p>Robert L. Arner was born in 1925 in Canton, Ohio.  He left high school to join the Navy Seabees during World War II. After the war he obtained his diploma and a pilot's license. He continued to fly until 2010. Arner owned Sun Atate Plastics and was a partner in PPARLO Plastics in North Canton and Kenco Plastics in Owensboro, Kentucky. He was inducted into the Plastics Pioneers in 1987.</p> https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/5230.eac.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1925 12:00:00 GMT https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/4639.eac.xml <p>This Elk Grove Village, Illinois company manufactures and distributes items in hydration, tabletop, kitchen, cleaning, garden, storage and juvenile specialty products.</p> <p>See:</p> <p><a href="http://www.arrowplastic.com/">Company website</a></p> https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/4639.eac.xml Sun, 01 Jan 1961 12:00:00 GMT https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/4597.eac.xml The Hartford, Connecticut manufacturer of electrical supplies was formed by the 1927 merger of the Arrow Electric Company and the Hart & Hegeman Manufacturing Company. The Hart & Hegeman Division made electrical parts including wall plates trade-mark name Uniline. These were made of brown Bakelite and cream-tinted Ivorylite. The current company Arrow-Hart, is a division of Cooper Industries  https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/4597.eac.xml Sat, 01 Jan 1927 12:00:00 GMT https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/5308.eac.xml Located at 422 East 92nd St., NY, NY 10028.  Marketed the plastic Dax picture frame. https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/5308.eac.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/5236.eac.xml https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/5236.eac.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/5332.eac.xml Located in Budapest, Hungary. Company catalogue available in Irwin Casper Collection of Brush Product Literature. https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/5332.eac.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/5273.eac.xml Information on this company is not currently available. https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/5273.eac.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/5123.eac.xml <p>The Ashland Refining Company was founded in Ashland, Ky., in 1924 as the refining arm of the Swiss Oil Company, of Lexington, Ky. In 1936 Ashland Refining merged with Swiss Oil to form Ashland Oil & Refining Company.  The company changed its names to Ashland Inc. in 1995 to reflect its increasing diversification.</p> <p>Refining was the foundation of the company's development into other fields, including petrochemicals and plastics, until the sale of its oil and refining business to partner Marathon Oil in 2005.</p> <p>Ashland’s petrochemical business grew significantly throughout the 1950s and early 1960s. In 1967 following the purchase of ADM Chemical Group, Ashland Chemical was formed as an independent company division. In the 1970s Ashland chemical produced Adimo and Catadec melamine; Castastock, Catacol, Catacore, Catacote, Catafilm, Cataform, and Catalac phenolic; and Catabox urea. </p> <p>Today, Ashland Inc. is an internat... https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/5123.eac.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/5219.eac.xml Brooklyn, NY based company. https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/5219.eac.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/4640.eac.xml Information on this company is not currently available. https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/4640.eac.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/5252.eac.xml <p>Avco was an early aviation company with financial interests in scores of ...</p> <p>In 1947 AVCO name changed to Avco Manufacturing Corporation. 1959 Avco Manufacturing Corporation name changed to Avco Corporation.  1984 Textron acquired Avco Corporation, and renamed it Avco Systems Textron and in 1985 Avco Systems Textron became Textron Defense Systems.  In 1995 Textron Systems Corporation is created, consisting of what is now Textron Defense Systems, Textron Marine & Land Systems, and Lycoming.</p> <p>In the late 60s and 70s Avco Systems' Lowell, MA facility was manufacturing specialty materials such as boron and silicon carbide fibers and metal matrix composites (MMCs) for its own internal use. Most of these materials had been developed through government funding, including the Apollo program to land a man on the moon.</p> https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/5252.eac.xml Tue, 01 Jan 1929 12:00:00 GMT https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/4645.eac.xml Information on this company is not currently available. https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/4645.eac.