American manufacturers ale in a position to turn immediately to the production of synthetic rubber to make tyres and other similar rubber products in case supplies of the vital raw material are cut off by the war Dr. Howard E. Fritz, manager of the Synthetics Division, B. F. Goodrich Company, told a meeting of the Cleveland Advertising Club.
On the basis of large-scale production, Dr. Fritz said he thought his company could put out its synthetic rubber, called Koroseal for about twenty cents a pound im its "raw" state. Now, he declared, it, costs from 60 to 70 cents for each pound to produce, as no mass-production methods European unrest. are used.
Koroseal, he concluded, has greater resistance to oil and sunlight than the natural rubber, and, moreover, can be made fire proof.—Havas.
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