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Page 2 of Trade Names features POLYESTER to VULCANITE ...

I have a few different sets of draughts within my collection, below I've featured one of them ... featuring typical packaging from the 1930/40's...

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POLYESTER RESINS:


BAKELITE POLYESTER - Bakelite Corp,USA & Bakelite Ltd,UK
HORNALITE - Hornalite Co,USA
KRISTON - B.F.Goodrich Chemical Co, USA
LAMINAC - American Cyanamid Co,USA
PARACON - Bell Telephone Laboratories,USA
PARAPLEX - Resinous Products & Chemical Co USA
PLASKON - Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Co,USA
POLYITE - Minerva Dental Laboratories,UK
SELECTRON - Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co,USA
THALID - Monsanto Chemical Co,USA
VIBRIN - Naugatuck Chemical Division of
US Rubber Co,USA.


POLYETHYLENE (Polythene):


ALATHON - E.I. du Pont de Nemours,USA
ALKATHENE - ICI,UK
BAYLON - Bayer,Germany
CARLONA - Shell Chemicals
COBEX - BX Plastics,UK
ERACLENE - ANIC,Italy
EVAZOTE - BXL Ltd,UK
FORTIFLEX - Celanese Corp,USA
HOSTALEN - Hoechst,Germany
LUPOLEN - BASF,Germany
MARLEX - Phillips Petroleum,USA
MOPLEN - Montedison,Italy
PLASTAZOTE - BXL Ltd,UK
POLY-ETHYLENE - E.I.du Pont de Nemours,USA
POLYTHENE - E.I.du Pont de Nemours,USA
RIGIDEX - BP Chemicals,UK
SELLOTAPE - Sellotape Products,UK
TELCOTHENE - Telcon Plastics,UK
THERMAZOTE - BXL Ltd,UK
VESTOLEN - Huls,Germany
VISQUEEN - British Visqueen,UK

POLYMETHYL METHACRYLATE ( ACRYLIC ):


ACRAGLAS - The Acraglas Co,USA
ACRYLOID - Resinous Products& Chemical CO,USA
ALTUGLAS - Altulor,France
CRYSTALEX - Detroit Dental Mfg Co & Rohm &
Haas,USA
CRYSTALITE - Rohm & Haas Co,USA
CRYSTOLEX - Kerr Dental Manufacturing Co,USA
DIAKON - ICI,UK
DUPLACRYL - Coralite Dental Products,USA
FILCRYL - Portland Plastics,UK
HEXITE - Hexco Products Inc,USA
JEWELITE - Pro-Phy-lac-tic Brush Co,USA
KALLODENT - ICI,UK
KALLODENTINE - ICI,UK
KALLODOC - ICI,UK
LIVETONE - Precision Laboratories,USA
LOPAC - Monsanto Chemical Co,USA
LUCITE - E.I.du Pont de Nemours,USA
LUCITONE - E.I.du Pont de Nemours,USA
LUMACRYL - The Dental Manufacturing Ltd,UK
ORA-CRYLIC - Henry P.Boos Dental Laboratories,
USA.
ORAGLAS - Lennig Chemicals,UK
PALATEX - Rockland Dental Co,USA
PALATONE - Schwab & Frank Inc,USA
PERSPEX - ICI,UK
PLASTICARVE - Schwab & Frank Inc,USA
PLAX METHACRYLATE - Plax Corp,USA
PLEXIGLAS - Rohm & Haas,Germany and USA
PLEXIGUM - Rohm & Haas Co,USA
PLEXTOL - German acrylic resin
POLYLITE - Minerva Dental Laboratories,UK
PORTEX - Portland Plastics,UK
THERMOLITE - Oralite Co,UK
TRULITE - Trudent Products Inc,USA
VEDRIL - Montedison,Italy
VERMONITE - Vernon-Benshoff Co,USA
VERNONITE - Rohm & Haas Co,USA
VITREDIL - Montedison,Italy

POLYSTYRENE:


