
240 Process Techniques for Engineering High-Performance Materials
the rest of the century. Both Ziegler and Natta shared the 1963 Nobel Prize
in Chemistry.
Equipment considerations for small-scale development:
• Experimental equipment is only useful if it can simulate a portion
of a current or future production process. It is pointless to cre-
ate a wonderful sample that cannot be duplicated on a commer-
cial scale. In fact, customers become demoralized when they see
a wonderful prototype product but cannot buy it, because com-
mercial production is not feasible. One answer is to buy or design
production equipment that exactly duplicates the size ...