The Plastics Division of Imperial Chemical Industries Limited was formed in 1936 at a time when plastics, as then understood, were still a marginal activity of the organic chemical industry. The purpose of the Division was then, as it is to-day, to exploit commercially the chemical findings of the rest of the Company and those of the Division itself in the field of synthetic high polymers.
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