Blow moulding--what would we do without it?(PMMDA UPDATE)

From: British Plastics & Rubber | Date: September 1, 2006 | Copyright information

It seems quite remarkable that the first US patent for the processing of extruded polymer into a parison for blow moulding was issued in 1881 to Celluloid Novelty Co and Celluloid Manufacturing Company, New York.

One of the first applications for blow moulding was for cellulose nitrate and later, cellulose acetate in the 1930s. Blow moulding was a relatively minor sector of the plastics manufacturing scene until low density polyethylene was introduced in the 1940s. The production of squeeze bottles in LDPE encouraged a rapid expansion of the industry, with containers produced ...

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