A Short History & Basic Description Of Plastics Injection Molding
Injection molding started in the late 1860s with a product called celluloid (made of plant cellulose and camphor) used as a replacement for ivory in billiard balls. The heated celluloid was pushed through a plunger into a mold. In 1912 Leo Baekeland made the first synthetic plastic, it had a phenol base he named it … A Short History & Basic Description of Plastics Injection Molding