The first fully synthetic plastic came from Belgian-American Leo Hendrick Baekeland, who registered a patent for phenolic plastic.
Baekeland, the son of a shoemaker and a maid, was born in Ghent on 1863. 1884, at the age of 2 1, Baekeland received his doctorate from Ghent university. At the age of 24, he became a professor of physics and chemistry at Bruges Teachers College. 1889 just married the daughter of a university tutor, and Baekeland won a travel scholarship to go to the United States to engage in chemical research.
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China is a big producer of plastic raw materials and a big consumer of plastic products. According to the authoritative statistics of the industry, by the end of 20 13 years, there were some plastic products enterprises 13699 in China. The national output of plastic products was 61886,600 tons, up 8.02% year-on-year. Among them, the output of plastic film products10.893 million tons; The output of plastic daily necessities is 4710.6 million tons; The output of plastic artificial leather and synthetic leather products was 3.47 million tons; The output of FRP products is 2,598,600 tons; The output of foamed plastic products is 6.5438+0.465 million tons.
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