CHEMICAL PROGRESS News of developments f r o m General Electric's Chemical Department that can be important to your business. FOR C O L D BEAUTY—GENERAL ELECTRIC PLASTICS Many of America's 1950 refrigerators are more beautiful, more convenient than ever—thanks to General Electric plastics contributions to the refrigerator industry. These include such features as the handy "snack box*'—a molded plastics container for keeping "leftovers" at proper temperaturehumidity levels; also double-panel freezer doors, molded to impart newbeauty and low maintenance to this year's units. Other G-E contributions which mean better looking, more economical refrigerators are G-E plastics breaker strips, door liners, control knobs, trays, tubing, and insignia. W h e n The H e a t ' s O n Now molders may h a v e a compound designed for application where ordinary heatresistant materials w o u l d melt or crack. General Electric's new G-E 12810 is made with an inert glass filler and a heat-resistant silicone resin which make it ideal for molding circuit breakers, switchgears and other parts subject to high temperature extremes.
G-E sil i c o n e ' bouncing putty is being used as golf ball centers, muscle exercisers, in damping devices and to protect rocket recording equipment against landing shock.
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Foundries find they can reduce the baking time of cores by 50% and more through the use of General Electric's phenolic resin core binder (G-E 12300).
General Electric Textolite* Plastics Tops are finding new applications as industrial work surfaces where resistance to wear and to certain chemicals is an important consideration.
Better Baking Enamels Improved general-purpose bakingenamels are now possible through the use of G-E 2520 Glyptal* alkyd resin. Excellent baking speed, toughness, adhesion and color retention recommend this short-drying oil for ranges, washing machines, refrigerators and other metal products.
Nitrocellulose and other types of lacquers may be improved by the addition of General Electric's new plasticizers, G-E 2557 and G-E 2559. FOR MORE INFORMATION about any of the products or services mentioned on this page, write to Chemical Department, General Electric Company, J Plastics Avenue, Pittsfield 16, Massachusetts. • R e * . V. S. Pat. Off,
G-E Chemical Department plants at: Pittsfield, Mass.; Schenectady, N. Y.; Waterford, N. Y.; Coshocton, Ohio; Decatur, III.; Taunton, Mass.; Anaheim, Calif.
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GENERAL" PLASTICS COMPOUNDS
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PLASTICS LAMINATING AND MOLDING
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