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prior experience in plastics, the task was daunting for Behr, but he surpassed everyone in the world within a year. As he improved the process and increased line speeds to 60, then 90, then 150 and finally 300 feet per minute in 1972, he had to design new equipment. Some were patented and some were kept as trade secrets by Dow. Eventually, other research and production personnel, such as lab technician
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Recently, Ziploc has made an evolved line of sandwich and storage bags. All the bags in this line are made with 25% less plastic and are manufactured using wind power. The Ziploc Evolve sandwich bag was so successful that it was deemed the "Best in Show" at the 2010 Best New
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Zip 'n Steam bags were used to cook food in a microwave oven. They also have had large bags, used for non-food storage, as big as 2 ft by 2.7 ft (0.61 m × 0.82 m). The now-disconued flexible totes made by Ziploc were used for non-food storage and were as big as 22 US gallons (83 L).
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At that time, plastic bags were being produced in 25 countries at a line speed of 30 feet per minute, but none were being sold to consumers, because they were too expensive to produce. Dow assigned one of their inventors, R. Douglas Behr, to develop a high-speed, efficient process. Having little
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