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- 1929:
A Norwegian engineer, Erik Rotheim, filed a patent describing the use of a pressure container fitted with valve to dispense a variety of products. The aerosol can was born.
- 1942:
Aerosol spray cans of insect repellents are first developed for mosquito-bitten American soldiers during WWII.
- 1947:
Aerosol technology is introduced to U.S. civilians.
- 1974:
Scientists propose the theory that chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) damage the ozone layer.
- 1987:
24 countries sign the “Montreal Protocol Agreement” agreeing to gradually phase out the use of ODCs (including CFCs). By 2020 the use of all HCFC’s (HydroChloroFluoroCarbon) has to be stopped completely.
- 1995:
Soudal uses for all the aerosol cans (both for technical sprays as for PU foam) propane-butane gas to keep out the CFC’s.
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