In 1947 the UT Agricultural Experiment Station announced the development of a new plastic compound made from cottonseed hulls. Experiments leading to the development of the plastic, which used powdered cottonseed hulls as filler in phenolic molding compounds, were conducted principally by Dr. Fritz Rosenthal. UT called the material produced Plastone.
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