PLASTICS suppliers

Suppliers by country/region

• United States(1)
• Germany(1)

Company Type

• Trader

Properties

Safety Information

Use

Plastics are a major group of materials that are primarily noncrystalline hydrocarbon substances composed of large molecular chains whose major element is carbon. The three terms plastics, polymers, and resins are sometimes used interchangeably to identify these materials. However, the term plastics has now come to be the commonly used designation. The first commercial plastic, Celluloid, was developed in 1868 to replace ivory for billiard balls. Phenolic plastics, developed by Baekeland and named Bakelite after him, were introduced around the turn of the century. A plastic material, as defined by the Society of the Plastics Industry, is any one of a large group of materials consisting wholly or in part of combinations of carbon with oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen, and other organic and inorganic elements which, while solid in the finished state, at some stage in its manufacture is made liquid, and thus capable of being formed into various shapes, most usually through the application, either singly or together, of heat and pressure.