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The first commercial exploitation of a thermosetting material of the phenol formaldehyde group was made about the year 1908, by Dr. Leo Hendrik Baekeland (from which the trade name of ‘Bakelite’ is derived). Other developments soon followed, such as the introduction of urea formaldehyde in the early 1920’s, by Pollak and Ripper, until a whole range of materials suitable for compression moulding which has now become available.
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Rogers, J.E. (1971). Compression Moulding. In: Beadle, J.D. (eds) Plastics Forming. Production Engineering Series. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-01194-0_6
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