Artificial Wool Is Close To Perfection
SYDNEY.—“Natural wool is next on the list to be replaced by a synthetic product made from petroleum,’’ said Professor T. G. Hunter, who holds the chair of Chemical Engineering at Sydney University, in an address to the Australian Institute of Engineers. "The Dupont group in America, and the Imperial Chemical Industries group in England are perilously close to. perfecting artificial wool. The exact progress they have made is a closely guarded secret, but they have probably reached the stage that nylon had reached just before the war. “Great petroleum concerns are ploughing back 25 per cent of their profits each year in research on synthetics. One English firm spent £6,500,000 on research last year—more than was spent in Australia on all research of every kind."
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Wanganui Chronicle, 7 August 1950, Page 7
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