Foodborne diseases are the illnesses contracted from eating contaminated food or beverages. Illnesses include foodborne intoxications and infections, which are often incorrectly referred to as food poisoning. There are more than 250 different foodborne diseases.
Plastics Engineering Company is a leading North American manufacturer of phenolic resins and thermoset molding materials, selling products under its trademark Plenco. If you have a phenolic resin or thermoset molding material project, chances are, the Plenco team can make it work. We've been doing it for over 80 years. Come and benefit from the Plenco difference. Plastics Engineering Company, a family owned and managed business founded in 1934, established as its corporate mission a sincere desire to respond efficiently to the needs of our customers through development, manufacture, and servicing of useful, high-value products.
Plastics are used in our clothing, housing, automobiles, aircraft, packaging, electronics, signs, recreation items, and medical implants to name but a few of their many applications. The synthetic plastic industry started in 1909 with the development of a phenol formaldehyde plastic (Bakelite) by Dr. L. H. Baekeland. The phenolic materials are, even today, important engineering plastics. The development of additional materials continued and the industry really began to blossom in the late 1930's.