Plant door, tripod sofa end in Formica southwest map of the France. Year 70

Unique piece. Plant door, tripod sofa end in formica southwest map of the france. This formica plant holder from the quillan factory is a unique piece. It was manufactured to be put in the company's offices in quillan. The plateau depicts a map of southwestern france. To lay light plants. Height: 44 cm - 17.32" Width: 35 cm - 13.77" Depth: 35 cm - 13.77" Weight: about 1 kg. A bit of history about the formica factory: in france, it was in quillan in the aude that the formica factory moved in the early 50s, instead of a hat factory, then in decline, the staff being maintained and trained in the new activity. Then the formica plant in quillan will experience such growth that the brand will become the economic and social engine of the entire region. Formica is a material invented in the united states in the early twentieth century, initially used as an electrical insulator instead of "mica". The name is all found "for" (for, instead of) "mica". In france, he arrived with the americans, at the same time as nylon and chewing gum. "formica laminate plastic" is an assembly of kraft paper sheets that are impregnated with synthetic resin, a polymerization phenomenon doing the rest. From there we obtain formica sheets that we plate on the furniture or object that we want to make. With the oil crisis of the early 70s, the price of resins exploded and that of formica too, the decline was felt in the mid-70s and a social plan intervened every two years. The death of the plant was announced on december 5, 2003. It sounded the beginning of the difficult discussions of the social plan for the inter-union and the retraining of the 149 employees. On june 30, 2004, the last machines from the quillan plant were loaded onto the moving trucks.

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