Rohm
&
Haas
developed
acrylate
polymers
Otto Röhm
Otto Haas
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The polymerisation of acrylics was extensively studied by
Otto Rohm in 1901. The Rohm & Haas company was founded in 1907
in Esslingen and moved to Darmstadt in 1909. In 1915 Rohm took out a
patent for polyacrylic ester as a paint binder.
Commercial production of acrylate polymers began about 1927
as Acryloid and Plexigum and as an intermediate
layer in 'safety glass' Luglas, although full scale
production did not begin until 1931.
In 1912 Rohm vulcanised ester polymers with sulphur to give
rubbery products but it was left to BF Goodrich to develop
acrylate rubbers in the early 1940s.
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