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Owens-Corning Fiberglas Company was formed in 1935 through the merger of Owens-Illinois and Corning Glass Works. [8] [9] It became a separate company in 1938 with its headquarters established in Toledo, Ohio. [6] [10] In 1938, the company sales reached $2.6 million. [11] The company held its initial public offering on the New York Stock ...
International Fiberglass was a fiberglass molding company founded in Venice, California in about 1963, best known for their large molded fiberglass roadside advertising sculptures commonly called "Muffler Men". The company was formed when Steve Dashew purchased Prewitt Fiberglass Animals [1] and acquired all of the molds created by Bob Prewitt. [2]
Fiberglass (American English) or fibreglass (Commonwealth English) is a common type of fiber-reinforced plastic using glass fiber. The fibers may be randomly arranged, flattened into a sheet called a chopped strand mat, or woven into glass cloth .
Hermann Hammesfahr (February 20, 1845 – November 23, 1914) was a Prussian-American inventor who invented a type of fiberglass cloth in which glass was interwoven with silk. He was awarded the patent by the United States Patent Office in 1880. [1] [2] This was the earliest fiberglass of any kind that is known to have been patented.
A European branch office of Fiberfab was established in Germany. The company, which still exists, reports that it was started in 1966 in the Remstal region, near Stuttgart. [57] [58] Some European Fiberfab literature from the time the German branch was founded uses the name "Fiberfab Europa". [59]
Bakelite was the first fibre-reinforced plastic. Leo Baekeland had originally set out to find a replacement for shellac (made from the excretion of lac bugs).Chemists had begun to recognize that many natural resins and fibres were polymers, and Baekeland investigated the reactions of phenol and formaldehyde.
Serenia City (etymology from "Serene" which is the translation of Tenang in English) is a township in Dengkil township in Sepang District, Selangor, Malaysia. Serenia is located near Salak Tinggi . The area was formerly known as Ampar Tenang Estate and started out as the tea, rubber and current palm oil plantation.
The "Sierra" name was taken from the Sierra Nevada mountain range that Oakhurst was near, and its new logo incorporated the imagery of Half Dome mountain. [8] By early 1984, InfoWorld estimated that Sierra was the world's 12th-largest microcomputer software company, with $12.5 million in 1983 sales. [ 9 ]