Cold rubber

The rubber produced from this process showed improvements in tensile strength and resistance to wear.After the war, research director Ralph Rowzee of the Canadian petrochemical company Polymer traveled to Germany as part of Combined Intelligence Objectives Subcommittee, an Allied program to investigate and report back on German scientific discoveries during the war.[2] Polymer donated the polymerization recipe to the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, and several North American petrochemical companies used this formula to manufacture their own versions of cold rubber.[2] In the United States, the RFC launched a $3.5 million program in 1948 to boost the production of cold rubber, citing its better performance in tire treads.BFGoodrich was uninterested in his findings, however, and Pfau left the company to join General Tire.
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