US EditionFrom the "Rennpappe" to the High-Tech Shell: How Plastic Types Changed in East and West
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"Plasts and elasts from Schkopau – this slogan shaped generations in the GDR. Plastics was more than just a material there: it was a substitute material, a source of hope and a symbol of technical self-sufficiency. In Saxony, for example, it became an automobile trademark – at the Trabant, whose body was not made of sheet metal but of duroplast, a composite of cotton fibres and phenolic resin. Thus, the myth of "Rennpappe", which once tuckered t…
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