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12 September 1909: synthetic rubber is born

What happened this week in the History of Industry? It is to answer this question that Global Industrie invites you to rediscover, every week, a historical event which occurred around this time… in another age. Today, let’s take a closer look at a German chemist, Fritz Hofmann, who filed a patent for the first synthetic rubber on the 12th of September 1909. The (en)tire story…    PLASTIC IS FANTASTIC, BUT RUBBER’S SUPER TOUGH   When Fritz Hofmann

2020.09.09