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/4173.eac.xml An independent inventor and entrepreneur who also worked with Thomas Edison, Jonas Aylsworth pioneered the development of phenolic plastics following Leo Baekeland's first patent on them in 1909. He is credited with developing the first interpenetrating polymer network. Edison records used this material to manufacture all of its phonograph disks. Read the rest of the article on the Plastics Academy Hall of Fame website. https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/4173.eac.xml Wed, 01 Jan 1868 12:00:00 GMT https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/5026.eac.xml <div id="leftcolumn">Robert (Bob) Ayres was a leader in the Plastics Pipe Institute Inc.</div> <div> </div> <div>Ayres worked for Phillips Petroleum Co. in its plastics technical center, where he concentrated mainly on pipe projects. He was instrumental in significant developments for gas-pipe resins in the 1970s and also developed many other resins over the years used throughout the U.S., Europe and Asia.</div> <div id="leftcolumn"> <p>Ayres was named a lifetime member of PPI, an honor bestowed on only seven people during its 60-year history.  He  retired from Phillips in 1988 but continued to work on PPI’s Hydrostatic Stress Board.</p> <p>See:</p> <p><a href="http://plasticsnews.com/headlines2.html?id=11121201401&q=died">"PPI's Ayres dies at 78," <em>Plastics News Report</em> (Dec. 12, 2011)</a></p> </div> https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/5026.eac.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/4646.eac.xml <p><span class="maintext">The B.F. Blodgett Company was located in Leominster, Massachusetts on Cottage and Cotton Streets and made horn implements. <br /></span></p> https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/4646.eac.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/4605.eac.xml Throughout most of its history B. F. Goodrich (f. 1870 as Goodrich, Tew & Company) built its business on rubber production, gaining a reputation among U.S. tire makers as a leader in product development and innovation. In the early 20th century, Goodrich used its experience in the rubber industry to diversify into chemicals and plastics, and it spearheaded the development of synthetic rubber technology during World War II. Goodrich diversified its production in the postwar era and opened a new research center in Brecksville, Ohio, in 1948. The B.F. Goodrich Chemical Company was created as a subsidiary company in 1943 to take over the wartime plants and to build new facilities in Marietta and Avon Lake, Ohio, and in Calvert City, Kentucky. Production of Goodrich's Geon and Koroseal plastic products expanded into overseas markets with joint ventures in Britain and Japan. From the 1950s on the company was a leading producer of PVC (polyvinylchloride), the versatile plastic used especially in the construction... https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/4605.eac.xml Fri, 01 Jan 1943 12:00:00 GMT https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/5696.eac.xml <p>Founded in 1898 in New York City by Bertha Shackman (1849-1925), the company has been a leading producer and wholesaler of toy, card and novelty items for more than a century.   Shackman first had offices on Broadway, and subsequently moved to Madison Ave and then to 85 Fifth Ave (1971-1998). </p> <p>Bertha was married to David Shackman, who had emigrated from Prussia and settled in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.  The couple had six children; at least three of whim – Alfred, Edgar and Emil - would work for B. Shackman & Co.   David died in 1898, and Bertha appears to have continued the family importing and fancy goods business, located at 39 W. 4th St., with which her name is associated in 1889.   In 1900 B. Shackman & Co. was located at 50 E. 10th St.  From 1913 to 1933 the company showroom was located at 906-908 Broadway.  Bertha's great grandson, Dan Shackman Jacoby, took ov... https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/5696.eac.xml Sat, 01 Jan 1898 12:00:00 GMT https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/5370.eac.xml <p>Bachman served as President of the Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE) in 1994. She was the first woman president of the organization, which was founded in 1942.</p> <p>See:</p> <p><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/bjbachman">http://www.linkedin.com/in/bjbachman</a></p> https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/5370.eac.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/4410.eac.xml <p>Custom molder, founder of Chicago Molded Products Corp., Chicago, IL, in 1919. Active in development of machinery and processing innovations.</p> <p>In 1926 Bachner's company produced the first phenolic washing machine agitators.  Bachner pioneered many other plastics applications.