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THE reconstituted Committee on Plastics appointed by the Scottish Council (Development and Industry) was appointed to inquire further into the extent to which the industry is being developed in Scotland to meet requirements, to suggest what further action is required to meet the situation, and to consider in particular the possibilities of meeting the basic requirements of the industry from raw materials in Scotland. In its final report, the Committee states that while more firms are now manufacturing finished materials from moulding powders obtained from elsewhere, and the engineering industry is in a position to tackle the highly specialized side of mould fabrication without difficulty, no developments of any kind have occurred in the manufacture of the ingredients of the moulding powders. No plastics industry can be firmly established in Scotland while these raw materials have to be imported, and the supply of coal-tar phenol and cresols is quite inadequate to meet the needs of the plastics and other industries of the United Kingdom.
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Plastics Industry in Scotland*. Nature 162, 1009 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/1621009a0
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