AMPHENOL - American Phenolic Corp,USA
BENDALITE - Bend-A-Lite Plastics,USA
BEXFOAM - BX Plastics,UK
BEXTRENE - Bakelite Xylonite Ltd,UK
BP POLYSTYRENE - BP Chemicals
CARINEX - Shell Chemicals,UK
CAREX - Monsanto Chemical Co,USA
CYRENE - Neville Co,USA
DISTRENE - British Resin Products,UK
INTELIN - International Telephone & Radio
Manufacturing Corp,USA.
LOALIN - Catalin Corp,USA
LOAVAR - Catalin Corp,USA
LUSTREX - Monsanto Chemical Co,USA
PLAX POLYSTYRENE - Plax Corp,USA
PLEXINE - Rohm & Haas Co,USA
POLYFIBRE - Dow Chemical Co,USA
POLYFLEX - Plax Corp,USA
POLYWELD - American Phenolic Corp,USA
PORTEX - Portland Plastics,UK
RESOGLAZ - Advance Solvents & Chemical Co,USA
REXOL - French polystyrene
RONILLA - J.M.Steel & Co,UK
STYRALOY - Dow Chemical Co,USA
STYRAMIC - Monsanto Chemical Co,USA
STYREX - Dow Chemical Co,USA
STYRITE - Dow Chemical Co,USA
STYROFOAM - Dow Chemical Co,USA
STYRON - Dow Chemical Co,USA
STYROPLAS - F.A.Hughes & Co,UK
TRANSPEX 2 - ICI,UK
TROLITUL - early German polystyrene
WATERLITE - Watertown Manufacturing Co,USA

POLYVINYL ACETATE ( PVAC ):

FLEXIPLAST - Foster - Grant Co, USA
GELVA - Shawinigan Chemicals, UK
LUSTREX - Foster - Grant Co, USA
SOLVAR - Shawingan Products Corp, USA


POLYVINYL BUTYRAL :

BUTVAR - Shawingan Products Corp, USA
BUTACITE - E.I.du Pont de Nemours, USA
SAFLEX - Monsanto Chemical Co,USA


POLYVINYL CHLORIDE ( PVC ) and vinyl based tradenames:

BEXONE - BX Plastics,UK.
BREON - BP Chemicals,UK
CHLOROVENE - F.A.Hughes & Co, UK
COBEX - British Industrial Plastics,UK
CORVIC - ICI,UK
DARVIC - ICI,UK
ELASTI - GLASS - S.Buchsbaum Co, USA
ELVAX - E.I.du Pont de Nemours,USA
EXTRUDEX - British Industrial Plastics,UK
FABLON - Commercial Plastics,UK
FLAMENOL - General Electric Co,USA
FLOVIC - ICI,UK
FORMVAR - Shawinigan Products Corp,USA
FROSTONE - President Suspender Co,USA
GEON - B.F.Goodrich Chemical Co,USA
GLAM - Pantasone Co,USA
KENUTUF - J.F.Kenure, UK
KOROLAC - B.F.Goodrich Chemical Co,USA
KOROGEL - B.F.Goodrich Chemical Co,USA
KOROSEAL - B.F.Goodrich Chemical Co,USA
KRENE - Nut Carbon Co,USA
LUSTRAC - Lustrac Plastics Ltd,UK
LUSTREX - Foster - Grant Co,USA
LUXENE - Luxene Inc,USA
MIPOLAM - Dynamit AG, Germany
NAUGAHYDE - Uniroyal, USA
NUMAX - RFD-GQ Ltd, UK
OPALON - Monsanto Chemical Co, USA
PERFLEX - Visking Corp, USA
PERMALON - Pierce Plastics Division of
Visking Corp, USA.
PLASTAZOTE - Expanded Rubber Co, UK
PLASTICELL - BTR Industries, UK
PLIAGLAS - Pioneer Suspender Co, USA
PLIOFLEX - Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co, USA
PLIOFORM - Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co, USA
PLIOLITE - Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co, USA
PORTEX - Portland Plastics, UK
RE-DOLITE - L.C.Chase & Co, USA
RESOLITE - Oralite Co, UK
RASOVIN - S.S.White Dental Mfg Co,USA
RESPROID - Respro Inc, USA
SAFLEX - Monsanto Chemical Co, USA
SYNTHOLVAR - Varflex Co, USA
TELCOVIN - Telegraph Construction and
Maintenance Co, UK
TOLEX - Textileather Corp, USA
TUREX - Textileather Corp, USA
TYGON T - US Stoneware Co, USA
ULTRON - Monsanto Chemical Co, USA
VELBEX - British Industrial Plastics, UK
VELOFLEX - Firestone Tire and Rubber Co,USA
VELON - Firestone Tire and Rubber Co,USA
VERSIFLEX - Carbide & Carbon Chemicals Corp,USA
VINAL - Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co, USA
VINYLITE - Bakelite Corp, USA and Bakelite Ltd
UK.
VINYLSEAL - Bakelite Corp, USA
VINYON - Bakelite Corp, USA
VITROLAC - RCA Records, USA
VYBAK - British Industrial Plastics, UK
WELVIC - ICI, Ltd