<br /><br />Read the rest of the article on the Plastics Academy Hall of Fame website:</p> <p><a href="http://www.plasticshalloffame.com/articles.php?articleId=13">http://www.plasticshalloffame.com/articles.php?articleId=13</a></p> https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/4410.eac.xml Sun, 01 Jan 1888 12:00:00 GMT https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/4411.eac.xml <p style="margin-top: 0px;">Clare E. Bacon was a leader of the plastics industry in the U.S. from 1942 until his untimely death in 1977. His extraordinary efforts and devotion to development of glass reinforcement processes and applications did much to make the plastics fiberglass industry a major segment of the plastics industry today. He joined Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp. in 1942 as the company's first manager of research and development for reinforced plastics, and became involved in the early development of fibrous glass products and processes.</p> <p style="margin-top: 0px;">From 1955 to 1964, he served as market development manager and new end-use sales manager for reinforced plastics. From 1964 to 1971, he was manager of fiberglass-reinforced market development and sales to the appliance and equipment markets. He effectively pioneered many of the applications that are in production today, and he pursued new end uses, causing many of the materials, processes, and ... https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/4411.eac.xml Wed, 01 Jan 1913 12:00:00 GMT https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/4409.eac.xml <p>Leo Baekeland (born Leo Henricus Arthur Baekeland) was a Belgian-American chemist whose invention of Bakelite, the first synthetic plastic, led to the creation of the plastic industry and a drastic transformation of the way material products were manufactured, marketed and used.</p> <p>Baekeland was born in Ghent on November 14, 1863.  He received his Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Ghent in 1882 and two years later was awarded a doctorate of Natural Science, maxima cum laude, also from Ghent.  Baekeland taught chemistry at the university and at the higher Normal School in Bruges until 1889, when he won first prize in a chemistry competition that granted him a traveling scholarship with which he came to the United States in 1889. </p> <p>Baekeland was already interested in photography, and in the United States he was active in research, leading to his invention in 1893 of Velox photographic paper, a paper which utilizes a special co... https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/4409.eac.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1863 12:00:00 GMT https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/4412.eac.xml <p>Eric Baer is one of the most widely known research engineer/scientists in the world in the area of polymeric materials. His pioneering research has served to provide the very foundation for the materials science of polymers. This international recognition stems from his prolific work on solid state structure-property relationships in polymers and their composites.</p> <p>Read the rest of the article on the Plastics Academy Hall of Fame website:</p> <p><a href="http://www.plasticshalloffame.com/articles.php?articleId=5">http://www.plasticshalloffame.com/articles.php?articleId=5</a></p> <p>Baer's publications include:<em></em></p> <p><em>Engineering design for plastics (R. E. Krieger Pub. Co, 1975) <a class="internal mw-magiclink-isbn" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0882752812">ISBN 0-88275-281-2</a></em><em></em></p> <p><em>... https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/4412.eac.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/5101.eac.xml <p>James T. Bailey was an American engineer who contributed to the fundamentals of extrusion, orientation, annealing, and fabrication of plastics, notably the plastic bottle, while vice president and director of research of the Plax Corp. Div., Hartford-Empire Co. (1937-1953).</p> <p>Bailey and his associates developed the "lubo-film" method of extruding high-density rod in continuous lengths.  The method resulted in an absence of bubbles and maintains close tolerances without subsequent centerless grinding and it permits greater production speeds.  </p> <p>In 1939 Bailey and his colleagues developed a process for the continuous extrusion of thermoplastic sheet from cellulose acetate molding powder without employing the conventional solvent, calendering, or case methods. </p> <p>He helped create the first blow molded plastic Christmas ball decorations in 1940-41, and the first the polyethylene bottle in 1942. </p> &l... https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/5101.eac.xml Wed, 01 Jan 1890 12:00:00 GMT https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/4599.eac.xml <p>The Bakelite Corporation was formed in 1922 (after patent litigation favorable to Baekeland) from a merger of three companies: the General Bakelite Company, which Baekeland had founded in 1910; the Condensite Company founded by J. W. Aylesworth; and the Redmanol Chemical Products Company founded by L. V. Redman.