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| | Startup Company Commercializes Novel Plastics Technology |
 | | However, the technology was only a laboratory curiosity and required significantly more research across multiple dimensions before it could be made cost-effectively on a large scale, as is required in the plastics industry. |
 | | In 1991, GE and Ford, along with two universities, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the University of Tulsa, two small companies, Pittsburgh Plate Glass and American Lisistriz, and the non-profit Environmental Research Institute of Michigan submitted and won an ATP award to pursue this high-risk research project that could have a potentially large economic impact. |
 | | Through the ATP project, the project participants were able to meet many of ambitious technical goals to be able to manufacture a cyclic thermoplastic, cyclic butylenes terephthalate (CBT). |
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