Casein Plastic Sheets

I am interested in the ivory and tortoise colors.

Casein plastic sheets.

But although it s ideal for jewelry that even queen mary admired casein based plastic is too brittle for much more than adornment. Invented in germany it was launched by the international galalith gesseschaft hoff co. Casein based plastic has been around since the 1880s when a french chemist treated casein with formaldehyde to produce a material that could substitute for ivory or tortoiseshell. Casein plastic and starch based plastic.

In the year 2012 the to. Casein or galalith was a plastic made from milk protein and formaldehyde. The casein chains you formed in this experiment will harden into a type of plastic. Casein the chief protein in milk and the essential ingredient of cheese.

Casein plastics are made from a protein found predominantly in milk and mixed with a formaldehyde to produce a plastic that was easily dyed into a variety of colours. Pure casein is an amorphous white solid without. I am inquiring about the casein plastic sheets and wondering if you have sheets for sale. The raw casein protein in granule or powder form is not hard to find but the finished plastic is.

And also if you know of anyone that has these materials for sale to luthiers. They form together in chains known as polymers. Nowadays the products are used in applications ranging from cutlery to electronic devices and much more. Casein is a beautiful plastic and warm to the touch unlike most.

It used to be manufactured in many places often under the name galalith. Due to its extensive colour range casein was popular for small decorative and functional objects and was used extensively in the button trade. All plastics are polymers. Auguste trillat discovered the means to insolubilize casein by immersion in formaldehyde producing material marketed as galalith.

Shellac phonograph records are developed and soon become an industry standard. In the early 1900 s casein plastic like this was used to make many plastic objects including buttons and jewelry. At the paris universal exhibition of 1900 casein plastic could not be moulded like bakelite but had to be cut or carved from rods or sheets. The casein is finally rinsed and dried most of the harmful chemical leaving the end product by off gassing and repeated rinsing.

In pure form it is an amorphous white solid tasteless and odourless while its commercial type is yellowish with a pleasing odour. Ford at one point had experimented making a plastic car substituting casein based plastics with soybean and hemp based plastics see henry s hobbies pg 283. Today plastic is a term referring to the fossil based polymer that begun production on industrial scale in the 1940s.