</p> <p>The Bakelite Corporation strove to convince manufacturers to use plastic for economy, utility, and beauty, and toward this last end the company partnered, especially in the 1930s, with leading industrial designers, supplying them with raw material to encourage innovative and striking product designs. Consequently Bakelite helped create a new streamlined look for telephones, radios, kitchen equipment, jewelry, and many other products. The Bakelite Corporation used the infinity symbol as its logo and the slogan "the material of a thousand uses" to emphasize the nearly endless possibilities of this first synthetic plastic.</p> <p>In 1939 the company was a... https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/4599.eac.xml Sun, 01 Jan 1922 12:00:00 GMT https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/5130.eac.xml <p>Raymond Baker was founder of NewAge Industries Inc. in Southampton, Pennsylvania; an extruder of tucing and hose. Baker founded NewAge in 1954, initially to import hardness testing equipment from Italy. On a business trip to Europe he came across a new product — braid-reinforced PVC hose — which he began importing to the U.S.  Baker sold the company in 1998 to his youngest son, Ken, and maintained his position as chairman until his death.</p> <p>Source:</p> <p><a href="http://plasticsnews.com/headlines2.html?id=10021501504&q=obituary"><em>Plastics News Report</em> (February 15, 2010)</a>.</p> https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/5130.eac.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/4418.eac.xml <p>Robert L. Banks was an American chemist who, with J. Paul Hogan, discovered methods of producing polypropylene and high-density polyethylene.</p> <p>Banks was born and grew up in Piedmont, Missouri. He attended Southeast Missouri State University. In 1946 he joined the Phillips Petroleum Company and worked there until he retired in 1985.</p> <p>At Phillips, Banks and Hogan began working together in 1946 and in 1951 invented "crystalline polypropylene" and high-density polyethylene (HDPE), initially known by the name "Marlex." In 1987 the pair won the Perkin Medal, and in 2001 they were inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame. Both were given a Heroes of Chemistry award by the American Chemical Society in 1989. Robert Banks died on January 3, 1989.</p> <p>See:</p> <p>"<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Banks_(chemist)">Robert Banks</a>" at Wikipedia</p> https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/4418.eac.xml Sat, 01 Jan 1921 12:00:00 GMT https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/5610.eac.xml <p>An early mold making company in Leominster, Massachusetts that made molds for combs,  founded by Amedio DeFelice.</p> https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/5610.eac.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/4978.eac.xml <p>Louis H. Barnett is an American inventor and holder of many patents in plastics processing and machinery. He was the first to practice rotational molding and casting, and helped design the first pre-plasticizing injection molding machine.</p> <p>Barnett graduated from the College of Business Administration at Northeastern University in 1944. The Barnett Institute of Chemical and Biological Analysis, a center for advanced interdisciplinary research in the molecular sciences at Northeastern University, was established in 1973 and named in his honor. After college Barnett worked briefly at General Electric Plastic Division as a Project Engineer working on Thermoset Molding, Laminated Textolite Plastic, Phenolics, Ureas, and Melamine Molding. He helped develop the first fiberglass, 14 foot rowboat for Winter Boat, New Jersey and laminated rocket launchers for the United States Air Force. He then moved to York Research in New York City where he designed plastic fiberglass mannequins. After ele... https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/4978.eac.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/5124.eac.xml Producer of Luran ABS, Epoxin epoxy, Ultramid nylon, Kauresin and Phenuren phenolic, Lupolen polyethylene, Luparen polypropylene, Styropor polystyrene, Luvitherm and Vinuron PVC and Fporka and Kaurit urea. See: Society of the Plastics Industry, Inc. Facts and Figures of the Plastics Industry, 1979 edition (New York, 1979). https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/5124.eac.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/5747.eac.xml <p>Rochester, New York company that was manufacturer of celluloid and metal advertising speciaties.</p> https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/5747.eac.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/5251.eac.xml Information on this company is not currently available. https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/5251.eac.