It was a wooden plywood faced on one side or both with metal (steel or aluminum). In the Grand Rapids factory, "Plymetl" was made as one of several specialty plywood products. Its main product was the Haskell canoe, which was molded from one piece of 3/16th's inch plywood. One item the firm built was wooden boats because of the waterproof characteristics of the plywood. Īfter the war military aircraft were no longer needed and so this use was discontinued and other uses were found for the plywood. The manufacturing plant in Ludington was part of the larger Haskelite Manufacturing Corporation that was headquartered in Chicago. Between the two factories, there were millions of feet of plywood produced during World War I. It employed a thousand men and produced one hundred thousand square feet of plywood per day. This factory was twice the size as the original Ludington plant. Its main purpose was to supply plywood for the United States and its allies for the construction of military vehicles and aircraft. This factory was called the Haskelite Manufacturing Corporation. The company in 1918 opened its second plant in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The Ludington-based plant erected a million dollar expansion to its facilities and increased its employment considerably. They changed the main focus of the company at the beginning of World War I to build military airplane body parts. The company then employed one hundred and eighty men and made ten thousand square feet of plywood per day. Haskell in 1917 sold his controlling interest to Bonbright and Company, a group of investment bankers from Detroit and New York City.
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Other uses for the plywood were door panels, roofing, flooring, portable houses, bread boxes, grain chutes, drain boards, toboggans, barrels, shipping containers, refrigerators, and canoes. The thickness varied by the number of layers requested. The "panels" came in dimensions up to 7.5 by 50 feet (2.3 by 15.2 m) in length. Sea sleds and hydro-airplane pontoons were made of haskelite. It was the Curtiss two-place fighter Whistling Bill. The first plane made with moldable plywood was constructed with Haskelite. The plywood constructed canoes, boats, trucks, buses, automobiles, and airplanes. It was used for various vehicles including airplanes and flying boats. The thinner three-layered plywood pieces could be molded into any shape desired. The Haskelite plywood was first manufactured there. Haskell created the Haskell Manufacturing Company in 1916 in Ludington, Michigan. In 1915, he innovated a method to mold this plywood into three-dimensional shapes using heat, hydraulic pressure and his patented waterproof glue. The plywood was named Haskelite after himself. He used this adhesive to put together cross-grained thin veneer layers of wood to create a product referred to as a flat sheet "panel" – now known as plywood ("plies" of wood).
Haskell devised a way to make waterproof glue in 1913 from a derivative of dried cow blood.
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