PLASTICS MADE FROM PROTEIN :

CARDOLITE - Cashew nut shell plastic, British
Resin Products, UK
MAIZITE - Protein coating, Prolamine Products
Inc, USA.
MAIZOLITH - Cornstalks,Iowa State College, USA
NOREPOL - Vulcanized vegetable oil, US Dept
of Agriculture, USA.
OIL STOP - Cashew nut shell plastic, Irvington
Varnish and Insulator Co, USA
PLASTONE A & B - Cottonseed hull and inorganic
filled phenolic. National Plastics
Inc, USA.
ROBURINE - Natural resin based plastic from
France.
SOYLON - Soybean fibre, Ford Motor Co,USA
VALITE - Bagasse based plastics, ie, from
sugar cane, beets, grapes and
olives. Valentine Sugars Inc, and
Valite Corp, USA.
ZINLAC - Synthetic shellac based on corn
zein, William Zinsser, USA.

REGENERATED CELLULOSE :

CELLOPHANE - E.I. du Pont de Nemours, USA
and British Cellophane,UK
KODACHROME - Eastman Kodak Co USA
KODAPAK - Eastman Kodak Co USA
NYMPHWRAP - Sylvania Industrial Corp, USA
PHANOCEL - British Cellophane,UK
SERNSHI - Japanese cellulosic film
SURVIVAL - Sylvania Industrial Corp, USA
SYLPHRAP - Sylvania Industrial Corp, USA
SYLVANIA CELLOPHANE - Sylvania Industrial Corp, USA
TECTOPHANE - British Cellophane,UK
VISCACELLE - British Cellophane,UK
WELLITE - Welwyn Plastics, UK


SHELLAC :

CELLULAK - Continental Diamond Fiber Co,USA
COMPLAC - Poinsetta Inc, USA
COMPO - SITE - Compo - Site Inc, USA
DURANOID - Speciality Insulation Mfg Co, USA
( same tradename also in phenolic )
ELECTROSE - Insulation Manufacturing Co, USA
HARVITE - Siemon Co, USA
KURILAC - E.I. du Pont de Nemours, USA
LACANITE - Consolidated Molded Products
Corp, USA.
MICABOND - Continental Diamond Fiber Co,USA


SYNTHETIC RUBBER :

CHEMIGUM - Butadiene copolymer, Goodyear Tire
and Rubber Co, USA.
DULIN - Synthetic rubber, Empire Rubber Co
UK.
ETHYL RUBBER - Hercules Powder Co, USA
LOTOL - US Rubber Co, USA
LYCRA - Polyurethane elastomer,
E.I. du Pont de Nemours, USA
MARBO FILM - Rubber Hydrochloride, Marbon Corp,
USA.
MARBON - Rubber Hydrochloride,cyclorubber
and other materials. Marbon Corp,
USA.
NEOZOTE - Expanded synthetic rubber,
Expanded Rubber Co, UK
PERBUNAN - Standard Oil Co,USA and JM Steel,UK
PERGUT - Chlorinated rubber, J.M.Steel,UK
PLIOFILM - Clear Rubber film, Goodyear Tire &
Rubber Co, USA
RUBA - Synthetic rubber, Synthetic Latex
Corp, USA
RUBIDE - Rubber Hydrochloride, Firestone
Tire & Rubber Co, USA
RUBPRENE - Neoprene, Firestone Tire & Rubber
Co, USA.
TORNESIT - Chlorinated rubber, Hercules Powder
Co, USA.
USKOL - Synthetic Rubber, US Rubber Co,USA


UREA FORMALDEHYDE and THIOUREA ( includes decorative laminates as well as products ):

AEROLITE - Aero Research Ltd, UK
AMINOLAC - Etablissements Kuhlmann, UK
ARODURE - US Industrial Chemicals, USA
BAKELITE UREA - Union Carbide Corp, USA and
Bakelite Ltd, UK
BANDALASTA - Brookes and Adams, UK
BEATL, BEETLE - Beetle Products Co, UK and American
Cyanamid, USA.
BECKAMINE - Beck, Koller and Co, UK
BEETLEWARE - Beetle Products Co, UK and American
Cynamid, USA
CIBANOLD - Ciba Products Corp, USA.
DAKA - WARE - Harvey Davies Molding Co, USA
DUREZ UREA - Durez Plastics and Chemicals, USA
FORMICA - Formica Insulation Co, UK and USA
GABRITE - Italian Urea Formaldehyde
HELOMIT - Danish Urea Formaldehyde
LAMICOID - Mica Insulator Co, USA
( also a phenolic tradename )
LORIVAL E - United Ebonite & Lorival Ltd, UK
MARBLOID - Japanese urea formaldehyde
MOULDRITE U - ICI UK.
NESTOR - James Ferguson and Son, UK
NESTORITE - James Ferguson and Son, UK
PLASKON - Allied Chemical Corp, USA
PLYAMINE - Reichold Chemicals Inc, USA
POLLOPAS - Etablissements Kuhlmann, Austria &
British Industrial Plastics, UK
PRYSTALINE - French urea formaldehyde
RAUXITE - US Industrial Alcohol Co, USA
RESOPAL - German laminate
RHONITE - Rohm & Haas Co, USA
SKANOPAL - Perstop AB, Sweden
SCARAB - Beetle Products Co, UK
SIBITLE - Italian urea formaldehyde
TRAFFOLYTE - Thomas De La Rue, UK
U FOAM - ICI UK
UFORMITE - Resinous Products & Chemical Corp,
USA.
URAC - American Cyanamid Co, USA
URALITE - French urea formaldehyde
UREX - French urea formaldehyde
UROCRISTAL - French urea formaldehyde
WARERITE - Warerite Ltd, UK


VULCANITE ( ebonite, hard rubber ) :

ACE - American Hard Rubber Co, USA
SUPER - ACE - American Hard Rubber Co, USA
AMCOSITE - Siemens Bros & Co, UK
BULWARK - Redfern's Rubber Works, UK
COHARDITE - Connecticut Hard Rubber Co, USA
DEXONITE - Dexine Ltd, UK
ENDURANCE - American Hard Rubber Co, USA
GALLIA - RUBBER - French Ebonite
KERAMOT - Siemens Bros & Co, UK
LEVEL CHUCK - American Hard Rubber Co, USA
LUZERNE - Luzerne Rubber, USA
MERCURY - American Hard Rubber Co, USA
NAVY - American Hard Rubber Co, USA
ONAZOTE - Expanded Rubber Co, UK
PERMCOL - British Hard Rubber Co, UK
RESISTON - American Hard Rubber Co, USA
RUB - EROK - Richardson Co, USA
RUB - TEX - Richardson Co, USA

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