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/5670.eac.xml <p>Otto Bayer was a German industrial chemist esepcially associated with the devleopment of polyurethane chemistry. </p> <p>Bayer was born in Frankfurt am Main where he studied chemistry with Julius von Braun, and received his Ph.D. in 1924. von Braun arranged Bayer's first industry job at the Cassella Farbwerke of I.G. Farbenindustri.e   Bayer first research was successful was  in the field of vat and sulfur dyes and in the lightfastness of dyestuffs. </p> <p>In 1931 Otto Bayer transferred to Bayer Corp. in Leverkusen, where he became head of the Central Scientific Laboratory where he engaged in new fields of research, including rubber chemistry, pharmaceutical research and crop protection.</p> <p>Bayer's greatest achievement was the invention of polyurethane chemistry. The principle of polyaddition using diisocyanates is based on his research.  While the production of macromolecular structures was already a promi... https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/5670.eac.xml Wed, 01 Jan 1902 12:00:00 GMT https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/5557.eac.xml William Iler Beach received the Hyatt award in 1944 for his role in the devlopment of the process of post-forming phenolic lamionates. https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/5557.eac.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/5224.eac.xml Information on this company is not currently available. https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/5224.eac.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/4422.eac.xml <p>An engineer, consultant, educator and editor who played a key role in the advancement of plastics design. Extremely active in all plastics engineering associations. Widely recognized for his contribution to plastics design, Glenn Beall has served in many roles: engineer, inventor, consultant, educator, editor, author, and industry activist.</p> <p>Beall entered the plastics industry after receiving his Bachelor of Science degree from Bradley University in 1957. As an engineer in the research division of Abbott Laboratories from 1958 to 1968, he developed medical devices, receiving twelve patents. He obtained 23 more, for medical and other products, while operating his own company, Glenn Beall Engineering, Inc., from 1968 to 1993. In 1993 he formed his present company, Glenn Beall Plastics, Ltd., Libertyville, Illinois.</p> <p>Read the rest of the article on the Plastics Academy Hall of Fame website:</p> <p><a href="http://www.plasticshalloffame.com/articles... https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/4422.eac.xml Sun, 01 Jan 1933 12:00:00 GMT https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/5117.eac.xml <p>C. Thomas Bean, Jr. and  P. Robitscheck of Hooker Chemical Company developed the first flame-retardant polyester resins.</p> https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/5117.eac.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/5004.eac.xml John Beaumont is program chair for the Plastics Engineering Technology program at Penn State University, Behrend.  He received his B.S. in Plastics Technology in 1976 and the M.S. in Plastics Engineering in 1994 from the University of Massachusetts, Lowell, MA. Mr. Beaumont joined the Penn State Behrend faculty in 1989. Beaumont was a research engineer at General Tire and Rubber Company, Project Engineer at Rowland, Engineering Manager at Ciba Vison Corp. and Technical Manager for Moldflow Inc.’s US operations.  In 1992 he founded the Plastics CAE Center which trains industry professionals in the use of computer simulation technologies used develop plastic product, tooling and processes.    Beaumont founded Beaumont Technologies, Inc. in 1998, which focuses on the design and development of hot and cold runner technologies including his patented MeltFlipper®, MAXTM and iMARCTM technologies.  He is the author of Runner & Gating Design Handbook, co-author of Successful In... https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/5004.eac.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/5329.eac.xml Company catalogue available in Irwin Casper Collection of Brush Product Literature. https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/5329.eac.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/5066.eac.xml Carl Beetle was founder of Beetle/Justin Plastics Inc., and inventor of glass fiber gel-coated boat molds and the catalyst spray gun. Beetle was inducted into the Plastics Hall of Fame in 1977. https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/5066.eac.xml Wed, 01 Jan 1896 12:00:00 GMT https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/5067.eac.xml Information on this company is not currently available. https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/5067.eac.