Thursday, June 5, 2014

Tyvek

The year: 1955. The man: A very ordinary Jim White. The place: DuPont's Labs. The discovery: as Jim walked through a lab, he noticed white polyethylene fluff coming out of a pipe. He set a team working on trying to manufacture the stuff, and by 1965 they finally had a industrialized form of the stuff which could be easily manufactured. The method with which they randomly spin the fibers is proprietary, but whatever they do works. Even the lowest grade of the stuff I couldn't manage to tear. Throughout the years different sectors of business noticed this revolutionary material and put it to work in their business. From house-wrapping, to luggage tags, to airmail envelopes, to shorts by Ralph Lauren. It's tear-resistant nature in tandem with the unbelievably thin nature of the material allow it to be used almost anywhere. As a company by the name of Dynomighty Design has expounded, the uses for Tyvek are indeed limitless, as the company produces printed wallets made out of a Super Grade of Tyvek. They even managed to hang a person from one of their wallets. Pretty intense stuff. Tyvek, revolutionary in its design and its applications.

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