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/5371.eac.xml Behn served as President of the Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE) in 1998. https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/5371.eac.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/4616.eac.xml Industrial designer Norman Bel Geddes was hired at Plaskon to create new designs for scales, but he also initiated research to develop a new lightweight material to replace the porcelain enamel used to coat metal scales. Bennet soon opted for entirely plastic housing for the scales, and developed prototypes in black Bakelite that he tested in stores. Bel Geddes also designed the telephone indicator for Bates Manufacturing Company in 1935.  In 1941 the Emerson Radio & Phonograph Corp. introduced its campact radio Model 400, known as “The Patriot, ” designed by Bel Geddes in patriotic red, white and blue colors.  It became one of Emerson’s most popular radios.  The grille resembled strips on a American flag and stars were molded onto the tuning knobs. See: “Emerson’s Plastics Story,” Modern Plastics (April 1950), 114-116, 212. https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/4616.eac.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/4429.eac.xml Samuel L. Belcher (1933-2009) is a plastics packaging pioneer who made his mark in the field of blow molding, particularly stretch blow molding. President of his consulting firm, Sabel Plastechs of Moscow, Ohio, since 1987, Belcher's industry affiliations include Cincinnati Milacron Inc., Wheaton Plastics Co., Owens-Illinois Inc., and Rubbermaid Inc. Samuel Belcher was inducted into the Plastics Hall of Fame in 2003. Included in Belcher's technical achievements are the following: The first PET bottle with an integrated handle, which he patented and licensed to Mitsubishi of Japan. The first flip-top, living-hinge closure for liquid detergent bottles, patented at Owens-Illinois. The McDonald's foam clamshell package, patented at Owens-Illinois in 1974. Belcher then invented a process to add printing to the thermoformed container. The first injection blow molding machine for PET bottles, developed while Director of Research at Wheaton. This was used to blow mold the first automotive front wheel drive boots for... https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/4429.eac.xml Sun, 01 Jan 1933 12:00:00 GMT https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/5126.eac.xml Producer of Moleculoy nylon. See: Society of the Plastics Industry, Inc. Facts and Figures of the Plastics Industry, 1979 edition (New York, 1979) https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/5126.eac.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/5153.eac.xml Bemis Manufacturing Co. is a custom injection molding company based in Sheboygan Falls, Wisconsin.  The family-owned company was founded in 1901 by Albert Bemis to manufacture wooden toy wagons. Other early products were patio furniture made of woven paper, and then in the 1930s molded wood toilet seats.  When war shortages made brass for toilet seat hinges unavailable, Bemis produced the first plastic hinges.  By the 1960s, the company was producing all-plastic injection molded toilet seats, and the 1970s introduced its Top-Tie nylon hinge, replacing conventional steel.  In 1975 Bemis acquired Stasco, of Camden, New Jersey, an aged competitor in the plumbing products industry. More recently, in 1999, the company acquired the innovative Italian toilet seat manufacturer Carrara & Matta.   Bemis continues to be the world leader in toilet seat production. The company expanded its other products, too, including tableware premiums for gas stations (with David Douglas & Co.) –... https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/5153.eac.xml Tue, 01 Jan 1901 12:00:00 GMT https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/4434.eac.xml Peter F. Bemis is President of the Contract Group and cofounder, Executive VP, and Secretary of Bemis Manufacturing, Sheboygan Falls, WI. Bemis graduated from Carroll College, Helena, MT with a B.S. in Business Administration and Economics. In his 31 years of involvement with Bemis Manufacturing, Peter Bemis has focused on bringing the best applied technology to the injection molding process. Bemis Manufacturing is especially known for its innovative processing techniques and its expertise in coinjection and other advanced molding processes. Bemis has received 13 process patents in injection molding, particularly coinjection and he pioneered statistical process control techniques in 1975. Bemis has been active in the Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE). He served as Chairman of the National Plastics Center and Museum Board of Governors, and served on the Board of Directors of the Society of the Plastics Industry (SPI) and of the Midwest Section, Society of the Plastics Industry (SPI). He is a member of the Ge... https://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/view?docId=eac/4434.eac.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT